Accidentally Deleted Artist, Trying To Restore. Not Working..

All that does is add the track back into the music library which won't really work for me... the problem is the band, The Rolling Stones, is one of the worst ones I could have deleted... I have so many of their albums in different versions (mono, stereo, etc) and bootlegs and a mixture of stuff on Apple Music vs my own Rips. I could just add them back but that won't restore all the ratings and playlists they were in.

I'm trying to figure out what is missing... if I restore the entire iTunes folder and the music library from all the files from "yesterday" when the band was still in the library, why isn't Apple Music opening up and showing everything the way it was "yesterday" before I accidentally deleted them? I must be missing an important file/folder somewhere but I can't figure out where.

yes, I replaced the music library file with the backup from the day before.

There's got to be another file somewhere I'm missing but can't figure it out 🤷‍♂️

I even replaced all the files while my wifi was off on case something was synced to iCloud and then re-syncing when I open Music and overwritting the backup version... Same results.

THANK YOU!!! I was just about to start the annoying process of re-adding all the Stones stuff and your message came in right as I sat down to do it... that worked!

I was wondering if the problem was it was loading another library file but didn't know about the "option" option... but here is the weird thing... When I was replacing the library file:

User->Music-> Music Library.musiclibrary

with the library file from yesterday, and then starting Music normally, the replaced file here (i.e with yesterday's "date modified" date") :

User->Music-> Music Library.musiclibrary

would then have the "date modified" updated to today... so it seemed to me like that was the correct file but the Stones weren't there. With the "option-start" doing the same thing, they were. Weird.

Thanks so much!