Syncing ITunes with My documents music folder....?
Was just wondering if its possible to sync ITune with the music folder on my computer as it gets annoying having to add new music manually, especially as Windows media player does this automatically without causing duplicates...
iTunes doesn't do folder monitoring.
One possible workaround is to look at 3rd party solutions such as iTunes Library Updater:
http://itlu.ownz.ch/wordpress/?page_id=2
Article about automating updater
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/itunes/hack-attack-automatically-sync-itunes- to-any-folders-175161.php
iTsync, a non free commercial program is another possibility although I don't have any experience of either myself.
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Syncing itunes with music folders
is there a way that i can download music into a folder and have it automatically be added into itunes so i dont have to have use the add file to library feature every time i download music?
iTunes doesn't do folder monitoring.
One possible workaround is to look at 3rd party solutions such as iTunes Library Updater:
http://itlu.ownz.ch/wordpress/?page_id=2
Article about automating updater
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/itunes/hack-attack-automatically-sync-itunes- to-any-folders-175161.php
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Can I simply import the entire "Music" file into iTunes and let God sort it out,
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I'm hoping some advanced mac/itunes user would have an idea of how to accomplish my goal.
Question: Is there a way to use sugarsync (or just in general the idea of a duplicate file system) to have an identical itunes experience on 2 macbook pros and a windows 7 desktop?
Explanation: I have a windows 7 desktop and 2 newer Macbook Pro's. All are consistently updated with the latest OS and iTunes updates. In general, I'm trying to make it so that my media and files match as exactly as possible on each machine and they can be used interchangeably. I have a highly organized and complex filing system with a large amount of files and have successfully been able to do this for everything so far except for music/iTunes. I have about 80-90 gigs of music all organized in folders/subfolders within the iTunes music folder that originated on my desktop. 99% of the music I've ripped from CD's rather than purchasing or downloading through iTunes so, from my understanding, that makes iTunes match and home sharing not really an option. What I want to do is use sugarsync like I have for the rest of my media/files to sync the content between the desktop and 2 macbooks so everything will be identical whenever I go between using one or the others. For example, I want to be able to have my wife rip a CD into iTunes onto her Macbook at work and (after uploading time) be able to go and have it on my PC at home as well as any playlists that it's been added to. Similarly, I want to be able to rip a CD or make a playlist from my home PC and go on either Macbook and have it automatically be the same when I open up iTunes. I've tried doing the research and while sugarsync says it doesn't support this feature, it is so close to working. I have it so that the files are all synced correctly and automatically and any changes made on one machine are automatically changed on the others.
There is just one problem that I can't figure out and if I could get this right it would work perfectly. The iTunes library file that originated from the desktop points to the media based on the PC file path c:\users\username\my music\itunes\. On the mac it's users\username\music\itunes. So even though I have everything syncing exactly within the main itunes folder, the library file points to the path on the PC. So when I open iTunes on the macbooks, all of the music is there and all changes are made, but I get the exclamation points by each file, showing that iTunes can't find any of the media. I haven't done this, but I would guess that if I direct the macbook to the correct folder to find all of the music, it will do so, but then give me the same problem on the PC where it says it can't find anything and cause me to have to keep redirecting every time I use iTunes.
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Does anyone have any experience or insight into this or have any other suggestions? If your suggestion is to buy a mac desktop, I'd love to, but have to finish paying off the macbooks first.
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Hello everyone, I juts got the AT&T HTC Kaiser with Windows mobile 6... is it possible to syn my itunes music with my device through the Active Sync.
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I have not had a computer for several years and I just got a new one. My old computer got a virus and when that happened all my music was lost. Thank goodness I had it all on my Ipod Nano 2nd GEN. Now my problem is that I don't know how to get the music off my Ipod Nano onto my new computer!!! I was able to get the songs that I purchased thru ITunes by just authorizing my new computer. But I have alot more music that is on my Ipod nano that I can't put into my ITunes library. In fact, I can't even get my music into a file folder on my computer!! I really need help. I don't have any copies of the music anywhere else and some of it is hard to get. How do I get my music either into ITunes or into a file folder on my new computer or even if I could get my computer to recognize my Ipod and sync all the music into windows media or something like that. Every time I connect my IPod all that happens is that it tells me if I sync the IPod that it will replace all the music from my ITunes library on to my IPod. And I am guessing that means all my music on the IPod will be erased. PLEASE HELP ME!!!! Thanks from the bottom of my songsters heart
From the OP: "My old computer got a virus and when that happened all my music was lost. "
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