Importing MP3 into Itunes

When I move my MP3 files to itunes they will appear in the Library but when I double click to play a song on my computer, it gives me the following message:
"The song "......." could not be used because the original file could not be found. Would you like to locate it? "
Unless I return the CD I imported, I cannot play the song and probably will not either on my Ipod.
What could possible be my problem. Can anybody help with this??Thanks

Thank you so much for your help. Now I have a bigger problem because of the failed upgrade to itunes5.0. My itunes disappeared because of the mess this 5.0 upgrade did to my computer in general and to my 4.9itunes in particular. I only recovered on my desktop via a system restore. However when I click icon on the desktop, nothing happens and it gives me a message to restore itunes. I first tried to uninstall itunes using the uninstall software in Control Panel but it won't let me uninstall!Why is that?.My question is how can I install itunes as the message prompt me when I cannot even uninstall the old or modified itunes in my computer? Is there a way around this? Can anyone help me out? I really appreciate it very much.

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Hi, I'm running the newest version of iTunes and having problems loading mp3s into the library in correct order. I'm not sure how the mp3s i want to import are tagged, but when i import them, iTunes arranges them automatically by song name (alphabetically) and loses the track order.
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You don’t say quite enough to be sure if I am being helpful or how much you know, but …
Start in the library window with browse on and select an album. (Click on the little eye, upper right of screen if you don’t see the browser).
You can then use “Get info” to inspect some of your imported tracks for that album. If you click on the info tab, you should see a field for track number. If you have a correct track number in this field, you should be able to sort by track number.
If you don’t see a Track # column to sort on, you and bring it into view by right clicking on the header row (Name, Artist, Album etc) and then checking Track number.
You can sort on any column by clicking the header.
I ripped all my CDs with Free Realplayer and imported the tracks into iTunes when I got an iPod – all the track numbers were already correct.

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I have a server in my house where I keep all my music. (WHS since Apple doesn't currently offer anything of this nature.) I tried to drag a standard MP3 file from my server over Samba to iTunes 9 and it just fails silently. iTunes doesn't freeze or anything. It just doesn't addd the song. We have two identical MacBooks that are both exhibiting the same problem.
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Eagad wrote:
It must be something to do with some of the files, because I was able to import a different CD from the same server. I am still looking for a way to get a reason out of iTunes as to why it won't import the file.
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When I first opened up ITunes and did this it insisted on checking every file (14000 tracks) for gapless settings - no way out it seemed and this took the best part of 2 days !
Even then, when I started to buold a playlist for burning I came to an abrupt halt, the music folder only contained my music up to C (approx, by artist). The rest of the files were not ther (but present on the drive where they are stored).
So tried to re-import (Add to Library) and this time ITunes has started to process Album Artwork for all my music - at the same lightning (NOT) speed.
What ????
All I want to do is get Itunes to read the music library so I can burn a few CDs.
Am I doing something wrong ?
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Hmmm - searching the ol' weberoony it seems I'm FAR from the only one having similar issues. Namely that ITunes insists on these gapless playback and album art checks when it first imports a new library.
If I try and open ITunes I immediately get the pinwheel of death (aka beachball) and am unable to exit or even force quit. This pinwheel will run until those checks are completed. It's at that stage (after 2 days) that I was able to access the media library via ITunes but then found only about an eigth of my libary was in there (up to C and a few odds and sods which seemed out of order)..
I just have to turn the IMac off. And I don't recall any options in Preferences about gapless playback and album art but I can't get there to check at the moment (pinwheel . . . . ).
I can play, and see, all my music via Songbird quite happily. I can see both the FLAC and MP3 libraries, and contents, on my hard disk (it's an external Vortexbox server) using Finder.
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Hi All,
This is what I am trying to do. I have a CD that needs to be transferred to my iPad. I figured I need to have the music in iTunes and then I can copy over. I used my Windows 7 laptop to rip the CD and put the mp3 songs on a shared network drive. From my MBA (mavericks, itunes 11.1.3) I can see the music. I am unable to play these mp3 songs using default iTunes player. When I try to drag the songs plus sign shows up but nothing gets copied. I have tried creating empty playlist but nothing goes in there. I also tried playing the songs using quick time and all play fine.
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Hey Apple - Howe about a little help...!
I'm running iTunes 11.0.4. I am not able to see new CDs, in mp3 format, that I have added to my hard drive. Lots of folks are having this problem. This renders my Apple iPod, and to some extent my iPad, much useless. What do I need to do to get this fixed?
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Celt,
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Thanks for the reply, red. It seems that +Import Audio Files+ supports mp3, but the description on the +Import Files into iTunes+ doesn't specifically include mp3. I suppose a quick test will reveal. The original reason for the question is that the Automator workflow seems to force a conversion of each mp3 file -- even when choosing the mp3 option in +Import Audio Files+ -- which obviously slows down the process.
When from iTunes I choose Add to Library, navigate to the target folder and click OK, iTunes completes the 80-or-so files in no time.
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How can I import music into iTunes from another media.
I have a library downloaded from a Sony Ericsson W715 into "Media Go" and I want to transfer to iTunes and then into my iPhone 4.
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chrisfromgoodworth clatford wrote:
How can I import music into iTunes from another media.
I have a library downloaded from a Sony Ericsson W715 into "Media Go" and I want to transfer to iTunes and then into my iPhone 4.
Is this possible ?
Chris
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Yeah, I'd happy provide details if I saw them. The message itself just says, "The action “Import Files into iTunes” encountered an error." Is there a way to get more information on the error?
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