Can't add folders from My Music in Windows to iTunes

Question

I am having issues importing my music into itunes. I recently reloaded itunes onto my computer - and rebuilt my library from "My music" folder in windows. Problem is, when itunes added my music to my library, it only added about half of my subfolders from my music folder in windows. I have tried resetting privacy settings, transferring file by file, and folder by folder. The files look exactly the same (the ones in my library in itunes and the ones that aren't) and I never got an error message - such as I'm running out of space, etc. Anyone know a solution?? Thanks so much.

Answer 1

I am having a similar problem to this.
I recently purchased a Nano 3g for our daughter. She had previously been using an all in one digital camera/camcorder with .mp3/.wma capability for listening to music and had been using Windows Media Player to sync the music.
When I helped her set up iTunes it was obvious she needed some help cleaning up the id3 tags for organization and to get the proper album art. So I copied all of her music (317 .mp3 and .wma files ripped from CD using Windows Media Player) from her computer to a USB hard drive and then copied them to my computer. I set up a second iTunes library and added the files to the new library from the file menu (File/Add Folder To Library) in iTunes, converting the .wma files to .mp3 in the process. I have iTunes set up to copy music to the iTunes Music folder and keep it organized.  After eliminating the duplicates and poorly ripped files I ended up with 283 .mp3's, then used a combination of iTunes, Picard, beaTunes and the Internet to properly tag and get artwork for them. So tonight I finished cleaning them up and as a test run I copied the 283 cleaned-up and properly tagged .mp3's to the usb drive, deleted everything from my second iTunes Music folder, deleted the iTunes library .itl and .xml files and then copied the files back to my computer and used the Add Folder To Library function to copy the files to the iTunes Music folder again. First I tried to drag and drop the files from the USB drive into iTunes but that only transferred 11 files. Then I tried to use the Add Folder To Library function directly from the USB drive I only got about half the files to transfer. So I ended up using Windows Explorer to copy all the files from the USB drive the iTunes music folder and then use the Add Folder To Library function from there. After a couple of tries I have 18 mp3's that will not show up in the iTunes library or play in iTunes. I also tried to add them individually by using the Add File To Library menu selection, dragging and dropping, and Open with command in Windows Explorer with no luck. These files play just fine and display the proper id3 info (including artwork) in Windows Media Player and Winamp. The original (uncleaned) files are still on the USB drive and will play in iTunes so I guess I will have to reimport them and clean them up again to see if I can get them to transfer. Or possibly I will just clean them up on her computer.
Any suggestions/comments would be appreciated. I will be sending in my laptop for warranty work sometime this month and as a precaution I will be wiping the hard drives before sending it in (they will most likely reformat before sending it back anyways) and I would prefer not to have this happen when I try to reload the 9000+ mp3's currently on it.
I am using an Alienware area 51m 7700 – 3.4ghz P4, 1gb RAM, 2x 60gb HDD's in a RAID0 configuration , Windows XP Pro SP2, iTunes 7.4.3.1, and WD Passport 120gb USB drive, if that makes a difference. All drivers/software current/stable.