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Abel Wingnut posted:Also, why does iTunes sort numeric entries last yet OS X sort numeric entries first? I want my 10cc at the top of my library, damnit. Didn't see anyone reply to you on the page you posted this on, and I'm catching up with the thread still. In iTunes you can right click on any file(s) and go to sorting. Sort the artist by 010cc and that will put it on top of the numbers. Frankly, I go with "Ten CC" (if I had that artist), or anything similar with any number-named bands.
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Xandu posted:iTunes Display Duplicates is terrible, though. It shows tons of files that aren't duplicates (like live versions) and if you do have a significant amount of duplicates, it's a pain in the rear end to manually delete them one by one. I use "Everlong" and "Everlong [Live]" and "Everlong [Acoustic]" in these cases.
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Jul 21, 2011 19:15
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Abel Wingnut posted:I think I misspoke. I'm wondering why iTunes puts all number-named items after all letter-named items while OS X puts all number-named files and folders before all letter-named files and folders.
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Jul 21, 2011 20:45
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I have a question about Lion that is also somewhat hardware related, so I think I'm going to cross post this. My CEO has the newest MacBook Pro, and he uses it in the office. At his desk he has an external monitor that he hooks up to his computer, and he uses that instead. Before Lion he would power up the computer, close the screen to get the image on the second monitor, and then open the screen a bit for "ventilation". I don't know how much of this is true, but he's afraid of it overheating with the screen closed entirely. However, with Lion just opening the monitor slightly wakes up that display. He doesn't want two monitors, but is also afraid of heat death of the computer. Is there a way to turn off the MacBook Pro's screen? Right now the solution is to change the arrangement, and put the menu bar on top of the Samsung monitor, but when you put the Dock at the bottom of the screen it goes to the bottom of the MacBook's screen, under the external, in a monitor that's only open at a 15 degree angle. I had to put his dock on the left of the screen, which he dislikes. I need to restore this to it's default behavior of turning off the Macbook's screen when the external monitor is plugged in. Another question would be if I turned on display mirroring, would it use the higher-res of the Samsung monitor? If it mirrors with black space that doesn't help either.
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Jul 22, 2011 16:27
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Kobayashi posted:This isn't a Lion problem per se, but my iTunes library seems to be partially messed up. I have a few albums that are munged and show as different albums. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Is there anything I can do to fix it? Selecting "Get Info" doesn't seem to help. I guess I am wondering if there is a way to force iTunes to re-analyze a few tracks, but without removing them from the database and starting over. I'm a bit late on this, but when this happens you select the whole album and get info. Make sure the Artist and Album field are showing the name. If they are, then they're the same. But sometimes you have to add a space after either one of those to in order to fix it. "Muse" to "Muse ", etc. And then back again. It's fixed it every time for me. Also, click on Album, then again, then one more time to sort by Artist by year of album release.
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Jul 24, 2011 05:56
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Seems like more of a Camino thing, but that's soon to be dead, so... What? Boo... Looking at their blog and I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it's not entirely dead in the water yet.
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Aug 12, 2011 17:16
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On the other hand, I've never had iTunes stop playing for music for me for something less than something that lead to a kernel panic. If my computer locks up but doesn't kernel panic usually the music will play without skipping until the end of the track for me until control is restored and iTunes loads up the next track. So in my opinion (also using Time Machine, on an USB drive) it doesn't sound right.
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Can anyone confirm that internet sharing is fixed when they get this installed? Right now I use a SIP hardphone at the office, and bring it home for Saturdays. It uses DHCP to connect to whatever it's plugged into, and if DHCP is still broken in Lion's Internet Sharing then I might have to put off upgrading to Lion even longer.
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Aug 16, 2011 21:39
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The Jizzer posted:Can anyone tell me why iTunes is being a cocksucking shitpile of rear end? Can you identify which songs aren't transferring? What are their file types? Is it possible you bought them through the iTunes store and the songs aren't authorized for your computer? Otherwise, do a restore to your iDevice, and try again. My iPod is dying, and the last time I restored it, it was giving me all sorts of funky issues with the album artwork until I restored it a second time. Now it just has a dying battery. Also, to help make iTunes not suck: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3022963
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I use GlimmerBocker. It's a pref pane, so it works on all browsers. The only pain about this is that you can't just type "google" in the URL bar of the browsers anymore, you have to type at least "google.com".
