Adding Mp3 To Itunes Library On Mac
You can always add music files to iTunes. After you save or copy an MP3, AIFF, or WAV file on your hard drive, you can simply drag it into the iTunes window to bring it into your library. If you drag a folder or disk icon, all the audio files that it contains are added to your iTunes library.
- Jun 18, 2014 For example, if you already have MP3 files on your computer, you then add them to your iTunes Library. So in your case, you need to import the files from the external drive to your computer (drag-and-drop, or copy-and-paste) and then add the files to your iTunes Library, using File/Add file to Library or CTRL O.
- Jan 04, 2020 How to Move Your iTunes Library. You can move your iTunes library to a different folder, computer, or drive. Here's how to do it, even in macOS Catalina, which ditches iTunes for the Music app.
- Oct 20, 2017 How to add any audio file to iPhone’s Music app. You can’t just add it to your library. Instead, you must add it to iTunes on your Mac or PC, and then manually sync it to your iPhone.
- Mar 24, 2020 To change your settings for this task on Mac, go to iTunes Preferences General Import Settings select MP3 Encoder. On Windows, go to Edit Preferences General Import Settings, and choose MP3 Encoder for the Import Using option. Select OK, and then OK.
- Mar 27, 2018 How to Play Audio Files in iTunes Without Adding to iTunes Library. Launch iTunes on the Mac or Windows computer. From the file system of your Mac (or PC), locate the audio file you want to play in iTunes but not add to the library. Hold down the OPTION /.
How To Add Mp3 To Itunes On Mac
After you save or copy an MP3, AIFF, or WAV file on your hard drive, you can simply drag it into the iTunes window to bring it into your library. If you drag a folder or disk icon, all the audio files that it contains are added to your iTunes library. You can also choose File→Add to Library on a Mac.
You can also choose File→Add to Library on a Mac, or File→Add File to Library and File→Add Folder to Library on a Windows PC, as an alternative to dragging.
When you add a song to your iTunes library, a copy is placed inside the iTunes Music folder; that is, as long as you have your iTunes preferences set for Copy Files to iTunes Music Folder When Adding to Library. (This is the default setting, which you can find in the Advanced tab of the iTunes Preferences dialog.)
When you bring a song file into iTunes, the song is copied into a new file in the iTunes library without changing or deleting the original file. You can then convert the song to another format. For example, you can convert an AIFF file to an MP3 file while leaving the original intact.
Watchtower library app. If you have files in another folder or on another hard drive that you want to add to the iTunes library without copying into the iTunes Media folder, you can copy a link to the original files instead:
Choose iTunes→Preferences (Mac) or Edit→Preferences (Windows).
Click the Advanced tab in the iTunes Preferences dialog box.
Turn off the Copy Files to iTunes Media Folder When Adding to Library setting.
You can check out the contents of your iTunes Media folder by using the Finder on a Mac or Windows Explorer on a Windows PC.
MP3 CDs are easy to add because they’re essentially data CDs. Simply insert them into your CD-ROM drive, open the CD in the Finder, and drag and drop the MP3 song files into the iTunes window. Downloaded song files are even easier — just drag and drop the files into iTunes. If you drag a folder or CD icon, all the audio files it contains are added to your iTunes library.
iTunes can play the digital audio files that you download from the Internet on your MacBook or obtain from other sources in the WAV, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, MP2, and MP3 file formats.
Enjoying a digital audio file is just slightly more complicated than playing a CD. After downloading or saving your audio files to your MacBook, open the Finder and navigate to the stored files. Then simply drag the music files from the Finder to the Music entry in the iTunes Source list.
Mac delete user. The added files appear in the Music section of your iTunes Library. Think of the Library as a master list of your digital media. To view the Music Library, select the Music entry in the left column of the iTunes player. You can also drag a song file from a Finder window and drop it on the iTunes icon on the Dock, which adds the song to your Music Library.
To play a song, just double-click it in the Music list. Alternatively, you can use the playback controls.
The iTunes Source list can list up to eight possible sources for music:
Library: This section includes Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, Books, iTunes U, Apps, Ringtones, iPod Games, and Radio.
Devices: If an iPod, iPhone, or iPad is connected, it appears in the list.
Audio CD: A standard audio CD.
Store: Buy from the iTunes Store.
Genius: Why not let iTunes match new music to your tastes? Click the Genius heading and then click the Turn On Genius button to allow iTunes to automatically create playlists from songs in your iTunes Music Library. You can also allow Genius to recommend music, movies, and TV shows based on the titles you already have in your iTunes Library.
Shared: If another Mac or PC on your local network is running iTunes and is set to share part or all of its Library, you can connect to the other computer for your music.
Home Sharing: You can turn on Home Sharing to share your Mac’s media library across your wireless network with up to five other computers, as well as iPhone, iPad and iPhone touch devices.
Playlists: Think of playlists as folders you use to organize your music.
Notice also that the Library lists information for each song that you add to it, such as
Name
Time
Artist
Album
If some of the songs that you’re adding don’t display anything for the title, album, or artist information, don’t panic; most MP3 files have embedded data that iTunes can read. If a song doesn’t include any data, you can always add the information to these fields manually.
How to browse the MacBook Library
After you add a few dozen songs to iTunes, viewing the Library can become a task. To help out, iTunes can display your Library in another format, too: namely, browsing mode. To view the Library in browsing mode, click the View menu and click the Show Browser item, or press the cmd+B keyboard shortcut.
The browsing mode of iTunes displays your Library in a compact fashion, organizing your tunes into four sections:
Genre
Artist
Album
Song Name
Selecting an artist from the Artist list causes iTunes to display that artist’s albums in the Album list. Select an album from the Album list, and iTunes displays that album’s songs in the bottom section of the Browse window. You can also switch between sort fields for the Browse window from the View→Column Browser menu item.
How to find songs in your MacBook Music Library
After your collection of audio files grows large, you might have trouble locating that Swedish remix version of “I’m Your Boogie Man.” To help you out, iTunes has a built-in Search function. To find a song, type some text in the search field of the main iTunes window.
While you type, iTunes tries to find a selection that matches your search text. The search is quite thorough, showing any matching text from the artist, album, song title, and genre fields in the results.
For example, if you type electronic in the field, iTunes might return results for the band named Electronic or other tunes that you classified as electronic in the Genre field. Click the magnifying glass at the left side of the search field to restrict the search to Artists, Albums, Composers, and Songs.
How to remove old music from the MacBook Library
After you spend some time playing songs with iTunes, you might decide that you didn’t really want to add 40 different versions of “Louie Louie” to your Library. To remove a song from the Library, click the song to select it and then press Delete.
You can also remove a song from the Library by dragging it to the Trash in your Dock.
Watch video on the MacBook
Watching video in iTunes is similar to listening to music. To view your video collection, click one of these entries in the Source list:
Movies
TV Shows
iTunes displays your videos as thumbnails, as a list, or in Cover Flow view. Music videos appear as a smart playlist.
From your collection, you can
Double-click a video thumbnail or an entry in the list.
Drag a QuickTime–compatible video clip from the Finder window to the iTunes window. Video files that can be viewed by using QuickTime typically have file extensions of .mov, .mv4, or .mp4.
Copy Itunes Library To Mp3
iTunes plays video in the box below the Source list, in the iTunes window, in a separate window, or in full-screen mode, depending on the settings you choose from the View→Video Playback menu item.
Transfer Mp3 To Itunes Library
In full-screen mode, move your cursor to display a control strip at the bottom of the screen. The control strip sports a slider bar that you can drag to move through the video, a volume control, and Play/Pause and Fast Forward/Reverse buttons.