Can I stop Itunes adding stupidly small files? Like Windows/Game audio?

Ok, I've got 10 years of backups, all with windows and games folders in them as well on a single 1TB drive... I want to be able to select the whole drive, and only dig out the music...
I cant even find an option in Itunes to "Not add files smaller than X" or "Not add files with less runtime than Xseconds"
It's really making the whole thing hard, cause I'd like to be able to press "Coalate" or whatever to merge them all into the Itunes folder for some organisation.
Any ideas? Plugins or what have you?

Nothing automatic. As far as iTunes and any other media player is concerned mp3 files are music no matter the size. Same with midi and wav.
You should be able to do some of this yourself using Windows search features. Do a search, sort the search by size then copy the files to one location. Add the contents of that location to iTunes.

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