Now that Mac hackers have had some time with iTunes 9, they are uncovering some nice undocumented updates. These three tips hit the Mac Power Tips feed on Friday, and I thought were good enough to share:
This is great for the playlist hacker. I have wanted this to be added to iTunes forever and just assumed it was not a priority. What this does is allow you to create nested boolean queries in your smart playlists, i.e. A AND (B OR C). Previously the only way to do this was by creating a playlist that was based on an OR clause and then include a rule referencing that playlist in a second playlist (confused yet?). Great add.
This adds a folder in the Finder that auto-imports any music file. It is like an Applescript / Automator folder action on steroids.
I saw this one first on Daring Fireball. This tightens up the file system under iTunes into a much more logical format as well as doing some house cleaning.
I played around with all of these this weekend – all good stuff.