Why do my Digital copies not play in iTunes

I have the digital copy of the disc and iTunes imports the file with no problems, it synchs with my iPad 2 and plays perfectly on there but the movie will not play in iTunes. There is no sound or picture (just black screen). The files are .m4v and play perfectly in Quick Time but not in VLC Media Player. My operating system is Windows Vista.

You need to be a lot more specific.
Songs do not magically appear in Playlists, you put them there. However, songs may appear in Smart Playlists, if the songs meet the rules for that Playlist. What are these Playlists, why would you expect purchased songs to appear in them?

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I have contacted Apple support and they have confirmed that this is a know issue. I get the same gray screen, but oddly enough I can play old movies that I added a couple of months ago.
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About 5 days ago for no apparent reason at all, about
7000 songs which i have collected over a number of
years has just decided that it wont play in ITUNES or
in any other of my media players. When you click on
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doesnt even come up on the screen.
Steps I have taken so far are:
1 - Remove all tracks from ITUNES and then re-add the
folder where all the songs are. This has obviously
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folder , it has added about 650 tracks back on to the
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By the way all the songs on my PC are MP3 type and I
have had no problem playing any of them until last
week.
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Quicktime and that has not worked.
3 - All of my songs are backed up on to a External
Hard Drive. I have tried to restore the songs and
also play them directly from the external hard drive.
I get the same problem when I do this.
4 - I have enabled and allowed all permissions for
the account that I am running the PC from.
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Key that is blocking me playing the tracks from the
PC. I have also tried to launch the songs in Media
Player and Sonic stage but thsi has not played
either.
All the tracks are in the folder structure as they
were before so I know they are there. I just need to
somehow unlock them.......
If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful as
I dont want to lose my entire music collection.
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number or email address for Apple as this is an
ITUNES issue and they should be resolving it for
me!!!!
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