Itunes won't add aac's

i have a folder of aac's and mp3's, itunes will not add the aac's to library but will add the mp3's, any ideas why

try repairing permissions and then try it again. usually when itunes starts messing up a quick permission repair fixes the problem for me

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ITunes won't add files or folders

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.
Help?

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.

Itunes won't add files or folders, also will not import

I have some songs on itunes, but now itunes won't add files or folders, also will not import at all.
I did an uninstall and reinstall but still does not work.
Can anyone help?
Lucille
Windows 2000

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.

ITunes won't add large files to the library

I use software to convert my personal DVDs into Apple TV format via H.264 decoder for 720p resolution. The resulting files are typically larger than 3GB for a 2 hour movie. Now iTunes won't add them to my library so I can't sync them or stream them to my Apple TV.
Any advice? Is there a setting in iTunes that I overlooked?
I have tried the mpg4 conversion setting for 480 resolution and those files will load into iTunes and stream to Apple TV, but they are grainy and a horrible quality. So for those saying I don't need to use the H.264, I am picky and want a high quality resolution.
Thanks for any advice and help.

RPojeta wrote:
It is possible that there is something else wrong with my files. Several mp4 files worked fine prior to getting a new iMac and transferring the files over (using ext HDDs, not the migration wizard). Quicktime won't even open the files in question. It states that they are not movie files.
Sounds odd, they may be corrupted.
Try enusring the file extensions are either .mp4 or .m4v (or .mov perhaps).
3GB+ for a file intended for AppleTv 2 hours long sounds excessive and may exceed AppleTv playback specs but it shouldn'tbother quicktime. If the files don't open in QT they may well be corupted.

Itunes won't add video..help please

my itunes won't add videos. i've converted different videos to mp4 using different converters (im using a powerbook g4) such as ffmpegx, visualhub and quicktime. after the converting, all videos seem to play fine on quicktime but when i add it into i tunes (add to library, import, drag and drop), nothing happens. no message, nothing!...anyone else have this problem and know how to solve it? please help...thanks

Try Handbrake. Works fine for me.
http://handbrake.m0k.org/

ITunes won't add my music folder!

I've been trying for weeks to figure this out, my music folder is pretty big, almost at 60GB, and it used to be when I tried to add it to my iTunes library it crashed, well, I've been trying recently to do this, and it isn't crashing...but it won't add the whole folder. It adds maybe 1,000 of the songs and then it stops and won't add anymore.
Is there any way to fix this without having to go through and add 600+ folders manually?
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Hi Chris,
I appreciate all the info, but for some reason several of the artists didn't get backed up like they should have in the itunes music folder, so I have to add them back from my ipod. However, when I've tried to do that, it says I have 2 copies of each song and then when I delete the one I added off my ipod, it says it can't find the song.
But my ipod names the songs weird so I don't know which song is which! if that makes sense...
And b/c I deleted and then added back my itunes library several times when I was trying to get it sorted out, I have 3 copies of every playlist, even the automatic ones.
I'm so frustrated right now about all of this, and I can't sync up my ipod like I want to until I get all this figured out!

ITunes won't add my videos

Hi, I have a problem thats driving me off the wall.
I have some movies I want to add to my iPod and so I'm trying to add them to my Library. It's worked in the past, but now when I try and add the movies(which i happen to know for sure are in mp4 format)it allows me to select the movie and press the "Open" button and then nothing happens, the movie is not added and there is no error message. It has worked in the past, but for some reason suddenly stopped working yesterday.
Can anyone help me? Thank you in advance for any help you might offer.

iTunes:
** Video content purchased from the iTunes Store.*
** QuickTime and MPEG-4 movie files that end in ".mov", ".m4v", or ".mp4" and are playable in QuickTime Player.*
** Video podcasts.*
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2729#3
You have to convert the other video files into a format iTunes can use.
Now the question is; How are you trying to add the mp4 files to iTunes?
The Add File command should work for those.

