I am using a large smart playlists in iTunes which is supposed to select the least regularly played. Interestingly, this does not mean a random set of the least regularly played but the songs by the artists towards the end of the alphabet which songs are least regularly played ie if there are 1000...

I know how to import a CD into iTunes at 48 kb but once I do this how do import the music into FCP3 after locating the song in iTunes? Before I understood iTunes, I was just going through my music directory of files and locating one (very time consuming) and then copying it to my FCP video director...

I am new to the Mac, iTunes4 and scripts. As my library grows I am having problems with the importing of duplicate songs and albums without extensive researching. Is there a way that I can be alerted to having possible duplicates. As it is now I can import the same cd multiple times.

Just got my sparkling new 30gb ipod, oh joy my feet havnt touched the ground since, the only slight problem is that every so often after my ipod has been updated one or two tunes get an exclamation mark in the first normally blank column and itunes says this song does not exist and i search everywhe...

Hi all, first post from me. Anyway, I can't find a proper answer to the problem I'm having. The 'Join CD Tracks' option is always greyed out for me in iTunes 4 on OS X 10.2.6. I have certain CDs that are annoying when you get the gap between tracks and this looks like a decent so...

I am a new owner of a PowerBook Mac with iTunes. The problem for me is that I already have about 3,600 mp3 files loaded up/ripped on my old Windows ME edition PC (they are organized by MusicMatch and are already loaded into my 30G iPOD that is formatted for Windows).How can I transfer all of my Win...

Hello!I just got a new Powerbook for use at work (woooHOO!), which means I can finally break free from OS9. And that, of course, means moving all my music from OS9 to OSX. I figured out how to move the music, but one problem has me stumped:How do I import my old playlists from iTunes2 for OS 9 int...

The hard drive in my Powerbook is corrupted. I've tried to repair with Diskwarrior and the Disk Utility, but nothing is working. It won't even boot from the HD, so I need to reformat. Anyhoo, I've got a 15 GB iPod with a ton of CDs ripped onto it. When I connect my iPod with the AACs...

I'd like to find out what the relationship between frame rates in the iTunes visualizer. So, here's the question. What is your frame rate and what's your Mac model and processor speed? Use the visualizer with no cap on frame rates and full screen.

I've twice had the problem of some (but not) all of the song titles disappearing in the iTunes window. They are correctly tagged in the Library folder where they actually live.By double clicking, the names appear for almost all of the songs but a few lose their name completely. The name can...

Here's the behavior I'm seeing on my gen 3 30 gig with iTunes on a Mac.I have a smart playlist that collects all the songs that I've added to my library in the last four weeks. The list currently has 195 songs in it. I update my iPod, go to that playlist and choose a song. Looking at...

I've been burning a bunch of Cd's to new iPod. During playback I have noticed that volume fluctuates from one disck to the next. For my first batch of imports I did not have analyze volume checked in preferences. I have since checked it off. I just did a Miles Davis CD and did not see it a...

Greetings,This is my first post here at ipodlounge.com - very cool site...I have a question, I have several live concerts already in my itunes playlist. Live music is where it's at for me, but I have not been able to use the functionality of the "Join CD Tracks" once the concerts have been adde...

Hey people, just wondering if anyone here has used this new service. Im sure you could answer these question even if you havent tested it: Does Apple have standardized tagging in this system? Also, do you get album covers and other info from the download? Is there only one standard quality setting f...

Since some time, iTunes is keen to forget some of the locations of my about 4000 songs. The grey questions mark appears at random, most likely after restart of the Mac (G4 QS) or when iTunes is started by mounting the iPod (30 G). Of course, all files are left at the place they were before. So the a...

I finally got my ipod to work but now I have one last problem. After adding 1/2 of my cd collection to my ipod, the 30 gigs is already full. There is only about 500 songs, but they are all straight from the cds, so the file sizes are very large. Also, I imported all the cds as aifs instead of mp3s.....

I installed the updater from apple.com and it does not work. The update and restore buttons aren't active, and I don't know why. My mac recognizes my ipod, it shows up on the desktop, but it won't work with itunes. The updater does not work. And I don't have the software that cam...

Ok, so this isn't like the biggest crisis. My 30gb iPod stopped updating the iTunes "Last Played" information the other day.I updated the firmware to 2.0.1 long ago, plus the system was always getting the updates. I've reset my iPod but this didn't help. We typically leave the system...

I have more music in iTunes than will fit on my iPod. If there a way to selectively update the songs my iPod without manual selection of each song or something slow like that?

I went to the apple store today and got my ipod reformatted for osx. My mac recognizes the ipod, there is an ipod icon on the desktop. However, there is no ipod icon in itunes. Maybe im doing something wrong here? I tried running the software updater but the update/restore buttons aren't active...

Would'nt it be great to see your own comments on your ipod while your favorite tunes are playing ? Lets' say you want to remember who are all the musicians on a particular jazz piece, so you enter this info in the comments field in Itunes, but while away from your mac, you cannot see these...

I am getting a powerbook and i ordered a 10gig ipod gen3 and i have all my files in folders by artist. what i want to do is create a playlist for each of those folders so essentially i would i a playlist for each artist. I have seen it done in Xplay and it was fairly simple but I was wondering how...

I'm running Mac OS X 10.2.3.Is it safe to run other apps or surf the net while I'm ripping CDs, or should I continue to do what I do - which is leave the Mac alone while my music is encoded?I'm worried that a hiccup or net lag or some sort of automatic action (like an instant message...

Is there any way to set up iTunes /iPod to list all the albums by an artist by order of release (typically year of release)?I've got all my artists filed Last Name, First Name - but when I browser by artist, the individual albums come up alphabetically. What I'd prefer is to have the album...

