Controlling play during import into iTunes from command line interface
- From: "AlanZ" <a.zaitchik@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 6 Apr 2007 08:33:05 -0700
I need to import audio tracks into iTunes as part of installation of a
courseware package we are creating. I can call iTunes directly from
the installer we built-- no problem! All the audio files end up
imported correctly into the iTunes Music folder (and then eventually
get onto users' iPods just fine when the iPod and iTunes sync).
The problem is that we cannot seem to disable or control the automatic
play of one (always exactly one!) audio track being imported. We have
used Edit Preferences to disable the play of "songs" during import,
but this seems to have no effect. There is always one audio file that
plays at the end of the import. (I have heard that this "no play"
option controls play of songs during importing from a CD, not during
importing audio files in general from a directory on the hard drive,
but I am not sure that is true.)
What's worse, we cannot even figure out the logic by which the track
or song that plays is selected. If we could do that then we could at
least name (or position?) the audio files in such fashion that the
user would hear something benign or even relevant like 'Thank you for
loading the courseware"! Instead the user hears a random audio track
from the training that makes no sense out of context. Admittedly we
have not done extensive testing to identify the algorithm by which the
track is selected, but it doesn't seem to be based on a strictly
alphabetic sort of file names, Does it depend on how the user's iTunes
is set up, i.e. how the songs are sorted and listed? That would take
it out of our control, for sure!
I would be very grateful If anyone can help me
1. (ideally) totally disable play of all "songs" during import, or
2. (at least) understand the logic by which iTunes decides which
"song" to play.
If it is relevant, note that end users will be running iTunes on PCs,
not MACs.
Thanks so much for any help you can offer!
Alan
a.zaitchik@xxxxxxx
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