no friend what i mean that all the files are locked and are not read
rite only read and if there was a way to change all of them to read
and rite?
On Nov 20, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Esther wrote:
You can't select a folder, but you can select the individual files and
enter the data at once. It sounds as though you have these as
untagged files -- maybe mp3 files? -- on your disk, and want to
add these to your iTunes music library. This is like a question
that Cara Quinn asked earlier that I've been thinking about. The
easiest way to do this is probably with an Automator action.
I haven't played around very much with Automator, because I still
find it slightly non-intuitive to use with VoiceOver, but I did try a
test Automator action that could do what you want.
Here's a workflow that would work:
1. Finder: Find Finder Items
a) Where: <set folder to check>
b) Whose: Kind is Audio and Extension Ends With mp3
2. iTunes: Add Files to Playlist: <playlist name>
If you input the folder you want to import, and specify the
name of a playlist for the second step, you can add all
the mp3 files in that folder location into the named playlist
in iTunes by running the Automator action with command-r.
For example, I tested this on my downloads file. This is the
reason that I put in the additional checks for file type and
kind. Then, I created a new playlist name called "import folder"
to use for the workflow, so that I could separately find all
these tracks.
Incidentally, when I was testing I did things like use
Automator: View Results and TextEdit: Speak Text
to check the names that were being passed to the playlist
before running it with the iTunes: Add Files to Playlist
step -- just to make sure this wouldn't be a really long
list of incorrect files. I haven't saved any of these actions.
If I did, I would probably put in something like
Automator: Ask for Confirmation first. And your can probably
prompt for a folder or playlist name with something like
TextEdit: Ask for Text.
Anyway, this does work. You could then choose the
import folder playlist in the source list of iTunes, tab
to the songs outline, select all with command-a and
do a get info command-i edit of multiple entries in
common.
I'd modify the Automator action to do make step 2:
2. Finder: Move Finder Items
a) To: iTunes Music
(or maybe set up a special folder under the iTunes Music
folder for imports and use that for the Move Finder items)
if I wanted to make iTunes the only location for my
music files (instead of deleting files after import).
Hope this helps. I think others may be more accomplished
with Automator actions and navigating. I find that you
have to stop interacting with each of the areas (for choosing
Finder, iTunes, etc.) before you can navigate to the action
(Find Finder items, Move Finder items, Add Files to Playlist,
etc.) and add it to the workflow, and then to reach the
workflow itself, so that you can set the folder locations for
each of the Automator steps.
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 20, 2007, at 07:54AM, jesus hernandez wrote:
no about doing the ride right thing on a folder of files.
On Nov 20, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi,
well it worked thanks now if there was a way to apply that to a
hole
folder of files i have at once. hahaha.
You can edit a whole lot of files at once by selecting, for example,
all
tracks in an album, and doing "get info" on all of them at once by
typing in only the common features of album name, artist, etc. I do
this all the time. For a CD, just do command-a in the songs outline
and then do command-i for get info and fill in the common fields.
You'll be prompted with a warning message asking if you want to
continue with editing multiple items, but just carriage return to
say
yes.
Cheers,
Esther
