Am trying to add a music directory from a portable device to itunes but unfortunately it doesn't allow to add the directory, rather it asks for me to add the folders singularly. Am i doing something wrong? Is there an easier way to add this directory?

just drag it to the "my music" icon in itunes?
works from here..

this is why i hate itunes btw, its not intuitive

A directory is a folder?

In computing, a directory, folder,[1] catalog, or drawer[2] is a virtual container within a digital file system, in which groups of files and other directories can be kept and organized.

a directory that holds music folders in it trog. So really i just want all the subfolders to display in itunes...

tequila you recommend any other programs instead? Winamp? Sonic? Foobar?

trog is just being argumentative, he knew what you meant.

I really don't understand our beloved bandana boy lately, he is so angsty and contrary.

Are you taking the drugs trog? Do we need to hold an intervention?

lol @ hogfather

Doesn't trog wear the bandana to hide the drugs? An intervention ... bahahahah.

He hides his drugs in the bandana ... oh wait, no ... that's the EEG gel ...

trog is just being argumentative, he knew what you meant.

No I didn't, I wasn't sure if it was a typo and he meant 'files', not folders

So you want to add a parent directory which contains other directories which contain a bunch of files?

I seem to be able to drag my 'mp3' directory (which has that sort of thing) into my iTunes. Are you drag/dropping or using some 'add folder' menu item?

I try both options but it's not allowing me to continue ... will check again.

Sounds like he needs to get laid.

Also, agree 100% with teq about itunes being unintuitive, I have spent the last two nights fighting with itunes, finally trying to organise my music and update my ipod. After two days of this organisation process, trog mentions that I can drag and drop music straight onto my ipod without going thru the painful itunes syncing process. Talk about waste of time.

I've had itunes crap itself and just showed the not allowed icon thingy when attempting to drag tunes onto my iphone... had plenty of free space no idea what its problem was.

Closed and reopened itunes and it worked again *shrug*

Presumably you've tried something as simple as that already... hopefully.

Ugh... in terms of intuitiveness

1) label mp3s correctly or gtfo
2) don't mistake "intuitive" with "what I have learned other programs can do"
3) rtfm

This applies to a lot more than just iTunes.

On topic: Highlight all the subfolders and drag/drop in iTunes?? Alternatively, in the same directory you want to put in iTunes, just create a folder called "music" and cut/paste all the subfolders in there.

Thanks Billy i'll try that.

don't mistake "intuitive" with "what I have learned other programs can do"

Isn't it intuitive for a Windows application to behave like every other Windows application?

Not sure if I understand the question, but the obvious answer it iTunes isn't a Windows application...

it is confusing when people use 'directory' & 'folder' in the same sentence... they're the same thing but when you use 2 different terms in the same sentence it makes it look like you mean a different meaning for directory... which can be more than a file partition.

but the obvious answer it iTunes isn't a Windows application

Funny, I could've sworn there was iTunes for Windows.

You guys are way off. It's a secret lab where they take the brains out of zombies and put 'em in the heads of other zombies to create a race of super zombies.

It all makes so much sense now...

Drag and drop worked. Cheers fellas.

I really don't understand our beloved bandana boy lately, he is so angsty and contrary.

Totally... Goes on his power trips too, removing threads just because he doesn't like the content.

Lies!

Except that MJ ghost thread. But that was completely justified.

Funny, I could've sworn there was iTunes for Windows.

Why would you expect something made by Apple to operate the same way as Microsoft programs? Just because you can use it in Windows doesn't mean that it automatically should operate the same as other programs.

Why would you expect something made by Apple to operate the same way as Microsoft programs? Just because you can use it in Windows doesn't mean that it automatically should operate the same as other programs.

I don't expect it to behave like MS programs, I expect it to behave like every other application written for Windows regardless of who developed it. No-one has these sorts of complaints about Adobe software.

iTunesFolderWatch is also pretty handy

regardless of who developed it.

We are talking about Apple here...

Does iTunes work any differently on a Mac? I'm just curious if maybe Apple have crippled it in some way or changed the way it behaves.

iTunes on Mac works and looks very very similar but I think iTunes is too much of a port to Windows (they even use NIB files for the interfaces / windows, not a more supported format on Windows).

The other thing is that Windows kinda sucks for custom drawing whole entire programs with full on reskinning unless you do it really well.

Does iTunes work any differently on a Mac? I'm just curious if maybe Apple have crippled it in some way or changed the way it behaves.

Nah, its close to the same as on the mac interaction wise. Its just on osx you can copy things around and between programs via drag and drop between them, which isn't that common in windows environment. I tend to agree they should make it fit in with the windows environment a lot better, at least to fit in with how the windows interaction works.

To be fair though, exactly the same can be said for Microsoft on OS-X though: MSN Messenger, MS Office and all the other OS-X M$ programs are amazingly dodgy and such a freaking awful interface even compared to their windows counterparts.

The other thing is that Windows kinda sucks for custom drawing whole entire programs with full on reskinning unless you do it really well.

I have no idea what this sentence means.

Got to do with programming...

Essentially, instead of just letting Windows do its own highly optimised window drawing (rendering to screen), iTunes has to override this and paint everything itself and if not done efficiently, can lag the app and sometimes not work properly.

Obviously on Mac, the iTunes UI is just the native operating system styling and doesn't have to "owner draw" (as its called in Windows).

last edited by 3dee at 09:34:37 09/Jul/09

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Ignoring the spam, I missed your last comment there 3dee!

It sounds like you are just saying that Apple sucks at Windows development?

That's why I'm switching to a Mac.

It sounds like you are just saying that Apple sucks at Windows development?

Quite possibly. Its just that Owner Drawn applications often are worse than just letting Windows do its thang.

I think Apple intentionally make their software do retarded things, because they know that if they get the majority market share, people will start making virus for Mac, and people will wonder why they left Windows.

True story.

Nah, I don't think its the owner draw stuff at all that makes iTunes so slow. Its just s***ty (absent) programming of worker threads interfering with the interface. An example:

1. Plug in your iPhone.
2. Click on it in iTunes.

What happens? The interface hangs for a few seconds while the app interrogates the connection to the phone and gets all the information it needs to display the details screen.

There is no user feedback that the click has been successful or is doing ANYTHING until the task is complete - not even a simple change in selection in the tree. This makes the app feel like an unresponsive, sluggish piece of s***- despite the operation itself being completed pretty quickly!

I am 96.3% sure that this is because the work associated with the click event is being directly handled by the interface event thread (the OnClick event in .Net terms).

I run a tiny development house and I wouldn't send an $8,000 application to a client that behaved like that. I'd be too embarrassed to stick our logo on it when the solution is so simple.

last edited by Hogfather at 14:52:54 27/Jul/09

Yeah iTunes could be seriously optimised on both platforms. It does that modal PnP detection on Mac too ><