Drag or Open the MP3 file into QuickTime Player.
As the conversion functions are only available for the Pro version, hence, if you use the free QuickTime Pro, please ignore this part and directly go to Part 3 or Part 4. If you’ve purchased QuickTime Pro version, here is a fix that involves opening the song with QuickTime Player and then re-saving it as an iTunes compatible format to play as usual. But if you convert it to a M4a it will be imported to iTunes. ITunes won’t accept mp3 files that were downloaded. Part 2: Conversion Fix Method One: Convert MP3 to M4A by QuickTime one file by one file In this case, you can go over Part 3 or Part 4 in this article to fix the issue.
If you download YouTube videos and convert them to MP3 and import them to iTunes, no matter drag and drop them to iTunes, or by “Add file to Library”, the MP3 files won’t import, add or open in iTunes. Since iTunes was updated to 12.12,it won’t accept most of YouTube to mp3 conversions anymore. Caused Issue 4: Your MP3 files are downloaded and converted from YouTube When iTunes fails to read the information of the MP3 file, the MP3 files will not be imported. The unsupported ID3 tags: ID3 tags is used for storing information such as the title, artist, album, track number, and so forth. If the files are important to you, you can search Audio Repair tool to repair the MP3 files to add to iTunes. If your files cannot played with other music or media player: I am afraid but your files may be corrupt.
Your MP3 files may be corrupt: Try to play your MP3 files with other players, like Windows Media Players, VLC on Windows PC, QuickTime Player on Mac Computer. Then, even if the original is moved or deleted, iTunes still retains a copy of it. One way to avoid this is to have iTunes copy music files into a dedicated folder. If you move the original file, iTunes can’t find it and won’t be able to play it until you manually locate it again. Instead, you’re adding a shortcut to its location on the desktop. For example, if you copy an MP3 from your desktop into iTunes, you’re not moving the file. Usually, when you add music to iTunes, what you see in the program are just references to the actual location of the files. For example, if you drag a song called “letitgo.mp3” into iTunes with this setting enabled, it will go into a folder like this: C:\Users\\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\\\letitgo.mp3. To add files to an iTunes folder: Select Edit (PC) or iTunes (Mac) > Preferences > Advanced > Copy files to iTunes media folder. Choose Songs, and then click the Date Added column to view the most recently added songs. Check that iTunes added the files by opening the Music option from the drop-down near the top left corner in iTunes. When you add songs, iTunes should automatically categorize them by name, artist, album, etc. You can also drag and drop your MP3 files directly into iTunes. To add a shortcut to iTunes, in iTunes, choose File > Add to Library. ITunes allows user to either Add a shortcut to iTunes or Add files to an iTunes folder.