My iTunes itl file is locked and its not letting me in my itunes at all

my itunes is locked and i cant get in

I received the same locked error just now on OSX, and even holding down Option when launching didn't do the trick.  I ended up having to follow the instructions here which was essentially:
Drag your iTunes Library.itl file from your iTunes folder onto your desktop
Launch iTunes, the library will be blank
Quit iTunes, and copy the iTunes Library.itl file back from the desktop into your iTunes folder (it will warn you that you are replacing the newer blank file, that's fine)
Restart iTunes
This did the trick for me though still not sure why it happened in the first place!

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