"File Not Found" MPG4 / Protected (?) songs unable to play on PC or on iPod

I burned about 150 songs from my iTunes Music Library on another computer onto CDs and then inserted the CDs into a new computer with my iTunes Music Library on it. The songs on these CDs DO NOT play in the iTunes Library or on the iPod, although the track titles and artists appear on my computer screen and hence they look as though they are included in the Library. When I try to play those songs I get an error message with an exclamation mark next to the problem songs saying "File not found. Do you want to locate file?"
I tried the option to convert them to AAC but that does not work. Is it a copyright problem or a technical one?
Many thanks for your replies!
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Checking the "copy" box will solve the problem for future importing but not the current problem.
You could do two things after checking the "copy" box:
1) Delete the dead tracks and add them again from the CD(s).
2) With the CD in the drive, select Consolidate library on the Advanced menu. This will copy all files not currently in the iTunes Music folder into the iTunes Music folder, you may not want that if you have your music in other places as well. Also if the music you want is on more than one CD you may get a lot of error messages as it tries to consolidate tracks it can't find.
One other thing - you mention protected files in the thread title, iTunes will not import files protected by other programs.

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