Well this is a fine kettle of fish: Apple has added a secret folder to our file systems that essentially sucks any content inside into iTunes. The watched folders are:
~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Automatically Add to iTunes/ in OS X
C:\Users\Your Username\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Automatically Add to iTunes\ in Windows
If you drop an MP3 into there they get sucked into iTunes and disappear immediately, like a magic box. This would allow you to record your own music, for example, and add it to iTunes when you mix down and/or drag all your recently downloaded tunes straight into iTunes.
Apple didn’t quite publicize this feature for obvious reasons. Maybe this is the folder where they stuck the part of the presentation on the iPod touch with camera?
And this is easier than dropping files directly onto iTunes how…?
Dragging and dropping a file into a folder is easier than adding the song into itunes via itunes. I presume you also don’t have to have itunes open for it to work, which is nice because itunes is a bit of a resource hog and an overall pain in the posterior.
I was wondering what it was about, Im moving my music across from an internal to an external hard drive and found this little thing. I agree with Steven, I love being able to just drop music into iTunes and for it to auto manage it into folders under iTunes Music. I cant see this folder being much better at doing that.
I retract my statement. (An Edit or Delete Comment function would be nice to hide behind now :P)
Tried it out.. This is actually really cool. Created an Alias to this folder and now im dropping my music into there from the desktop. Very helpful as I dont have to have iTunes running to do it.
That is the cutest damn dog I have ever seen.
I mean really!…can anyone deny that?
People were crying about this? Did everyone know that you could set iTunes to manage everything for you, and all you had to do was play a song and iTunes would neatly put it away in a nice little organized folder? I think it was even the default option when you set up iTunes. Oh well. Because navigating through Finder to manually manage all of your music is way cooler and funner and easier.
People undersand that, the point is that you didn’t have this automatically add feature previously.
When did a directory start getting called a folder?
You know in Unix if you want to find out what directory you are in, you type ‘pwd’, which means Present Working Directory… no folder in there.
A Mac directory has been called a folder since the original Mac 128 in 1984. That’s why the icon has that folder tab on top.
Unix now underpins the Mac OS. But unless you are using apps like Terminal, the Unixness is pretty well hidden.
I’d like to drop a nuclear bomb into this “folder” and have it sucked into iTunes. That would sort them out!
So, if I set Handbrake to save my conversions to that folder, will it wait for the conversion to finish before sending it off to iTunes? Because that would be awesome.