Unable to play half my music with itunes

Ever since this new version of itunes, i've been unable to play half my music in my library. The music is there, but when i try playing it nothing happens. The song doesn't start. i've tried re-adding a few songs to itunes, but those songs never reappeared in the library list. i've tried reinstalling itunes. I'm not sure what the problem is and its getting frustrating. Any help would be great.

Sounds like they might be MP3 files with corrupt headers. Run them through MP3 Validator to see what MP3 Val says about them.
Longer explanation:
http://trevinchow.com/blog/2008/09/17/fix-for-mp3-songs-not-playing-in-itunes/
It's an old webpage, but still valid today with itunes v10.
As to why this happened, data corruption on hard drives can be caused by many things, but the first to check is always power. Is your PC on a power surge protector?
http://cquirke.mvps.org/9x/baddata.htm

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