Tunequest Topic: itunes
June 1st, 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 an easily navigable, ...
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April 17th, 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 By Year" but ...
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November 24th, 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 modem hookup and ...
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November 5th, 2007
So Amazon recently threw its hat into the thunderdome of online digital music sales. The store's big brand name and huge retail operation instantly make it one of the top tier marts for digital music. As Amazon MP3 is seen primarily as a challenger to the iTunes Store's throne, I originally wanted to do a compare and contrast with that gorilla, but later thought that unfair to eMusic, who ...
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October 27th, 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 goods and all ...
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October 17th, 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 many more than ...
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September 17th, 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, so it's purely ...
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September 5th, 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 iPod brand is ...
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August 29th, 2007
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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