TS1717 If I have 30 songs in the library, how do I add all of them at once, instead of 1 by 1

Question

Everyone,
  When I click on a song, the dialos box, says ot cannot find the file.  Then I go to locate file.
I navigate to /MUSIC/ITunes/Prince.  In this folder I have 30 songs form him.  I have to double
click on the song and then it will be found and plays in ITunes.  This is under Windows Vista
OS.
  When I try to select all the songs in the folder I cannot do that.  I try CTRL-A and it does not
work.  When I select a song, I hold down the Shift Key and do the down arrow and that does
not work.  I have approx 390 songs I need to get added to the library, so they can be found.
  In the example I have listed, how can I get all of the songs selected at one time and then
added into the ITunes library without going 1 by 1.  If I do 1 by 1, it works fine, but that is way
too much work to get them all back in.  I know there should be an easier way, but I cannot
figure it out,
  Thanx in advance.
Jerry

Answer 1

sounds a bit drastic but....you could erase all media from itunes ( not your pc/mac  ) then reload your library. this type of thing happens when you re-organise where your media is stored and then moved say to merge two mis-spelt prince folders into one properly but now different folder in roughly the same but not exactly the same place. ive done this a few times, im a bit sad about renaming music folders properly if i find them only to see itunes look past them because its looking for the original media files in the original folder/place...hope this helps a bit