With Snow Leopard Apple have made the pause button on the remote control ALWAYS start and stop itunes. This means if you are watching TV on your mac, and you go to pause it, iTunes starts playing! There is no way to disable this.
The best workaround it to open itunes, and go to the itunes store. From here the play function will not work. You can then minimise itunes and watch TV!
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Apple had just released itunes plus which has two main benefits, both are great.
1. All the songs are now going to be DRM free, so you can play them with different software and players.
2. The bitrate has now doubled so that the music is better quality. (I suggested the itunes bitrate was too low here, and how to get round it, but now apple have ‘fixed’ it for downloaded songs.)
There is a great feature on the itunes store home page that will automatically (for a fee) upgrade all your songs!
To find it you go to ‘quick links’ on the right, and click on ‘Upgrade my Library’.
It will give you the option of deleting your old library or moving it to the desktop. I suggest you keep it, because if you ever need the lower quality 128 kbps songs (eg to listen to on your ipod), the original downloaded ones will be better quality than if you re-compress the new 256kbps down to 128.
Thankfully I have only purchased 20 songs from itunes, so the fee was just $10.
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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.
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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ShareYou 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.
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Just found this software.
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.
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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 »
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