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- boozedrinker, on 10/12/2007, -12/+88Good find, but you probably shouldnt have filed this under Apple, it's a Windows tip. That way you'll get it promoted more effectively.
- sahaskatta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50This feature has been available for a looong time im was surprised to hear that so many people had not heard about this feature. Both Windows Media Player 10 and iTunes 6.0 have been offering this feature.
- bleaknik, on 10/12/2007, -23/+64In Soviet Russia, Macbooks Widgets You.
- taylorhayward, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36The reason most people missed this, me included, is because most people don't go routing through their toolbars settings. And even if they did, how do you make the mental connection between the setting's text "iTunes" and "nifty little control panel". Hence Dugg.
Techies really need to start looking at their software through other people's eyes. This is the way you make great software. - crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35In Soviet Russia, jokes log in to digg you
- deepdish, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35Sir,
Reporting for noob camp Sir. - TheCoug, on 10/12/2007, -32/+62"Sizzling Keys For iTunes" by Yellow Mug does the same thing, but allows you to assign universal hotkeys for play, pause, next track, etc.
- Hickeroar, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32Yeah, not "hidden," but also not advertised. I had no idea the feature was there.
- Stecchino, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30Well yeah, and Quicksilver does this to but it doesn't matter because this hint is for iTunes for WINDOWS.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27I actually never knew you could do this...dugg! And if you think its lame, move along and quit complaining. Sheesh
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -9/+29This isn't exactly hidden, I've been using it since iTunes 6 was released, and I think it's been a part of iTunes since 4.7 (though until recently I hadn't had a Windows machine to run iTunes on so I couldn't tell you).
- EdLesMann, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24"iTunes was developed from SoundJam MP, a popular commercial MP3 application distributed by the Macintosh software company Casady & Greene. Apple purchased the rights to the SoundJam MP software and hired the three programmers who created SoundJam. The first release of iTunes was very similar to SoundJam MP with the addition of CD burning and a makeover of the user interface. Apple has added a number of significant features in subsequent versions of iTunes."
-exerpt taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Recent_version_history - cello, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25You need to provide links (aka proof) when you state 'facts'
- lazydrumhead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14real step #1 should be
1.If you have it set up as such, set your itunes to not minimize to system tray. (edit->preferences->advanced) - uriah923, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14It's odd how many features of iTunes go unnoticed, unannounced or unexplained. It took someone setting up an experiment to figure out how the "play highly rated songs more often" feature works, for example. (http://www.omninerd.com/2005/08/25/articles/34) Someone else did a similar experiment to figure out how iTunes handles half-star ratings (http://www.omninerd.com/2006/02/10/articles/47) - which I didn't even know existed.
It may seem like a bad idea to not publicize your software's features, but it could be different with Apple software. There are so many Apple "groupies" that maybe it's better to play secretive and let the 'net crowd do the marketing work. - falloutsyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -10/+22not only is this an old feature but they only added it after windows did it with wmp 9 . . .
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12@tidu... its cause u have minimize to system tray activated... read comments below for more help...
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Honestly, this isn't working for me. iTunes is even checked in the Toolbars menu, but nothing shows up. I'm moving around my taskbar elements (quicklaunch, etc) and it's not hidden anywhere. and yes, I minimzed itunes.
and alternative is just right clicking the itunes system tray icon and you get a selection of pause, play, etc. - thewaz, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20people didnt know this?
theres also FoxyTunes to control it from firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/219/ - uriah923, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Ugh. The links from above should be:
http://www.omninerd.com/2005/08/25/articles/34
http://www.omninerd.com/2006/02/10/articles/47 - crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11With the Windows Media Player it throws a popup the first time you minimize it .. and that explains how to set up the toolbar player... no such thing for iTunes
- ImOscar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I missed it because I use iTunes infreqeuntly, but this is good to know. If something pops up that is old news to some, it doesn't mean they all need to jump on the poster and yell at him. It's as if I were to post:
Duplicate comment
OK, This comment is lame
This comment is old news, someone posted it 4 lines ago
Everytime someone said this.
I don't read Digg religously and sometimes old news and duplicate stories are beneficail to me. So please Digg or Bury the stories/comments as you see fit, but there is no need to be say "OMG n00b! I've known this for 4 months." Exaggeration, yes, but I believe the Digg community benefits from original and meaningful discussion of the topics.
Some of us didn't and appreciate the CONSTRUCTIVE discussion that follows in comments. - darkyoshi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Wait, are you saying that I don't have to print out my documents before I log out and then re-enter them in Word when I log back in? When did this happen? Next you'll be telling me that the next revision of DOS will have mock folders for me to categorize files!
Technology sure is advancing quickly these days... - LeftistPersona, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9note, this only works if you don't have the Minimize iTunes to system tray enabled.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5>>>"That means ... listen for the play/pause/back/forward/stop hotkeys."
iTunes does listen for those keys. The play/pause/stop/prev/next keys on my Logitech Wireless keyboard work just fine when iTunes is running.
