Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago at 4:58 pm. 13 comments
How to import songs into itunes is easy. You just put the CD in, select it in itunes, and click on advanced - convert selection to MP3.
That’s it - Easy!
But, the default setting on itunes is not the best setting to use when importing songs. In fact, there is a better way to import songs that uses a program called LAME. This article describes how to import songs into itunes using the better quality of the LAME encoder.
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Posted 10 months ago at 9:50 pm. 1 comment
>if I want to convert some aiff files to mp3 to be downloaded from net…
> what specs should I aim at to keep size down but quality ok…
These are the settings I use for good quality speech in itunes: Continue Reading…
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at 3:10 pm. 0 comments
When you tell itunes to find your cover art, it misses lots of albums that presumably are not on amazon.com where it looks for cover art. So what do you do? Continue Reading…
Posted 1 year, 6 months ago at 2:31 pm. 0 comments
You need the latest version of itunes (itunes 7) for the new tiny ipod shufffles to work, older versions of itunes simply don’t recognise it.
As soon as you plug your ipod shuffle into your mac for the first time, itunes will automatically open, and you will get a message that itunes has found your ipod, and what name do you want to give your ipod.
If this does not happen make sure you have itunes 7 installed.
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago at 7:36 pm. 0 comments
Just found this software.
The Amazing Slow Downer
It’s great. It allows you to slow down music, keeping the pitch the same. There’s lots of software that will do this but this is well implemented with lots of nice features, and a good algorithm that sounds good even with big slow downs.
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago at 4:41 pm. 0 comments
iTunes 7
The new iTunes looks fantastic & has some great new features.
However any quick survey of forum discussions will show you that there are some bugs that people are discovering. Continue Reading…
Posted 2 years, 5 months ago at 3:07 pm. 3 comments
Here’s a pretty good way to record speech on the macintosh, and have it sound OK for listening to over the internet. Continue Reading…