ITunes will not "see" specific folder in music folder

I am new to iPods and iTunes. I got an iPod classic as a gift yesterday so last night I installed iTunes and let it create a library overnight. I sync'd my iPod and all seemed well (~22GB in the library and on the iPod). I wanted to try the iPod so I turned it on and went to play "Hey there Delilah" by the Plain White T's which is in a folder along with all my other albums in mp3 format. It was not on the iPod. I checked iTunes and it was not there either. I tried to import the folder. Nothing happened. I tried to play the songs with iTunes from Explorer. Nothing. If I play in Windows Media Player it works. Any ideas? I have not determined if anything else is missing yet other than this single folder.
Thanks,

+I tried to play the songs with iTunes from Explorer. Nothing.+
That is iTunes's way of telling you there is an incompatibility in the file. iTunes can be sensitive to corruption or variation in the headers, so it is not unusual to have an mp3 that plays fine in WMP but not in iTunes.
You will need to fix it up with a 3rd party program, or else use a conversion program to convert it to WAV and back to mp3 (which usually cleans it up).

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