Wayne D's Blog

The only problem with being an emusic.com member is that I have to manually add the music I buy each month to my iTunes library. I store my iTunes music library on my Linux computer because then I can play it on my Linux box, my Windows machine accesses it via Samba. I have never managed to get my Linux machine to connect to my Windows XP Home machine otherwise I would have done it the other way around and maybe I could have used the Consolidate Library function on the Advanced menu in iTunes. As far as I can tell iTunes is the only music player that doesn't let you update you music library by scanning a directory. iTunes Library Updater is a Windows program that implements this missing functionality. It removes items from the library that no longer exist in the directories you specify, will let you specify multiple directories to scan and will recursively scan the directories. To bad Apple didn't build this functionality into iTunes.