When I'm playing my music on iTunes, it would automatically skips songs, even though they aren't greyed out or it is checked.

When I opened my iTunes today, I tried to listen to my songs, but whenever I clicked enter or double clicked the song, it wouldn't play, instead, it would play a song near it. So I tried my whole playlist and most of the songs aren't working! They're not greyed out, they've just stopped playing. I'm not sure why. I've recently downloaded AVG Tuneup by accident, and I've been getting all these weird messages coming from my computer saying I've got corrupted files, so I uninstalled that program ASAP. And these messages would still pop up! I'm not sure what's happening...

Hello dustboy,
There are a few things that you can do to stops the songs from skipping. What it may be is that the files are not working properly so try converting the song to a different format and test that new song. Since you are using iTunes Match, then you can actually delete the tracks and then download them again. Let me know if you this works out for you.
iTunes: How to convert a song to a different file format
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1550
How to delete content you've downloaded from the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, or Mac App Store
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT5772
Download past purchases
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht2519
Regards,
-Norm G. 

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