tunequest

Allow me to share with you one of my favorite apps in all of Apple's App Store: TonePad. You see, I've been intrigued by the elusive (and expensive) "visual music composition device" known as Tenori-on since I first heard about it a couple years. And since I don't really have the time to make the most of a thousand dollar diversionary investment like the Tenori-on, only an intrigue it ...

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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 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 By Year" but the iPod features ...

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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 certain play time. The ...

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Thinking of an iPod Shuffle? Find one on Amazon. 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 ...

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(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 iPod brand is ...

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Apple has really screwed up with the new sorting behaviors introduced in iTunes 7.3 and it's making a lot of people seriously unhappy. And, honestly, I've NEVER been mad at Apple for anything in my 25+ years of history with the company (annoyed at times, but never mad), but the more I think about this the more pissed I get. For those just joining the story, Apple released version ...

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...and managed to sully my iPod too. And the more I think about it, the more pissed off I get. What Apple has done defies all standard convention, is completely arbitrary and makes ab-so-lute-ly zero sense whatsoever. Allow me to go on. I had put off updating my iTunes to 7.3.2 until a couple days ago. With all the time and energy I invest into pruning and perfecting my library ...

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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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The iPod is supposed to be "iTunes to go" but as the little music player has advanced over the years, it still lags behind in some relatively basic features, features that have been a part of the desktop program for some time. iTunes' capabilities seem to be constantly improved and refined; its portable counterpart's behavior has remained relative unchanged, even as it has gained photo and video support. Forget touchscreens ...

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