ITunes song files not playing, even in Finder preview

I have several thousand songs on external drive that won't play anymore. The files are there taking HD space but clicking iTunes play button does nothing, preview will not open the little player and in iPods when pressing the play those songs will jump to next song after 2 seconds. All the podcast files, videos and some previously added songs work fine.

Same thing happened to me. All of my songs played fine this morning. I upgrade to the latest iTunes after seeing it announced on the website... and after waiting what seemed to be forever for it to analyize my music it would no longer play anything. I would double click a song and the play symbol would change to pause, but the time slider wouldn't move and no sound came out of my speakers. I freaked out and checked on here, but no answers yet. I went and moved all of the plugins i had out of the itunes plugins folder (including eyephedrine, oss3d, barquee, and nastyfft) and restarted iTunes. Everything seems to work fine now but that was quite a scare. I'm guessing oss3d locked it up somehow.

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