Can't add songs to iTunes

One day I noticed that several of my albums in iTunes were missing songs. I searched high and low for them, and sure enough, they are not to be found in iTunes. They are, however, very much on my HD, and they work with WMP, MM, etc.
I used mp3checker, and they are not corrupt. I used Mp3Tag, and they are all id3v2.3 tags. The only clue I have is that when I use Magic MP3 Tagger to try to view the file information of the songs that are not showing up in iTunes, it says "Sorry, file information couldn't be read." I don't have this problem in Mp3Tag. The songs on the album that are in iTunes don't have this problem in Magic.
I've tried adding by file, by folder, dragging the files into iTunes, and nothing works. I've tried re-tagging them with both Mp3Tag and Magic and then re-adding. Doesn't work. Tried re-naming them. Nothing.
It seems clear that there is something wrong with the files themselves. However, I can add, edit, and play them in WMP and MM, so it must be something very minor and technical that's preventing them from working with iTunes/Magic Mp3 Tagger. Can anybody who knows more about mp3s think of what might be going on?
TIA

Try this on the files that are not playing
In Mp3tag - Tools - Options - Tags - Mpeg
Read
[ ] ID3v1 [ ] APE
[V] ID3v2
Write
[ ] ID3v1 [ ] APE
[V] ID3v2
(0) ID3v2.3 UTF-16
Remove
[V] ID3v1 [V] APE
[ ] ID3v2
After saving the tags (ID3v2) remove the other tags with File - Remove Tag (or Ctrl + R)
Note: Write down the original settings so you always can revert back, plus try
this on backups of your audio files.

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