My music is not playing on iTunes

Hello, I was wondering if anyone else is having the same problem. When I open up iTunes and go to my Library, it shows all my music, but when I try to play a song (any song) it does not play. This is only happening on my iMac... I am able to play all my music on my iPad as well as iPod. I've only recently gotten my iMac, and do believe that the music was working at some point, but I can't remember. If someone could help, that'd be wesome! Thanks

lol Limnos, No plane ticket needed. I have literally been trying to get the music to play for like 2 months and nothing worked. I finally decided to ask the question on here and literally 2 minutes after I submitted the question, IT STARTED WORKING! I didn't change any settings whatsoever, so I have no idea. lol Thanks for trying to help so quickly! I guess this thread can be deleted now. haha

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