Importing from usb drive

my friend threw some tunes on a usb drive of mine. i can play the music from the drive but i want to transfer them to my itunes. do i have to import them one by one from the drive? i'm confused please help.

Launch iTunes
Open that usb drive in Finder
Select all those tracks you want to copy
Drag that selection onto "Libary - Music" in iTunes left column
That should do assuming your iTunes preferences are set to copy files when adding to library
Message was edited by: Kay Marczoch

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