HELP!  I can't play any songs that are in my library...

Every time I click on a song that is in my library, I get the following message:
"the song could not be used because the original file could not be found"
what do I do? where have all the songs that were in my library disappeared to?

Have you done any renaming of folders, moving of accounts, moving of files, renaming of files, etc?

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