I have a playlist of tracks that are not in my music library

It is my understanding that all of your music resides within your Music Library and from there you can create playlists, whether Smart Playlists or just Playlists, but your playlists do not contain anything that isn't in your main Music Library.
I have a standard playlist that contains over 400 tracks where many are not in my Music Library from various different artists, albums and genres.
Is there a way to get the music within the playlist back into my Music Library without going in artist by artist Adding tracks?

All Tag edits were and are done within iTunes.
This specific Playlist was created over a year ago with an earlier version of iTunes.  I just went through the process of changing information on a few of those tracks within the Playlist I have problems with and the current version of iTunes is not copying the music files, but moving them.
I think that this must have been a bug in whatever version of iTunes I was using last year when I first started working on my Tags.
I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but just last month I had iTunes Convert the ID3 Tags on everything within my Music Library
turingtest2 - I have not tried your suggestion yet, but I will let you know what happens.  Right now, I'm just trying to get rid of the duplicated tracks without Tag updates I've made.

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