A music folder is rarely just a stack of audio files. It may contain artist and album subfolders, a CUE sheet for a continuous recording, and playlists that refer to tracks by relative path. Importing each part separately is slow and can break the relationships between them. PhaseShift v1.2 adds a native Import Folder workflow on Mac that treats the selected folder as one library operation.
Choose One Folder Instead of Hundreds of Files
Open the add-music menu in the PhaseShift library on Mac and choose Import Folder. PhaseShift scans the selected folder and every nested subfolder for supported audio. The scan recognizes common library formats including MP3, M4A, AAC, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, CAF, OGG, DSF, and DFF, along with CUE sheets and M3U, M3U8, or PLS playlists. Hidden items, packages, symbolic links, and unsupported files are skipped rather than followed into unexpected locations.
Review the Import Before It Starts
After scanning, PhaseShift shows how many audio files, CUE sheets, and playlist files it found, the combined size of those items, and how many unsupported or unreadable entries were skipped. That preflight gives you a useful checkpoint before a large copy begins. If the selected folder contains nothing PhaseShift can import, the app says so without creating an empty library structure.
Preserve Your Folders or Organize by Tags
The Mac importer follows the Library Organization choice in Settings. Preserve Folders keeps the selected top-level folder and its descendants, which is useful for archival layouts, multi-disc albums, and collections whose directory names carry meaning. Auto-Organize reads embedded artist and album metadata and places each new audio file into an Artist/Album folder while retaining its original filename.
Audio Arrives Before Its Sidecar Files
PhaseShift processes audio first, then CUE sheets, then playlists. That order matters: a CUE sheet needs its referenced recording to exist, and a playlist needs songs to match against. By mapping the source files to their managed destinations during the same import, PhaseShift can retain those relationships even when Auto-Organize changes where the copied audio is stored.
Follow Progress or Cancel Cleanly
A progress view shows the current file and how much of the import has completed. You can cancel without rolling back files that already finished, so a long operation does not need to start from zero if you stop it deliberately. At the end, a summary reports audio added, skipped files, CUE tracks created, playlists imported, unmatched playlist entries, and any failures that need attention.
A Folder Workflow Built for Local Libraries
The import runs against folders you choose on the Mac and copies supported content into PhaseShift’s managed Music folder. It does not require a cloud music locker or a PhaseShift account. For people moving a ripped CD archive, a hi-res download collection, or a carefully organized FLAC library, version 1.2 makes the folder itself the unit of work instead of forcing every track through a separate picker.