Cannot import WAV files into itunes with 8.01!

Although I see posts in this category, this question has not been answered. iTunes 8 and 8.01 have lost a critical capability compared to iTunes 7. I have an Olympus digital voice recorder that I like to download to my ipod. I could do this before 8.01! Now I cannot!
Are you working on a solution?

Check out this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8645977&#8645977

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itunes can't do what you want. It will do exactly what you said, lose everything, because wav files don't have ID3 tags. And, I suspect it dumps it all into an "Unknown Album" subfolder under "Unknown Artist".
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I am a new mac owner, new ipod owner too.
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Hi,
Firstly, I must point out that WAV doesn't support tagging, so there is no point in converting your compressed FLAC and SHN files to WAV before making the move over to a Mac.
Rather, it would make more sense to use the free and excellent Max to convert all these files automatically to the format of your choice, such as Apple Lossless. You can even run multiple conversions simultaneously, so you could, say, convert your whole lot of files to Apple Lossless while at the same time convert the same lot to AAC for use on your iPod. The program is highly configurable, allowing you to specify destination directories and whether or not the output files are added directly to your iTunes library. Also, the tagging will be preserved when converting FLAC and SHN files to supported formats.

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