iTunes file permissions

I have this habit of downloading music from time to time and putting it inside my ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music folder.

Unfortunately, the permissions aren’t then automatically adjusted as when they are first added into iTunes and then copied by iTunes into their respective folders.

Hence it sometimes happens that after copying the files manually to my iTunes Music folder I can not edit the files in iTunes, change the album artwork, or the Genre or any other part of the ID3-tag.

There’s an easy terminal fix for it though:
cd ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Music
sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;


This will ensure all the permissions are set correctly so you can edit the music files in iTunes, change names, add album artwork etc.