Unable to find songs

Hi.
Can anybody help? Since 8.0, I have a lot of songs that give me this message when I try to open them " The song "song title" could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it?".
Is there an easy fix rather than going into each song and locating them one by one?
Thanks

You get exclamation marks or dead tracks because iTunes can’t find the file. This can happen for a number of reasons:
The song file or a folder in its path was renamed
The song file or the folder it is in has been moved
The song file has been deleted
The device containing the song files e.g. external drive is not accessible.
So did you move or change anything, and can you put it back how it was?
Where are the song files? You can simply add the folder with File>>Add folder to library to put them back. If they are in your iTunes Music folder, you can add your iTunes Music folder and not create duplicate of the files that are OK.
If you do this, you will still have the dead links, you can collect them together for easy deletion with a nifty use of playlists:
Using a playlist to collect dead tracks.
Create new regular playlist – Playlist1
Select whole library and drag to Playlist1
Create new Smart Playlist with the rule: Playlist is not Playlist1
Live updating not checked –you may not be able to delete the dead tracks if it is checked
This playlist should contain all the dead tracks
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5696793#5696793
Or you can use a Robert Jacobson script - iTunesremovenotfound at:
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