Itunes wiped out my CD library on my computer

But you can use iTunes to Sync your music (that you have purchased) to an iPhone.

Consider and if required, follow the steps listed below, in the following order:

1. 1. Is iTunes still installed on your computer? Install it if it is not
   2. If you use Apple Music (the app), Apple Devices or Apple TV, they take over and prevent you from synchronising your purchased music to the device. So uninstall all three of those apps.
   3. I'm not familiar enough with Apple Music (the subscription service) but If you subscribe to it, I believe that will also prevent you using your music library. That's because Apple thinks that if you're using the service, you don't need access to your own purchased music since it will all be available in Apple Music (well, it wouldn't in my case, which is one reason why I don't use it).
   4. Is iTunes showing your music (once you remove the apps etc.)?
      1. if the answer is no, use Windows Explorer to look in the folders and see whether your music files are in the Music folder. If they are there, then your music is not lost and you simply need to ensure that the apps mentioned above are removed. If your music Library does not automatically show in iTunes once you remove the apps, you may need to restart iTunes and perhaps even add the music back by using File/Add Folder to Library
      2. if (when) the answer to the above question is yes, does the music play in iTunes? Once you reach this step, you should be able to play your music collection in iTunes

spudskiblue wrote:

I have not ever purchased music through Itunes.

I didn't suggest that you had. Everything I wrote refers to music contained in your iTunes Library, regardless of its source.

In addition to my suggestions, please read the article written by turingtest2, to which he provides a link in his post.

Here's something from your original post:

I have no idea how my CD library got on my phone or computer.

To add music from CDs to an iPhone, one would use iTunes, to which you would have added the music, either by:

• • using iTunes to rip (copy) the CD into iTunes and then using iTunes' Sync procedure (synchronise procedure) to add that music to the phone or,
  • using previously created files (that were originally from a CD) and adding them to your iTunes Library by using File/Add Folder to Library*

* Note that a CD, copied onto a computer, either by using iTunes, Finder or a third-party programme, becomes a digital music file and is no longer "a CD". My wording reflects that fact.

I do not know of a method for getting directly from a CD onto an iPhone (or other iDevice) without using iTunes (or Mac's Finder). If there is such a method, turingtest2 will let us both know (and I will be much the wiser).

I told them I thought there was compatibility issue as the library was created 10-13 years ago.

It's possible that you are pursuing a red herring.

If you follow the steps I outlined previously, but still cannot locate your library, please let us know which step number doesn't work as excepted and what does happen instead.

See also Empty/corrupt iTunes library after upgrade/crash - Apple Community.

tt2