iTunesSync

[tlokzz]

Story
Today I decided that I wanted Super Flexible File Synchronizer to back up my iTunes database from my laptop to my desktop. It has 820GB's of HDD space compared to my laptop's 320GB of space. And I was starting to become an Audiophile so all my music is in 16bit/48kHz CD quality ALAC (Apple Lossless Codec), which is around 30MB per song. Now SFFS works great for backing up, and run it on a 60min routine and it will pretty much keep up with your downloading (No need for real time, I fear it will cause to many errors). But what SFFS can't do is integrate it's syncing with iTunes. Now I wrote a program in C# program dubbed iTunesSync which does just that. It will sync a folder with iTunes.

Changes
v0.1 - Initial release

Source
http://code.google.com/p/itunessync/source/browse/

Download
http://code.google.com/p/itunessync/downloads/list

Notes
v0.1 is missing some core functions, this is just a proof of concept. Doesn't check against the iTunes library to make sure it's not adding a duplicate. Doesn't check against extension whitelist to make sure it is only finding audio files. Doesn't work properly if setting "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" is checked since iTunes will copy it to folder, thus causing a duplicate

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[superflexible]

Hello,

many thanks for the contribution! Please do develop it further.

[tlokzz]

Would of released the more developed version already but it still doesn't meet requirements of a working release. I am having trouble on scanning iTunes library to make sure it won't add a song that has been synced before. iTunes COM doesn't give you file location and that wouldn't work if the copy file to iTunes media folder is selected. I added ID3 support but that got tricky so I want to explore other options before trying that again. Now I am trying scanning iTunes folder for songs with same file size. Will keep on exploring options till I find a way around this. The current version is much nicer though.