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September 19, 2009

Why I really love iTunes 9 ()

by fluffy at 11:28 AM
iTunes 9 has an "automatically add to iTunes" function. On its own that simplifies the process of adding music to iTunes (since you just drag files in there and iTunes will organize them into the library without any work on your part), but the really killer thing about it is that, being a Mac, you can place an alias to that folder on the desktop of another computer. Since I do all my work from a MacBook but keep my iTunes library on my old PowerMac, it used to be a major pain in the butt to download an mp3 and put it in my library, but now all I do is download it to my MacBook and then drag it to the handy "itunes dropbox" alias.

It helps that they finally fixed network share automounting either in 10.5 or 10.6 (I haven't tried it since 10.4 when it was still horribly broken).

Anyway, this makes it much easier for me to get music via my Magnatune subscription and the random mp3s that friends post on Twitter and the like.

Comments

#12410 09/19/2009 05:35 pm
My personal favorite new feature has got to be the nested conditionals. When do we get that in Mail.app? Smile
#12411 09/19/2009 06:02 pm
So far the nested conditionals don't seem to be doing quite what I wanted; if I have a bunch of OR conditions and then a limit of, say, 4GB "selected by random," it seems to select specifically in the OR order (i.e. it'll fill up with all of the first condition and then anything left over comes from the second condition).

It does simplify my playlist management somewhat, though.