Song won't add to my library on Itunes 11

I've added songs to my itunes but they won't show up in the library. I can play them from the "Recently Added" playlist but the library has no idea they exist. Any help would be great

Unless you add by dragging a file to the "Automatically Add To iTunes" folder, iTunes places a copy of the file in the correct folder and leaves the original where it was.
It is quite possible the movie was added to iTunes but did not contain internal labels or tags. It may be in your home movies area in iTunes (I am talking about the application, not folder structure) but with some generic label.
Do not move iTunes files and folders about in Finder. iTunes does not label according to that. You will just cause iTunes to lose the link to the file ( ! ). You need to find the file in iTunes (have you looked in "Recently Added"?) and change the labeling there by getting info on the file.

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Actually, it was "respond" (to this post).
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Hey Folks,
I can't seem to get some songs/files to add or import to itunes...
My computer crashed while itunes was open. When I rebooted the itunes library was corrupted and all playlists and songs were missing.
... no problem...
I'll just add the itunes folder right... Which is what I did.
Problem is now a good 20% of the songs are missing. They are on the harddrive in the itunes music folder, but won't import or add to itunes.
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Thx

I assume adding artwork is a tag-affecting change - but I can't
add on this track - it just reverts to the black image.
I take it the tags themselves are hidden. I see no direct
editing options for them although I read than they can be
set to different types - and there are utilities available to
clean, fix, re-set, etc.
Ok, now I see your edit - this isn't an mp3, it's .aiff.
Message was edited by: Tom Meade1

ITunes crashed during "Get Info" now the movie won't add to the library

Hi all,
I've been using iTunes with my Apple TV for over a year now, and this is the first time this has happened, and I'm at a loss on what to do to remedy it.
I added a number of movies to my iTunes (as i have done a number of times before), and selected them all, and clicked on Get Info, to move them from "Home Movies" to "Films", nothing new there, but this time when i clicked ok this time, for whatever reason iTunes stopped responding, and came up with the usual error of "iTunes has stopped responding....", so after I get returned to my desktop I went back in to iTunes and the movies i'd added weren't in "Home Movies" so i figured, "oh well, it must have completed it anyway, and then crashed", so i went and checked my movie list, and they aren't there either.
I figured that it just hadn't saved the fact i'd imported them, and went to add them again, but it just won't add them... i've tried adding them as multiple files, and adding them as individuals, but still to no avail.
Can anyone shed any light, or point me in the right direction for correcting this issue?
Thanks in advance for reading, and any help anyone can offer.

Hi beau_nidle,
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Some songs won't add artwork so I need ID3 Tags but ID3 isn't in popup menu

When I Get Info on a track I get this menu but
there's nothing for Change ID3 tags. Should
there be or am I in the wrong place?

I assume adding artwork is a tag-affecting change - but I can't
add on this track - it just reverts to the black image.
I take it the tags themselves are hidden. I see no direct
editing options for them although I read than they can be
set to different types - and there are utilities available to
clean, fix, re-set, etc.
Ok, now I see your edit - this isn't an mp3, it's .aiff.
Message was edited by: Tom Meade1

Cant add files to library without itunes crashing

I removed all the tracks from my itunes library to readd them (adding new things was getting confusing)
Now whenever i try to add the files to itunes the programme freezes and I have to force quit.
I have 250gb of music to add and doing this a file at a time could take me years so does anyone have any ideas why this is happening and how i stop it from happening?
please?
cheers!

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Song won't add to my library on Itunes 11

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