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Movie2iTunes 1.2

This droplet allows you to add other than plain QuickTime movies to iTunes.

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Movie2iTunes 1.2 2008-03-28 (about 70 KB)

New feature: iTunes TV Show Tagging

This version of Movie2iTunes analyzes the name of the video files and if it detects a TV show sets the right video kind, season and episode accordingly.
 
Assumptions on the file name format:
  • Title Season Episode
  • season starts with "s" or "S"
  • episode starts with "e" or "E"
  • season and episode numbers have at least one digit

e.g. "My.favorite.Show.S10E09.PROPER.DSR.XviD-KYR.avi":

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How does it work?

Just drag'n'drop one or more movie files -or folders containing movie files- on the droplet icon.

A file reference in the QuickTime media link format is created (a few KB per movie) and the reference file is then added to the iTunes library.
The original movie files will not be moved or altered in any way.

On the first launch of the droplet you have to select a folder for the "QuickTime media links" - this folder is for internal use only and can be anywhere on your hard disk.

If you want to set a new location for your "QuickTime media links" folder, double click on the droplet in the Finder.

Please note:

Some of the file formats listed above require special QuickTime plugins for playback. If a file won't play in iTunes, check if it plays in the QuickTime Player. If the QuickTime Player cannot playback the file, iTunes won't neither.

Recommended PlugIns

Download Perian
a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format

  • AVI, FLV, and MKV file formats
  • MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivX, H.264, FLV1, FSV1, VP6, H263I, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2 Video, Fraps, Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), MPEG Layer II Audio
  • AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3

Download Flip4Mac
plays Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player

Version History

1.0.1 Fixed a 'variable not defined' bug
1.0.2 Added m2v extension
1.1 Added recursive movie processing (folders in folders in folders ...)
      Added a faster movie link generation routine (thanks to adamATpeterbull)
1.1.1 Added an option to choose a new 'QuickTime media links' folder
1.1.2 saved as an Application Bundle to reduce launch time on Intel Macs
1.1.3 added more file formats (Perian 1.0)
1.2 season/episode detection and tagging

Reference

For more information read this hint on Mac OS X Hints by elmimmo.