Itunes 11.0.3.42 fails to add music folder to library?

     I recently upgraded from itunes 10.x to 11.0.3.42.
     With the old version, I could select from the menu to add a music folder with wav files to my library and it would do it perfectly fine, converting the files as it went (so far as I know wav files can't be put on the ipod).
     With the new version, I select 'file->add folder to library', select my folder and it analyzes the songs at the top of the window (because I enabled the 'Sound Check' volume control in the preferences to make playback volume consistent) but nothing gets added to the library! I've even tried adding individual files and dragging and dropping into itunes but nothing works. If I go into windows explorer and right-click on a wav file and say 'open with itunes', it opens up and starts playing in itunes with no trouble! It doesn't even convert it to play it.
Does anyone know how to fix this or a work-around?

I was browsing through my itunes catalogue and I found the songs I tried to import! I suppose they've been there all along, just not where I was expecting. I was expecting it to have all of the metadata attached to it so it would be under the artists' name or the album... It was under "Unknown Album" by "Unknown Artist". At least the songs are there with the song titles attached, though the track numbers are part of the titles. Still, it would be nice to not have to manually fill in all of the tags. = (
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