The original music file cannot be found

Music that is clearly in my iTunes library, and will play from there, shows in the media window of iMovie but, when selected, returns the warning that the original file cannot be found. I have cloud music or whatever it is called. Any ideas?

I doubt that your music files are gone. Do a spotlight search and look for The Cure. What likely happened is that for whatever reason, your iTunes lost track of the location of your songs.. which happens on occasion.
What you need to do is go to the folder where your music library is - where the song files are - and check to see if they are there. If so, then go into your iTunes preferences and in the 'Advanced' pane put in the location of the folder where it says 'iTunes Media folder location'. iTunes should then be able to 'see' the songs again.
Deb.

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