"Automatically Add to iTunes" not working ... AGAIN

[iGowanus68]

Re: "Automatically Add to iTunes" not working ... AGAIN

Hey Bill,

iTunes moves the files to the folder named "Not Added" - it is not dBpa. Please do not start or just quit iTunes before you start ripping to the folder "Automatically Add to iTunes". Otherwise iTunes tries immediately to move the files into your iTunes folder structur, although these files are not finished or even temporarily.


Dat Ei

Dat Ei,

Thanks for the reply. Your comment about quitting iTunes right after or just before the dBpa rip is executed might be an explanation if the problem were occurring occasionally, but it is happening on every rip in 4 out of 5 libraries. The process is not happening correctly with the fifth library, but the problem there is different & more or less manageable. I have spent hours on the phone consulting with an iTunes support specialist, as well as hours exchanging emails with one of the senior gurus at the iTunes support forum to no avail. In the end they only say that, if the iTunes CD import process is working correctly & ripping with dBpa is not, the source of the problem must lie with dBpa. I am advised to contact the dBpa developers & use iTunes to import content. All I can say is, I don't think so, & explain again why dBpa is better. But is anyone else experiencing a similar breakdown while ripping to iTunes? I would sure like to hear from them, particularly if they found a solution.

Thanks again.

Bill

[Dat Ei]

Re: "Automatically Add to iTunes" not working ... AGAIN

Hey Bill,

iTunes moves the files to the folder named "Not Added" - it is not dBpa. Please do not start or just quit iTunes before you start ripping to the folder "Automatically Add to iTunes". Otherwise iTunes tries immediately to move the files into your iTunes folder structur, although these files are not finished or even temporarily.


Dat Ei

[iGowanus68]

In March or April of last year, I began experiencing a problem when ripping CDs with dBpa to iTunes. The files that were being directed to the "Automatically Add to iTunes" folder were not then being sent to their respective libraries' "Music" folder & were not displaying in the libraries. Instead, they were accumulating in the auto add folder & had to be manually moved to the library & deleted from the folder. Eventually, I solved the problem by installing an earlier version of iTunes. Well, a problem with that function is occurring again. Only this time the music files per se are not being added to the auto add folder. Instead, a subfolder named "Not Added" is created & under it are date & time named subfolders that contain files I don't recognize. There is one for each song title & it has a dog-eared blank page in front of it. Today, hoping that it would correct the problem, I uninstalled the earlier iTunes version I was using & installed the current version. But this had no effect. An odd thing is that I noticed the problem last week around the time I purchased the dBpa update. I realize that this is a correlation, not cause & effect. In any case, has anyone experienced the same or a similar malfunction recently? & were they able to correct it? Thanks in advance.

Bill S