iTunes 11 add folder to library

Its still there. You need to turn on the "File, Edit, View, Controls, Store, Help" Menu bar. you can select it from the icon waaaaaaayyyyy up in the top left of the Itunes player. You will find the folder option under "file" where it used to be.

awesome, was lost without the menu =D it SHOULD be on by default lol

On Windows you can use "alt" to show this bar

Thank you very much. I thought I was going to have to add song by song, 45gb's worth. LOL

Apple, please please put this back the way it was. Really, the magic "alt" key for Windows users to be able to find this heavily used menu item? I would have never guessed that without finding this thread. Why would you hide it? Add Folder to Library is not some obscure, little-used feature; it's one of the main things many of us use regularly. Expecting the use of the "alt" key to uncover a hidden menu is extremely non-user friendly and is a surprising deviation from Apple's normal approach to UI.

Thanks to those in the thread that replied. I appreciate your help.

Excellent tip for windows to use "alt" key. I alsdo would have never guessed it. Thanks a lot for sharing. 🙂

You can also use ctrl-b to turn the menu bar on and off.

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This smells like Apple is sneaking in a new change that will give them more control over what we do with itunes. I have a library on my disk that has lots of music that did NOT come from Apple. That will never change. If this feature disappears in later versions I will throw itunes away...

Or I could be wrong and Apple just screwed up the user interface and hid a highly used feature. What do you think?

Once again, apple shows it's complete disdain for its customers.

Not only is the new layout atrocious, they don't listen to people..

Shocking. No...really.

Glad I don't buy Macs anymore.

Its a case of style over substance... bad sign apple!

Yes it looks neater but now like windows 8 now have to click 50 times more to do the same thing!

Grrr.. Marketing is controling R&D!

This is the way a lot of programs are being built now. Office, Itunes, Excel, etc. They are trying to make it more compatible with the average user...idiot proofing I call it. But it just makes the more than average user frustrated. Thanks for the 'Alt' tip. I was about to start banging my head into the wall.

unreal. got sick of adding one song at a time. apple... sometimes i dont know where our relationship is headed.

😁 thanQ

Some more handy hints for iTunes 11...

• ALT to temporarily display the menu bar
• CTRL+B to show or hide the menu bar
• CTRL+S to show or hide the sidebar
• CTRL+/ to show or hide the status bar (won't hide for me on Win XP)
• Click the magnifying glass top right and untick Search Entire Library to restore the old search behaviour
• Use View > Hide <Media Kind> in the cloud or Edit > Preferences > Store and untick Show iTunes in the cloud purchases to hide the cloud items. The second method eliminates the cloud status column (and may let iTunes start up more quickly)
• If you don't like having different coloured background & text in the Album view use Edit > Preferences > General and untick Use custom colours for open albums, movies, etc.

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