Why will iTunes not play certain MP3s?

I have a lot of music, and most of the music files are .mp3s.
iTunes lets me import the great majority of these files, some of these won't play in iTunes and so also can't be put onto my iPod.
I tried to convert the files using various software and even Adobe Audition can't open the files.
I can't see why this is happening and the only way these files can be sorted is when you hover over the files with cursor and no information about them appears such as the song title, album title, or bit rate etc... and they cannot be renamed.
VLC player can play them however.
If anybody can tell me what is going on and how I could go about getting them on iTunes that would be great.
Any help is appreciated.

Windows Media Player can't open the file either.
Have you got any suggestions for file conversion programs, I have tried Total Video Converter and Adobe Audition but they can't even open the file never mind convert it.
Knowing that VLC can play it gives me some hope that it can be converted somehow, but nothing I have tried has worked.
Any help would be great.

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