ITunes refuses to add songs ot the library

Just yesturday it worked just fine and today when I try to do it it is giving me an error that I don't have the permissions when finder says I do.
For some reason when I upgraded itunes this started happening.

Have you tried repairing permissions? Go to Applications>Utilities and launch Disk utility. Select Repair permissions.

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