Many songs don't play anymore [1.0.10.107.gd0dfca3a]

Not sure if it's only been with this past update but it has been recently. I can't play a good amount of my songs. Examples include The Remedy by Jason Mraz and most songs in the Scars & Stories album by The Fray (At least not the first one in the album). Is anyone else having this problem? Edit: I'm on Windows 7 and in the USA. These songs have always played before. Here are some links that aren't working for me: spotify:track:2atYprr9JsQaLynGhrWhldspotify:track:5RlDHvl0sO8dGr4AKJq54xspotify:track:4tK4ARuilOrBzwVQK73E0Yspotify:track:69yVxyuRahEzs2taFMVVoO
I've deleted the Storage folder with all the cache and restarted Spotify. Should my next move be reinstalling it?

Well I don't know what to say. After more than a week of trying to find out why iTunes wouldn't play songs and why my system audio was not operating, today I open iTunes and not only are the songs playing as normal but the system audio is operating as well. The warning that my IEEE 1394 Controller could not start has also disappeared.
I didn't do anything other than look around, but for some reason it works now. Case closed I guess!

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I eventually managed to fix mine.
All i did was untick the box saying "convert higher bit rate songs to 128 aac" (because i had it previoulsy ticked) and then synced it and it now plays every song without a problem.
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When adding music to iTunes, you can set it to either make a local copy of the file, or simply point to the original location of the file (for example, on an external hard drive). If it is set to do the latter, it will not be able to play or transfer those files when the external hard drive is not plugged in. You may find the following article helpful:
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edit by CJH

thanks, I'll give it ago ... deleting them is easy, tapping the x of each app on the iPhone home screen, reinstalling them is less obvious - by disconnecting & reconnecting / sync'ing again, I've managed to re-install one app, but not the rest, yet ... I'll keep trying, various things !
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I recent upgraded my iPod Touch. Everything still works fine for the most part, except for one small detail -- some random songs don't play. It shows them as playing, it loads, and the tracking bar moves like it normally should, but there's no sound at all. I tried restarting the iPod and resyncing it to no avail. I'm going to attempt a restore here. As of now I can't find any connection between the random songs that will or won't play.
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