The usual cause of these sorts of problems with these odd keyboard keys is the software that comes with the keyboard. If you have that software running, it intercepts the keypresses and does what it wants to do instead. If you disable the software that came with the keyboard and let Windows handle it instead, it tends to work much better, although you may lose the use of any special keys on your keyboard, like "Web" or "Email" or what have you. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Or Quicksilver. Or Menuet. Or the iTunes Widget. I could keep going... But there are a million ways to do this in OS X. Or just CTRL-Click on the iTunes dock icon and do it there.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I agree with you. The problem is, many probably just dugg it so they could easily come back to it later if they forgot how to do it. I do that sometimes as well, using digg to bookmark stuff I might want to come back to later, not because I particularly think it should be on the front page. Perhaps if digg had a "save this digg" button, this wouldn't happen.
- klaruz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Be sure to check the story of Audion as well. They gave up after Apple bought their competitor and released the product for free. There was just no way they could compete with that.
http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ - darkyoshi, on 10/12/2007, -11/+15^ I log in to digg soviet russia jokes.
- rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@mikeandike22
Apple buying SoundJam and FCP couldn't be any more different. SoundJam was a finished product which was doing very well in the market and was being regularly updated. FCP was stuck in development hell and Macromedia wanted to dump it quick. In both cases the released products had massive changes (especially iTunes, which essentially has nothing in common with SoundJam) which could easily credit Apple as "creating" them. - davzie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Given the screenshots I'd have thought that it might have been obvious...
- Solkre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Such anger here. I didn't know of the feature, and I use iTunes a few times a week at work when the situation allows. Without this article I might have never found it.
If you already knew it was there, good for you.
If you have time to read an entire help file on a piece of software, good for you.
If you are a flaming asshat and want to hammer a guy for sharing something he though was interesting, stfu. - mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Man, i never knew about this... this is the one feature that I like that Windows Media Player had that I always wished Itunes had... and it was under my nose the whole time...
- Akram, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7i'm surprised people didn't know this, but there is also one for Windows Media Player if you didn't already notice. Same thing, although you can have a mini video player pop up when you click a button. And no i'm not talking about skins.
- teddyrux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A great program if you ask me. I only use it once a month or so...when I remember it's there, but it's saved me at least 6 seconds each time I've used it...so about 96 seconds a year!
- iluvatar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8On windows I prefer ctrl+M
- webpoet73, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hmmm... this option doesn't show up on my Win2k machine.... is this only for WinXP?
- Phoenixus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3We're sorry...the topic creator must have forgotten that you knew about this. Our apologies for trying to tell other people.
- porplem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hmm I just keep it in the system tray and use the right-click controls sometimes but this looks cool too.
- 32bitwonder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I also prefer Ctrl+M with the option to "Keep Mini Player on top of all other windows". Re-sized down it's very unobtrusive with the added benefit of being able to see track names etc.
- dougal1985, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3For OS X: Just minimize Itunes to the mini player, and stick it down in one of the bottom corners. Not as neat, but enough to see what the current playing track is, and pause/play/forward/back/volume/maximize etc.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3do you mean the other way around because I think you can get just quicktime but you cant get iTunes w/o quicktime.
- Pooley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4My favourite toolbar, which I create on every Windows PC I use, is the 'My Computer' toolbar.
Right-click the toolbar -> Toolbars -> New Toolbar...
Select 'My Computer' (which I always rename first to 'PC' as it's shorter)
Voila. You can now access any file on your computer with one click on the toolbar - the entire structure of your HDD, DVD etc. is presented as a pop-out hierachical menu.
Everyone I show this tip to loves it. - combatchuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Apple bought SoundJam MP and used the core of it to make iTunes. The interfaces of SoundJam and iTunes have nothing in common. I would also argue that SoundJam would have died anyway. Having used some of the early OSX releases of SJMP, I can testify that it was dog-slow and very buggy. It would have died with OS9.
As for the people that whine about Apple copying and/or ripping off SoundJam, I would argue that it was a benefit to the Mac community. Not only did Apple buy the SoundJam IP, it also hired the lead developer. - joeKing7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2...or you could just get a mac...it's all on the dashboard.
- RadiatedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2its not set on default numb nuts, I just did a reformat and a clean install of iTunes latest build about an hour ago and believe me that it minimizes to system tray.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Who the ***** says 31337? why dont you just say 1337 which doesnt look so ***** stupid. Im pretty sure the people who said that didnt go yea im "31337" when I wrote that. They probably thought "these people are ***** stupid"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2iTunes and Windows Media Player don't encode MP3's well, the main problem is that their propietary MP3 Encoder is not open and has poor quality compared to LAME. If you guys want a good encoding software you should try http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/index.html
It uses latest version of LAME and is for free. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I only found it because that little microphone toolbar was annoying the ***** outta me and I wanted to blow its face off the planet. so I went to the toolbars and found that....
- NeCtUr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3pretty cool, but only if you are a standard taskbar user. when you throw the taskbar on the side of the screen like i do (which is very convenient for multimonitor use) it then makes the itunes toolbar vertical, which takes up far too much space.
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