Song Not playing

When i try and play certain songs, my itunes comes up with the message that, "This computer is not authoized to play song ...." . When i go to autorize my computer, It says that it has already been authorized by me, which it has in the past obviously. So i dont understand why, when i downloaded from itunes this particular song it wont play it. any help would be great.

Exactly the same thing happened to me yesterday. Just erase the track and re-download it from the cloud. That should fix it. It worked for me. bloody annoying isn't it?

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