Can't import songs to iTunes library

So, I've looked around and seen that other people have experienced this same problem. However, the solutions provided in those various discussions proved to be useless for me.
My issue is that when I try to add songs to my iTunes library, nothing happens. They don't show up anywhere on iTunes- not in the library's list of music, not in the Recently Added playlist, nowhere. I don't receive an error message or any other sort of notification that something has gone wrong; literally nothing happens. I don't have iTunes Match, which I read in other discussions was causing the problem for a great deal of other people. I can't think of any particular reason why this should be happening all of a sudden.
The odd thing is that I'm actually able to delete songs that are already in my library and re-add those same songs without any problem. I only encounter the problem when I try to add music that isn't already in my library.
I'm using OS X Mavericks 10.9.4 and I have iTunes updated to version 11.3.
If anyone knows of anything that I can try to fix this, I'd greatly appreciate it. If you need more information to be able to help, just ask and I'll let you know what I can.
Thank you!
~Charlie

I can take an Excel spreadsheet and force it to be listed as a mp3 but that won't make it one, so I don't know how reliable listings are. My computer is 12 years old and I don't use new QT but I haven't heard of it ever automatically converting anything. Anyway, my feeling is these are not normal mp3s.
Try getting information on the file with Media Info - http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net - to get details of codecs used in multimedia, to see if it really has audio data in it. If this is from a questionable source it may be questionable period.
You can also try playing the file with VLC media player which plays about anything possible.

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