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Okay, so I've been using Itunes for 7-8 years. I have a fairly large library somewhere around 500 gigabytes of MP#s and assorted compressed and even more lossless files.
I went to a concert the other night and purchased to albums by the most excellent group, Lake Street Dive. I got home and put them in my Mac mini and ripped both CDs to .m4a. They didn't show up in my library but the files were on my computer. So then I went to "Add to Library" and manually added the music to the library. The processing bar came on for all of the music. Now when I search in my search bar I see the band and the albums but when I click on them nothing. If I scroll through the artist, album, song bars nothing is there.
I can play the music in VLC. I've even tried right clicking the music in the folder and click Open with Itunes. Still nothing.
Anybody got any ideas? I'm thinking I might just erase everything and start again with a different format, but this is really weird to me. .m4a is apple's proprietary compressed file correct?

Just a follow up. I erased the .m4a and imported it as .mp3. Still won't show up in itunes. No clue what's going on.

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