Songs stuck in Automatically Add To itunes folder

Question

I use an mp3 tagger to fix my mp3 tags, and the tagger is set to move my tagged mp3s to the Automatically Add to iTunes folder. Then, iTunes usually copies the tracks to iTunes and organizes the folders accordingly. For some reason, its not working on three albums. I can't see anything unique about these albums, but iTunes is adding it to my library, and leaving it in the folder. Then it seems to repeat this process every so often until I have a number of duplicate entries of the same song, all pointing to the same location. I've got it working properly before and after adding these tracks, just not for these specific 3 albums. Any thoughts?

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Answer 1

iTunes will put any songs that aren't compatible into a Not Added folder (underneath Automatically Add). If your music wasn't compatible then you would find them in the Not Added folder. So it seems that they are compatible, just not getting deleted.

I would check the permissions on these files and see if iTunes has permission to delete them. Command-i on the files and folder concerned and ensure your use can read and write them.

Another solution is to open the Console.app application (found in the utility folder in Applications) and observe the output of that whilst iTunes is adding the music and see if there are any specific error messages that may point to why it isn't deleting the files.