Can't Import m4a or wav Files

I recently converted some of my .flac music into .wav and .m4a in hopes of getting to play the lossless music on my iPod (and thus in my car), but while iTunes plays them fine, the sync doesn't seem to recognize the files at all. One thing to note, as well, is that in iTunes, it doesn't allow me to edit the artist or genre either, so I don't know if that has an effect. Is there some other way I can get my lossless music onto my iPod?

I was able to get some files that were originally .m4a onto my iPod, but the ones that I converted still will not go onto it. I used xAct to convert the files.

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