Why is my songs going to windows media player instaed of my itunes and how do you sort it

why is my songs going in to windows media player instead of my itunes and how do i fix it?

click on File right at the top corner of the screen and a menu appears from which you choose add file or folder.
I'd also suggest you change your preferences to keep your iTunes library organised, To do that choose Edit at the top of the screen, then click on preferences at the bottom of the list.  There's a row of icons with words below them, you need the last one 'advanced'.  Tick the box against Keep iTunes Media Folder Organised and the one against Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library - which will ensure any music or video you add to your computer by importing it into itunes will go into folders within the iTunes Folders on your computer.
I'd also suggest ticking the option further down that screen for 'warn me if itunes  is not the default player  for audio files' - I'm assuming you want to play your music via itunes and not windows media player so you need iTunes to be the default player. 
Note though that when you have ticked the boxes iTunes will then go through your music library organising it so you will need to wait while it does that - doesn't take long.

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