Playing MPEG

Recently I was given a music file in MPEG format, but it won't add to the playlist in iTunes. Is it just that iTunes won't play MPEG or is there something that I can do to fix this?

hi Alex!
it's probably worth checking to see if the file has been given the wrong filename extension. will it play if you alter it?
love, b

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