Music not playing in itunes

Recently some of the songs I have in iTunes won't play anymore. Whenever I click on a song to play it says it can't find it even though I have it saved in my library. I get a little exclamation in a circle when it won't play. I have to manually find it myself for it to play. Whenever I leave iTunes and go back in later, it does this again and sometimes it's different songs that won't play. Can anyone help me? Getting pretty frustrated over here!

Is it because I should not have Itunes on a portable HD or is it because it detects automatically that there is no sound card ?
The iTunes system requirements does not mention anything about a Sound Card. Although in order to hear anything you would need a Sound Card, and this most likely is the case.

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