Red square in red circle cannot play songs

Since I downloaded the latest version of Itunes on my Ipod Touch 4 several of my songs will not play, they have a red square in a red circle. I cannot since these items I have tried several times.
I have lost over 100 songs and the list keeps growing as I try and play songs they show this red square and skip to the next available song.

Just to reiterate Mara120
The issue is that your iphone/ipod can no longer read the song information, soyou need to "convert the id3" tags to "Reverse Unicode" so the itunes can read it .
So, in itunes, list all songs and then select all songs - right click - select "convert the id3" - select "Reverse Unicode"
Then re-sync your device. That is it. It takes about 5 mins. No more red-dot EVER!!!
There are many stupid "simple" answers on this thread. Most assuming that you have bought all your songs from itunes or that you are an idiot (i.e. your device is full or you didn't "select the song to be on your device in the first place"). Other solutions are hit and miss. This solution is definitive.
Thanks to Mara120 for being so logical and writing the original post (Jul 25, 2014 4:13 AM)

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