Misplaced Music?

The past few weeks, every time I sync my iPod to my Mac, songs disappear from my library--so weird! The songs are still on my Nano, but iTunes mysteriously "can't locate" many different music files, and many of these are songs I just bought recently from iTunes! When I do a search on the harddrive, most of them are found and then iTunes "recognizes" them, but it's very, very annoying to have music suddenly go missing. Please help!

im just askin for a little help peeps. what file do you think would be in for the i tunes serach? would n e one perhaps know that question

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZ22kvkIUAABdBQ.jpg
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