Cannot play songs in iTunes and others

Back story: somehow deleted my entire storage drive (I have 2 drives on my system). Luckily I downloaded everything to my external drive the day before. After getting everything back over to my storage drive and adding the folder to iTunes, I get the exclamation point. So I locate the song and iTunes will not play it at all. This is random, sometimes 1 song will locate just fine, and the next song not at all. Not all songs on an album are affected. Deleting the exclamation song does no good, because the drag and drop feature does not work. I even tried adding the file through the edit menu, no go.
Am I missing something?
Also, iTunes is adding folders to my storage drive, even though the song is already in a different folder (I like them by album name, esp ones that are compilations/soundtracks). So iTunes is adding the folders with the performers name.
And, even though I only have 1 copy of the song in my music folder, iTunes is showing up to 4 copies. What is all that about?
Anyone have solutions?
Am running Windows 7 and iTunes 12.
Thanks!

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This article includes the most relevant troubleshooting steps for the songs that are appearing grey in iTunes:
iTunes Store: Troubleshooting iTunes Match
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4054
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- Ari

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