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- rick2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+49@ Pic0
I did not have an ipod. - noliberalbull, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51knew everything except dragging iTunes 30 second clips into playlists... which I will never use
- earthtoandy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+49I didnt realize you were given a new CD if you lost it or scratched it.
- mhuggins, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Did you know: You don't have to start every bullet point with "Did you know".
- rick2k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35Incorrect. If you have legitimately lost your itunes library they are more than happy to let you re download.
I have asked them 3 times now after complete loss of my library and each time they were more than happy to let me download again :)
Although i know im proberly pushing it.. Backup time come to think of it. - Steaminx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29If anyone has any other lesser known tips, please post them in the comments.
- tony693, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22n00bie question:
is there some way to delete duplicates without doing it one at a time. i have...more than a few hundred - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+27Someone needs to familiarize himself with torrents ASAP.
- nuclearpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19You cannot say negative things about Apple on Digg, no matter how true they are.
- kingfoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13umm i just show duplicates in the view menu, and then just delete 1 of the 2 or 3 of the same song
- evansls, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12it's more or less used as a "wishlist", but sure it can be used as a 30 seconds playlists.
- gsnedders, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It's not MP4 (MP4 is a container format, which is MPEG-4 Part 14). AAC is either MPEG-2 Part 7 or MPEG-4 Part 3 (they differ very slightly).
- bot001220, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13"Now if only it wasn't a bloatware piece of crap that won't run on 512 MB of RAM..."
o_O ?!
The lame computer at my parent's house only has 512 ram and it works fine. You must be doing something very wrong. - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -9/+18"How nice of Apple to let me have my product again if I lose it. They are so wonderful.
I can download music as many times as I want from the internet.
I don't have to call anyone, I don't have to give a reason."
Stop being such a dick. It is nice of them because under the right conditions this could easily be exploited with a little social engineering. - bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"I have asked them 3 times now after complete loss of my library and each time they were more than happy to let me download again :)"
After the first time you didn't learn to backup? - flap, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9These are fairly obvious.
- marvinmatthew, on 10/12/2007, -10/+18On # 4, it should be noted that Apple will only let you do this once. Any more than that, and you're out of luck.
- das7282, on 10/12/2007, -2/+106 of the 8 I already knew. In fact one of the first things I do is change the default encoding from AAC to MP3 after I install iTunes.
- rossmcd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah I keep stuff in MP3 format so I can play it in my cd players that are MP3 compatible
- Dimah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@imustbeemo
I can run it fine alongside Half Life 2. I think that's pretty good. No I don't have enormous amounts of RAM. That's too expensive. - TheADOGuy, on 10/12/2007, -12/+18Did you know that iTunes on Windows installs a bunch of services that you don't need...unless you own an iPod. After installing iTunes, it takes nearly an hour to find all the services and add-ins that it adds (including a nasty addin to Outlook of all things).
- fredinator, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10i use it when im about to download off bittorrent. i use iTMS to work out if i like songs, then download them for free :)
- snosons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5another tip (for the Terminal-savvy):
defaults write com.apple.itunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES
will make those round arrows on each track jump to your library and not the iTMS - Rapter09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5To those who care, let's clarify some things here. #4 and #5 are both incorrect. Applecare phone agents can't do any of these things FOR you. They have no access whatsoever to the iTunes Music Store. They can see your username but that's it. The ITMS Customer Service is a completely separate division from over-the-phone technicians.
You can just go to the http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/download/ and submit a ticket to get your songs redownloading.
If you want to deauthorize all your computers, you can go to your iTunes Account information page to do that. http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/authorization/ - ryanknapper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5In Windows™, ctrl-M switches to the mini-player.
- slundal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@kingfoot
I love you! :D Never seen that feature before! - t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Pull a protected track into iMovie, put something in the video track (you have to or it sees you're trying to un-DRM the music and asks you to put some video in), export it to advanced, choose Sound to AIFF, and then pull that file back into iTunes. Un-DRM'd without burning a CD.
- billx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The article mentioned that you can remove the 2 second gap between songs when you import a CD - this leaves the impression that it can't be done after the fact. This was the case for early versions of iTunes, but it was fixed in iTunes 7. Just select all of the tracks you want to join, and click File->Get Info. In the lower right-hand corner of the dialog box you'll see an option titled "Gapless Album". Flip this from No to Yes. Now, when you play the album over your iPod, there will be no delay between each track. This is great for live concert recordings, or for albums like Dark Side of the Moon where one track bleeds directly into the next one.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I've been using WinAmp for ten years as well. It's great as a simple mp3 file player, but back in 2004 WinAmp did a terrible job of managing a large music collection, and WMP9 was even worse.
