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ITunes commandline importer

Published 2007-11-22 by Administrator

Since i swichted my fun computing (music, videos + web ) from linux to OS X i needed some tools to make thinks easier with iTunes. I was used to amarok, which make music library handling pretty straight forward. I really hate the way iTunes handles music libs, so i switched the iTunes self organzing features off and wrote a little script using python and appscript to import music via commandline.

Features

  • batch import of folders
  • create playlists on the fly
  • remove duplicates from playlist
  • recursive mode to import trees

    • Import Folder ‘Album’ to Playlist ‘New’ and set Artist to ‘Slayer’ and Album to ‘South of Heaven’

    python addToiTunes.py -d Album -p New -a 'Slayer' -A 'South of Heaven'

    Import from Folder ‘music’ recursiv, where Playlist ,Artist and Album get name after the Folders.

    Folder Sample

    music 
      artist
           album 1
           album 2

    Will yield playlists name like “artist – album 1” and “artist album 2”

    python addToiTunes.py -d music -r

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