I have finally finished ripping my large CD collection and now have around 48,000 songs!The problem is that this makes using iTunes very slow--not surprising given the amount of data I have. I need to spend some time fixing up CDDB typos, organisign genres, giving ratings etc but iTunes is now unbea...

I've been noticing that iTunes sometimes will, after playing a given song, change some information about it(the only thing i've seen so far is Genre, so it might be specific to that). For instance, i've just been playing Radiohead - The Bends, and i prefer to lump all guitar-band type...

This thread http://www.ipodlounge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3870was in danger of going off-track on any more BPM messages, so I'll ask here.Do any of the accessible CD databases provide BPM info? Perhaps via SOAP or even in the HTML? I know most DJ subscription services (and pro exer...

Hi,Okay... I'm new to MP3 ripping etc. and don't know what ID3 Tags are. I'm mostly interested in the iTunes "Convert ID3 Tags..." feature and what it's used for. Do I even need to use it? I've noticed that "convert ID3 tags" option is dimmed on songs I ripped to AAC using i...

how do i transfer songs from the ipod to my library?? i tried dragging it.. it didnt work.. plz help, thx

Im using a G4Ti, I have just ripped my cd collection to my hard drive. My new iPod is on its way in the post as i type. ok, here is the question.I want to copy all my tracks on to my iPod (15GB). My laptop hard drive is now just about full, i need to now bin all my music from it so i can get back o...

I recently purchased a 12 in. PowerBook and one of the features I was looking forward to using was the fact that I could play stuff from the old tower now being used as a server. Well...I was able to do that but stupid me accidentally deleted the shared item from the playlist and now I am unable to...

i know it's a strange topic, but as i meanwhile have nearly reached my 20 gb i started thinking what was the best way to organize one's playlists... so are ur playlists sorted after artists, album, category or just some self-made samplers? max

I have alot of duplicated tracks in my library, however I want to delete them without losing them from the file where they are stored.Is there a function on iTunes 4 that is a reverse of 'add to library'?How can I cull a group of tracks quickly so I do not have to do them one by one?...

I'm currently copying my vinyl LP collection on to my hard drive. I'm using a Griffin Technologies PowerWave between the turntable and the computer and Final Vinyl as the import copying software. Problem: the tracks are succesfully copied as AIFF files. But I can't import them dire...

For my very first post, a puzzle: My wife has an iMac running OS 9.2 and iTunes 2.0.4. I have a Power Mac running OS X.2 and iTunes 4. When I put a music CD into my drive and choose Convert to MP3, the songs import and convert immediately. When I try it on the iMac, I get a "choose object" message,...

Hi folks, if I uncheck songs in iTunes, is there a way to sort all these unchecked files in one block, so I can delete them easier? Thanks Mikkeli

Just saw this on the BBC website and thought i'd share! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3015992.stm

Hi all,I have a FAT32 formatted 30G iPod, that i filled with ephPod 2.60 on my windows XP machine.When I hook it up to my girlfriend's iMac (running osX), and use iTunes 4.01, sometimes all my songs are gone, suddenly. It may be after I add a song from her library to the pod, but I'm not s...

I have a noted an odd bug. I am using a 20GB ver 2 iPod, with a 17 inch Powerbook, and iTunes 4.01. I have noted that after an update (sync) with the iPod that the times listed for when songs were played on the iPod are wrong by several hours.The date and time on both the iPod and the computer are c...

I wasn't even aware that there were music videos in the music store until a friend showed me last night (I haven't played with it much). Anyway...most of the featured artists have their own special page with a video on it (two high quality versions, small and large) that will play directly...

We all understand the reasons why the iTunes Music Store is not available in Europe yet, but it's frustrating nevertheless. Does anyone have any news/gossip on when this might change?

I'm trying to use AAChoo to get the best quality AAC rips. AAChoo can somehow access the QuickTime AAC encoder without having to purchase QT Pro. It is very slow, so I decided I would use iTunes to rip a mess of AIFF files at once, then let AAChoo convert them when I'm away from the comp...

Hello All, My Mac went Supernova. My iTunes libraries are toast (pun intended). I am getting a new Mac. Will I be able to upload my songs from the iPod to my new Mac? (I have backups of my .mp3s.). Thank you all!

Is there a way to download songs using iTunes similar to other file-sharing services like Limewire? If so, can someone send me a link to the web page?

I have iTunes 4 and I began to run out of room on my hard disk due to too many iTunes music files. So I went out and bought an additional hard drive and installed it. I moved the file called "Music" to the new hard drive and copied all the music files there and romoved them from the old hard drive t...

Not sure if this might belong in Wishlist Forum, but thats an iPod wish list...I want an applescript that would search my library for a list of tunes I give it, and create a playlist based on that list, and report on which tunes it could not find.Such a script would be very handy for automating an i...

First, I'd like to apologize if this topic has already been discussed here or in the old forums. I did a search for "playcounts" but all I got were threads with windoze users b*tching that their ipods didn't support them :rolleyes: Anyway, I tend to use by ipod for extended periods of time...

Hello all, I use a 20 GB iPod and I am very angry when I buy an album that will be 'copy protected' so I can't put it on my iPod. Is there ANY way of ripping an audio CD in digital format (preferably AAC) by using iTunes or another program?You see, i am looking foward to getting Radio...

Hi-I'm sure someone has already posted about this, but I'm new to the boards and wasn't able to track it down. I'm using Mac OS 10.2, the newest iTunes, and all the current software for my mac. The problem is when I sync my iPod (15gig) with my playlist, it deletes songs on my iP...

Is there a way for me to replace the mp3 when I convert it to AAC using Itunes. right now if I dp a bunch I then have to get rid of the duplicates one by one.