Downloaded video imported to iTune automatically?

[mharing]

Is it possible to set a preference in LimeWire for downloaded videos to be automatically placed into iTunes? Something similar to the preference setting for song downloads?

McH

[Only A Hobo]

I wish Apple would stop bring out these new inventions. How the hell can anyone keep up with them!

I suspect this should be a feature request as you have presumably selected the iTunes Folder as your Video download location, and the iTunes integration option is I can only assume only, at present, available for audio

[mharing]

Here's a dumb question from a new mac user.......

If I click and grab a file from my shared folder, then drag and drop it into the iTunes icon, am I copying that file (?) or is it an alias or single file/multiple location type thingy. If I am copying, my hard drive will be filling up reeeeeeally fast. Yikes

[Only A Hobo]

beleive it or not I have never used the Grab function and don't know what it does! yes I have a vague idea it does make a copy.

I have the iTunes folder as my download folder, with iTunes integration enabled, so tunes load into iTunes automatically (usually) I share selected folders from my iTunes folder and so never have more than 1 copy. Some advise against doing this, but it has given me no problem.

I hope that helps.

[mharing]

Oh Bother!

If I have been making muliple copies for video files when I grab them from my shared folder (which LimeWire downloads to) and drop them into iTunes, I am going to fill my hard drive way too fast. I guess the alternative if I want to use LimeWire and iTunes for videos is not to share them over LimeWire as I will need to remove them from the shared folder and move them into iTunes.

There's a better way I am sure.

[Only A Hobo]

I use I tunes 5 I rarely watch video's and usally watch them with whatever they happen to open by double clicking.

In my iTunes.preferences>advanced>preferences there is the option "copy files to iTunes folder when adding to Library". I have that dissabled.

So in fact my iTunes Library contains audio files from 3 Folders on 3 different drives. One of these three folders IS my iTunes folder and my Limewire download folder.

If I enabled "copy files to iTunes folder when adding to Library" I would no doubt need a fourth drive

If I have a file not in my iTunes folder I wish to add to the iTunes library, I select iTunes>File>Add To library and browse for the files. That way I do not create a new file. I was under the impression that dragging files to the library worked in the same way, but I am absolutely NOT sure

There is no reason you cannot add items from your download/shared folder in this way, ... I just have my iTunes folder as my download folder.

Does this help, or am I confusing even myself?

[Lord of the Rings]

Originally posted by Only A Hobo
I select iTunes>File>Add To library and browse for the files ... I was under the impression that dragging files to the library worked in the same way, but I am absolutely NOT sure

AFAIK the difference between drag & drop into the iTunes icon in the Dock V's drag & drop into the library of iTune's interface (same as add menu), is that the 1st will force iTunes to play as it's importing.

Likewise O.A.H., I had my iTunes split into 3 on 2 HDD's. But about a week ago I consolidated onto a specific external drive. I needed the space back on my computer. lol

Sorry what I've said isn't really very helpful to your problem.Be interesting to try out the video importing to see if it works, ie: with iTunes 6. So at least it's not a mystery.

[mharing]

((gulp))...

Well, unfortunately I'll probibly be purging my shared folder on a semi regular basis if I have to manage several files that are exactly the same. At least until I get a storage solution like a large external drive, or possibily an imac mini if it can share the screen of my regular imac. Thats kind of an interesting idea, devoting the mini to LimeWire and itunes. I'll have to think about that one.

[Only A Hobo]

mharing: You are confusing me. What I have been trying to say is that you do not need to have more than one copy of a file. LOTR and I have just got so many files that we are bursting at the seams. They have a habit of mounting up you will find but perhaps our appetite it uncommonly large

OTOH If you are planning on building a large and unusual collection, it might be worth considering copying your files to another drive or storage CD ... Just in case of a disaster.......

The mini looks interesting but I imagine you would have to un-plug the screen from one to the other. Mind you I just picked up an old screen for next to nothing, for my windows 95 antique.

[Lord of the Rings]

Originally posted by Only A Hobo
Mind you I just picked up an old screen for next to nothing, for my windows 95 antique.

I got a monitor for free from my last university a few years ago. They were going to sell them 2nd hand. Uni's tend to sell off computer equipment very cheaply as they need to keep updating their computer hardware. A good place to inquire! More-so about this time of year. Talking to the right people helps. lol

Yep mini's don't have expedient amounts of HDD space. I have 2 internal 120 GB drives & that wasn't enough for me as I need space for normal full quality video capture, uplding, editing, conversions, backups, VM space, etc. Although I have my iTunes library on an external share drive now, it's also backed up onto another drive. I did originally back them up onto dvd-rw but that was a pia for the amount of disks i needed for that & other things. lol For external drives, don't shy at the 800 mbps firewire drives. http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html I have a 400 FW drive & it's slow as all heck (& sometimes unreliable) for LW & iTunes to read. For iTunes it's the id3 tags it sometimes struggles with. For LW, it doesn't read all the songs in some albums. Sometimes it looks like I have empty folders when there's at least one to 3 songs in that album. It might also be related to my cpu speed though. I use a mac quicksilver which is a no. of yrs old now (eg: bus & processor speed.) Mine is 733 which is equivalent to a pc 1.6-1.7 GHz