Hi Ed, In addition to what Alex said, that where a track added to your iTunes library will be stored depends on what boxes you have checked on the Advanced pane of your iTunes preferences file (that you can bring up with Command+comma), you can preview an mp3 or other DRM-free audio file without adding it to your iTunes library by using Apple's Quick Look feature. When you're focused on the file in Finder, instead of open it, press space bar to start it playing with Quick Look. Quick Look can be used on documents, PDF files, movies (with supported file types), etc. You can't navigate the way you can if you opened the file in a supporting application -- e.g., you can't rewind, or jump to a specific chapter in the PDF of a book -- but you can quickly inspect these files. You can play through the whole mp3 file this way, without adding it to your iTunes library. Quick Look doesn't work in background, though. If you switch applications with Command-Tab, or because you get a skype call, the Quick Looked mp3 file will stop playing until you Command-Tab back to it.
HTH. Cheers, Esther On 19 Jul 2013, at 11:40, Alex Hall wrote: > That depends on whether or not you've checked the "copy files to my library > folder" box in iTunes' preferences. If so, then the file is in your library > and you can move that copy out of downloads. If it is not checked, you must > either copy it in manually or not move it, since iTunes has now basically > pointed to it and cannot find it if it moves. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 19, 2013, at 17:08, Edward Green <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> This is probably a fairly basic question but it is borne out of being more >> familiar than Windows file structures than Mac ones, so apologies. >> >> I recently downloaded an MP3 file from the Internet which iTunes >> automatically added to my iTunes library. >> >> The file appears in my downloads folder. However, I'd like all my music >> files to appear in one place for the purposes of backing up. >> >> If iTunes has added the file to my iTunes library, does this mean that it >> has also copied the file over to my Music folder? If not, and if I move the >> file from Downloads and paste it into my Music folder, will it appear twice >> in my iTunes library? >> >> Grateful for any thoughts. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ed >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
