How to quickly add media to iTunes 9

By Donald Bell on 20 October 2009

Although iTunes provides a neat way to organise your music and video library, it hasn't been that fantastic for content that you didn't get from its integrated iTunes download store, so adding web downloads into iTunes has always been a hassle. Up until iTunes 9, the best way to ensure that your web downloads got added to iTunes was to launch iTunes and drag the specific song or video directly into the iTunes window.

Thankfully, iTunes 9 now offers a shortcut for adding media to your library without launching the program. Check out this video and associated slideshow below to see how it works.

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If you're an iTunes user who downloads music from all over the web, you're probably familiar with the annoying task of manually opening iTunes and dragging and dropping your downloads into the library window. It's a pain, especially on older computers where iTunes takes forever to load. But if you don't stay on top of it, you end up having all the new music you're excited about sitting in your browser's download folder instead of loaded into iTunes and your iPod.

(Credit: Donald Bell/CNET)

Topics: itunes 9, music downloads, itune, folder, music

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Comments (4)

  • Stuart Troy commented on 20/10/2009 17:54 Report abuse

    I've now set my torrent downloader to save audio files directly into this Auto itunes folder.

  • NickA1 commented on 20/10/2009 15:34 Report abuse

    Ok after watching the video I take some of that back. If you don't want to launch the program then this is a very handy feature.

  • NickA1 commented on 20/10/2009 15:31 Report abuse

    This is kind of useless on mac... As long as you have iTunes in the dock all you have to do is drag the music/folder to the iTunes icon.
    But I can see how it may be useful on a windows machine. And if not, you can set the "open with" program to iTunes (its default on mac anyway), thus allowing you to simply click and it will import it to your library.

  • Stuart Troy commented on 20/10/2009 14:13 Report abuse

    Great tip! Windows users should add the shortcut to their SendTo folder. Then you can right click MP3s and choose "Send To > Itunes".

    Your SendTo folder is located in "C:\Documents and Settings\Your Username\SendTo"

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