ITunes won't recognize all of my music, what to do?

when i download itunes and have it search my computer it will only show 667 songs. I have over 1500 in my library. So what is going on? I've tried to manually add each folder/file to the file but it never shows, even after a restart.

Is the music in question selected to sync?

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