iTunes Updater

Hey – so you’ve backed up your music to another drive or directory location than what iTunes defaults to at install. Example: iTunes wants to default to the User Documents directory under Vista and you keep your music on a removable or dynamic disk. Then, when you change the iTunes directory in its preferences, it doesn’t re-scan the folder to add that music to your library. And if attempts to import the old library aren’t working, you’re left to install each file manually by hand. Well, I found a free alternative.

The iTunes Library Updater is one of those brainless functions that you’d think Apple would want to include in the seventh edition of their software. However, you don’t have to wait for Apple to get a clue: you can have a library updater now! The application is easy to install and use – it goes out, enumerates the files in a target location, and then imports those files into the iTunes library. Within a couple of minutes, my library was re-compiled.

This one’s a keeper for system admin’s trying to put a machine back together for a client, or, for an end user frustrated with the native tools inside iTunes.

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