Automation: open in itunes, one by one

Question

I've never used automator before, but today I got an idea for a workflow that might be useful to me.
I sort most of my itunes music by date added, and I like to see the tracks in the order they are on the album. But when I import an album from a folder in the finder, they tend to come in out of order (sometimes shortest first or random). To avoid this, I have to import the files one by one, waiting for itunes to process the track before clicking on the next one.
I don't know if automator can help, or if there is some other script I can run, but I really don't know the first thing about how to do it.

Answer 1

Sure. I suppose the easiest way would be if you do everything with applescript itself. That way if there is an error it is easier to find out what is going on. If you are on Leopard Open /Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor.app (I don't remember if this was the exact location. Spotlight might help.)
Now type this script in there:
-- Ask for files to add to iTunes. This will show an open file dialog box to choose files from
set allSongs to choose file with multiple selections allowed without invisibles
tell application "iTunes"
-- iterate over the songs. Song 1, then song 2…
repeat with thisSong in allSongs as list
set thisSong to thisSong as alias
-- Add this song to the iTunes Library
add (thisSong as alias) to library playlist 1
end repeat
end tell
Try this with two files first to see if it adds the songs one by one or together. I think that from Leopard onwards the order in which you choose the files is also important and the files will be 'used' in that exact order.
Message was edited by: hungryjoe
Corrected a mistake