ITunes music files will no longer play

Hi,
I have recently transferred my iTunes library back from an external hard drive to my native iMac hard drive. I kept the original iTunes music folder on my iMacs native hard drive so thought this would be simply a case of resetting the folder under the advanced preferences tab; however I now cannot play any of the music. (I have also reformatted the external hard drive as have just set it up as a Time Machine)
Any help - much appreciated

My library draws from a folder containing the music files. I delete files from that folder often
Don't delete files from that folder.
Delete them from iTunes and let iTunes delete them from that folder.

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