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GobiasIndustries posted:It looks to me like I'm missing 20 gigs of space on my new Macbook Pro..my user folder is reported as 83.55GB in size, but the sum of all of the folders inside is 62GB. I've had the computer for less than a week, the only thing I did was copy my iTunes library off of my dead black Macbook's hard drive. Is there any way to force a re-scan of my free space, maybe some files didn't get deleted properly or something? Do you have invisible files/folders taking up space? 
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Doc Faustus posted:I use Adium for my instant messenger program, and I do all my web browsing in a fullscreen Chrome window. As a result, I frequently don't see notifications of new messages. Is there a good way to make these notifications more visible, or am I stuck manually checking? Have you installed Growl? You really should, even if not for Adium. Other programs use it, and you can have customizable alerts appear on your screen for a few seconds, or until you click them away. I keep Transmission running in another Space, so it's nice to have a popup when a torrent finishes seeding to the ratio I specified, or when the download finished. And there's a lot more programs it works with.
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Why not just hit the "Home" key? It's the top of page, and "End" is bottom of the page.
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Shaocaholica posted:Whats a good music duplicate file/track remover? I'm curious to see how much poo poo has been accumulated in this decades old library I just inherited. Don't worry, I'm going to run it on a copy of the library first. In the File menu there is a "Display Duplicates" option. Usually the best way is to select this, sort the columns in some way that makes sense to you, and then select and delete.
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Oct 10, 2011 16:27
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Shaocaholica posted:I really don't want to do this for what could be hundreds if not thousands of tracks as this library has probably been merged a few times with itself. I've never used a 3rd party, but if they're duplicates because of something like that, you should be able to sort them by "date added" and get rid of the duplicates created the second or third time they were created.
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Crackpipe posted:- Updated my iPod Touch to iOS 5 EDIT: vvv Or that, I haven't tried that service. IUG fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Oct 14, 2011 |
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Stoat posted:Since updating my 3rd gen iPod touch to os5, my artists list has gone haywire. Do you have anything set for that artist under "Sort Artist By" in iTunes? Check every song to see if there's one stray track that has something weird in there.
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Oct 19, 2011 16:45
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So not sure if this is a hardware question or not, considering it wouldn't be Apple hardware. My mother has a MacBook Pro, and she has an external hard drive plugged into it for her Time Machine backups. However, she uses the computer at a couch, not a desk, so she has two cables coming out to the side for her backups and her power. I would like to get her untethered from that backup drive at the very least. Also, their wireless router has problems with the DHCP, so I was thinking about replacing it. So I was wondering if there was a (preferably Linksys, since that's what I'm most comfortable setting up) router that can connect to her Time Machine drive, share it over the network, and let her back up. I'd prefer to not buy her a Time Machine, but rather just replace the router and have her just use her existing backup. So I guess I need: A new router. One that has an USB port. That can read Mac disks. And can act as a Time Machine network hub. Is this possible? If so, are there any recommendations?
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dexter6 posted:Maybe I'm missing the obvious here, but an Apple Time Capsule meets all your requirements. Except that she already has an external hard drive that already has her Time Machine backup on it. No point in buying another drive, but I do want to replace their router.
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triplexpac posted:So I deleted Chrome, but now Safari is freezing after about 5 seconds every time I open it so I can't download Chrome again haha. Have you tried going into your library and moving the preferences and Application Support folders and files for Safari, and letting it start out fresh?
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Oct 28, 2011 16:56
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Epic Fail Guy posted:What is the best program to convert files so they play on my Apple TV? I currently use SmartConverter which is easy and fast, but it doesn't let me do batch conversion. Handbrake will, but you have to pick each movie file one at a time. But you can queue them up, and just hit "Add to Queue" again. It's annoying extra clicks that the dev refuses to fix, but it gets the job done.
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Ulmeyda posted:Lately I've been having problems with youtube. 2 things. What is that window? It looks like it has the Windows 7 bezel to me. Granted I just woke up and could be retarded, but I can't place that UI. What the gently caress is that video? I'm afraid to go on YouTube and see, since it looks fan-fiction-y, or whatever the word is for porno fan fiction.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Sorry if this is a "duh" question, but anyone know of a good site for OS X Lion screensavers, preferably animated? I know I can just Google it, but I'd rather get them from a site that's not going to gently caress me with all kinds of added bullshit. I've been using Electric Sheep forever. http://electricsheep.org/ Fake edit: Shirts! 
