All songs in itunes not playing

A few real bad problems here!
1.  I am running Itunes 12.0.1.26 on a PC with Windows 8.1 it's a Dell.
   *after almost a year of trouble recovering all of my playlists that had gone missing due to an itunes error I was happy to find myself two days ago with itunes operational...all of my 10s of 1,000s of songs listed properly and all of my playlists appearing fine.  Every song was there...itunes knew the location of each song.
BUT, now whenever I click on ANY song, itunes doesn't play it(I neither hear it nor does it appear in the top bar with the timeline moving)...this goes for ALL SONGS IN ITUNES - purchased from itunes, imported into itunes, other formats, same problem in all cases.
What I can tell you:  The computer is authorized, this is not just an audio problem(system sounds is fine, headphones are fine, other programs sound is ok).
the only other thing I can say is that in recent months I get this error every single time I open ITUNES:
itunes has detected a problem with your audio configuration -
I click out of it and everything works fine, for months.  I looked up how to resolve that error message appearing here and deleted quicktime and reinstalled.  That is the only other recent change I have made here?
I would really , really appreciate any help on this!  So frustrated with the volume of itunes errors...if this doesn't work I am going to take a week off from work and move my library to Google play or other!  Thanks, PJ

Hi pjholt,
I'm sorry to hear you are having these issues with iTunes; I know how frustrating that can be, especially if it was working fine just a short while ago. If none of your music is playing in iTunes, but you are not getting an error about iTunes being unable to locate the files, you may have an audio configuration issue (which would also support the error message you had been seeing). If that is the case, you may find the information and troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
iTunes and QuickTime for Windows: Audio does not play or plays incorrectly - Apple Support
Regards,
- Brenden

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