Song playback has stopped working!

Sometime in the past week Itunes has stopped playing back songs. If I select the song in my library and double-click, the information is displayed in the title bar area but the song does not start to play. Pressing the "Play" button seems to do nothing.
The failure to play a song occurs with either uploaded music in my library (from CDs I own) or from songs purchased through the Itunes store.
Itunes will play songs from a CD (Auto-Play), so this is not a problem with my PC/Audio configuration.
I have since uninstalled ITunes and reinstalled v4.9 but this hasn't helped. I've also deauthorized and re-authorized this computer through Apple. No change.
There have been numerous posts in the last week of this same problem, with "that's happening to me too" responses to each one. There have been no reports of a solution.
Is there someone else I should be posting this problem?
Does anyone from Apple monitor these discussion groups?
Thank you for any help.

I have encountered the same after many trials and errors i have determined its the connection in your Sound properties.
Go to sound in control panel and make sure the audio playback device is using the correct driver and installation.
When itunes wasn't playing it was because my playback device was said to be using the older generic analog speakers (blahblah#2) while it needed to be using the SoundBlast Driver for playbacck

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