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Control iTunes From The Dock

Matt — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:34:48 +0000

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.

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Getting the Most Out of Your iTunes: Using the Equalizer

Matt — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:03:35 +0000

“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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How-to Email an iTunes Song

Matt — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:10:47 +0000

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 and turn on “Show this action when the workflow runs.”
Choose File –> Save

Give it a try and let us know if it works for you

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Amazon Mp3 compared to iTunes.

Matt — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:30:28 +0000

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. The decor isn’t great, but the prices make up for it.”
Give the artical a read at TUAW.com

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iTunes 7.4 is Here

Matt — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:53:18 +0000

I was going to write a real good review of the new iTunes 7.4 but the folks at Mac User beat me to it. Below you will see their review.

“As updates to iTunes go, 7.4 whelms in an underly sort of fashion. The marquee feature might be ringtones, but you’ll be hard-pressed to find any in the iTunes Store or your personal collection, as Apple hasn’t rolled them out yet. 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. Apple’s also revised iTunes’s video playing capabilities, thank heavens. If you choose to play video back inside the iTunes window, it will now blackout the entire window to show you a video, instead of just playing in the postage-stamp sized frame in the bottom left. 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. You can either do that by switching to the “grouped” view (the middle view button), or by enabling the Album Rating column (right click on any column header. 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. Go to Preferences -> Playback and check off “Show closed captioning when available.” At last! Movies I can read. My librarian (and hard of hearing) parents will approve.”
MacUser

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Looking up info about a song from iTunes on Google!

Matt — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:35:09 +0000

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 if you highlight a song, and press ‘”

(Via A New Mac Tip Every Day.)

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iTunes 7.2 Is out with the New NO DRM additions

Matt — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:44:58 +0000

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.

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Don’t Torrent That iTunes Plus Song…

Matt — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:34:45 +0000

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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