Unable to Play some burned Music

I have previously burned music from CD's to my Itunes Library, that I have played with no problems. Recently I found many of my tracks had exclamation marks after them with the error message saying, they couldn;t be played because the original songs weren't available. Would I like to find them? When I hit 'Yes', previous downloads for specific dates came up but they would not open. So it seems they have been deleted by I Tunes.
The Songs I can't play are ones where I didn't specify a particular artist. I can still play songs ok where the Artist's name was put in. What is the cause of this problem??! I downloaded the most recent ITUNE 7.5 after this problem occured, but no change.

Hello rollalong,
Thank you for contacting Apple Support Communities.
The following article has some information regarding your issue with playing purchased music content.
iTunes 11 for Mac: If you have trouble playing music or other audio
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12135
Check the section titled "If you can't play a song".
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