+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted December 23, 2009 Subscriber² Share Posted December 23, 2009 I have just moved over to a Mac, and am loving hore relevant iTunes just feels. However, I'm wondering if it can address an issue I had on Windows iTunes... On my hard drive (removable but always connected) I have a folder structure thus: Music |-------Albums |-------Compilations |-------Singles |-------Soundtracks |-------Premixes In iTunes I had 5 main playlists to correspond (Albums, Compilations, Singles, Soundtracks, Premixes)... There was no way to automate this sorting (such as filter based upon filename). So I had a smart playlist called "Unsorted", which was anything NOT in any of the previous 5 playlists - from where I could drag it to the correct playlist. I know that natively, there is nothing on Mac iTunes that can remedy this - however... I've been looking at Automator, and wonder if that could be of any help here??? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houlty Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 well, you can flag albums as compilations (select an album, get info, then at bottom should be compliation flag). then smart playlist, filter, compilations... for singles, not sure. i just made the album title for singles "Single Tracks", so they're grouped together. alternatively you could add a comment of the words "single track" to singles (in get info box). > then smart playlist, filter, comments > single track... for soundtracks: smart playlist > genre > Soundtrack (assuming all soundtrack albums have soundtrack as their genre). not sure what premixes are, but could use the same method as the single track thing. albums should be wahtever is left out of these playlists... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted December 23, 2009 Author Subscriber² Share Posted December 23, 2009 That's exactly how I DON'T want to do it. I want to work with file locations as I suggested in the original post. Cheers though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houlty Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 oh right... yeah my eyes skipped that part... right, what you can do then is create a playlist for each folder (.m3u works i think), then go to file, library, import playlist. this will then import the files (not sure if this would duplicate files if they are already imported though, they may not - maybe test a couple first). all you need to do is create a playlist from the file locations. not much mac software for this though. i think vlc player can do it. otherwise if you have access to windows oddgravity playlist creator may be more efficient... hopefully i got what you mean this time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted December 23, 2009 Author Subscriber² Share Posted December 23, 2009 Sure, that would work for a one-time import, but I am always adding music... What I am asking is this: Can a script such as automator or applescript sort music into playlists based upon file location? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houlty Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 right, 3rd time lucky, or not becuase this isn't ideal, but my knowledge does not go any further than this... i couldn't get automator to register folders, only individual files, so i scrapped that one... the only thing i could find that would do what you want is located here http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.p...playlistdroplet it's still a semi-manual method in that you would have to drag and drop your folders onto the droplet, and it wouldn't automatically monitor the folders and update them when you update them... the biggest problem with this is that every time you drag the same folder on to the droplet the entries in the playlist will be duplicated... so again not ideal... maybe the script can be edited to prevent duplicate entries, but i have no idea how to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted December 23, 2009 Author Subscriber² Share Posted December 23, 2009 Yeah cheers, but that's not automated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 I really don't think it's possible with iTunes. Shame, really... There are so many superior players to iTunes (foobar, Winamp, etc.) that can do this, but none of them can work on Mac OS X or offer seamless iPod integration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Dick Montage Subscriber² Posted December 24, 2009 Author Subscriber² Share Posted December 24, 2009 Isn't this the sort of thing that Automator is for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterC Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Would this work? Description from the page: "This script will create AppleScript droplets that perform a function similar to iTunes 9's "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder but for individual playlists. Simply select a playlist and run the script to create a droplet that references the selected playlist. Once such a droplet is created, drag-and-dropping files to its icon in the Finder will add the files to your iTunes library and copy the new tracks directly to the playlist that the droplet references. The script will allow you to create as many droplets for as may playlists as you like." Seems like you make the droplet referencing which playlist you would like, and just drop the files or folders onto it and it adds them to the respective playlist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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