Plays in Win Media Player, but won't import in iTunes

I have some quite large MP3 files that play fine in Windows Media Player, but I iTunes won't import them.
What could be reason for that?
TIA
Gert
iTunes 6 Windows XP
iTunes 6 Windows XP

Are you certain that the files in question are in fact MP3 files and not some other format?
iTunes can play plain old MP3 files, but it cannot play proprietary schemes with digital rights management built in, and it cannot play WMA files.

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