ITunes songs not playing

Hello,
A few songs that I downloaded from iTunes are not showing up in my iTunes library. They are located on my desktop and when I try to play them, iTunes opens but nothing happens (the songs do not appear). When I try to play the songs using windows media player it says that the "file has an extension that does not match the file format" and then "one or more codecs required to play the file could not be found." Lots of files were moved around on my computer, could this be why? Is there anything I can do to be able to play these songs again? Any help you can give would be much appreciated.
Thanks:)

Have you moved your music around? Sounds like it's been moved and is not where iTunes expects to find it.

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