ITunes purchased music now missing...

I have purchased music from itunes, entire cd's, and now the music is missing from my library. The file is there, but it has an ! next to it. When I try to play the songs, it states that the file cannot be located. I have gone to my "purchased" items in the iTunes store, and nothing is listed for download. This has happened to more than 1 cd - and it is frustrating because they were purchased through iTunes so there is no "hard copy" to reload from. I have tried completely deleting iTunes and re-installing it to no avail. Can someone please tell me where my music is, how to get it back - and why it is disappearing in the first place? This is music I paid iTunes for - so am not sure why iTunes is taking it away, so to speak...... VERY frustrating and annoying.

I have tried this. The songs are not listed there. These are albums that I have purchased through my iPhone. For some reason- they keep going missing from my iTunes library. Same Apple ID, no changes. The weird thing is- only some of the songs from the albums are missing. So it's not the entire album in all cases, but it is in others. I completely wiped my computer of iTunes, redownloaded it, and started over. The songs were there. Now- 4 days later- they are missing again. This is SO annoying! It's not like these are songs I ripped from someone else - I paid for these through iTunes. Why do they keep disappearing and re-apearing? Is there anyway to save them in a different format on my computer if I can ever get them back again? This deleting and reloading is getting old... I even tried the "repair" option when downloading iTunes. That doesn't bring the music back. This is so weird.. I've never had any issues before....

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Now I know the purchased songs work because they play on my Nano and Shuffle2. The purchased songs also play in iTunes.
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