ITunes does only play some songs...?!

Hey,
I have the following problem:
My iTunes 8 just changed "over night". Yesterday I could play and listen to every Song in my library. But these days I can only play a few songs out of my library!
The most songs are just not playing. To be sure I tried the VLC player to play the songs, iTunes coulndt play. And VLC coulnd play them too.
So why can I only play just these few songs?
And interesting fact I discovered: The songs iTunes cant play have no information about wether its "stereo" or not also if it has an "ID3 Tag" or wether its Layer 3 or some other.
I thank you very much for help!
greeting,
Richard

delete the song from the library and redownload the song again
if you are unsure how to redownload the song, follow these steps
download previosly purchase content
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