I can't get my iTunes library to play on my ipad. All the tunes are there but they are 'greyed out'

when I sync my ipad all the music from my itunes library loks like it comes over but i can't access any of it. the titles are all greyed out and cant be clicked on

The tracks show up in gray because they haven't completely synced to the iPad. My advice at this point would be to backup your iPad, restore to factory settings, then restore the backup and follow that with a sync with iTunes to transfer all of the apps, photos, movies, and music back onto the iPad.
It takes some time to restore the iOS software, but of you follow the instructions here, you will not lose any content at all and actually your iPad may be in better shape than it was before your restored it.
iTunes: Restoring iOS software - Apple - Support

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I have over 10,000 songs on my ipod touch and when I connect to my Macbook Pro and go to itunes it states that there are over 10,000 songs on my ipod, but when I click to play them a little exclamation mark appears before it. (As it does when the source cannot be found.) At the bottom of itunes it still shows a large blue Audio bar stating that I have over 10,000 songs on it somewhere, but I cannot play them. When disconnecting from Itunes the artists and albums are all showing, but as soon as I go into an album all the songs are greyed out. This only just happened yesterday when adding a few extra songs I downloaded to my itunes and dragged and dropped them to my ipod.
Please help me, the data should be on the ipod somewhere, but for some reason I cannot reach it. I do not have a backup, so this is really annoying
Thanks for any help

Try:
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities
The grey-out ones may not be recoverable.
You can redownload iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

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The iPod offers three ways to transfer music from your computer. You can select one of the following update modes from the iPod Preferences menu in iTunes (Edit=>Preferences=>'iPod' tab):
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