Music server import problems to Itunes

I'm sort of new at this, but I exported 1500 albums from my music server to a folder on my hard drive on my computer. I then copied and pasted the music files, by dragging over to Itunes (converts to MP3). I only see about 450 albums in Itunes. Where did the other albums go? What am I doing wrong. Please help, thanks.

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Katy288 wrote:
It can't locate them, because they originated from a different computer.
This makes no sense. It doens't matter where they originated from.
If they were in iTunes on this computer and this backup is of this computer, they are from this computer.
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I'm having the exact same issue, but still haven't figured out what it is. I note that at the top of this thread it indicates that there are two "helpful" entries and one "solved" entry, but I can't find the solved one, so maybe someone will repost it here or kindly link to it.
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Due to some kind of copy protection in iTunes - I don't copy directly from this in iMovie
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I have the same error explained in a other post which was still left unanswered
I have this sound problem after reorganising folders by itunes, i tried to delete al files in itunes and also
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Re: Error while importing music in iMovie 09 from iTunes 09
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kcinokc wrote:
I have a 3GS and the ios is 4.3.4. I am trying to load the latest version so I can then get the icloud.
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