After all of the mucking around with getting an AppleScript to work, and then using python anyway, I discovered a far faster method of adding tracks to iTunes: just drag the folder they all live in, and iTunes will only add the songs that aren’t in the Library yet!
Probably well documented, but I didn’t find it!
What you may need to do, particularly if multiple people need to be able to change MP3 Tags or artwork, is do the following:
- Change the owner/group of the files to something that all people can access - I use shared/admin, since all non-admin users are scum, and do not need to be able to change stuff.
- Change the protection bits of the files to allow owner R+W, group R+W, all R.
Code to do this should be easy:
find ~shared/Music -name *.m* -not -perm 664 -exec chmod 664 {};
find ~shared/Music -name *.m* -not -owner shared -exec chown shared:admin {};
But bash interprets the ; itself, and gives the following error:
find: -exec: no terminating ";"
Bitch. Can’t be bothered figuring out how to use another shell, so knock up a script in python: UpdateShared.py
This script also updates the owner/group and permissions for files in ~shared/Movies and ~shared/iPhotoLibrary.
Update: the ; must be \; for the bash commands to work.
