Unable to play songs in music library

When I try to play songs in my music library,it tells me it is unable to find orginal file for song. how do i correct this problem. there over 900 songs showing this problem at this time.

Use the iTunes command File > Add Folder to Library, and navigate to the folder containing the music.

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