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
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 -rComments closed