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Cuntpunch posted:Either I'm misunderstanding you or you aren't reading what I wrote. From what I can tell, right now, attempting to make sense of "adding into a new empty playlist" all music has to be in the Library before you can add it to a playlist. When I try to add music to the Library - it fails silently without any messages. The files I am trying to add open and play perfectly well in any media player including Quicktime. They're just mp3s with ID3 tags, nothing else. I meant by drag & drop - open iTunes, create an empty playlist, drag the things that can't seem to add onto that playlist. I had the problem and it turned out the music was already in my library but the tags were terrible so they weren't where I expected them. Adding to a playlist solves that as you can now see exactly what got added.
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Carthag posted:I meant by drag & drop - open iTunes, create an empty playlist, drag the things that can't seem to add onto that playlist. I see what you mean now but that's definitely not a problem. Foobar is my primary media player but only recently I've wanted to import all my music to iTunes to be able play some music at work. I've got less than a couple dozen albums so it's easy to see when/if something fails. Especially when I try to add a 2-album artist and only one album gets added. thiazi posted:I had a similar problem a few years ago, and apparently it was due to corruption/errors in the mp3 files themselves which many other programs just ignore but iTunes crapped out on. I used mp3val (http://mp3val.sourceforge.net/) to scan and fix them, then had no issues adding them to iTunes. Tested this on a few known trouble albums so far and it's showing some sync errors in them. Repairing them makes them add to iTunes perfectly fine. I think it's the fix. Thank you so much.
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Feb 13, 2010 18:51
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So, this is completely out of the blue, and it's an issue I've had for quite a while but I just remembered it tonight and it's always kind of bugged me. In the library view of iTunes, are the alternating colors of the background supposed to be visible at full brightness? I can't remember when, but after and update or an upgrade or something, everything looks full white to me instead of the alternating white/grey that it always was. However, the actual differentiation is still there because I can see it when a window is active above iTunes (via the drop shadow of the active window). Also, if I take a screenshot of the library window and then open it in Photoshop and decrease the brightness the lines appear. But if I decrease the brightness on my display via the keyboard shortcuts, I still can't see any of the differentiation. I know this sounds weird and dumb but it's always kind of bugged me since it happened and I can't figure out if that's just the way it's supposed to be or how to fix it. For reference, can you see the different background colors in this entire image, or only in the drop shadow from calc? 
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Feb 14, 2010 05:34
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Apps posted:For reference, can you see the different background colors in this entire image, or only in the drop shadow from calc? I can see them everywhere, even in your screenshot. Your monitor probably has the contrast/brightness set waaaaay wrong, or your gamma is wrong, or you're looking at your monitor from the wrong angle. If I look at the lines on my MBP's LCD screen at just the wrong angle, they nearly disappear.
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Feb 14, 2010 06:04
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chimz posted:I can see them everywhere, even in your screenshot. Your monitor probably has the contrast/brightness set waaaaay wrong, or your gamma is wrong, or you're looking at your monitor from the wrong angle. If I look at the lines on my MBP's LCD screen at just the wrong angle, they nearly disappear. I've tried changing the color profile and everything. I have no idea how it happened or how to get it back.
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Feb 14, 2010 06:49
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Apps posted:I figured as much, but the problem is that when I adjust the brightness via the system preferences it doesn't they don't become visible at all, the whole thing just becomes a grayer shade of white. System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Set the "Enhance Contrast" slider back to "Normal"
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Feb 14, 2010 07:23
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Choadmaster posted:System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Set the "Enhance Contrast" slider back to "Normal" Thanks a ton. Although I will have to get used to everything looking ever so slightly differently now, haha. I suppose it's for the best if I'm doing any design or graphic work.
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Feb 14, 2010 08:20
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I tried to search for this but couldn't find anything too recent. Is it possible, using windows, to show lyrics within itunes. I'm basically trying to start over music collection wise and I'm tired of using some kids buggy rear end skin in foobar. I'm trying to find a new audio player basically. One thing I really can't do without is lyrics. Any recommendations audio player wise or downloads for itunes?
