ITunes will only play select music...

I have recently done a complete switch from PC to Mac and as such I transferred all of my music from my PC to my Mac. When I load the music into iTunes it will only recognize some music and won't even import the other stuff. The 'other' stuff played in iTunes on my PC and just recently noticed that certain albums were completely gone and when an attempt to re-import itunes would do nothing with it.
hope someone can help,
thanks.

Assuming this is for iPhoto on your Mac:
Launch iTunes use the File -> Library -> Organize Library -> Reorganize Library menu option. Then quit and relaunch iPhoto.
Credit to user keysandfood who found this solution.
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