Video: How to Import mp3s Into iTunes
Video Transcript
There are a variety of ways to get MP3 files into iTunes. If you already have MP3s on your computer, which you would like to manage with iTunes, all you have to do is import them. Importing them is pretty straight forward and simple. Just go up here to file and go down to add file to library. Then you just navigate to the MP3 you want to add to your library. Go ahead and click open and that will add it to your library. Also, you can add an entire folder. To do that, just to go file and go to add folder to library. Then you just navigate to the folder you want to add and click okay. Just one thing to remember is if you add a folder to iTunes, if you add MP3s to that folder later, iTunes will not automatically update the library so you're going to have to go and go to add file to library again, that will refresh the folder in iTunes, and you can view and listen to your MP3.
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