Garageband Not importing mp3's

Hello all, I noticed that my garageband is not importing mp3's from my iTunes library. The problem started without so suddenly and I didn't change any settings neither on the macbook or garageband. I tried to import mp3 on another profile and it was completely fine, so I uninstalled garageband and installed it again, but the problem is still there.....Could anyone help? Thank you!

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