Cannot play songs or podcasts on iTunes

I have a Toshiba Satellite that I have used since Christmas with Windows Vista. I haven't listened to anything from iTunes for a while but it would work just fine before. Today I tried but it refused to play anything. I could download my podcasts just fine but every time I tried to play them they wouldn't. Same with all of my songs. I updated my version of iTunes, restarted the computer, but neither worked. I then tried them on Windows Media Player which gets the podcasts and songs from the same folder and they all work fine on there. I think therefore that it's a problem with only iTunes and I was trying to find out if anyone knew what was wrong and how to fix it.

Sorry to have taken up space in the forum with this. A restart fixed the problem.
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