Archive for the 'iTunes + iPod' Category
Sunday, June 1, 2008
With more than 16,000 songs to manage, there is no more essential a tool in my library than iTunes' Smart Playlists. From building simple playlists for listening to creating complex queries for examination, Smart Playlists turn what would be a tedious burden into a trivial task. At the moment, I have more than 50 of them slicing, organizing and corralling my expansive collection of tunes into ...
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id3, itunes, library, playlist, tag
Thursday, April 17, 2008
The iPod's default behavior is to sort alphabetically.
Here's Daft Punk's albums:
Discovery (2001), Homework (1997) and Human After All (2005).
Not that long ago, I was asked by a commenter if among other things, I had any suggestions for getting the iPod to sort albums chronologically. By default, the iPod's behavior is to sort albums alphabetically by title. In iTunes, there's the option to sort "Album ...
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daft punk, ipod, itunes, nine inch nails, sorting
Sunday, March 30, 2008
I enjoy reading Captain Future's Soul of Star Trek blog for its insightful reflections on the franchise and the role Star Trek has played in changing and shaping attitudes, cultures around the world. I couldn't help but be inspired by a line in a recent post, and I was off to the LOLbuilder:
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humor, picard, star trek
Friday, March 14, 2008
Lately I've been on a tear with audiobooks, managing to cram a number of books in between my regular music and podcast listening. The sudden upswing in interest has prompted me to renew my investigation of the problems the 5G (fifth generation) model iPod has with long-playing books. As I noted last summer, the 5G has troubles with homemade m4b files (bookmarkable AAC) longer than a ...
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aac, audiobook, ipod
Saturday, November 24, 2007
After more than two years offline, the sweet sounds of AirTunes once again bless the tunequest abode. AirTunes, of course, is the technology that allows wireless music streaming from iTunes to Apple's Airport Express wireless router.
A few years ago, shortly after the Airport Express was introduced, I picked one up for my apartment when I first moved to Atlanta. I was fortunate that my DSL ...
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airport express, airtunes, apple, itunes, wireless
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Birthday season is in effect around the tunequest compound and themodernista kicked off the festivities by presenting me with my long-desired orange iPod Shuffle (2G) (which I have dubbed "Shuffleupagus"). I had been struck by the orange model since they were announced this past January, but despite its relative inexpensiveness, I could never justify purchasing one; I'm a fairly austere guy when it comes to material ...
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ipod, itunes, playlist, shuffle
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
via iLounge.
Apple today announced the expansion of its DRM-free iTunes Plus catalogue. The press release claims that the iTunes Store now offers the largest selection of non-rights-managed tracks in the world, with "more than two million" available.
I welcome news of the expansion, as well as the accompanying drop in price to $0.99 a track, but I have to question that superlative claim.
Apple doesn't say how ...
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apple, emusic, itunes, store
Monday, September 17, 2007
Apple unleashed iTunes 7.4.2 today, mostly to cripple efforts by the iPhone community to customize their ringtones without having to pay an additional $.99 to do so. On that topic, one could argue that users are well within their Fair Use rights to repurpose (format shift) into a ringtone the music they've already paid for. I'm not an iPhone user nor do I intend to be, ...
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iphone, itunes, ringtones, sorting
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
(or, Initial Thoughts on the iPod Touch)
Weeeee... new toys from Apple! iPods iPods iPods, including shuffles in drab new colors (gimme orange), a new iPod NanoVideo (aka iPod Squat), an all-metal iPod Classic (the form we all know and love––now up to 160GB!) and a phoneless iPhone (aka iPod Touch).
Upon the availing of the line up this afternoon, I was immediately torn. In my mind, the ...
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apple, audiobook, iphone, ipod, itunes, pdf, podcasts
