Songs have disappeared from 11 media library

I transferred music I had created on my keyboard to the computer via a USB more than a month ago that songs entered the library, I created an album - & Fortunately, I burned a CD with this music a few weeks ago. I opened the library several times to send friends music - but yesterday, songs & album missing - I ripped the CD to put songs on & all was fine until an hour ago - they are gone again. Music not in ' my music in recycle or C drive. "
Help - I'm stumped - a lot of work for me - missing.   I got no error messages - I'm not technically savvy so would want suggestions for me to simple languagae
I have Windows XP - Media Player 11 (it came with 10 & I upgraded to 11 a few months ago) the original xp was 2002, but history shows, he changed in 2005 through Windows update - IE # 8
Should I uninstall 11 & re - install - or what should I check before doing this?
Thanks, Judy

PS - when I look at the properties in my computer, it still shows XP version 2002-but with service pack 3. Where can
I have to check that 2005 was actually updated - I read somewhere that I have to have this for Media Player 11

Hello Jusho,

Thank you for your message.  This sounds like Media Player has lost the connection with your music.  Once you check out the music on your computer, it should not be deleted.  Try searching your music, click on 'Start' > select 'Search' > search all drives for your music, if your music is .wav and then search on *.wav, if she is .wma then search *.wma etc..  It will search all files with this extension.  Your music should come, however, this search will be comprehensive and probably take a long time.  Once your music is, you make sure that Windows Media Player is constantly looking for this folder to add to your library.
See you soon

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