I HATE APPLE

feel like I'm returning to an abusive partner

(plus, not hiding compilation artists in the ipod menu is kind of a deal-breaker to me)

idg why this still happens. Navigating music through the Apple TV is sort of horrendous because of this.

how did music end up on your TV man?? it's supposed to go through your stereo

just tryina help

Apple TV is for music, iTunes is for iPad syncing, iPhones are for games

:D

MacBook Air does not fly

apple nerds: I need help!

I want to do this:

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/05/27/mac-automation-e-mail-songs-from-itunes/

(select song in itunes, open a new e-mail message with it as an attachment)

except it seems automator was changed and I can no longer save a process as an applescript plug-in. I can only save it as a workflow runnable from within automator.

ideally I want something accessible via the menu bar or dock. any tips??

if it's a workflow then put it in ~/library/services and then it should be accessible from the itunes->services menu

dude, there has GOT to be a doug's applescript for this purpose

ding ding ding

http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=tracksasmailattach

thank you doug (and tracer)

surely launchbar can do this?

probably! this is for my mom's imac - want her to be able to do this all in one click instead of mucking around in finder etc

Lol I was just teaching my dad the "drag straight from iTunes to mail compose window" concept tonight. Can't your mum do the same?

I have taught her before but I think she forgot

I also resized her desktop to 1366 or some ishhhh (from native 1920) so screen space is limited

It amazes me how old people can tolerate that. Non-native screen resolutions drive me nuts.

well in the case of my own mom she tolerates it because she is basically blind and native resolution = no seeing

Isn't the ctrl-scroll zoom better? My mum's nuts for it.

oh yeah she uses that too

In my first two hours of my first day at that gate, I met workers who were 14 years old, 13 years old, 12. Do you really think Apple doesn’t know? In a company obsessed with the details, with the aluminum being milled just so, with the glass being fitted perfectly into the case, do you really think it’s credible they don’t know? Or are they just doing what we’re all doing? Do they just see what they want to see?

tbf when apple sends their 'inspection squads' the owners know well in advance and sweep all the bad stuff under the proverbial carpet

Not defending Apple by any stretch but I suspect all smartphones are built by infants.

yeah i'm starting to get a little fed up with the iPods, which I've previously defended pretty vigorously. iTunes seems to randomly fuck up the tags on certain albums (and I do mean randomly), which causes them to not play on the iPod (it treats each track as though it was 0:00 and cycles through them all). last time I plugged it in it said the iPod was corrupt and needed to be restored, only it would only sync 1000 or so songs and then just freeze up. now every time I plug it in I get a little nervous. this thing is only like 6 months old.

Get it replaced under warranty?

(it treats each track as though it was 0:00 and cycles through them all)
fucking hate this. Like 90% of the library on my iPad does this and about 10% on the iPhone. Is there a fix?

sadly I lost all the paperwork but if the thing busts again I'll do this (I wound up fixing it by rebooting everything and letting it sync overnight, and miraculously it got through everything)

my solution to the other problem is to highlight all the "busted" songs, right click, then hit "convert ID3 tags" and switch them to version 1.0 (or whatever). that tends to fix it. if it's really 90% of your library though it's probably something else...mine is just like maybe 1-2% of it

Ah so probably not a warranty thing. Maybe your itunes library is corrupt at some level? I've never had a problem like that with any device.

My library has been around since iTunes 1.0, so I guess there's a lotta cruft in there, but they should be expecting that. I'm not starting again from scratch now.

Sounds like dodgy mp3s to me

Happens even on aacs from the store, and it's not the same tracks -- syncing and re-syncing will change which ones play. I hadn't considered it being corrupted tags before, but that makes a lot of sense. On the iPad I think it's the Music app's DB that's snookered. Need to resync it when I have the time

My library has been around since iTunes 1.0, so I guess there's a lotta cruft in there, but they should be expecting that. I'm not starting again from scratch now.

Have you run Consolidate Library at anytime since the beginning?

www.spotify.com

I've only run into those issues with files with malformed metadata, or corrupted mp3s that iTunes would glitch on as well.

So the new weirdest issue I've had is that Safari on my iPhone will keep switching the "Accept Cookies" setting to "Never" at random intervals. Anyone ever had that?

I have a weird glitch where I lose all control of the iPod app on my iPhone - just shows a big pause button, can't browse, can't change anything w/o resetting the phone

I get that when I try to open a large (>3gb) playlist. Just locks and dies.

Should I use consolidate library? I assumed that just moved music files into place, and I've always had iTunes organise my files for me

^ditto. specifically the 'recently added' playlist that is on my ipod touch for no discernible reason.

Sounds like dodgy mp3s to me

its not that. the last one was "Einzelhaft" by Falco which I've had for like 8 years. no rhyme or reason to it

whats frustrating about it is that my very first iPod (which I bought 7 years ago!) had this problem and it still hasn't been fixed. also there's a volume glitch if you set a track to play at a high volume (when you skip to that track, the volume will adjust first, then a half second later the track changes, so a 'normal' volume track will murder your eardrums) that's been around forever. I mean it really does not seem that hard to fix.

tbh take your shit to the genius bar, they will probably shrug and give you a replacement or something

it's not a hardware problem tho -- it has happened for me w/multiple iPods, iPhones and an iPad. It's definitely software, and geniuses going to be no use w/that.

try zapping the PRAM

there's a program out there called beaTunes that is apparently just a "re-do" of iTunes, does anyone have experience with that?

apparently just a "re-do" of iTunes

what does this even mean

made primarily to sync with the iPod, uses the same structures, tags, etc., but better?

try zapping the PRAM

― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:12 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

you can do this on the iphone?

need a new Mac... mine is almost ten years old! the big question is whether it will recognize all of my flac files that were encoded on a PowerPC Mac. if there's no problems, I'm gonna put the money down on a 2008 MacBook this afternoon.

There should be no problems, considering flac files are platform-independent. The only time I've ever heard of audio files worrying about platform is non-lossy archaic stuff like aiff files, where data could be stored big-endian or little-endian depending on processor architecture.

Think about it this way: all data will be fine, as long as you have programs that read that format. Applications, no.

try zapping the PRAM

― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:12 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

you can do this on the iphone?

― bob loblaw people (dayo), Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:52 AM (40 minutes ago)

probably not but it might be worth trying!

its not that. the last one was "Einzelhaft" by Falco which I've had for like 8 years. no rhyme or reason to it
― frogbs, Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:12 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is it FLAC or MP3? reason I ask is FLAC uses lossless compression, while MP3 is ‘lossy’. what this means is that for each year the MP3 sits on your hard drive, it will lose roughly 12kbps, assuming you have SATA – it’s about 15kbps on IDE, but only 7kbps on SCSI, due to rotational velocidensity. it's probably eroded completely over time

my god. is there any service or product that I can buy to prevent this decay? HELP!