tunequest

Hopefully your day-that-happened-to-be-Christmas was full of family togetherness, holiday cheer, and of course, lucrative acquisitions. And once again Apple's iPod dominated the retail scene. While sales figures aren't out yet, I think there's a strong possiblity that a new iPod was among those acquisitions ilounge claims more ipods sold in 2006 than 2001-2005 combined. So, in the interest to providing security for all those iPods newly given ...

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iTunes 7's built-in artwork finder is a great little enhancement to the program. But it does have it's limitations. It seems to require exacting ID3 tags or it won't return a requested cover. And if a particular song/album isn't sold by the iTunes Music Store, well, you can just forget it. Likewise if you're not running iTunes 7. Cue SlothRadio. SlothRadio.com is a streaming radio site and music ...

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Update: The revised sorting feature/problem in iTunes 7.3 and later renders portions of this advice useless. Some of it still applies for Smart Playlist building, but the segregated sorting no longer works. If you're using a version prior to 7.3, go nuts. If you're using 7.3 or later, be warned. In striving for zen-like simplicity while maintaining and extending the usability of iTunes, please follow me as ...

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Update: This problem seems to have been addressed in a recent update to iTunes. The program now stops looking around 100 missing files before giving the warning dialogue. So if you're having this problem, make sure you're using the latest version. :: One of iTunes 7 handy new features is the "sync problems" warning. The screen pops up whenever you try to sync your iPod with your iTunes ...

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...but never even close to anything as baffling as this. $8000 in iTunes Music Store charges. via theappleblog

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Note: This article was written with iTunes 7 in mind. However, the principle should hold for moving comparable versions (ie iTunes 6 Win to iTunes 6 mac) or for moving upstream (iTunes 6 Win to iTunes 7 Mac). Also, the principles describe below also apply to simply moving your iTunes library from one computer to another, Mac-to-Mac, PC-to-PC, or any combination of the two. You can ...

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Well, today is the 5th birthday of the iPod. Hooray! Time to pack the little guy a lunch and send him to kindergarten. Seems like only yesterday he was a mere 5 gigabytes tall. Now look at him: about 80! And he's much more talented now. I remember being smilingly proud the day he shuffled his first playlist, lo those years ago. And now he's out there ...

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Tortoise at the Independent Originally uploaded by Luiza. Whereas my previous iPod, a 3rd generation model, could not display album art, my new one, of course can. So I spent a portion of my morning going through my library, searching for albums that were missing their covers. During the process, I ran into a couple live shows that, since they aren't formally-released albums, obviously don't have album covers. Specifically, ...

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Dilemma: When using coverflow view in iTunes 7, your albums containing multiple artists (soundtracks, tribute albums, benefit albums, etc) show up with multiple, individual covers. One way to fix that is to set the Compilation tag check box for those albums. But what if, for whatever reason, you don't want to set an album as a compilation? (They're your reasons; I won't question them. For instance, ...

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