ITunes cannot Location many songs even though they have not moved

I recently noticed that, locations of many songs in iTunes is showing up incorrectly, due to which its playcount, ratings etc. don't sync with my iPhone/iPad. For example
When location of original song is in folder "/Users/SiMac/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music by Artists/Devan/", and
The song is still there in the above folder
However, iTunes now shows the location as "file://localhost/Users/SiMac/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music by Artists/Devan/"
Every time I double the song, iTunes shows up a dialog asking whether I want to locate it, because it doesn't know what the folder shown above in (3) above means.
Is there a way to fix this en mass, because I have thousands of songs, which show up misplaced like above. There is no way in **** for me to locate song by song.

Hi SriniIyer,
The steps in this article may assist you in locating the songs for iTunes -
iTunes: Finding lost media and downloads
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Brett L 

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