Can you Import playlists and music library information of a backup of an iTunes database file and library xml file?

Just replace the “iTunes Library” and “iTunes Music Library.xml” files with the old ones. Do this while iTunes is closed.

The new ones can be found in /Music/iTunes

If you have added any tracks to iTunes since the back-up they probably won’t show up.

Playlists may get lost unless you’ve exported them already as XMLs.

there is shareware that will copy your playlists, play counts etc from your iPod (and iPhone?) back to your iTunes. I used it once and it worked great!

@ckinyc – Do you remember what that app was called?

I believe Senuti will copy the metadata back from the iPod along with the tracks. Try that.