Albums I imported don't show up in Finder search

Several albums I've imported into iTunes will not show up in a Finder search. I know they're there! I've even gone to the parent directory and searched for them. Nothing shows up, not song name, not album name. This is horrible for me because I'm a DJ and when I am running Serato, I need to be able to find music right away and there's no way I'm running iTunes and Serato simultaneously just so it can tell me which directory to look in and then I can open up finder and navigate there.
I know this is more of a Finder issue than an iTunes issue. I just thought maybe it had to do with iTunes importing them yet not indexing them in Finder. If it is an iTunes issue, then I'll simply stop using iTunes to import my albums. If it's a Finder issue, then I'll stop using iTunes to import albums and I'll relocate my imported albums into a directory that I know indexes. In fact I just tried that right now and it worked! So tell me, why is iTunes hiding my music from me?

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