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On my macOSX I'm using standard Music folder that contains following folders with music and iTunes folder.
Music
|- Artists
|- Compilations
|- iTunes
I have imported Artists and Compilations into iTunes using "Add to Library". Now Music/iTunes/iTunes Media contains the same mp3 files as Artists and Compilations.
Is it possible import folder into iTunes without duplicating it?
How did you add the music to iTunes? Did you drag and drop it into the iTunes windows itself or did you manually add the music to the local folder?
If you manually added the music to the to the local folder then you need to "re-sync" your iTunes library so that the music appears in iTunes application.
Just choose "Add Folder to Library" and choose your iTunes music folder so that it "re-syncs" your library and ALSO adds all the new songs to your list as well.
You can add songs manually to your iTunes music folder without them appearing in iTunes if you navigate to the iTunes music folder itself on your computer and just drop the music in. iTunes tells you in the preferences:
But all of this is irrelevant until you tell us how you added the music to your computer???????
Hope this helps!
Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes are a good place to start looking for any iTunes scripting solutions.
In your case Tags Mirror Artist-Album-Filename looks very promising:
This script copies the names of the Artist folder, Album folder and filename (minus its extension) of the selected tracks' file paths to each corresponding track's artist, album and song name tags, respectively.
For best results your files and folders should be arranged in this format:
Artist folder / Album folder / filename.xxx
Best Answer
Unchecking
Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to libraryiniTunes -> Preferences -> Advanced