Can't Play Some Songs in Sildeshow Software

I have a question about the accessibility of some of the music I have purchased from iTunes. I recently purchased a photo slide show building program that allows the creation of shows accompanied by music. The issue I’m having is that only some of my music files are recognized by the program. When I open up folders containing the music files, some are not showing up in the software’s music application. The missing files are visible in windows explorer and play normally in iTunes. They are for some reason not recognized by the software. My understanding is that all iTunes music files are the same format so I don’t see why some songs are useable and some are not. One thing I noticed is the songs that aren’t showing up say (protected) after the file type. I’m not sure what this means, but maybe it has something to do with the problem. Any ideas as to why this may be happening would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

If you move, edit, delete or otherwise change a music file listed in the iTunes Library with a program or tool other than iTunes, you may end up with a "!" in front of the song name or a message like “the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?" It is important to note that iTunes does not keep track of music file changes made outside of iTunes.
See these Threads for ways of finding &/or removing the Broken Links:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=818692#818692
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=607582
EASIER:
Download this to your Desktop: http://ottodestruct.com/itunes/FindDeadTracks.txt (right-click, save-link-as)
and this, as well: http://ottodestruct.com/itunes/RemoveDeadTracks.txt (right-click, save-link-as)
Rename each to FindDeadTracks.js & RemoveDeadTracks.js respectively.
Run iTunes.
1) While iTunes is running, double click FindDeadTracks.js to run the script.
It will give you a list of all the exclamation marked tracks.
2) While iTunes is running, double click RemoveDeadTracks.js to run the script.
It will remove all the exclamation marked tracks.
One step, no fuss, no muss.
Then, give Otto42 a big 'Thanks' for this one.
Best of Luck

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