The little grey exclamation marks...

OK, I realise that the reason why the grey exclamation marks next to some of the songs on my ITunes is that the song titles or album titles are too long... but it won't let me change them. The Song Info comes up in grey text & won't let me edit. So I have a bunch of good songs I can't listen to, & they are preventing me from consolidating my library, & I REALLY don't want to delete them cuz most of them were downloaded from the Music Store & I don't wanna just waste money. Advice please, people?
Thanks

"I realise that the reason why the grey exclamation marks next to some of the songs on my ITunes is that the song titles or album titles are too long"
That's not correct. The reason that you see the ! next to songs is that they have either been moved from their location, or they've been deleted, and either way, iTunes cannot find them.
If you were to double click on one, you should see a message come up to that effect. iTunes will ask if you want to locate the song. Click yes and see if it can be found.

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