Exclamation point! Half my library missing but still on disk

When I add my music to the itunes library half of the songs have an exclamation point, while the music is still on the hard drive. (it's not missing!!) When I re-add the songs they play once but after restarting itunes the exclamation point reappears. I added music from 2 hard drives (music from one drive seems to disappear all the time from the library). Probably that has something to do with it but I cannot find the problem.Please help!!!

Try keeping all of your songs in the same location. When iTunes loads music, it seems to look in one directory (i.e. My Music) and its subfolders. If you play a song from another location, iTunes seems to lose that information on restart. If you put all your songs in one folder and its subfolders, you should not have this problem. Just remember to remove all the songs from your playlists and start from scratch.

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