ITunes doesn't add files to my Movies library

So I just added a video, but now, I want to add another 2 but I can't. I Do all of the steps but the video won't show on the library. What's the problem? or what can I do?

I don't know much about .mkv I believe it is a package format. If you're lucky you can open it in a program such as Streamclip and re-save it as .mp4, but that's only if the enclosed codecs work in .mp4 Otherwise you'll have to use one of the many free (or I am sure eventually somebody who makes one that costs money but basically does the same as the free ones will eventually post here as hidden advertising) transcoders to re-code it to a format playable by iTunes.
iTunes: Frequently asked questions about viewing and syncing videos > What video content works with iTunes and mobile devices? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2729 -- not very specific other than if it works in Quicktime it works in iTunes.

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Fault Module Name: StackHash_ada7
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By way of experiment, create a new library.
(1) Hold the Shift key while opening iTunes. You will be prompted to Choose iTunes Library.
(2) Choose Create Library to create a new one. In the following window you will be prompted to select a location to save the new iTunes Library.
(3) Click Save. iTunes will open the newly created library. After closing iTunes, you can always select the original library by using the Shift key when opening iTunes.
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For the last couple of days I've been having a problem where iTunes won't add files or folders for no discernible reason. Yesterday I was able to add a few videos, then I wasn't. Today after reinstalling iTunes it added my music just fine, but when that was finished and I wanted to add something else, nothing. I don't know why it's doing this. Drag and drop doesn't work, either. When I try to bring a file over, I get a little red circle with the line through it saying it can't do it.
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Ok. So its finally working again. Not sure why, but maybe my experience will help someone else.
All I can say is that I have been trying a relentless combination of mounting and mounting the drive, checking and unchecking the 'copy files to iTunes Library', running 'consolidate library', and everything in between. One of them finally kicked it back into action.
Nice Apple. 9.2.1 isn't buggy at all...that's sarcasm.

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I have some songs on itunes, but now itunes won't add files or folders, also will not import at all.
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Can anyone help?
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Ok. So its finally working again. Not sure why, but maybe my experience will help someone else.
All I can say is that I have been trying a relentless combination of mounting and mounting the drive, checking and unchecking the 'copy files to iTunes Library', running 'consolidate library', and everything in between. One of them finally kicked it back into action.
Nice Apple. 9.2.1 isn't buggy at all...that's sarcasm.

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Hi,
Had to reinstall Itunes and now the program doesn't add all the songs from my library (roughly 4,000 songs). All that is added is maybe 20 songs, and always the same ones. It has worked perfectly before.
I have tried to "pull" all the artist folders into the Itunes window, but it doesn't work. I have tried to set another folder as the Itunes library and then choose "add new folder", but only those 20 songs are added. I have made sure so that none of the files are copy protected or "read-only".
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Best regards,
Jonas

Ok, I deleted the two files and upon startup iTunes did run that search wizard for music files. However, it only found 4 songs that are located on local harddisks, and did not (as far as I could see on the network status) even try to search on the network harddisk.
One more thing though, that I forgot to mention before. I tried to solve this situation by installing an earlier version of iTunes... 4.6 i think, but when I tried to run the program it told me something like "Cannot read the file iTunes library.itl since it was created by a later version of iTunes". Where can i find that file, and should i remove it and try to add the songs with iTunes 4.6 instead?
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Greetings.
My iTunes will not add my recent downloads to my library.
I have tried adding the entire folder to the library and adding each song individually with no success.
Please help if you can.
Thanks for reading.

I am having this problem as well, both with audio files AND video files. Very frustrating, as I just got my first iPod and want to load it up so I can play! (Not new to iTunes, though...just didn't have everything loaded into it).
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So you have a DTS audio DVD.
You say you've "encode the contents into 5.1 wav files which work in QT".
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How many QT files do you have?
What you should do is to let your receiver do the decoding of the DTS stream, and just get your Macbook to send that stream to the receiver via whatever TosLink adaptor you already have.
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I've got into trouble.
I have a macbook pro. I installed bootcamp 1.3 and Win XP SP2. I copied all of my music CDs to 'My Music' folder in *XP partition*; Then in Mac I went to the iTunes's prereference, advanced tab, and unchecked 'copy files when I add my files'. After that I added my music files and enjoyed listenning them *especially with apple remote control*. Several days ago I decided to upgrade my music database in iTunes library so I deleted previous and add files again. After processing a bad event happened!!!
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ITunes will not add files to my Library

Greetings.
My iTunes will not add my recent downloads to my library.
I have tried adding the entire folder to the library and adding each song individually with no success.
Please help if you can.
Thanks for reading.

@CPL_STEELE: can you try to post these specifications in your own topic? (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=985161&tstart=0)
It's not very nice to take over someone else this topic, because the topic starter (Ganieda) could have another problem than you. It's also very confusing for everyone who is trying to help because there are now 2 problems in the same topic.
Never the less, feel free to follow this topic if you think it could be interesting for you problem.
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I've tried reinstalling both iTunes and the iPod software, but no dice.
No errors pop up. Sometimes the Processing box will pop up and show the progress bar and the filenames, but then nothing happens. Most of the time iTunes doesn't even blink.
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Found my own answer. Turns out the MP3's I had were corrupt. Just reformatted/reinstalled windows, and I guess when I burned them they didn't cook right to the DVD-RW and are hooped now.
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Dear Apple,
I'm having *itunes 8.1.1*,and i do like this;
file -> add folder to library (or something, it's in dutch).
And he only adds 397 files of 1030 in that folder.
How come? *Please help me!*
Tom.
Message was edited by: faceplant!

faceplant! wrote:
nope, nothing happens
Well if they will not add one at a time, then adding a folder full of them will not work either. So...
Are you sure they are MP3 files? If so, see if they play in another player, such as Windows Media Player. If they play in WMP but not in iTunes, then the problem may be minor corruption in the MP3 headers, which can be cleaned up in a tool such as MP3 Valdator, as Garth mentioned.
If they will not play in either iTunes or WMP, then you can suspect that they are not valid song files.

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Understand how iTunes works. iTunes does not actively look for files. When you add a file to iTunes the location of that file is saved in the iTunes database (library file). When you try to play a track iTunes looks in its database for where the linked file is to be found and tries to play the specific file it has listed in that location. If you deleted the file then it no longer exists. I think even if you replace it with one that is identical, iTunes is still looking for that specific file. You can link the track listing to a new file using the process you have done. In theory iTunes should be able to find others but the files have to have been organized by iTunes in the past because it will be working on the basis of how it thinks they should be arranged. Additionally the files you replaced have to have exactly the same name as the ones you deleted because iTunes will expect them to be named how it would name them when they were first entered into your library

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Yes other peole have found 2 possibilities
If iTunes Match is used try Store > Update iTunes Match
if you do not use iTunes Match try logging out of itunes store and logging in again.

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