Transfer music file from windows to itunes.

Hi,
I have all my music on my music folder on windows. How can I transfer them to itunes without losing the album's name?
thanks
V

iTunes should read the mp3 tags of the file and not the filename itself. Open itunes and go to the preferences window. Carefully read through all the tabs and pay special attention to the option marked keep my music folder organized and copy music to my itunes folder.
I think you should uncheck both of these options (at least for now). Drag one test file into the itunes library and see how it is displayed there. Keep in mind that if you right-click -> get info on the song you can modify the data stored in the tag (this can be very tedious with thousands of songs). If the song displays correctly, try a few more just to be sure.
If you are satisfied then reconsider how you want itunes to handle your music. Personally I have both options checked off because I don't mind it organizing my files and I like to know that it copies music I add to it so that I can keep the original file unmodified on my desktop, or whereever.
Depending on the size of your music library and the amount of free hard drive space, I can make further suggestions for the order in which you import your music into itunes and modify its preferences.

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