Problem playing songs from library

I have a few songs that I downloaded into my library. When I played them after downloading it was fine. ipod is synced, and songs play on ipod. But now i try to play them on my library and it won't play. I double click, nothing, I right click and press play, nothing.
Does anyone have an idea why it won't play on library from computer?

Just to make sure; have you tried highlighting the song and then pressing the Play button, instead of double-clicking? Sometimes double-clicking actually causes the "rename song" feature to appear, although you should notice that this has happened.
If it isn't that, then I don't know what else it could be, apart from a computer problem.
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