Cannot Add Subfolders to iTunes

I have a massive folder titled "Music" filled with subfolders and more subfolders inside those, and I want to add them all into iTunes as one giant chunk. However, iTunes's option "Add Folder to Library" only will allow me to add folders that have audio files directly inside of them; it doesn't register subfolders. It would take me hours to either add every subfolder manually or to transfer them all into one folder, so how can I add this one giant folder into iTunes? I'm running iTunes version 11.2.2.3 on Windows 8.

Are you getting an error message or something else that indicates that the contents of the folder/subfolder structure can't be added? I've done this repeatedly with a multilevel hierarchy of folders. Just select File > Add Folder ... and select the top level ("Music" in your case). There may be a pause - I assume that iTunes is looking through the folders to determine their contents - but the import should work fine as a single operation.

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