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you can change the blue note -- it's teh same as itunes 2.0 (dere christ I've outsadded myself).

Apparently there's a firmware update that gives older video iPods the gapless playback and the games.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

80GB iPod! finally.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

can't hide the store so many playlists off page f

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

This is indeed great timing. I was planning on buying an iPod today and then found this thread. Good news.

― Ivan G (Ivan), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa I guess Apple bought CoverFlow! I guess that's why the guy/gal hasn't updated his app in awhile. Useless to me since I don't use iTunes but it was/is a beautiful little program.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

PINK IPODS! (I'm a bit excited. yay!!!)

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

wait, i dl'd itunes 7 and i don't see how i can split my music across two drives at all!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

you could always split your music across two drives - not sure if the method has change w/the update, although my split across two drive collection is behaving the same as before.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't see any new way to do it either. Jon, how are you doing it?

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

is you talking to me? on a mac?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link

ye to both

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link

oh .. apple's new way to do it is to hold down option/alt when loading it, and it allows to choose libraries. I thought this would let you have one library split across a local volume and a network volume. it don't.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Cog + Finder, people

for commuting, you can tape your playlists to cassette

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

preferences > advanced > general > change itunes music folder location

any new songs you ad will be in the new location and the old ones will still be in the old place

depending on yr settings it may ask you if you want to copy the songs from the old place to the new one - say no

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if you want to move some of the songs that are already in your library to a new folder - easiest to trash your library file found here: music > itunes

then start over addinghalf then changing the itunes music folder in the preferences (as described above)

if you're worried about loosing playlists you can export them in xml file > export

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if you really dont want to trash your library file - you can change the itunes folder location in the preferences then do file > at to library > select the music you want to move (from your original itunes folder) then delete them from the original location when it's done copying

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

actually the third method might be easier than the second if you do it by alphabetical order

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link

That's really useful! Thanks

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

oh i thought this stuff would be more "automated" w/the new version... as in, you can set two default volumes and then chose where you want to import to, or something like that. oh well.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i just only before boughted new ipod. :-(. downside: out $50. upside: ipod software update gives me new features of new ones except for screen + battery life which i could care less about.

also, downside: new itunes graphite interface looks more like nextstep than ever. DAEREST APPLE GET ONE (1) AND ONLY ONE USER INTERFACE. AND NOT HTIS HUGLY ONE. This is worse than mail.app -- which i bet will be following suit (or maybe not, apple's gotten so bad at the uniformity thing).

also, downside: how do i shot old browser window instead of new pretty but useless coverflow?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link

apple B for browser window.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

is it my imagination or is this new version using ALOT more RAM even without fancy (rubbish) coverflow?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

why can it not properly dl cover arts?
sometimes you say 'get album art' and it tries and fails, then you do it again and it finds it. other times, it doesn't find it at all. what use is my album art browsing if it's a bunch of squares with eighth notes in them!??!?

― fellini-esque-lit-rockist (tehresa), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link

on a couple of mine the cover art is blank and it says "COVER ART CANNOT BE ALTERED" or something - not 'not found' or left as it was in the first place, but locked into a blank cover.

iTunes 7 is fugly, too. Also louder, I think (though it didn't change any of my settings) and slower. Why must Apple 'improvements' always suck?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link

yep, this is noticeably less reponsive than the last version.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

hopefully they'll be a tweak soon

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Just buy a new Mac.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link

wft

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Still no way of dealing with smart playlist rules lists longer than the height of the screen.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Just buy a cinema display

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link

One of the rule sets is longer even than my 23" cinema display at work (is there any way of going into portrait mode?)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link

itunes does use a lot more memory, it uses about 100mb on my machine and i've only got 512 to start with

this is jobs' way of making me buy more ram isn't it? Cunty McCunt

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link

*is smug*

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 08:55 (seventeen years ago) link

It takes ages to analyse for gapless playback here. That's sending memory high and speed slow. They dropped the sliding doors aperture too, dammit

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i tried that cog thing but as soon as i tried to get it to recognise the mp3 collection i have it saw the sheer enormous size and spazzed out

incidentally that's the same reaction women have to my willy

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

sliding doors aperture?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:28 (seventeen years ago) link

dudes what kinda crazy smart playlists youre making?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

sterling, the browse button is now at the bottom right of the itunes interface next to the eject button.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

My have one big smart playist for things that go onto my iPod and its easier to exclude artists and genres in a smart playlist. i have to fit 50GB into 30GB so that's a lot of winnowing.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link

that sounds pretty crazy.

it looks like the new ipod firmware gives you everything the new ipods have except search, and people seem to expect that soon. on the other hand there seem to be some bugs with podcasts, so i'm holding off updating for now. i quite like the new ipod summary in itunes 7, although it's not really very useful.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

oops the sliding doors aperture thingy on the burn button, I mean.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link

What apple ought to do w/iTunes is set a tag definable at the beginning of a ripping/uploading/dragging-and-dropping session (and defaults to null again once iTunes is closed) that remembers the name of the person doing it. Then Smart Playlists for multiple users' iPods would be EASY PEASY.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

you guys should just drag stuff into yr ipods srsly

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:32 (seventeen years ago) link

that is somewhat tedious

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:35 (seventeen years ago) link

naw it's fun

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Can't you just use one of the star ratings for stuff you want on the ipod, ed? Mark them all one star or similar. Or tag them.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Then I'd have to tag things and change the tags every time I wanted to change the contents of the iPod, why not use the existing tags and create a ruleset around them?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF i ran the "get album art" "feature" and it removed ALL OF THE EXISTING ALBUM ART ON MY MAC! for instance my album-art screensaver now tells me "you have no iTunes songs with album art"!!!!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link

One of the rule sets is longer even than my 23" cinema display at work (is there any way of going into portrait mode?)
-- Ed (dal...) (webmail), September 13th, 2006 4:48 AM. (dali) (later) (link)

Use multiple smart playlists chained together by using membership in some playlists as a criteria for others!

WTF i ran the "get album art" "feature" and it removed ALL OF THE EXISTING ALBUM ART ON MY MAC! for instance my album-art screensaver now tells me "you have no iTunes songs with album art"!!!!

Well, it only did what you told it to do. Maybe you should have created a smart playlist with all itemss missing art in it.

― Really cool, wickedly cool, cooly cool bon apetit! (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I want a fuggin' scroll bar that's all.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:17 (seventeen years ago) link

windows version of new itunes is a dog, if you have a massive 100GB library. unbearably slow and awful, what is it even doing when it's "determining gapless playback"? it's hanging on my talk talk albums for 10 minutes a track.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

haha massive 100GB library noob

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

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