ITunes won't add pdf file to library

Using iTunes 10.7 on Mac OS 10.6.8
Simply trying to add a PDF file (created in Word for Mac 2011 v. 14.2.4) to my iTunes library so I can upload it to my iPad.
I have done this many times before with no problems. Suddenly my iTunes will not add my files to the library.
I did just run an automatic Mac software update (not sure what it was), and an recent update from Microsoft, but nothing out of the ordinary and I can't see why that would affect whether iTunes adds files.
Tried looking in HELP function but fould nothing remotely related.
Have no idea what to do now.
Any suggestions? This is something that I do a lot of so I'm having a real breakdown here!
Thank you for any help.

See this -> MP3val

ITunes won't add or import new files

I am running mountain lion 10.8.2 and my system is fully updated.I have my itunes library on an external drive but I am unable to add new files to iTunes. I have tried dragging and dropping and the plus appears and when I release the files I get the color wheel for several seconds but it does not get added. The same happens when I try going through the menu and cmd+O. I can download new items from iTunes but nothing can be imported. I am at my wits end and can't figure out what is going on.

Update: this appears to be the solution, though not for the faint-hearted. The problem was a bad iTunes Library.itl file.
http://mod-blog.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/itunes-problem-wont-add-new-items-to.htm l
This solution worked for me, but my Time Machine let me down and I had to go back to a much earlier library file.

Itunes won't add iphone to devices, why?

2 days ago i downloaded itunes, registered my iphone, put some songs in it, everything was fine.
but today when i connect it, itunes won't show up that there is iphone connected.
i'm using windows xp btw.

i had this problem last year, too.
here are some ideas:
1. Restart you're computer and connect your iphone to the computer again.
2. if you're iphone can be found in the " Windows Explorer", you have to reinstall iTunes, because the programm "Bonjour" (part of iTunes, to detect your iPhone )
3. check your Power Cable or Sync Cable of the iPhone.
I hope I could help you!
Yours sincerly,
Philipp

ITunes won't add songs to my iphone/adds them but they don't actually add?

Ok, so I keep trying to add songs to my iPhone, and half of them just appear greyed out with the circle next to them, and no matter how many times i sync, they won't ever add. Then, out of the songs that do add randomly, most of them don't appear on my iPhone and when I try to play them on iTunes (in the iPhone playlist) an exclamation mark appears next to them (so they didn't actually add, but they're in my iTunes library so I don't understand why it "can't find" the songs when I add them to my iPhone). As a result, out of 433 songs I've been trying for 2 hours to add to my iPhone, only 14 actually show up on my iPhone. All the songs that have added AND actually showed up on my phone and played are songs that I've purchased from iTunes, so I'm not sure what that's about. Oh, I also had like 50 songs on my phone before I tried adding all the new ones earlier, and when I started adding new music, all the previous songs that were on my phone disappeared from my phone and have exclamation marks next to them in my phone's itunes playlist. Can someone explain what's going on with iTunes?

Disconnect your iPod from your computer. Close iTunes and re-open. Connect the iPod cable to a different usb port, re-connect and fingers crossed the error will go away (happened to me on Sunday and doing the above resolved).

Itunes Won't add certain fully Compatible Video Files from Another Library

I recently updated to Leopard 10.5.2 on all my Mac computers. Ever since doing so, trying to add certain ipod compatible files to my Windows machine is touch and go. I have been doing the same add a file network transfer every day without incident pulling from three different Mac Itunes libraries. Until I went from 10.5.1 to 10.5.2. I can see, click, and request the file, but some files transfer without delay, others never copy over. I can't figure out why. One day recurring files with similar names transfer, others don't. I thought it could be a file name issue or directory name length, but I couldn't detect a pattern. The only way to transfer the file is to copy and paste to my Windows desktop, then drag and drop to my Windows Itunes libarary. Everything works fine that way, but it takes extra steps. Anyone have any ideas. I have no trouble with both my Mac and windows machines seeing each other and trasnferring files using explorer and Finder.

