Cannot drag and drop from music to file - why??

I have just set up on itunes but having downloaded music from a CD, I can't then move it from 'music' to a new folder (or any other folder for that matter). Why might this be - is there something I might not have done or something needs disabling?
Any help greatly appreciated.. Thanks!

Welcome to AD!
You can move tracks to a playlist, and create Playlist Folders. But you can't just drag songs into a folder.
You can only drag playlists into a Playlist Folder.

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