Pretty simple. Adding a file or folder does not work. After clicking 'open', explorer closes and brings me back to the iTunes app, but nothing there is new. I have also tried putting the songs into Automatically add into iTunes, but all it does is make a folder in that folder called not added, and puts all the songs into there.
Dell Inspiron Laptop-OTHER, Windows 10
When using File > Add File/Folder to Library iTunes will silently ignore any file it cannot import. When you use the Automatically Add to iTunes folder it moves rejected items into Not Added. It would seem the files are not in acceptable format for iTunes.
tt2
iTunes should happily work with correctly formatted mp3 files. Perhaps these files were in AAC/.m4a format but incorrectly labelled as .mp3? Providing the correct file extension might then have allowed iTunes to see them as valid files.
tt2
What sample size and rate are they? The mp3 container can contain a variety, not all of which are supported by iTunes.
tt2
I haven't found a way to find that, but I found the problem. For some reason, I changed the file extension to m4a and it went into iTunes. I'm not sure that this is because of an incompatibility or a bug that won't let me put mp3 files into iTunes. The last time that I was able to put mp3 files into iTunes was about a year ago, so it might be because of an update that makes iTunes unable to read mp3 files.
mp3 files should be supported in iTunes. They play fine in Windows Media Player.
iTunes 'add file to library' does nothing
