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Move Music into iTunes

Ripping CDs isn’t the only way to put music fi les on

your computer. Suppose that you’ve downloaded

some audio fi les from the Web and want to put

them in iTunes. You have three ways to do that:

• In iTunes, choose File > Add to Library.

When you choose this command, the Add to

Library window appears. Navigate to the fi le,

folder, or volume you want to add to iTunes,

and click Choose (Figure 3.5). iTunes decides

which fi les it thinks it can play and adds them

to the Library.

Figure 3.5 The

Add to Library

navigation

window.

• Drag fi les, folders, or entire volumes to the

iTunes icon in Mac OS X’s Dock; the iTunes icon in

Windows’ Start menu (if you’ve pinned iTunes to

this menu); or the iTunes icon in either operating

system (at which point iTunes launches and adds

the dragged fi les to the Library).

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• Drag fi les, folders, or entire volumes into

iTunes’ main window or the Library entry in

the Source list.

In the Mac versions of iTunes, by default you’ll

fi nd songs in the iTunes Music folder within the

iTunes folder inside the Music folder inside your

OS X user folder. So, for example, the path to my

iTunes music fi les would be chris/Music/iTunes/

iTunes Music.

Windows users will fi nd their iTunes Music folder

by following this path: yourusername/My Music/

iTunes/iTunes Music.

You can also add compatible videos and movies

to your iTunes Library by these means. Those

videos will most likely appear in the Movies play-

list in the Source list.

I say “most likely” because in some cases, they

may instead appear in the Music or TV Shows

playlist. Videos that are specifi cally designated

as Music Videos will appear in the Music playlist.

Similarly, videos that are specifi cally designated

as TV shows will appear in the TV Shows playlist.

Later in the chapter, I’ll talk about how to “tag” a

video so this happens.