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Feb 14, 2010 17:35
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jimmydean posted:I tried to search for this but couldn't find anything too recent. Is it possible, using windows, to show lyrics within itunes. I'm basically trying to start over music collection wise and I'm tired of using some kids buggy rear end skin in foobar. There's a lyrics tab in the detailed info for a song. I dunno if there's a good way to show lyrics while a song is playing in iTunes, but I know it shows up on iPhones.
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Feb 14, 2010 22:02
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Has anyone ever had any issues with iTunes 'magically' deleting music? My wife swears it is happening to her, she'll have added some mp3's she bought from emusic, and it will all go well, then 2 or 3 weeks later, she'll go to play them and they are not there, they're not findable in iTunes, nor can you find them by filename on the filesystem. They are just gone. I've never had anything like that happen, but I mainly use itunes for apps and podcasts. Anyone else seen this, or have any idea what could be going on?
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Feb 15, 2010 01:58
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You didn't specify which OS you use, so I'll assume Windows. Does she use Windows Media Player at all? Even by accident? Is it installed on your computer? Is WMP associated with any file? I've heard numerous anecdotes WMP mysteriously deletes stuff. The only files iTunes will delete automatically are old podcasts (unless you change it) and rentals from the iTunes Store. Another idea is the playlists she might be using. If she uses the Recently Added playlist, it may have dropped off the list, and if so, it's still in the Music library.
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Feb 15, 2010 04:15
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Are you managing your library or is itunes doing it? If you manage stuff yourself and have a folder called downloads inside your library that you put new stuff into, iTunes will delete them on restart (at least it used to). It's deleting the downloads folder because it assumes it's one it made itself for iTunes purchases, not bothering to check if there are other things in there.
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Feb 15, 2010 08:44
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wolffenstein posted:You didn't specify which OS you use, so I'll assume Windows. Does she use Windows Media Player at all? Even by accident? Is it installed on your computer? Is WMP associated with any file? Carthag posted:Are you managing your library or is itunes doing it?
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Feb 15, 2010 15:50
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Is it possible either via AppleScript or iTunes itself to export a list of just the artists in my iTunes library? edit: nevermind, File -> Print -> Filter other columns out in Excel do it fucked around with this message at 06:54 on Feb 23, 2010 |
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Feb 23, 2010 06:29
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Is it possible to have iTunes on your machine without the 3 or 4 background processes that go along with it (bounjourservice, ipodhelper, etc..) I don't have any iPod or anything and they all seem to be related to that and are therefore no good to me, but everytime I've managed to disable them (by various workaround type methods) they always seem to show up in my processes list eventually.
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Feb 23, 2010 16:37
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So I recently had to reinstall windows, and I decided to try using itunes to manage my ipod because I was having some minor issues with mediamonkey. So now I'm trying to sync my ipod for the first time, but it wants to erase all my music (with the ratings and stuff that I gave them). Is there anything that I can do here?
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Feb 24, 2010 02:06
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You'll have to get your music off the iPod using third-party software. As you and most people found out the hard way, native iTunes and iPod/iPhone/iPad syncing is one-way (from iTunes to device). Getting your actual music won't be a problem, but don't hold your breath for ratings and playlists.
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Feb 24, 2010 02:45
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wolffenstein posted:You'll have to get your music off the iPod using third-party software. As you and most people found out the hard way, native iTunes and iPod/iPhone/iPad syncing is one-way (from iTunes to device). Getting your actual music won't be a problem, but don't hold your breath for ratings and playlists. I still have the music (it was on an external drive), so that's not a big deal. Will it pull ratings from my ipod that I add from the ipod itself? EDIT: I mean after I wipe it and re-upload my music. Captain Frigate fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Feb 24, 2010 |
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Feb 24, 2010 03:11
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Captain Frigate posted:I still have the music (it was on an external drive), so that's not a big deal. Will it pull ratings from my ipod that I add from the ipod itself? I don't have any problems with iTunes pulling ratings I've made on the iPod from the iPod.
