If you use third-party software to download music and movies to your com- puter, you’ll be familiar with the rather lengthy process needed to add them to your iTunes library—you have to start iTunes, then ensure the correct music or movie list is visible, and finally drag and drop the files onto the program window….
However, there’s a hidden folder you can use to import music and movies straight into iTunes. All you need to do is configure any app you use to download files straight into this folder, and they will be instantly imported— even if iTunes isn’t running at the time.
To find the folder, open Finder, hit Shift+Command+ G , and then type ~/Music/iTunes/iTunesMedia/. One of the folders you should see will be Automatically Add to iTunes. As its name suggests, any files copied into this folder will be added to iTunes automatically. Assuming you have kept the default preferences setting of iTunes organizing your media folders, any files placed there will be moved out of the folder and automatically filed within the Music folder whenever iTunes is running, so it should appear empty most of the time.
You can create a desktop alias of the folder by clicking and dragging it to the desktop, before pressing Option+Command and releasing the mouse button. You can then simply drag and drop files onto the alias instead.
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