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A Note on DRM for the Everything iTunes community

ollie — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:43:41 +0000

Not too long ago there was a software program listed on this site called “Requiem”. It allowed a person to strip the needless drm protection off their itunes songs and videos. It worked great but Apple made us take it off this site, effectively killing the community.

This software will not be making a reappearance on this site, especially since the recent news that iTunes will be removing the DRM on all their songs (It remains on videos).

If you’re the ambitious type, you can head over to Undrm.net. There you can download Requiem and learn about other drm removal software. You’ll need to register at the site’s forums to have access to the downloads.

Burn an MP3 CD with Folders

ollie — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:53:33 +0000

Have you ever wanted to be able to burn your own mp3 CD’s in itunes for use in your CD or home CD player. iTunes has had this functionality for a long time, but what many of you may not know is that iTunes also has the ability to organize your tracks into folders based on album. That way you can use the album + or album – buttons on your CD player to skip albums. It’s like haveing a CD changer even if your player only accepts one disc. The process is very simple.

Put an empty CD in your CD/DVD burner
In iTunes select File >> New Playlist (or Ctrl-N)
Click on Music and drag the songs/albums to the new playlist you created
Click on the new playlist and then click on the Album column header until it says Album by Artist [1]
Rick click on the new playlist and select Burn Play List to Disc

It’s that simple.

*If you don’t click on the Album column then the MP3 CD will be created with all of the songs in one folder.

Show more iPod storage details in iTunes graph

ollie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:18:30 +0000

When iTunes 7 came out, Apple competely redesigned the iPod section in iTunes. You can now look at all the different kinds of files on your iPod using the bar graph at the bottom of the page. This shows the total capacity of the iPod, and how much of that is being used up by Audio, Photos, Videos and Other files. To see this, plug in your iPod and open up iTunes. Click on your iPod in the Devices section in the left hand column. It gives you the details in terms of the iPods storage capacity, that is, in bytes. However, you can also use the graph to display a count of how many songs, photos and videos your iPod contains or how long it would take to listen to all the songs and watch all the videos. Change to this mode by clicking on the graph itself. Clicking once will cycle to the number count, clicking again will change it to the time count, and clicking one final time will change it back to the storage capacity.

Mutiple Libraries in iTunes 7

ollie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:57:20 +0000

iTunes 7 has added the much wished-for ability to manage multiple music libraries. To create a new library simply hold down the option key when you launch iTunes and you’ll get the option to create a new library or choose the library you want to load.