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Feb 24, 2010 04:51
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Aurelius posted:I don't have any problems with iTunes pulling ratings I've made on the iPod from the iPod. Yes, but when he re-uploads his music to the iPod any ratings he had added previously will be wiped as well.
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Feb 24, 2010 10:58
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I'm sure this has come up a million times... but seriously this seemes stupid. I bought some episodes of the wire while using my laptop. Now I want to watch them from my desktop. How do I download them to my desktop? As far as I can tell from the internet, iTunes doesn't allow this? Really? What about if I wipe my hard drive for some reason and want to redownload? I didn't even consider that they wouldn't allow this, since Steam makes it so easy for games. Does Amazon Video on Demand allow this?
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Feb 24, 2010 17:35
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You should be able to use your iTunes account on that computer too. Sign in and redownload? I know that you can authorize 5 computers per account, including iPods and devices. Otherwise, there's that new Home Sharing thing, but I've not tried it.
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Feb 24, 2010 17:42
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modig posted:I'm sure this has come up a million times... but seriously this seemes stupid. I bought some episodes of the wire while using my laptop. Now I want to watch them from my desktop. How do I download them to my desktop? modig posted:What about if I wipe my hard drive for some reason and want to redownload? IUG posted:You should be able to use your iTunes account on that computer too. Sign in and redownload? I know that you can authorize 5 computers per account, including iPods and devices. You can only download content (other than iPhone apps) once, without getting customer service involved. The number of authorized devices controls which machines can play, not how many can download the same file. beefnoodle fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Feb 24, 2010 |
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Feb 24, 2010 21:50
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In case the above wasn't clear, 1. copy the files onto your desktop 2. open them in itunes 3. enter your account credentials if you haven't already
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I recently got a new windows 7 computer and I decided to use Itunes as my music players. It's been pretty good so far but I've run into a really annoying bug or two. 1. Itunes doesn't sort file names properly - for example if I have an album with 10 tracks, with file names like 01 - Quick.mp3 and 02 - Alphabet.mp3, Itunes sorts them like this Alphabet Quick 2. The second problem is that I can't edit the metadata on songs on a secondary IDE drive I have. I can't seem to fix the file permissions to let me edit them. I can edit the tags on songs in my primary drive but not this one.
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Feb 26, 2010 23:21
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clockworkjoe posted:I recently got a new windows 7 computer and I decided to use Itunes as my music players. It's been pretty good so far but I've run into a really annoying bug or two. re: 1 - do they have track numbers tagged? If so, do they have the same album/artist tages (try selecting the whole album and going info on it -- if either artist or album fields are blank, theres a subtle difference. Try setting them to the same albumwide. re: 2 - Can you edit the files on your other drive with some other app? I dunno how windows works but I know that on Macs and Linux/Unix variants you can mount drives with a certain set of privileges to prevent messing around. That might be it I dunno much about windows?
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Feb 27, 2010 03:14
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So I use iTunes to manage music on my iPhone. I have it set to sync the entire library, but only checked songs. When I'm actually playing music through iTunes itself, though, it skips unchecked songs. Is there any way to disable that?
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Feb 27, 2010 16:18
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Is there any reason why iTunes is such a resource hog? I'm suspecting poor code porting.
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Feb 27, 2010 17:25
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Are there like, any smart playlist packs I could download to mess with, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel here I'd like to see what other people have done. Also, most of my tags are good, but my genre tags suck, any automated way I can get these refilled in. I finally just let iTunes take care of my library but I kinda need to fix this to make any smart playlists I make more effective.
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So I use my smart playlists mostly to group artists with side projects or labels together-- just add the keyword to the comment and it works great. I've finally filled up my 160, though, and I'd like a new playlist that includes any music that's in one of the other playlists and then autofills randomly on top to fill up the iPod. The first part's easy, obviously, but I'm not sure what to do about the second bit.
