When opened with a completely blank Library, Media Center will wait for 45 seconds, to give you a chance to cancel it if desired, and then it will run this scan automatically. If you later want to fine tune your settings, refer to the Auto-Import page and you can view and adjust all of the automatically detected settings. If you just want to get going and actually use Media Center, this will be the fastest and simplest route to use. You can cancel this if you prefer to adjust the watched directories used by Auto-Import, or import manually. This happens in the Action Window area of MC. When you open Media Center for the first time, or with a blank Library, it will automatically configure Auto-Import by analyzing your computer for media in a variety of common locations. The First Use Scan (described below) will automatically configure Media Center to import your media files and monitor those file locations automatically in the background for changes. In most cases, using Auto-Import to automatically watch your media locations on disk is the preferred means of Importing new content. Via Auto-Import, which can watch directories you specify automatically in the background.Via the Media Import wizard available at Tools > Import.Via the Shell Integration features (Windows only).Automatically when opened with an empty Library.There are a few ways you can import your files into Media Center: 3.2 Drag and Drop and Shell Integration.Importing is non-destructive to your files, and can even automate the often-tedious process of tagging your files so that they can be easily browsed. Importing is simply the process of telling Media Center about the files, and adding them to this database. Much of Media Center's power as a file management system comes from its ability to manage the files in its Library. Organize your media into a flexible collection of media Views, and browse them by tags in almost any configuration you can dream up.Easily find any file quickly using MC's powerful Search system.Add them to Playlists and include them in Smartlists. Edit their metadata tags (and save information with the file itself for supported file types).View them sorted by any number of fields, including artist, album, genre, size, length, and even your own custom fields.Here are some of the things you can do with imported files: Say goodbye to opening folders and more folders to find a photo or music file! You can import any of the Supported File Types. You can easily edit, rename, and organize the files. It provides a highly customizable database of your files for access and viewing. It creates a record of what you have in MC's database (the Library). Importing files into Media Center is an automatic process and does not change your files or move them.
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