Download Importing

Tauon can watch your Downloads folder and let you import new music with one click. This works well with music bought from stores like Bandcamp.

How it works

When a new album folder or music archive appears in your Downloads folder, a download button with a count appears at the right of the top panel. Click it to import everything that’s ready. Archives are extracted first.

Right-click the button and choose Dismiss to ignore the current downloads.

Note

Only recent downloads are picked up: folders from the last hour and archives from the last four hours. Tauon waits until an archive has finished downloading.

Setup

Go to Settings › Library › Imports and turn on:

1. Extract archives, which extracts supported archives when you import or drag them into Tauon
2. Enable download monitor, which watches your Downloads folder

Optional:

• Trash archive after extraction moves the archive to the trash once it’s extracted.
• Always extract to Music folder extracts into your Music folder instead of next to the archive.

Which playlist?

New downloads are imported into:

1. the playlist you’ve marked as the downloads playlist (right-click its tab, then Misc… › Set as Downloads Playlist), or
2. a playlist called “Downloads”, or
3. the playlist you’re viewing.

Archive formats

• ZIP works out of the box.
• RAR needs the unrar program installed.
• 7z needs the 7z program installed (usually from the p7zip or 7zip package).

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S unrar 7zip

Flatpak

Install the programs on your system, then allow the Flatpak to run them:

sudo apt install unrar p7zip-full  # Ubuntu/Debian
sudo dnf install unrar p7zip        # Fedora
sudo flatpak override com.github.taiko2k.tauonmb --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak