Have you ever been using an application when a song came on in iTunes you would rather not hear? Or re-play the last song just one more time? I found a little trick the last time I right click on the iTunes icon in the doc. A complete menu pops up looking like the one below. You can use this to control iTunes in any way you need. It even tells about the current song playing.

“Not many people use the equalizer built into iTunes; this is a shame because it’s really a great feature.” Check out this post over at Mactips.com For a cool littile tutorial on some equalizer tips

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From Mactips.org

Open Automator.app (/Applications/Automator.app)
Choose File –> New
In the Starting Points menu, click Music and Audio. Choose “my iTunes Library” in the “Get content from” pop-up menu. Then in 2nd pop-up menu, choose “Ask for songs and playlists when my workflow runs”.
In Library list, click Mail.
In Actions list, drag the action called New Mail Mail Message into the Workflow pane. Click on the Options button …

TUAW.com has put together a side by side comparison of using amazons new MP3 service and the experience you get when using iTunes. He did a really nice job of making sure he was bias as much as any mac lover could be. “I would liken buying tracks at Amazon MP3 to buying something at Wal-Mart.

You can always turn on the Ringtone column in the Music Store (right-click on the column headers and check off Ringtone), but you won’t see any little bell icons for your auditory amusement.Ringtones aren’t the only new functionality in 7.4…. Smart money’s still on viewing in a separate window or in QuickTime, if you ask me, but some will appreciate it, no doubt.And for those Ratings fiends among you—and I know you exist—, iTunes 7.4 lets you not just rate individual tracks, but albums as well…. And this is kind of cool: if you’ve rated individual tracks on an album, it looks like iTunes will actually calculate the album rating for you, based on those ratings (you can override it, if you feel like it).Finally, 7.4 brings one last improvement for those who’ve spent a little too much time with their volumes cranked to the max. The new version of iTunes now supports displaying closed captioning on video, where available.

Looking up info about a song from iTunes on Google!: “A great tip submitted by Oscar Meijer: Looking up info about a song from iTunes on Google! If you are looking for information about a specific song, Googling the name along with the artist is usually the easiest method. It can be done right in iTunes by using a shortcut located in the Services menu. It is ‘Search with Google’. What is really cool is that …

Take a look over a TUAW.com. The have a some good screen shots of then new version of iTunes. I can not comment on how the upgrade will works as i can’t get it to load for me. I get the store is down message.

Sure, you can now download music from the iTunes store without DRM but that doesn’t mean you should just willy nilly start sharing that music with your friends. For one thing, it’s illegal. For another, your account information is embedded into that m4a music file. Don’t believe me? Try this yourself.

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