Migrate music from itunes to google play. 1) goto play.google.com/music 2) sign up (the free service is fine, when it asks for a payment, you can select ‘google play balance’) 3) go here for instructions form google 4) go here: to get the google music manager to upload your tracks Read more…
Here is a selection of podcasts I subscribe to [RSS] PARANORMAL PODCAST [RSS] Practical Backpacking™ Podcast [RSS] Sasquatch Chronicles [RSS] The Unexplained with Howard Hughes [RSS] The Gralien Report [RSS] The Bigfoot Field Guide [RSS] The Linux Link Tech Show Itunes Feed [RSS] Ubuntu Podcast » MP3 [RSS] Coder Radio Read more…
Beathound.com is a cool service that will send you recommendations on what music is missing from your collection. it analyses your itunes xml file and emails you recommendations based on the artists and albums that you have in your collection. if it finds new releases by artists that you already Read more…
This is a great way to fix all your itunes album art. its not reversible, so its not for the feint of heart. 1) open itunes 2) goto ‘albums’ 3) press cmd+A 4) right click > get info if it says ‘you are editing multiple items’ click ok 5) tick Read more…
This post will show you how to sync your podcast subscriptions between your ipad and iphone in your iphone / ipad: goto settings > podcasts turn ‘sync subscriptions’ on currently you cant sync subscriptions via icloud to itunes on your mac, but this feature is coming in itunes 11 :)
If you have a lot of apps in your App Store purchase list in your ipad / iPhone then you might want to delete some of the apps that you either no longer use, or that you downloaded once to try out and found they were no good! There used Read more…
This post will show you how to quickly download multiple tracks from itunes match using a quick shortcut 1) make a new playlist 2) add in each of the tracks (you can select all tracks and drag them into the playlist) 3) once the songs are added, click on the Read more…
Itunes match is excellent. it scans your library, and matches the songs it knows against apples massive database. once thats done you can then download high quality DRM free versions of the matched tracks you can also listen to your entire library on your iphone, ipad and appletv but if Read more…
You can open all itunes folders in the sidebar with an easy action. just hold cmd + click on the arrow of one of your folders, and all the folders will open.
This will show you how to use itunes home sharing to view and play your entire itunes library from your mac or pc on your ipad or iphone in your mac or pc turn on ‘home sharing’ itunes > preferences > sharing turn on ‘share my itunes library on my Read more…
This will show you how to get a cool itunes ‘now playing’ notification in your dock open terminal.app type: defaults write com.apple.dock itunes-notifications -bool TRUE killall -9 Dock this will enable the setting and the next time you play something in itunes it will show you with a neat popup Read more…
Songgenie is an application by equinux that finds metadata for your music collection. Songgenie can find song names, album names, genre, track number, lyrics and can help fix missing or incorrect itunes song data. 1) Download and install You can download the app from the equinux website, there is a Read more…
This will show you how to force iTunes to re-scan your library to fix missing metadata by re-scanning all your music files. You can re-fresh individual files by playing them in iTunes. If you have used an external program to change data and you don’t want to have to play Read more…
coverscout is an application by equinux that finds covers for your music collection. It can fix missing album and song covers in itunes. it embeds the artwork in the mp3 files, and will make your itunes look perfect :D 1) download and install you can download the app from the Read more…
This post will show you how to fix the error ‘this movie requires quicktime which is not supported in this version of itunes’ when you try to play movies in itunes. If you get this message, then simply open finder, goto applications, right click on itunes and tick the ‘run Read more…
This will show you how to download content purchased in tunes automatically in your iphone and ipad [and in itunes on your computer too] the new icloud features look cool. they enable you to have all the things you buy in itunes available on all of your devices. automatically. to Read more…
Do you have a folder called ‘ipod photo cache‘ on your desktop that, no matter what never ever goes away, even if you delete it, it comes back ? This post will show you how to remove it. The reason that this folder appears is that iTunes will create images Read more…
this one will show you how to share your itunes library over a network [a local network, like your home wifi network =] first thing: authorise all your machines with the same itunes store account. then: open itunes on the machine where your library is [ill call it the main Read more…
this will show you how to make Itunes smart playlists for podcasts and music so you can have every episode of certain podcasts, and the latest episodes of the others. Its also good for music – eg songs you have never played, songs you havent played in the last 6 Read more…
Here are some cool apps and easy things to do with your mac that you might not know about: sending photos from iphoto to facebook and flickr is easy. just drag the photos into iphoto. once you have selected the ones you want to go oline just click the facebook Read more…
This one is simple. copy it across. intact. it just works. a few things to do before you copy it across though – consolodate it so that all the music is in the itunes folder. you might want to let itunes sort all the songs into folders – just goto Read more…
How to convert mp3 files to audiobooks using itunes. new method: Select a track in itunes. Right click > get info > options > set “media kind” to “audiobook”. The selected track is now an audiobook! How to convert mp3 files to audiobooks using itunes the old way I was looking Read more…
What are the few things that everyone has on their computer ? well, everyone has a browser. everyone has a calculator and everyone has media players. what media players are out there ? Every one knows about iTunes. there is also windows media player. Winamp is another, as is foobar2000 Read more…