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Why can’t I Add files to my iTunes Library?

I tried in iTunes, choose File > Add to Library but nothing happens. I tried to drag/drop the file into the iTunes window but that doesn’t work either. BTW by window I mean my list of songs (my music Library) the grid, since I don’t see any other windows. Oh, I tried also to choose other media in the menu: “Movies”, “TV shows”
beside “Music” but nothing works.

I did click on “Recently added”
in music, video, TV shows and there’s nothing there.


UPDATE:
While I was fooling around and opening everything, I did click on another “Recently added”;

There’s two “Recently added”: one under “Library” and it’s the very first one on top, and the icon looks like a calendar (a square with 16 little squares) and there’s nothing there. And the other “Recently added” is under Music Playlists and the icon looks like a wheel with 12 “teeths”. See picture.


And what do you know? In that one, there’s 42 videos! What is strange is that I see not only the one I added a minute ago (a 3 min video clip) but all the videos (well many) that I downloaded with Clipgrab.


This is what I do with Clipgrab: I download and once it appeared on my desk (when finish) I put it in a folder on my desktop, where I keep all the videos from YouTube in nice separate folders (Comedy/music/films, etc).


I see in iTunes, clips I never added to iTunes. Clips I downloaded 6 months ago! Clips that has nothing to do with music. How do they come there? And why 42? They are not the last 42 because I downloaded others (one in fact two days ago) that I don’t see here.


Again, what I see on iTunes now are videos. (mp4). I still want to have the songs only.

I see these videos only if I click “Recently added”. I do NOT see them anywhere else (in Videos or Film or Music). How can I move them to the music playlist as audio only (mp3 or mp4)?


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P.S: I posted a similar question but don't see how to edit or delete the other. So I posted a new one, more updated.

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Posted on Jan 16, 2018 10:42 PM

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Jan 17, 2018 6:06 AM in response to tony gardino

Some applications have preferences settings so you can have the application automatically add to iTunes any media the application handles.


I don't use the new iTunes but I believe for several versions now it has had a Recently Added list which is now built-in, and presumably the other may be a relic smart playlist which can be edited by the user.


Part of the answer will depend upon aspects of your ClipGrab application about which I know absolutely nothing. Typically you would go to the developers own support site for help with that. From your description it sounds like it is downloading videos, so if it is adding those to iTunes then full videos is what you will get. If you want audio only then see if there's a settings feature for that or look into yet another third party tool which will let you separate the audio and video tracks. That goes way beyond any editing capabilities of iTunes.

Why can’t I Add files to my iTunes Library?

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