iTunes folder monitoring/management

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iTunes folder monitoring/management

Is there any way of making iTunes automatically monitoring a folder for changes and I mean newly added music, deleted music, etc. I use OneDrive to connect my macbook and windows laptop and they share the same music folder, so I want changes that I make on the windows reflected on the mac in iTunes. I use Winamp on windows and it doesn't have an issue with folder monitoring, but it doesn't work the other way around. I like iTunes on a mac but this is a feature that I really miss.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on May 11, 2014 9:52 AM

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Limnos

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May 11, 2014 10:13 AM in response to georgacus

Not really. iTunes doesn't actively look at folders, it generally only knows if something has happened when you make a change to the iTunes library in use. It makes a note in its library database file (iTunes Library.itl) which is how it keeps track of what is in your collection. If you have it set up so two copies of iTunes are sharing media but each has its own library files then changes in content made to one won't transfer to the other. You can change it so both computers use the same library file, but they can't do it at the same time.

Automatic updating is to a greater (but not perfect) extent possible with Home Sharing, but that only works with iTunes Store purchases.

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