In 2004, after being utterly disappointed with WinAmp and WMP9, it was iTunes that convinced me to move my large mp3 collection off of my Linux server and onto the PC, and later buy an iPod. - kcopp87, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7The control key is your friend. That, or the command key if you're on a mac. Just hold Ctrl(Cmd) and click each one to select it, then hit delete.
EDIT: Nevermind, just noticed kingfoot's comment. MUCH easier than what I said. :) - chicaneuk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10Um - look around at all the other DRM (and even non-DRM) encumbered LEGAL music sites.. I don't know of many other stores that allow you to redownload music you've purchased and already downloaded. Admittedly i've not bought from many (about 4 or 5 other than iTunes), but still...
- shyguy01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Go into the iTunes Store, load up your account page, and there's something about authorizations (I forget exactly what). I'm pretty sure there's a button that says "Reset All" if you have all five authorized.
...so I got a little bit beat by zip22 - alantocheri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Or install Send Tune (http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=1771) for Adium and type /sendtune to whoever you're chatting with and the current song playing will be sent to them :)
- zip22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3" To deauthorize all computers associated with your account:
1. Click iTunes Store in the Source pane.
2. If you're not signed in to the store, click the Account button, then enter your account name and password.
3. Click the Account button again (your ID appears on the button), enter your password, and then click View Account.
4. In the Account Information window, click Deauthorize All."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93014 - t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There IS a quicktime ogg component, that once installed, will make all ogg files recognised as Quicktime, and thereby playable in iTunes...
- meatmcguffin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You do know that, by statistics, the average iPod user is buying 20 tracks each?
And there's a helluva lot of iPods out there..... - fangorious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"b) There is nothing stopping the artist from listing music directly on iTunes."
Actually Apple won't take content direct from artists, you must go through a label. Thankfully there is CDbaby (cdbaby.com) that does distribution of independent content, including to iTunes.
"Their vender lock-in policies suck ass though. I'll never buy music from them while they use proprietary DRM"
Burn the tracks to a standard audio CD and there will be no DRM on the CD. You can then rip to whatever format you want from that CD, with no DRM. That's pretty reasonable. I would prefer they offer lossless content with FairPlay, rather than offer lossy without (Of course the ideal offering would be lossless with no DRM) - NCRider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here's a few....
- You can configure iTunes to play on more than one set of speakers (one set at a time). I use it to either play locally, or to broadcast to my home stereo (via AirPort).
- Smart play lists can be used to create an album playlist that's easily located in iTunes and gives an additional option to play the album on the iPod.
- Yahoo! Widgets has a few nice widgets that will automagically show the song name, album, etc. when a new song starts. Helpful when iTunes in minimized as a toolbar.
- For XP users, add iTunes as a toolbar on the XP taskbar. Right click the taskbar, select toolbars, iTunes. This might be automatic in recent versions, I don't know.
That's all I can think of for now.
Enjoy! - hackmiester, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What?
- KyleMistry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Or you can just right-click on the file and choose, "Reveal in Finder" or whatever the Windows equivalent is.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5No on-line music store has more independent music than iTunes.
- Dmatias, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3#5 is wrong, in itunes 7 you can de-authorize all computers on an account IF you have an ipod.
- BobaFettTDG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I already knew most of this stuff, except for the purchased music replacement, that pwns. Thanks for posting.
- Kaglan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If you mean the DRM'd music files you buy from the iTunes store, I'm sure most people know that by now. Apple has never been deceptive about this and the matter has been discussed in both the technical and the popular press. As for "bloated" and "overpriced" -- well, I only indicate that people continue to purchase iPods and continue to purchase songs from the iTunes store, so obviously these people are deriving some utility from their purchases that you don't appreciate.
I'm saving up for my first iPod as we speak. I'm technically savvy and have played with numerous mp3 players (that my friends own). Have I tried all that's out there? Of course not. But based on what I've seen, I prefer the ipod. For me, the user interface and the aesthetic quality is worth the extra cash and any sacrifices in performance or flexibility. (Shrug.) I do wish iPods weren't so trendy, but that's just wishing. - geekee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"a) Apple takes only a few cents per track."
Apple takes more than a few cents per track. There's is nothing wrong with that. Their vendor lock-in policies suck ass though. I'll never buy music from them while they use proprietary DRM - Phoenixfury, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is is probably the most useful tip I got from this posting. I like this tip, especially since I've gone back to buying used cd's at the local CD Warehouse. This tip will be especially helpful in helping me find exactly the cd's I'm looking for. :)
- alantocheri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Doesn't surprise me.. but I think the outlook service is so you can sync your calender and contacts to your ipod.
- ahughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I knew most of this already. Most of these are features I have enjoyed in other software too.
- matthewplante, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ Steaminx
it a little off the wall, but with the iPod shuffle you can drag a playlist into its own media library and the shuffle will only play the songs from that playlist. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3just an example:
Warp Records sells DRM-free mp3s
see http://www.bleep.com/ -
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