After update I can't add music on my hard drive to iTunes.

I'm trying to add music from my hard drive to my iTunes library.  Both by opening the library and selecting File to add and by opening containing folder with the song, right clicking and selecting "Open With" and choosing iTunes.  iTunes comes to the front but that's it.  It will not load the song into it's library.  The mp3 file is not corrupt - it's all the music files.  This started after the latest update.  I don't have Match so there's no conflict there.  I've restarted iTunes and the computer several times.  It's almost like a setting has been switched and is telling iTunes to stop getting file as soon as it sees where it's from.
Anyone have any suggestions?  Many thanks!

.WMA cannot be used with iTunes on a Mac.  It is a Windows proprietary format and can only be used by iTunes if it is the PC version.  Your best bet would be to re-rip the CDs.  You can try to convert the .wma files (this may require you purchase additional software unless you still have the PC) but to get the best quality you should not rip one lossy format to another and instead start out with the full quality CD again.

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