Can no longer drop a MIDI file into iTunes library

Using Tiger on a G4 iMac, I could drop a MIDI file into my iTunes library and convert it to an mp3 (or other format).
Can't get this to happen now that I'm using Leopard on a new machine (see below) - or is there a different way of doing it in Leopard?
With thanks,
Gilly

Answering my own question - had iTunes set to Show Duplicates - therefore couldn't see MIDI I dropped in.

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