I can no longer play songs on iTunes using Win 8 PC

When I click to play a song from iTunes on my Windows 8 PC it just appears to hang.  I can no longer preview songs from the iTunes Store either, no sound comes out and the bar stays on 0:00.  This was working fine in the past, not sure what changed.  Now I'm afraid to try and synch my iPod and iPhone to the PC since as of now these other devices are working fine. Help!

Update:  After having problems playing audio and video using several different browsers and apps, I realized that the problem was probably not iTunes or Apple related.  I rebooted several times, to no avail, but the last reboot inexplicably seemed to do the trick.  Everything is working OK again, at least for now.  Weird but I'll take it!

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