New song showing in playlists, not in library!

Hi there,
I've just added a bunch of MP3s manually but drag and dropping them into a playlist. iTunes automatically copied them to the iTunes's music folder. Everything is fine there. The songs also appears in the recently added smart playlist. But checking into my library: they are not there. I've restarted quite a bit, nothing does. And as far as restoring to a previous database goes (as per troubleshooting), I'm not convinced I want to try that right now and resynch all my devices... It's going to take a lot of time
Any pointers to what I could do to correct this behaviour before resorting to playing with the .itdb files?

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