When this happens on my Win XP home PC, the file & folder have been mysteriously set to read only.
But you said yours were coming from a Mac, right?
In Windows, right-click on the file > Get Properties. I uncheck the read only box. Sometimes I have to restart iTunes. Other times I've had to restart the whole PC because the lock won't go away until I do.
Older versions of Windows had a nifty way to get rid of file locks on-the-fly, but they removed it in WinXP.
It's not just iTunes, either. These random file locks/read only settings happen with other files. I started happening about 6-9 months ago after a Windows update.

ITunes Won't Add Folders Located on Network Drive

I have my music on a shared network drive. I'm trying to rebuild my library. I can add folders and files from a local directory. The network drive has been assigned a drive letter in WinXP. However, when I try to use "Add Folder to Library" on any folder with music from the network, iTunes basically just ignores the command. iTunes doesn't show that the files are being added and the files in the folder are never added. I've also tried dragging a folder onto iTunes, with similar results.
However, I can add the actual music files into iTunes (from "Add Files to Library" for example). With 1,000s of songs across over 100 directories with subdirectories, I don't really want to do it that way; I want to just add the folder. I can see all of the files and folder, and I can play the files, so I don't think it is a permissions issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hello,
Hopefully somebody can help with my similair problem. I have all my music in mp3 format on my linux server, which runs glftpd + scripts that catalogue the mp3 upon upload into genres/year/artist to make for easier finding of songs. I then use samba to access the shares within the glftpd directory structure, e.g.; /glftpd/site/mp3/albums.. I have added this share into windows as a mapped drive (M:\). The problem is this, whilst I can add the folder/drive into iTunes, i cant manually update the album art. iTunes does find some are for the albums, but I have a different source which I want to use to update the art. I also noticed that its not just the art I cant edit, its the track info. This i expected becuase the tracks reside on a network share which glftpd has probably locked permissions on, however the album art i cant understand becuase the library resides on my windows pc.
Any ideas ?

Cannot add files to iTunes - iTunes won't add files

I have just purchased a new Macbook Pro. I then used an external hard drive to transfer music files from my desktop PC to the Macbook Pro. I copied the files directly to the iTunes Music folder on the Macbook, and then through the "Add to Library" option in iTunes added the entire "iTunes Music" folder to iTunes. I then noticed that certain files did not show up in the iTunes Music list. I verified that the files had been copied to the iTunes Music folder on the Macbook Pro, which they had, but they will not add to the Music list in iTunes. The problematic files will however open with the Quicktime player. I have also tried the following:
- dragged and dropped files to iTunes (result was simply nothing. The files did not show up in iTunes).
- Uninstalled and Reinstalled iTunes (didn't help)
- Cleared the "Music" list in iTunes and then re-added all of the files again. (same files still would not show up in the iTunes Music list)
- Tried moving the files from my desktop PC to the Macbook Pro with a different external hard drive. (still no luck).
I have found other posts with the same problem but have not found a solution. Please help!

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ITunes won't add mp3 files to library

I recently downloaded some mp3 files and for some reason I can't add them to my iTunes Library. I've done this before without any problems. The mp3 files play fine on my iMac, but I can't open them from within iTunes nor add them to the iTunes Library. I've tried to drag the files into the Library or into a blank play list in iTunes and nothing happens. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Some mp3s are somehow coded with something iTunes does not like.
You can try the MP3Scan&Repair utility (do a web search).
You can use a lossless mp3 editor such as MP3Trimmer, Fission, or AudioSlicer ( this one is free and works on my G4 but maybe not on newer computers). You can open the mp3 and save it again and maybe iTunes will like that copy better.
You can re-code the mp3 back into mp3 using a third party tool or maybe Garageband (I don't have that). This is undesirable because there will be lossi n quality.

Itunes won't add aac's

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