Import music from command line

At the command line.

It should be as simple as:

open "[path and filename of music file to import]"

ex: open "./Jazz/Benson & Klugh/Collaboration/02 - Mimosa.mp3"

I just ran a process of merging various copies of my music from 3 different stores.

I ran:

find . -type f -exec openssl -r sha1 > reponame_sha1.list

in each of the roots of the repositories.

pulled the sha1 hash out with a cut -c1-40 into another file.

ran a sort and uniq against those files

ran a diff [orig] [other]

did a grep "^>" to get uniq signatures from the other library

edited the file down to just the sha1 hash

did a bash loop through the sha1 list and grepped it agains the original [other] (before the cut -c1-40) and piped the output to a file.

edited this file (with vim) and:

:%!cut -c1-43

:%s/^/open "/

:%S/$/"/

:wq

The resulting filename looked like:

open "./Jazz/Benson & Klugh/Collaboration/02 - Mimosa.mp3"

open "./Easy - Classics/Frank Sinatra/Frank Sinatra - The Collection - 2 of 3/12 - You Make Me Feel (So Young).mp3"

open "./Christian Artists/America's Favorite Patriotic Songs/10 - God Save America.mp3"

open "./Classical/Johann Sebastian Bach/Bach for Barbecue/07 - Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No. 4.mp3"

open "./Country/Martina McBride/Greatest Hits/02 - Life #9.mp3"

etc...

Then just ran the file with

. [filename]

Don't forget to be in the right directory for the above folder & file names.

It went through all the files and opened them one at a time in iTunes and that forced a copy.

So, the end result was a batch of files spread all over a folder structure.

I ran it for about 500 without any problem at all.

This took less than 3 min to run.