Tag: Music
iTunes Tip: Hate a track but don’t want to delete it? Uncheck it
In today’s audio podcast we talk about managing your iTunes playlists, and the ways that we each manually manage our music. Deleting tracks came up,...
Music on Demand: Hear the Right Tunes at the Right Time
I’ve spoken of this before, but I really would like to get into this topic more deeply. I have been extremely outspoken against automated playlists...
Streaming music at iTunes.com might be Apple’s answer to music executives
Are you the type of person who needs to carry around your entire music library, or could you live with just streaming your music from...
The Right Compression for your Music
There is a segment of our nerdy online society that is trying desperately to sell the average consumer on the “Wonders” of lossless encoding. However,...
A Very Macintosh Christmas: A Recap
I wrote a six-part series of tips about how to make your holidays more cheery by using your Apple products. Here are all of the...
Zune HD and iPod: an objective Comparison
Many news sites have been comparing the new Zune HD and the iPod lines. I will not argue that they have their own opinions, yet...
Ecoute, iTunes companion extraordinaire?
Sometimes iTunes just isn’t light weight enough to use during multitask sessions. It’s been a longstanding complaint about iTunes, but the software continues to bloat,...
Jamendo for the iPhone
Jamendo is a service that provides Creative Commons licensed music. Of course this music is all free. They provide any genre you can think of....
AirSharing goes Pro
First, if you have an iPhone and don’t use AirSharing, then you need to start. AirSharing is an iPhone app that turns your iPhone into...
iTunes + upgrades more than you want.
I have always upgraded my old iTunes music to iTunes plus when the album was available. With iTunes going DRM free, I thought this would...
Interesting news from the Q1 conference call today.
I listened in on the Q1 financial report today given by Apple, and there were some real “boring” questions. Not boring as infinancialquestions are boring,...
iTunes Bringin’ The DRM-Free Store!
I know this is being discussed everywhere, even once or twice here already, but I just couldn’t help myself. Apple announced at Macworld ’09 that...
A Very Apple Thanksgiving
It’s the night before Thanksgiving, and everyone is thinking about the delicious food they’ll have waiting for them tomorrow. Before they head to bed, all...
Play the Zelda theme song…from your iphone.
I don’t mean play an mp3, and I certainly don’t mean an app that plays the theme song for you. I mean, blow into your...
Buy Amazon mp3s from iTunes?
Can you buy Amazon mp3s from iTunes? Possibly. With Advantageous mp3, you can now browse the iTunes music store and then download from Amazon’s mp3...
What’s the fuss with DRM?
First thing I am going to say is, I know I am going to catch a lot of crap with this post. That being said,...
Automatically generate tour dates with itunes and iConcertCal.
I’m a music buff. Ninty-eight percent of my time is spent listening to music–Writing code, designing websites, writing essays, working on macgasm, taking walks, hanging...
I want my Audiobooks, and I want it NOW!
After spending one week with my iPhone I pretty much love a lot more things about it then I hate. Well, I only really seem...