Adding Entire Music Folder is Not Adding All My Music in the Folder

Ok. In my shared music folder on my computer it has every song i own in it. it is all in the same format and everything. when i go to add my shared music folder (using the add folder thing on itunes) it will not load all of my songs that are in the folder. i have 2500 something songs and only 2048 songs will load. there was two songs i noticed right away that werent there so i went and used the add file thing on itunes and that DID load them. but there are about 500 songs that arent loading and i dont know which ones they are because there is no pattern to the songs not loading. some are my really new songs that i have just gotten and some are songs that have been on my computer for a few years.
if anyone knows how i can add all my songs to my itunes library from my shared music folder, and have ALL of them show, please tell me what the problem might be and help me fix it.
thank you!

Luke, here is something you might try. I noticed you said that all your music was in your shared music folder (that you imported from). I have over twice as many music files as you do and I have not had this problem. If you want to save yourself some trouble from searching for all the missing files do the following.
1) Go into iTunes- Edit- Preferences- Advanced- General
If it is not already select, check the box that says "Keep iTunes Music folder organized."
2) Go to My Music - iTunes- iTunes Library and delete all song files.
3) Add all the music you want to be in your library from your Shared music to this folder you have now deleted all files from.
4) In iTunes go to File- Import- Folder and import the iTunes Library folder.
5) Go to iTunes- Edit- Preferences- Advanced- General make sure the box that says "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library." is checked.
This "should" fix your problem. However, as a warning you stand a good chance of losing all your playlists and song ratings, etc (the song files will be fine though).

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