What Songs are Missing?

I have about 17,000 songs in my iTunes library with out 20 missing and apparently showing the ! symbol but going through the list, I am not finding these songs. I tuse to be about 100 missing and I have corrected those but these last ones I can't seem to find. What I mean by can't find, I can't find them in iTunes. How can I tell iTunes to just show me songs that are showing as missing?

You can see where iTunes thinks a track is by doing a Get Info (File menu) on the track. At least some of your "missing" music may be listed as a Compliation and so in the Compilations folder rather than in a folder titled for the artist.
am missing a lot of music - some of which is irreplaceable.
I truly hope you have backups of this music. If you don't, you're taking a real (and rather foolish, if you'll forgive the term) risk.
Regards.

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