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KHAAAAAAN! Apple Fixes iTunes Smart Playlist Bug

July 6, 2010

What Apple’s recent smart playlist bug fix has in common with William Shatner’s infamous “Khaaaaaan” scene from Star Trek II.

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3 Undocumented Hacks for iTunes 9

September 13, 2009

Now that pundits, bloggers, and Mac hackers have had some time with iTunes 9, they are uncovering some nice undocumented updates. These three tips hit the Mac Power Tips feed on Friday, and I thought were good enough to share:

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Quick Thoughts on Today’s Apple Press Event

September 9, 2009

1. When a co-worker told me Steve Jobs led off the event, I was thrilled. Best news of the day.
2. I can’t wait to try out Home Sharing on iTunes.
3. Hopefully LPs are retroactive to existing album purchases.
4. Everything else went as expected — evolutionary, not revolutionary.

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Choosing the Right Bit Rate and File Format to Rip Your CDs into iTunes

May 23, 2009

On the bit rate question, I got to 256K for almost the same reasons he explains. A couple years ago I did “The Big Rip” at 192K AAC. At the time I figured it was a good compromise between the higher quality of 256K and the smaller file size of 128K. Since then, storage of course has gotten cheaper but even more importantly for me, I really began to notice the difference in sound quality when I listened to a 128K or 192K file as compared to a CD, so I’ve been ripping at 256K for a couple months now.

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How to Rate Music in iTunes

November 13, 2008

After writing about Genius Playlists, I thought it would be good to talk about some simple tips for building better Smart Playlists in iTunes. The first step for creating great Smart Playlists is to start rating your music, so I am going to walk through the system I use to rate my songs.

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Test Driving Genius Playlists

October 21, 2008

Over the years, I have done a fair amount of tinkering with smart playlists in iTunes in a never-ending quest to get that “ultimate” mix of great music out of my music library, so I was really excited last month when Apple added “Genius Playlists” to iTunes 8. While I had played around with the feature somewhat, I did not really test it out until this past weekend. I took advantage of the eight hours I was going to be in the car driving up and back to a friend’s wedding, and loaded up my iPhone with 100% Genius Playlist-powered music to listen to over the entire trip.

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