Automatic Play of Song When Importing Using Double Click

In previous versions of iTunes, I was able to double click a mp3 file on my desktop, have it copied into my iTunes library, and play automatically. Now, in iTunes 8, the file copies but does not play automatically. Is there a way to re-enable this feature? It is really frustrating because sometimes when I copy the file into the library, it doesn't get selected and I have to look around for it in order to play it. Thanks!

Your tracks have track numbers I hope? If so clicking on header of the Album column until it reads *Album by Artist* should sort you out...
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Sometimes when I play songs in Itunes by double clicking on them, Itunes will place the song as the first one on the album. It will chnage the order of the songs on the album, and I can not switch them back to the correct order.

Sometimes when I play songs in Itunes by double clicking on them, Itunes will place the song as the first one on the album. It will chnage the order of the songs on the album, and I can not switch them back to the correct order. This onloy seems to happen when I double-click on the song to play it in itunes. If I just hit play, this doesnt happen. As a result, I have several albums now in which the songs are in the wrong order. Its very frustrating, as this error then transfers over to my ipod every time I sync it. When I choose the info. for the songs, it has them correctly listed (i.e., it lists the songs as being #1 of 19 on the CD, for example). But then the song will have placed by Itunes as #5 of 19 for whatever reason. Itunes does not do this every time, but does it with enough frequency to be maddening. Any thoughts?

The problem of tracks becoming de-linked between iTunes and the music files in your iTunes music folder happens for different reasons - this seems to come up fairly commonly in this forum.
The solution can be to locate each song in the iTunes library, as you mentioned - or, but wait, before I get to that...
trouble finding the original track in your iTunes music folder? maybe look for it under compilations, or if not using the 'group compilations preference' then look in the folder under the songs artist name, but what song artist name iTunes uses depends on what you have in the metedata tag spot for album artist or song artist. Any varyation in artist name spelling, in the menu item 'get info' metadata for any selected individual track will cause iTunes to create that as a separate artist folder in the library, even names like 'various' or any difference at all (even the word 'the' can change where in your iTunes music folder a track gets placed by iTunes). You can try to use the finder function of find file (finder munu item outside of iTunes) to locate hard to find items.
Back to how to re-link any de-linked tracks .
There may be scripts that can help re-link de-linked music files - or, at least provide you a list of such files, Scripts are easy to install and use...
at Dougs Scripts, there is one called iTunes Track CPR that might work
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=itunestrackcpr
or, if you just want a list of de-linked tracks, go to
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
and find the script called List MIA's, this will create a text file listing all de-linked tracks
if you review the thread at
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3633708
also the thread at
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17513078#17513078
you may find more insight into dealing with this kind of issue there, although some of that thread may not apply to your case, aspects of it might help.
Good luck.

HT1349 When listening to songs on my itunes acct (without ipod attached), I can only play one song at a time. It doesn't automatically play next song on list. It happens with all playlists. It only started happening when I downloaded the latest itunes upd

When listening to songs on my itunes acct (without ipod attached), I can only play one song at a time. It doesn't automatically play next song on list. It happens with all playlists. It only started happening when I downloaded the latest itunes update.

Are all songs checked in your playlist?

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The ! turns up when iPhoto loses the connection between the thumbnail in the iPhoto Window and the file it represents.
Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In Library Manager it's the FIle -> Rebuild command)
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Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.
Regards
TD

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Is there any way to Automatically play a mp3 when usb flash drive is plugged in ? using automator or apple script
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Could be. Search the AppleScript forum under OS X Technologies. For Automator stuff, start with http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2039384 and Introduction to Automator tutorial at http://automator.us/leopard/video/index.html
And, http://www.automatedworkflows.com/tips/podcast.html and
http://www.macosxautomation.com/automator/examples/ex04/index.html

Omit repeated songs when importing

Hi, before this last version of itunes (8.0.2) when i tried to add new songs and if this songs where already in my playlist appeared an box asking what i wanted to do "omit the songs that is already in my play list or duplicate". Now with this version doesn't ask anything, just add more duplicated songs!! Thats very bad, cause i put the new songs i have on a folder than, just import all the new folder so the new songs can appear on my playlist.
Does anyone knows why this version doesn't show this message to omit the repeated songs when importing new? Is something that i have to do to habilitate this ?
please help
Thanks!!

I was just about to ask the same question, I have it set to organize and make a copy to library, which i understand, that just stores the song in an itunes folder, and changes the track names but why does it make 2, sometimes 3 of the same track in the same folder? These are labeled the same in the folder with a 1 or 2 after them.
It makes copies of some songs but not all. The CD I just dragged and dropped, disc one of the new Big Star set, it did it with every song but track 1.
This has been happening as long as I can remember and seems to happen in surges. Very annoying to check every other song and delete them. Any fixes?
Even when doing one album this is time consuming and untrustworthy, but inserting a large collection, no matter if you define that as 100 or 100,000 albums would be impossible to manage this.
Thanks

IPod Not Automatically Adding New Songs When First Plugged In

For some time now, my iPod Nano (currently running iTunes 12.0.1.26) will not automatically add new songs when its first plugged into my MacBook Pro. I have to click the Sync button in the lower right hand corner of iTunes and then it will. I could swear it would automatically add new songs to the Nano but now it doesnt...
Sync Music is checked, Entire Music Library is checked.
Is this one of those new added features of new versions of iTunes? (sarcasm)
Thank you.
Scott

Nevermind...my fault.
The setting for preventing auto synching in Preferences, Device Preferences was checked.
Sorry.

