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How to Convert a Concert DVD to iTunes October 13th, 2011 @ 8:14 am PDT

What software do you need to rip a concert DVD to iTunes?

How You Like Me Now? March 16th, 2010 @ 7:15 am PDT

There’s an excellent Kia Sorento commercial right now featuring a sock monkey and a monster (and some other kid toys). They go bowling and the sock monkey gets a tattoo. The best part, though, is the song. It’s How You Like Me Now, by The Heavy. You can find it on the album The House […]

iTunes Tuesday: Good New Songs August 18th, 2009 @ 8:58 am PDT

I’ve already written about how you can use one playlist as the basis for another, and now we’ll put this ability to a good use. We’re going to make a playlist that will let you hear all the good new stuff. These are the songs that you’ve added recently, that you’ve rated highly, and that […]

iTunes Tuesday: Simple Tutorials August 4th, 2009 @ 5:50 am PDT

If you’re just getting started with iTunes, the hands-down best place to learn how it all works is the Apple website. The “Find Out How” section offers dozens of video and text tutorials which will get you up and running quickly. You can learn how to import music from your CD collection, edit your music […]

iTunes Tuesday: iPhone Music Streaming July 28th, 2009 @ 4:37 am PDT

No matter how hard you try to keep your music library organized, compressed, and free of ABBA, eventually you’re going to have more tunes than you can fit on your iPhone (or iPod, or any other mp3 device). The most recent iPod Classic has a capacity of 120GB, which can certainly hold a lot of […]

iTunes Tuesday: How to Organize Playlists July 21st, 2009 @ 12:57 pm PDT

If you’ve been creating new playlists left and right, eventually you are going to have a long and cluttered list of them running down the left side of your iTunes window. You do know you can group them into folders, right? Just click File and then New Playlist Folder. Now you can drag and drop […]

iTunes Tuesday: Create Playlists Quickly July 14th, 2009 @ 5:57 am PDT

In the previous episode of iTunes Tuesday I explained the difference between Smart Playlists and user-created playlists. Basically the key difference is that Smart Playlists are ones that iTunes creates for you based on criteria you define and user-created playlists are ones you make by picking and choosing songs. Today I’ll show you a couple […]

iTunes Tuesday: Show in Playlist July 7th, 2009 @ 4:55 am PDT

There are two types of playlists in iTunes: Smart Playlists and “regular” playlists. A Smart Playlist depends on parameters you’ve set, like “songs added in the last month”, or “songs by The Beatles or Bob Dylan”. Regular playlists — also known as “user-generated playlists” — are the ones you create. (These are the playlists you […]

iTunes Tuesday: New This Month June 30th, 2009 @ 6:23 am PDT

Sometimes you just want to be able to quickly get to the new stuff. That’s why I have a Smart Playlist called “New This Month”. This playlist contains all the tracks I’ve added in the last month, and I keep it synchronized with both my iPhone and with my iPod Nano. I always have all […]