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Add Media Files to Playlist

With the default action "Add files to playlist", you can only add music files to iTunes. There is no way to make an Automator workflow that would add videos directly to iTunes. It seemed to exist before, but apparently it’s not any more in the iTunes default actions and it’s annoying.

Automator Action for iTunes | 17 September 2007, by Mortimer

This action provides a more generic step for your workflow that will work with videos. Just select the playlist you want the files to be added to and it will do it for you. It can also create the playlist if needed.

The action will return the list of iTunes tracks that were created.

To use it, download the following package:

AddMediaToPlaylist.dmg

1357 download(s) since 20 September 2007

and install the action file in your ~/Library/Automator/ directory.

This action was inspired by an hint from MacOsXHints.com provides a basic applescript.

There are some subtleties in transferring this script to an action to fetch your list of playlist, support non English localisations and work with folders. Check out the script code if you want to learn a bit on how to implement complex applescript actions. If there is the demand for it, I might make a tutorial out of that.

The file is localized in French, English and Italian, if you want to make other translations, just let me know.

Date of online publication: 17 September 2007
last-update: 17 September 2007
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4 Forum messages

• Add Media Files to Playlist

  13 November 2007 02:58, by Davewithipod

  Cool action. It’s what I’ve been looking for, however, it seemed to work for a while in Automator, but since I’ve updated to iTunes 7.5 it gives an error "The variable this_track is not defined. (-2753)". Also, can’t view the main.script inside of the .action file since it was compiled to run-only.

  If there was a fix for this that would be awesome

  thanks
   Davewithipod

  See online : http://6v8.gamboni.org/Add-Media-Fi...

  • Add Media Files to Playlist 15 November 2007 11:35, by Mortimer

    Ok, I see where the problem is, they probably changed something in the last iTunes updates that break the applescript. If I find 5 minutes, I’ll try to correct it and put the source code in an open place.
    • Add Media Files to Playlist 28 November 2007 17:18, by Gordon Shewach

      This is for me, too, exactly what I need. But it isn’t working with iTunes 7.5. Any fixes would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
  • Add Media Files to Playlist 7 December 2007 20:07, by Mortimer

    Ok, you will all laugh at me now, but while getting this set up for an update, I erased all the sources...

    and well, as by error the package does not contain the source, I have to redo everything from scratch, that will take longer. Sorry