ITunes doesn't show imported music

I'm having an issue where if I import a song or group of songs into iTunes (from mp3 files on my computer already), they don't show up in the list of songs in my library. The status of the import shows as it's importing, but when it's done I can't search of any of those songs, or browse for them.
I tried a few things. I renamed one of the mp3s to a very simple file name, and right-clicked on it in finder and chose "open in iTunes" and it did! It played right away. So I did the old CMD-L while it was playing to see where the heck iTunes though it was living. That's when it pulled up the smart playlist that has the last 100 songs I've added to itunes. But still the song was nowhere to be found in my master library.
Any ideas?

Do you use iTunes Match?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4543259 - delay of several hours (for some people overnight) for new additions to iTunes to appear in the main library window as a result of using iTunes Match. Things to try:
1) Turn off Match, see if the items appear, then turn Match on again.
2) Drag the items from the Recently Added playlist to the library.
3) Wait until they do appear.

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