Trouble of importing and copying songs form original CD musi

Question

I have imported songs and copied songs from original CD music. Today, every time I’m trying to click on a chosen song I will have on the left side on my iTunes program, an exclamation mark will come up and subsequently, forbidden me to hear any song. In the same time, a little window will open and will say: The song i.e. “Loving you tonight” could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?
Where can I locate any of those songs knowing that I'm already inside my library!
Can you help to remove that general blockage preventing me to hear any music I recorded or copied from my personal CD’s thank you?
Bernard

Answer 1

So, you've moved a folder or some files on your hard drive. A limitation of the Windows OS is that files are referred to by full pathname and that's what your library has stored for your song location. (If you select the song, right click and select "Get Info", this will show you where iTunes thinks the file should be.)
But you've moved the file behind iTunes back by moving or copying it in Windows Explorer and now iTunes has lost it. You should have the option of "finding the file" for iTunes so that it sync back up again -- that's the message about "would you like to locate it?" or you can delete the song with the exclamation point from the library and re-add the file back into the library in its new location.