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Tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings
Then restart the device.
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How do I get iTunes 11 to work as the old iTunes did in this respect: after playing a song in one playlist, I click on another playlist, highlight a song, press play, and get the result of that song playing & that playlist continuing?

How do I get iTunes 11 to work as the old iTunes did in this respect: after playing a song in one playlist, I click on another playlist, highlight a song, press play, and get the result of that song playing & that playlist continuing? As it goes now, one clicks on the song in the new playlist where the arrow is and then chooses 'Play Song Next.' So, it plays next, but then the song after that is back in the old playlist. I want to use iTunes smoothly without the extra clicks I've had to do in order to get the playlist to continue. This is music for background while I play the violin at restaurants, and extra clicks and hassle is quite unappreciated, especailly since it worked fine in the previous iTunes.
Thanks.

At the top of the playlist where it shows the playlist title and the number of songs, there are two icons. Click the "play" triangle to add the entire playlist to "Up Next", or the "shuffle" symbol to do the same thing but in random order. But the currently playing track will stop playing, and all the songs in "Up Next" will be removed (replaced by the ones from this playlist).
If you hold down the "option" key while clicking those icons, the currently playing song will continue playing, and the new playlist will be added to "Up Next" (above the songs that were already there).

Where is the home button on ipad2 when asked to double click?

Where is the home button, when asked to double click. I'm trying to lock my screen in landscape mode and to stop it from rotating. Please advise....thank you...

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Why I can't use double click to open files, pics and videos?

I had bought new retina macbook pro 15 in, everething was working perfect I was open files, pics, videos with double click in the mouse pad normally but I do not why now is not working I can not use double click in the pad for open files. I have to open it using two finguer click or right click and then click open or open with, why is that happening?

in system preference i had select (tap to click) with one finguer, (secundary click) click or tab with two finguers, tracking speed fast and in the mouse preference I had select (tracking speed, scrolling speed, double click) fast and primary mouse button left.

Since upgrading to Mavericks, Mail is extremely slow to load preview pane or show email when mailbox is double-clicked. Is this a known issue?

Since upgrading to Mavericks, Mail is extremely slow to load the preview pane or show email when mailbox is double-clicked. Is this a known issue? Or is there a solution to this issue?

Hi AngieLynch,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you're seeing some unexpected behavior in Mail.
Before troubleshooting on your computer, I'd strongly recommend backing up your data to an external hard drive with Time Machine, if you haven't already. This article can help with setting up Time Machine:
Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
Next, try creating a new user account on your computer. You can add your email account to Mail in the new user account. If Mail is more responsive in the new user account, then Mavericks is working fine and the behavior is caused by conflicts in your own Mail or user account.
These articles walk you through creating a new user and setting up Mail:
OS X Mountain Lion: Create a new user account (applies to Mavericks, too.)
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11468
Configuring Mail for your email account
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1277
Best,
Jeremy

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Can you make an exe with labview 6.1 that will open a file when it's double clicked in explorer.
I want to be able to save images with my own extension, and when they are double clicked in explorer my own exe will open and process the image.

It's easier in 7.0 or higher but you can do it with 6.1. Download the file at http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.display_epd4?p_guid=B123AE0CBBD5111EE034080020E74861&p_... and add this to your VI. Then you can associate a specific file extension with your app in the Windows Folder Options>File Types so that double clicking the file will start your app and pass the file name as a parameter.

Can't get Audio to play through when importing using iMovie '09

Anyone know how to get audio to work when importing DV footage into iMovie '09.
It used to work fine in iMovie HD. Any ideas??
Yours sincerely,
Anthony
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I've just spent a while trying to figure this out ...
I used this feature (monitoring audio on import) all the time in previous versions of iMovie ...
Kind of essential I think ...
Now we have a new 'feature' in iMovie where you can't monitor audio during import.
Wouldn't it be nice if Apple documented this somewhere (maybe on iMovie Help ...).
I understand about hi-speed import from other (non DV) formats ...
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Pretty simple - rather than having this somewhat arbitrary rule imposed on iMovie users ?
The only way to monitor audio during import is to plug headphones into the camera itself.
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Having troubles playing back songs from imported CD

Ok, I imported a CD using the the button on the top righ corner. It seemed to go very fast, which I found odd. Now I go to play the songs that I imported, and it just cycles through them. It does not play them, It just goes from one to the next. The CD works fine in my car, so that is not the problem. I also burned this CD from iTunes not too long ago, so it should be the right format. I'm stumped.

Anytime iTunes starts skipping songs like the way you have explained means either the file is corrupt or in a format it can't understand. If the files are MP3's you can try playing them in Windows Media Player. If media player can play them from start to end, then iTunes has some issue with them. I say play them from start to end cuz I had a problem with iTunes skipping songs and would play in Windows Media, but when Media player got to the end of the song, it sounded all weird and poppy with a mix of some other song I never heard. thats when I knew the file was corrupt and that was the reason iTunes wouldn't touch it

Automatic Play of Song When Importing Using Double Click

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