Where did my audio go?IMOVIE wont play back audio

It was there yesterday and just to test it I re checked the tape which did have audio then dropped a song in the timeline from itunes. No audio playback? for the life of me I can't figure out how to get it to play?

Hi Paul:
Two things possible I guess...
*Is the little box checked at the end of the timeline (there
are three and all should be checked to be sure)
*You may have to play your song in itunes first before importing into imovie and if that doesn't do it, burn a CD and reimport from there.
Sue

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