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echobucket posted:iTunes 10.5.1 is out with iTunes Match in "Beta" but for everyone to try. Okay, I'm confused. You can upload your version of a song to their servers? So if my VBR high quality mp3 is a better bitrate than the iTunes 256kbps AAC file, they can be put on Apple's server? If that's true, I did not expect Apple to do that. I figured it would just be "you have this song on your computer, now all your iDevices can stream/download it as well, without being plugged into your iTunes Library". Also, can I quote this into the iTunes thread?
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Nov 14, 2011 20:26
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bonzaisushi posted:iTunes doesn't do anything other than put the song into a proper folder if you let it manage your library. What are you referring to? It also changes the filename to "## SONG TITLE.mp3", where the ## is the track number. And that's of course in /ARTISTNAME/ALBUMNAME/ folders in the library's music folder location, unless you mark the songs as "in a compilation", then they're all in /Compilations/ALBUMNAM/ instead for all those artists.
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PRADA SLUT posted:What's a good utility to convert FLAC audio into an iTunes-compatible format (AAC, MP3, etc)? Everything I see tends to be some system-takover audio player. I don't do it that often, but I just use Audacity for the few times I want a FLAC file into a MP3.
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Xithyl posted:Trying to forward a port on a Windows application using Parallels is either way over my head, or way too hard to figure out. I'm thinking it's the latter but either way it's beyond frustrating. 192.168.2.* is an internal IP given to you by your router. All the computers/IP devices in your home have that rang. However, to someone like me, trying to contact you through your modem, we use the 65.* number to first go to your modem. Then it goes to your router, and it's up to that to figure out which computer the data goes to. You can specify this by saying "anything on this port goes to 192.168.2.50, which is my gaming rig".
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Wait until you look into your /System folder.
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decypher posted:Today is the first time I've needed Rosetta since installing Lion. You can also try "GraphicConverter" That program has been around for decades and has a whole slew of batch conversion options. I think it's just nagware still, where you just have to sit at a logo screen for like 30 seconds until they let you continue if you don't buy it. That's how it was for me the last time I used it.
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EDIT: Hey look, this isn't the SOPA thread in this tab anymore!
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Even if you delete a song, it'll ask you first. Then it'll ask you if you want to move it to the Trash/Recycling Bin. So even if you mash through and hit yes to those both, it's not off your computer still.
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Bob Morales posted:It's this thing Is that for Mac clients only? Because that face is pretty much the "Sad Mac", right down to the right side of the frown being lower than the left.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_startup#Sad_Mac
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Speaking of Flash on Mac, does anyone else have the problem where the mouseover stuff doesn't work? On Youtube I have to click on the speaker icon to get the volume slider to show, can't see the time I'm hovering over on the time bar, and other small things. This happens on different sites' video players as well. And on Google Maps, I can't turn the camera in street view, or turn the compass to change the angle as well. I've uninstalled the plugin via their installer, and it seemed to fix it for about a day. I'm up to date (and recently I downloaded the update from adobe.com since this whole flashback thing), but it was only fixed when I reinstalled it that one time. I believe I tried to uninstall it by going into App Support and looking for the Flash files there too.
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Apr 12, 2012 16:36
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Mr Man posted:Alfred is so much better than Spotlight! Unless you're talking about the GUI for it... 
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Martytoof posted:I can't begin to fathom why capslock is still a thing. Good, it's not just me. Besides eBay and Craigslist auctions, I don't see it used anymore. (Or Macro pictures I guess).
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Apr 14, 2012 20:39
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I think they're so obscure because they're not likely to overlap with other site's security questions, or be something you could easily data mine from social networking.
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Apr 23, 2012 17:44
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Still not as bad as when you sign up for something and it has you retype your email address to confirm. It's right there in plain text. Shift-tab, command-C, tab, command-V.
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Apr 23, 2012 18:50
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NESguerilla posted:How could I go about making sure that everything I save goes to my desktop. I save everything on my desktop and OSX usually remembers that, but 1 out of 10 times it will put things into other folders instead automatically if I don't change it. It's annoying as hell. When you turn 45 or older, I swear this is your default action anyways. Otherwise, command D for those times that it doesn't get it.
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lord funk posted:Oh, you mean like this? (I just disconnected the monitor for a while, reconnected it) If the corners didn't have that white, it would look like one of those theming applications were back in style.
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Have you tried making an alias of the directory somewhere else, and then putting that alias in the sidebar? I can't try this at work now, or test your theory, but it might be a way to stop it as that alias doesn't leave your computer when the hard drive does.
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