In Finder, navigate to /Applications/iTunes/Contents/MacOS/ and select the iTunes executable. For most people it should make absolutely no difference to their use of the program since most people spend more time listening to their media via their application of choice and almost none exploring the physical contents of their media folder.īTW I would normally have ignored the thread as having run its course but for the fact that, having contibuted to it in the past, you adding to it brought it to my attention in my active threads view, and the fact that you seem to have misunderstood the behaviour of the feature, hence my attempt to clarify. The appearance of a folder that you have no use for, as a side-effect of using an application that you want to use is hardly novel.

that software that you have decided to use has been programmed to create and modify. Your computer is full of configuration files, registry settings, folders, temporary storage locations etc. If you don't need the feature, don't use it. For some people, it saves them some time, and the need to get involved in the physical organisation of their files. The idea is that you just chuck media in that folder that you want to import into your library, for example from your external hard drives, memory sticks or whatever, and then iTunes gathers it up, adds it to the library and organizes it the way it would other media. It would seem that the Automatically add to iTunes folder is iTunes partial attempt to match the feature, presumably in response to user requests. One of the long standing features of Windows Media Player is that if you add or remove content from the designated media folders the library will be automatically updated. I suppose I've already connected the dots. I don't get it.īut tt2 proves my point: this is a designed behavior. And, btw, responding to a dead discussion to say it's dead. 'Welcome to the jungle, it gets worse here everyday.' When you can't, by any means available, delete a redundant function that is advertised as an improvement, heads up folks!īut, more importantly, this notion of Auto Add violates the principle that content on your personal computer is determined by YOU, not by Apple (or Warner Bros or Geffen or Disney or MCA.) Meg shows apathy about it. Just check the history of big companies distributing music. Think of iTunes as a CD player and a Record Company combined. I suppose I'm not surprised because iTunes is not just a player, but a distributor of content (=$). This function seems to me to have no real value to the user, as tt2's answer clearly shows. Certain video files cannot be loaded, etc. In the newest iTunes version this Automatically Add To iTunes appears to function as a gateway whereby content can be monitored. It seems to me that tt2 and Meg show that this issue is, in fact, mildly relevant.

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