Unable to get find itunes music in Time Machine

Hi all. I'm new to this time machine, time capsule thing and have a stupid question. I use my time capsule to store my itunes library, something like 34000 songs, etc. When I go to sync my music some of it has an ! in front of the song selected. I go to itunes info and it tells me the music is in
file://localhost/volumes/time machine backups/itunes music/music/ with the name of the song. How can I restore the music to my itunes. When I go to the folder, there are a couple that say music, itunes music I don' see the music. Thanks in advance for any help.
Robin

Hi, and welcome to the forums.
It sounds like you have both the originals of your music and your Time Machine backups on your Time Capsule.
If so, that's a problem, in several ways.
Please clarify just exactly what is where, and we can help figure out what to do.

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