No matter how anyone feels about iTunes, this program today is the only “adult” way to work with Apple mobile devices. Therefore, it is not surprising that iTunes is becoming the main, and sometimes the only program for working with libraries of media files. I note that I have complaints about iTunes, but I would like to tell you how I eliminated one of these complaints for myself.
I didn’t like the process of adding files: drag&drop is somehow unclear with a large number of open windows, and it doesn’t always work (if iTunes considers itself busy, your work will be lost). That's why I decided to add a context menu for adding a file to iTunes to Windows Explorer.

As you can see, I used a completely simple method: I added an entry to the SendTo menu, simply because it does not require much intelligence or any programming.

First, what I had to do was open the iTunes library folder in Explorer. The location of this folder can be found in the iTunes settings dialog on the “Advanced” tab:

Please note that the “Copy to iTunes folder” checkbox is required.

Second- right-click on the folder with a magical name that speaks for itself, and select the option to create a shortcut:

Out of personal taste, I renamed the shortcut to “iTunes”:

Now All we have to do is cut or copy (if you would like to leave a link for the future) this file and paste it into the folder containing the SendTo menu. In my case, it is located at “C:\Users\Alex\SendTo”. In your case, substitute your %USERNAME%.
Please note that Windows does not allow access to system folders (or rather, hides them) by default. Therefore, you need to either first allow Explorer to show system files, or use another program (Far, Total Commander, etc.).

As a result, when you click on any file, you will get exactly what you saw at the beginning of the article:

This way, you can send different types of files to iTunes, and it will only add what it can “digest.” And now he digests a lot of things, including music, videos, and books.

This advice will potentially work in any version of Windows, starting with at least Windows 95. But I don’t know the version of iTunes in which the folder designed to be tracked and automatically added appeared.

iTunes Media Combine offers a very convenient and visual concept for storing a wide variety of content types in one common media library. You can add music and clips, audio books and podcasts, videos and television series, ringtones for iPhone and lessons in iTunes U format there. But with video files there is a catch: iTunes doesn't understand most modern video formats, except .mp4, .mov, .m4v and .mpg. No matter how many times you drag an AVI file (or a file of any other unsupported format) into the iTunes window, no reaction will follow. But don't give up: the solution lies where no one expected it - in the QuickTime player.

So our goal is to create a nice-looking movie library in iTunes that looks something like this:

The question is how to get unsupported file formats there. There are two ways:

• banal and long: Convert all videos to MP4 or other supported format. We will not write about him.
• elegant and fast: Create a link to a video using QuickTime Player. This is what we will talk about.

Link to video is a small file in the format MOV, which weighs from 500 KB to 3-4 MB. It stores information about the location of the source file and its format. If you play a link in iTunes or QuickTime, it will actually play the original file. Hence the conclusion - if you rename, move or delete the original video, links to it will become invalid.

This is the theory, now let's move on to the practical part. We definitely need QuickTime Player 7. Holders Mac OS X Snow Leopard, where the unusually beautiful, but inept and uncustomizable QuickTime X is installed by default, you will have to install QuickTime 7 withDVD Snow Leopard from the additional packages folder.

For QuickTime to understand AVI and other video formats, we need .

The instructions are extremely simple:

1) Open the AVI file in QuickTime 7.

3) In the dialog box that appears, select the item Save movie as link and the location where the link will be saved.

You can drag the link into iTunes, set all the tags for it, select the video type (clip, movie, TV show, etc.) in the properties and add a cover.

When first getting acquainted with the iPhone, many users have difficulty performing certain operations. For example, not every user will figure out how to add music from a computer to an iPhone via . Especially if the user has previously used Android smartphones and added music by simply copying files.

If you also encounter similar difficulties, then this material should help you. Here we will walk you through the entire process of adding music to iPhone via iTunes step by step.

Step No. 1. Launch iTunes and go to the “My Music” section.

If you want to add music from your computer to your iPhone, you will have to install iTunes first. Download iTunes to your computer () and install it. Then launch iTunes and immediately open the “My Music” section.

If you have not added any music before, then you will not have any music compositions in the “My Music” section. This is normal, this is how it should be.

Step No. 2. Add music to your iTunes library.

Next, you need to open the “File – Add file to library” menu (to add only one song) or the “File – Add folder to library” menu (to add a whole folder with music at once).

If you select a folder with a lot of music, the “Add Files” window will open, where you can watch the process of adding files to your iTunes library.

Wait until all the files are added to your iTunes library before proceeding to the next step.

Step No. 3. Sync your iTunes library with your iPhone.

After the desired music has been added to your iTunes library, you can synchronize it with your iPhone. To do this, you need to use the cable and click on the iPhone icon in the upper left corner of iTunes. This will take you from your iTunes library to your iPhone's settings.

After clicking on the iPhone icon on the left side of the iTunes window, an image of your device will appear, and below it a menu with settings. In this menu, you must select the “Music” section, and then activate the “Synchronize Music” function and confirm the action by clicking on the “Done” button, which is located at the bottom of the window. If you don’t want to add all the music from your iTunes library to your iPhone, you can enable the Featured Playlists, Artists, Albums and Genres feature. In this case, you can choose which music tracks you need to download to your iPhone and which not.

After clicking the “Finish” button, another window will appear asking for confirmation. Here you just need to click on the “Apply” button.

After synchronization is complete, the music added to your iTunes library will appear in your iPhone's memory.

iTunes is probably the most famous software from Apple, if you don't take into account its operating systems. Apple has always dictated its own rules and supported "closed" software, believing that this could improve both security and ease of use.

Adding files through the system menu

There are two methods for adding files in the iTunes 11 system menu: adding files selectively or adding files in batch. Follow these steps: "File -> Add a file to the library..." for selective adding or "File -> Add a folder to the library..." to add an entire folder with files.

Adding files via keyboard shortcut

Unfortunately, iTunes 11 doesn't allow you to add an entire folder to your library using a keyboard shortcut. This feature was implemented only for the function of adding individually selected files to the media library. The standard Windows OS key combination "Ctrl + O" will be a more convenient alternative to the action performed using the iTunes 11 system menu.

Adding files via drag&drop (Drug&Drop)

This method of adding files to your iTunes 11 library is the most “natural”, but perhaps not as convenient as the previous method. For example, if you want to add interesting books in EPUB format, then you must first open the appropriate category in the iTunes sidebar and drag the desired files into the “Books” section directly from the Explorer window.