Adding new music = freezing

Hello all,
I have been starting to have problems with adding music to my iTunes library.
When I drag music into iTunes or use the "Add to library" function to add more music off of my harddisk (from a folder on the desktop for example) it locks up iTunes. It will sometimes work with one file by its self but thats rare and take up to a full minute to add the file in. I do have a rather large library 21885 songs and I have the preferences set to copy the files to the iTunes media folder so it all ends up in the same place. Once it is in iTunes i will erase the file from that folder i dragged them from.
Let me know what you think, its pretty frustrating.

You did a Restart as well...?
If you did... Then you could try Downloading and ReInstalling iTunes...
No need to Uninstall... just run it over the top of existing...
I did this when I was having a few issues with an earlier version of 10.3.something... Worked Well...
Cheers,
PS:
Just to Confirm your are running iTunes on a Mac...?
Regards,

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