Hopefully this is the right forum for this:
I update my music collection very often. As far as I can tell, iTunes is HORRIBLE at monitoring folders for updates. It looks like with iTunes 9, I can now copy all new music to the new "automatically added..." folder, but that's extremely limiting. I want to store all of my music in one or two primary folders that can be accessed from different computers running different OSes, and different players. In other words, I am not, and cannot be iTunes centric. If I put all new music in that one "automatically added..." folder, then I have to let iTunes organize my music. Doesn't do me any good on my other platforms. I organize my music. I have to, or else have multiple duplicates of my entire library--one for each platform/player. In other words, I want to dump my music that I get from different sources into one or two "root" directories, and then let my players monitor those directories and update their libraries.
Is there a good music player for OS X that does this. It's really sad to say this, and I'm really not trying to start a flame war, but Windows Media Player does this beautifully.
With iTunes, I 're-add' directories to the library and then I'm constantly dealing with duplicates of the same songs.
The ability of a player to monitor directories for new music is a deal breaker or maker. If it can't do this, I won't use the player.
Any suggestions? (sorry for the long post, but I tried to anticipate questions or answers that don't apply to my situation).
Thanks
To clarify: yes, I tediously create my own sub-directories for artists as I add music.
I update my music collection very often. As far as I can tell, iTunes is HORRIBLE at monitoring folders for updates. It looks like with iTunes 9, I can now copy all new music to the new "automatically added..." folder, but that's extremely limiting. I want to store all of my music in one or two primary folders that can be accessed from different computers running different OSes, and different players. In other words, I am not, and cannot be iTunes centric. If I put all new music in that one "automatically added..." folder, then I have to let iTunes organize my music. Doesn't do me any good on my other platforms. I organize my music. I have to, or else have multiple duplicates of my entire library--one for each platform/player. In other words, I want to dump my music that I get from different sources into one or two "root" directories, and then let my players monitor those directories and update their libraries.
Is there a good music player for OS X that does this. It's really sad to say this, and I'm really not trying to start a flame war, but Windows Media Player does this beautifully.
With iTunes, I 're-add' directories to the library and then I'm constantly dealing with duplicates of the same songs.
The ability of a player to monitor directories for new music is a deal breaker or maker. If it can't do this, I won't use the player.
Any suggestions? (sorry for the long post, but I tried to anticipate questions or answers that don't apply to my situation).
Thanks
To clarify: yes, I tediously create my own sub-directories for artists as I add music.