Not playing songs i've downloaded off burned Cds

I had a Cd that had over 150 MP3 songs on it. So I imported it like I would any other Cd, and it worked fine. I put them on my ipod and everything was fine. And then after about a week i was on itunes on my computer and clicked on one of the songs to play it. It said "The song (song name) could not be used becuase the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?"
what do I do????
Dell Windows XP
Dell Windows XP

Do you have any recollection of having moved the files to a different location on your computer hard drive?
If so, you have to specifically let iTunes know the new location or else it won't know where to look for them.
If you don't recall moving the files, you might want to use the Search function in the XP Start menu to see if you can find the songs that way.
If you're unable to find them, make sure that Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to Library was checked in the iTunes Edit menu > Preferences > Advanced tab > General sub-tab. If it wasn't, you will most likely have to add the mp3's from the CD again.

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