My itune's songs won't play on my iPad while using home sharing

I have the New iPad. As soon as I got it, I activated the home sharing on my notebook's itunes (I use Windows 7), and it was working ok. Recently, I had to format my notebook. Then, I reinstalled itunes and re-activated the home sharing, but there's something wrong. My song library shows up on my ipad, but when I try to play them, they won't play. No sound comes out, and the player bar won't go further than 0:00 secs. I tried reseting the app and rebooting the iPad. Other sounds (eg videos, internet etc) are being played normally. What could be wrong?

Make sure the anti virus or fire wall isnt blocking it make sure on itunes you have the comptuer authorized
-Itunes>Advanced/Store>authorize computer>Turn on home sharing and make sure the apple id is the same as whats on the ipad as well.

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