Cannot play music from iTunes on my computer

Hi, I looked through all your infos and posts, and none of the recommendations solved my problem. When I click a song, the little phono symbol is activated, but it does not play the song. The same is true if I click a song and then hit the play button on the top - no music is played. What is wrong here?
tx for help. Manuel

Hi Phil,
This is what exactly happens: I open iTunes, go into my Playlist and click on a song once to highlight it. Then I hit the play button on the top and the play symbol becomes a pause symbol. Nothing happens though. Only when I double click (not on teh play button, but directly on the song), does the song start to hypothetically play and the two sound bars appear - but still no sound and the song does not start to play at the top either (with the time indication)...
Thanks for enlightenment!
best, Manuel

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