Save changes to iTunes (or Apple Music App)

iTunes/Music App Preferences

If you use iTunes (or Apples Music App) as your primary media player, or just use it for copying songs to your iPod you may want SongKong to update your iTunes library with any changes you have made. Enabling this option informs iTunes of the following changes

So you can see the changes made by SongKong a date stamped playlist is created within a SongKong playlist folder listing all the added or modified songs

However, in order to update iTunes SongKong has to create a model of what is currently in the iTunes, if your iTunes library is large this can take a long time. Also the iTunes api is rather slow so unless you are renaming songs in SongKong it is usually better to not enable this option, then simply go into iTunes afterwards, select all songs and then Get Info and then iTunes will reread the metadata from the actual music files instead of its internal database and then update its library with the new information added form SongKong.

Warning Before enabling this option it is also worth reviewing the following two preferences within iTunes Advanced options

iTunes/Music App Preferences
  • Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library (OSX, enabled by default, Windows, disabled)

  • Keep iTunes Media folder organized (OSX and Windows, enabled by default)

Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library will make a copy of every file and add it to iTunes media folder.

With this option enabled if you use SongKong on a folder outside of iTunes media folder then iTunes will copy this file to its media folder. Any subsequent modifications to the original file within SongKong will have no effect on the file used by iTunes because iTunes will now be using the copied file in the media folder. If you then you rename or move the original file then iTunes will see it as a different file add it again !

Keep iTunes Media folder organized renames files based on their metadata once they are added to iTunes.

If iTunes is your primary music player it is recommended that you have this option enabled and do not rename files using SongKong. This prevents the possibility of SongKong renaming or moving a file and then iTunes being unable to find the moved file, leading to duplicate records being created in iTunes due to a communication breakdown between SongKong and iTunes. But please note that iTunes will move and rename the files according the latest metadata, this means that the songs may no longer be where SongKong expects them to be so that trying to use Undo Fixes and selecting the last location will fail, you will have to select the original location.

Please understand ensure you understand these options and configure accordingly before processing songs with SongKong.