ITunes won't add folder or file(s) to library.

Okay, well this started off when an album in my library wouldn't play. I clicked on the songs in the album and none of them would play. So, I deleted the album. I went to File>Add Folder to Library... selected the folder that had the album, (Files and the album art) and nothing happened. I tried to open each individual song with iTunes but that didn't do anything either. Then I tried dragging and dropping, nothing. I also tried to make a new folder and move the files into that, and it still didn't work. It seems that this album is glitched or something.. The folder isn't read only or anything and it was fine before it started to not play. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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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