Can't add songs to iTunes 11

This may be painfully obvious to most people, but just in case you are doing what I was doing and pulling your hair out trying to figure out why it wasn't working...

I just purchased a MacBookPro. I hooked up my iPhone to it primarily because I wanted to know if I could back up the calendar on my iPhone to iCal (without having to pay some stupid monthly fee...). Sure enough, it synced right up and worked like a charm. It even downloaded my voice memos to my iTunes library. AND - I was able to see and play the songs that were on my iPhone. Naturally - one might think that everything is in working order here and I can proceed with normal operations...

Nope... If you are having this issue, and you have recently purchased a new computer, what I found out is that you can do everything it would seem EXCEPT load new tunz ONTO your device until you restore it with the new computer's version of iTunes. Which I think is crap, but it's the way it is.

So, after an hour of screwing around with it, I finally got a notice (after updating some preferences, "manually manage songs" etc...) that "This iPhone is synced to another iTunes library, and you'll have to restore it and replace it with THIS iTunes library".

Some people might not think this is a big deal, but I'm a musician, and my iPhone/iPod is a valuable tool I use for learning new songs and reviewing old ones. So, having to rebuild all of my song lists from scratch is a pain. You would think they could come up with a way to verify that you are the user, this is your computer, or your new computer, and then could just start using that computer's version of iTunes instead of having to go through this crap.

If anyone knows of a way to transfer my iTunes Library itself to my new computer, and if that will work rather than having to rebuild all of my song lists, that would be great. And NO, I am NOT interested in the Cloud. I hate being monthly fee'd to death, and I just want to have my data in a place where I know it's not going to get changed, or moved, or I suddenly have to update something to get to it, etc... Or better said, somewhere where it can't be bothered by people and programers who think they are making something better because they looked at it and said "Hey this is great and working perfectly... let's fix that..."

Hope this helps someone not spend and hour on it to figure this out.

if you bought the songs using the Apple Store, you can just redownload them. If not, you can use an iPod/iPhone extractor tool. This tool will extract the tracks that are on your device to your laptop.

once you have these tracks on your laptop, it is easy to import them to iTunes. Once in iTunes, empty the iPhone and sync it with that computer. You can now add all the songs on your laptop to your iPhone again.

there's also a far easier way, if you still have your old computer. Copy all your music files onto a USB-stick or external HDD, and import them to iTunes on your new laptop. The other steps are the same.

Hi

I had the same problem of not being able to add songs to my library on itunes, with the latest application update. I wanted new mp3's to be added to my recently added folder on itunes, but no new tracks were listed after even 10 attempts.

I tried a few suggestions on this forum and non worked for me but I finally found a solution. I think apple have added many new features to itunes, one of them being the 'smart playlist'. I'm not certain how new the smart playlist feature is but it seems to be very new. I edited the smart playlist options for my 'recently added' folder, so that items are limited to 2000 songs instead of the default 20 songs, then recently added songs (about 500) were added to the library.

You edit the smart playlist options by right clicking the folder in question (such as recently added) and select 'edit smart playlist' from the list of options.Then edit the infomation in the small itunes pop-up window.

As an additional note I also enabled 'genius' just before my songs were sucessfully updated so either of my mentioned solutions leaded to success.

Copy and paste all the songs you can't add in the same folder and detele the old ones. Then try adding the newly created files into iTunes

I hope this helps you guys. It worked for me.

Does anyone know how to add track numbers to songs if they don't have any

Okay and would happen to know how I can do that on a mac cannot do right clicks

Okay thanks a lot

I've been suffering with this problem for ages now with iTunes 11 on Windows 7 64-bit. I attempt to add my mp3 files to my iTunes library and they don't seem to show up in the library. Usually they show up in the 'recently added list'.. but sometimes they won't even do that. They always show up in 'search results' but when I attempt to go to the result, I get dumped in all artists/all albums/etc with nothing.

I've tried a lot of things. Re-installed itunes, re-installed windows, rebuild library, started with a new library.. located library on SSD, RAID0 volume, standard disk, external disk, tested disks, tested memory. Stripped v1 ID3 tags and replaced with ID3 v2.3 ... v2.4.. included v1 and removed v1 tags/etc. At this point I think the only fix is install iTunes 10 or GIVE UP.

You'd think a multibillion dollar company would make a product that works, so annoying that you can't do something as simple as adding a song. and there are so many dependencies, itunes needs bonjour and quicktime and mobileme.

It amazes me how buggy iTunes is.

My iTunes crashes every time I try to add songs to it... what shall I do then?

Worked for me.

Double click the file in finder to open in itunes.

Press command+L to get to current playing song. Right click "Get Info" ->options. check the media type and select Music.

The new song should appear in music library

Hey,

I know many people have getting ****** off about stuff like this not working (Including me for and hour 😝)

However, don't know if this will work for you, try changing the mp3 extension to m4a. If that doesn't work I dont know what will...

Hope it works!