ITunes does not recognise music

i have a major problem. i have approx 500 songs on itunes that have not been recgonised by itunes under artist, song etc. this means that i have to click on each individual song (currently within an unknown folder in the itunes folder) and rename etc. this problem started when i transferred itunes over to external harddrive. what am i doing wrong? is there a quick fix? within my external hardddrive itunes folder these songs are under UNKNOWN FOLDER

I have found a way for iTunes to recognise all the songs but its not a method that will associate every song at the click of a button. Basically delete the song listing in iTunes (im doing mine one album at a time) then go to File > Add folder to library, then select the appropaite folder from the file path. This way you can add an album at a time rather than just a song at a time.
Not perfect I know, but it works!!

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