Chris Miller » iTunes http://chris-miller.org Life, and how to live it! Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:41:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Adding non-Apple format movies to iTunes http://chris-miller.org/archives/2008/06/10/adding-non-apple-format-movies-to-itunes/ http://chris-miller.org/archives/2008/06/10/adding-non-apple-format-movies-to-itunes/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:46:53 +0000 Chris http://chris-miller.org/?p=180 I’ve been having a bit of trouble adding some movies to my iTunes library this evening – in that I’d have to convert a movie to a .mov file in order to import it at all.

A few google searches away and I’d found the answer to all my problems. If you have the Apple development tools installed (and are obviously on a Mac), you can simply change the file meta-data of the movies via the terminal in order to allow you to import them. It’s very simple to do:
SetFile -t "MooV" movie.avi

Via: AVI to iTunes on MacRumors Forums

I did, however, have to change the iTunes settings so that it didn’t take it’s own copy of the files when importing them. I have a separate Movies folder for a reason thank-you-very-much iTunes.
- Chris

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