Most of My Music Won't Sync

I'm having an issues with Itunes and all of my devices. I have over 12,000 songs in my itunes library. All of these songs will currently play fine in itunes and I can listen to them on my computer - no issues. I used to be able to take any of these songs and sync to any of my apple devices. I can't anymore.
When I click "entire music library" to sync to device, and it doesn't matter which device, it shows about 3GB of data along the bar at the bottom of the screen. It shows 12,000 songs selected, but the data shows as 3 GB, I know that the size of those files is actually about 92 GB, but itunes only seems to recognize about 3 GB.
So long story short, there are some songs that I can sync to a device at the moment, but most songs will not sync and I don't know why? They are all the same types of files, when I go into the properties and examine all of the settings, I cannot see any difference between the files that itunes will "recognize" versus the files that it will not recognize - what's happening?
Please help!

More than likely, it's not all there. Either the files have been moved/non locatable, or they're not all downloaded. Check HT2519 to make sure all purchases are downloaded, and go through any music brought in from CDs or downloads by going Start Button - Music - iTunes and check those folders to make sure all your songs are there.

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6.Then it is up to you.... either go by each tap and sync each one (info, apps, tones, music, movies, TVshows, podcast and photos) or uncheck manually manage music and check whatever it used to be before you unchecked everything.
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