Editing Music

So I've had and used iTunes for years now and this is the first time this has ever happened to me. For some reason I just can't figure this out. I've imported all of my music intoto my library from my external hard drive and now it will not let me edit any of the song info/artwork. When you pull up "Get Info" on one or multiple songs, the text info should be in black and you should be able to edit this information. Now it shows up grey and it will not let me edit anything. Is there anything I can do to change this?

Vitale131
I had the same problem some time ago when I transferred some music from my laptop to my desktop. On looking at the file in Finder I found that although I am the only user of both machines I did not have sufficient permission to change the file.
Go to the file in Finder and Right Click. Get Info and at the bottom of the Get Info pane is a Sharing & Permissions section. Check the entries here and if necessary add yourself with Read & Write permission (by using the little + sign at the bottom).
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