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houbysoft
houbysoft

Reputation: 33392

Programmatically add songs to iTunes

Is it possible to add songs to iTunes on OS X programmatically? I.e. say I have a directory of songs I'd like to add to iTunes from a Python script. What is the easiest way to achieve that?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2093

Answers (1)

user2015601
user2015601

Reputation:

iTunes has a special folder where it looks for music files to add it automatically to its library:

/Users/<your_username>/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes

(move to this folder by

cd /Users/<your_username>/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Automatically\ Add\ to\ iTunes)

All you have to do is to write a python or shell script that copies your music into this folder. e.g., for python

import commands
commands.getoutput("cp file.mp3 /Users/<your_username>/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes")

Upvotes: 3

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