tunequest

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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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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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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