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clockworkjoe posted:I recently got a new windows 7 computer and I decided to use Itunes as my music players. It's been pretty good so far but I've run into a really annoying bug or two. 1) It sounds like you don't have any metadata filled in, specifically track numbers. Without track numbers to organize by the only way it can order them is alphabetically. File names are pretty irrelevant in iTunes. 2) You aren't providing much detail in terms of what "can't edit" means. Like it resets when you close and re-open iTunes, or you get a message they can't be changed? If it's the second you probably have the files set as Read Only. In Windows, select the folders, right-click, click on Properties, and make sure Read Only is unchecked. EC posted:So I use iTunes to manage music on my iPhone. I have it set to sync the entire library, but only checked songs. When I'm actually playing music through iTunes itself, though, it skips unchecked songs. Is there any way to disable that? The main function of unchecking a song is to tell iTunes to skip it. I use a playlist titled For iPod and keep my songs I want synced there. Set that up, then create a Smart Playlist where "Match Only Checked Songs" is checked, then copy the songs from the smart playlist to your For iPod list. Then go back to the main Music screen, select everything, hold Ctrl and click the check box once or twice so all songs are checked. Finally, go into your music settings when you connect your iPhone and set it to synch For iPod and any other playlists you want.
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If I store my library on a NAS machine and share it with a MacBook and desktop PC can I still sync my iPod like normal? Or should I use simlinks or something?
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Anmitzcuaca posted:If I store my library on a NAS machine and share it with a MacBook and desktop PC can I still sync my iPod like normal? Or should I use simlinks or something? Share the files or the actual library file? Sharing a library file can get dangerous and really annoying.
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Anmitzcuaca posted:If I store my library on a NAS machine and share it with a MacBook and desktop PC can I still sync my iPod like normal? Or should I use simlinks or something? you can't move the ipod from one machine to another in that case because the library xml doesn't contain synced device data.
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EC posted:So I use iTunes to manage music on my iPhone. I have it set to sync the entire library, but only checked songs. When I'm actually playing music through iTunes itself, though, it skips unchecked songs. Is there any way to disable that? not that ive figured out, however just put the songs you want in a single playlist and have the iphone sync everything on that playlist and nothing more, the disadvantage being that it will not sync any other playlist. you can potentially put "undesirable" songs in a playlist and just uncheck/check them in mass before and after every sync.
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modig posted:I'm sure this has come up a million times... but seriously this seemes stupid. I bought some episodes of the wire while using my laptop. Now I want to watch them from my desktop. How do I download them to my desktop? itunes drm'd video files are actually just files, you can move them like normal files to the other computer (drag n drop out, drag n drop in) but on the new computer you have to log yourself in to play the file. you can have up to 5 computers logged in at once. edit: you can't redownload files once the first download has completed.
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I'm getting ready to go on vacation, and I want to start syncing my iPhone to my netbook for the next 10 days or so, so that I can still download apps and poo poo. (Windows 7 Ultimate 64 to Windows 7 Ultimate 32) How would I make this happen? I understand I'd need to copy the iTunes folder from one computer to the other, is everything else in C:\Users\kthomas\<userid>\Roaming\Apple Computer\iTunes ? Any other caveats? Thanks.
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EC posted:So I use iTunes to manage music on my iPhone. I have it set to sync the entire library, but only checked songs. When I'm actually playing music through iTunes itself, though, it skips unchecked songs. Is there any way to disable that? Why would you want to keep songs that you don't want to play with your iPhone or on iTunes? Why not just delete them?
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Cacahuate posted:Why would you want to keep songs that you don't want to play with your iPhone or on iTunes? Why not just delete them? Because he doesn't want them on his iPhone but he does want them in his iTunes to play on his computer?
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Cacahuate posted:Why would you want to keep songs that you don't want to play with your iPhone or on iTunes? Why not just delete them? There's a lot of music that I'd like to listen to at my computer that I don't necessarily want on my iPhone 24/7. It seems like I have to go the playlist route, which I can do. It's weird how iTunes assumes you have enough space on your device for your entire music collection, though.
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