tunequest

Not all audiobooks, mind you, just homemade ones; downloads from the iTunes Store and Audible seem to work fine. The story goes like this... My carpool ended a couple weeks ago, as my riding buddy resigned to take another job. I'm going to miss the amity, conversation and, of course, the gas and mileage savings, but my solo commute will now give me the opportunity to invest more time into ...

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Note: The behaviors described below are from Mac OS X 10.4.10. Previous versions of the OS might not behave as described. YMMV. Keyboard shortcuts are the life-blood of the power user. Casual users know of the basic ones: Command-Q to quit, Command-W to close a window, Command-F to find, etc, but the power users have them all memorized for every program they use. For them, actions that would take 3-5 ...

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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 blog who's self-described ...

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Anyone who has been reading the tunequest for a while knows that statistics, numbers, figures and graphs have played a large part in its progress. In fact, it was the discovery that 10% of my songs were responsible for 49% of my total play counts that prompted me to set out on this endeavor in the first place. To this day, I'm still surprised by the lack of sophisticated options ...

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