ITunes won't play certain MP3s

Ok, I have about 10gigs worth of songs that will not play on the latest version of iTunes. In fact they don't even show up in iTunes.
Basic info:
All files are MP3s encoded at 192 bit rate.
None are protected.
All songs worked fine on old computer with older version of iTunes.
Running Windows Vista with latest version of iTunes.
Files will play in Windows Media player.
When double clicking on file, itunes will open but the song doesn't show up in the list nor does it play.
I've tried selecting files and folders to add to library but it just will not see the files.
The only work around I've found is to re-encode the files, but like I said it's 10gigs worth of music. I don't really want to do it again. Especially since they used to work just fine on older version.
Any help?

I believe iTune is very sensitive to problems with MP3s, and refuses to play ones that other players will accept.
You could try and repair them, some tag editors claim to do this or Google MP3 Repair.
I can't recomend a repair tool as I haven't tried any myself, but do make sure you have any files you attempt to repair backed up.

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