Music on my hard drive

I have music that I transferred to my HDD (LPs or cassettes!) but I can't put them on iTunes (these are mp3 files) and so I can't really have them on my iPhone.  The instructions show the highlight and drag and drop but that simply does not work.  I even tried to copy in the iTunes folder, but of course the iTunes database does not recognize them.  Any ideas please?  Jean

MP3s from some sources are not considered as valid by iTunes.  Try a different encoder or the MP3Scan utility & Repair (not sure if it still works under El Capitan).  There are other utilities that re-wrap also like MP3Trimmer mp3s.

The other thing to realize is that often they are added, but you don't notice it because they do not have labels. Check the list of added reading recently.

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