Questions tagged [itunes]
iTunes is a media library management and playback application developed and maintained by Apple for OS X and Windows. It is also used to synchronise Apple media devices and manage their contents.
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I'm trying to install Itunes on a Windows 7 64 bit
I've seen similar questions on the web, most from 2010, I need new solutions, I saw many solutions, I need a definitive one, I can't try this and ...
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iTunes Home Sharing only works one way between 2 PC's on the same LAN
I've got two computers, A with Windows 7 Home Premium, and B with Windows 8.1. Both are using the same account. A can "see" the library in B, but B can't see the library in A (it doesn't show up in ...
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iTunes playback skipping on some songs
A client of mine has called me with a bizarre problem. The PC he runs his music from (~200GB of it) uses iTunes and it has started skipping (or stuttering) at the start of some songs when the ...
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How to sync email account settings between mail app on Mavericks, and iOS 7?
Prior to Mavericks, when one synced an iOS device using iTunes, the email account settings for all email accounts configured in OSX would be "synced" with the iOS device.
Unfortunately, in Mavericks, ...
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iTunes: How to have the same library on two external harddisks?
I have my iTunes library on an external hard disk at home. I'd like to listen to my music also at work. For this I have another external hard disk at work.
Is there a way to have the same iTunes ...
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what OS to use when it comes to iTunes usage on virtual machines?
I'm interested in building a machine to VM iTunes to data wipe iPhones as part of recycling process.
Now I was wondering which OS (mac/windows) would have iTunes run as it best performance wise?
Also ...
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Songs are increasing in time when I add them to my Ipod?
I'm adding some songs from my iTunes onto my iPod and 1 of the 2 songs is 4:31 min long. When I add it to my iPod and then play it ONLY on my iPod, the time changes to 10:19 min long. And, it doesn't ...
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How can I disable the feature where OSX launches iTunes when external speakers are connected?
There is that feature where iTunes gets automatically launched on OSX when an external speakers are connected (Bluetooth or 3.5mm jack headphones).
I happen to prefer another application to listen to ...
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How can I add a file to iTunes, from the command line, without playing the file
I want to add a file to iTunes from the command line. I can't use the Automatically Add to iTunes folder, because then iTunes will rename the file, and I don't want that. I can simply type iTunes ...
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Does partitioning iTunes and iPhoto libraries make my Mac faster? [duplicate]
I have a
iMac (early 2009)
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2,66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
640GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive
If I create a partition for the iTunes library and another one for the ...
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Firefox: Prevent itunes.apple.com from redirecting to itmss:
itunes.apple.com shows its web page for 1 second before redirecting to a itmss: URL, which fails if iTunes is not installed. In a astonishing display of non-interoperability, Apple makes their web ...
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How to post my currently playing song to my website?
I need to publish my currently playing song info to my website. I have three media players on my desktop: Winamp, iTunes and foobar2000. I mostly listen with Winamp, and sometimes iTunes or foobar.
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Correcting disc number metadata and album titles in iTunes
I've got lots of CDs which were tagged and then imported into iTunes in the following format:
Cream Classics (disc 1)
Cream Classics (disc 2)
Cream Classics (disc 3)
What I would like to do is set ...
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iTunes Keyboard Shortcut for exiting search function
In iTunes on OS X, you can search for music in your library by using the CMD+F shortcut. However, as far as I can tell, there exists no shortcut for accessing those items once the search has completed....
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How to burn MP3 files to a CD without going through iTunes on a Macbook?
I would like to just be able to click and drag files from my hard disk to the CD and then click "burn". I have not figured out how to do this. When I click and drag it gives me a direct access icon, ...
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afconvert: Difference between AAC formats: 'aac ' 'aace' 'aacf' 'aach' 'aacl' 'aacp' 'alac' 'paac'
When using afconvert for AAC output, I find little documentation on the format variants under the m4af category:
'aac', 'aace', 'aacf', 'aach', 'aacl', 'aacp', 'alac', 'paac'.
I can guess probably '...
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Why episodes of my podcast are not visible on iTunes?
I had created my podcasts's feed with Podcastgen and I've added the feed to iTunes. The episodes are not visible in iTunes:
the episodes are also not visible on iTunes webpage:
However, after I've ...
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Mavericks and Apple menu positions
Since I installed Mavericks, I had been having some issues about the position of menues in Apple applications like Finder, XCode, Safari and iTunes,
After moving the program window, their menues ...
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How do I make my iTunes library read-only?
I have a huge iTunes collection and have been researching this for a while but cannot seem to find an answer.
Basically I would like to leave my iTunes collection open so that people can select their ...
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QuickTime Player sounds much better than iTunes
I am playing a 320 kpbs encoded music MP3 in iTunes and the sound is substantially worse than the exact same file played back in QuickTime Player (Max OS X 10.8.5). I have maxed out system volume and ...
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How do I transfer PDF files to my iPad to take on a business trip
I'm preparing to go on a week long business trip where I will need access to dozens of PDF files which I have on my work PC. I want to take them on my iPad so that I can read and review them during ...
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How do I delete songs not in playlists in iTunes?
I have lots of music in iTunes, but there's tons of crap I never listen to just taking up space. Is there a way I can easily delete all songs not in a playlist?
All the music I have put into ...
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Why does Apple Software Update think that I have iTunes installed, even though I don't?
I have a Windows PC. Somehow, Apple Software Update thinks that I have iTunes installed and offers me updates for it. However, I have never installed iTunes on this PC. I have a couple questions:
How ...
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Is iTunes duplicating music files?
I recently discovered the way iTunes organized my music into iTunes > iTunes Media > Music folder, but these folders aren't where I originally imported the music from.
Is iTunes duplicating my .mp3 ...
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Sorting iTunes Artist field
I'm trying to sort out my music and I have a couple of artists who have changed their name or have an album with solo tracks and some in a group.
Two examples are 'the game' and 'adam and the ants' (...
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If i edit a torrent's downloaded file(s) will they count as a seed?
Like if I edit a file's ID3 on itunes or if I change the contents of a file. Put simply if I modify a downloaded torrent's files in any way.
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iTunes order a specific albums tracks by rating
I have some albums with various artists in them, and naturally some of them I like more then others.
I want to be able to rate the tracks and then select the album in iTunes and order the tracks ...
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Get purchased iTunes music on linux
I have some music that I bought on iTunes that I'd like to have on my Linux computer. Is there a way I can install iTunes and download the music? I already tried using Wine, and I got a lot of errors, ...
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How to hide played & deleted podcasts in iTunes?
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ITunes requested an update yesterday, and now a large number of past episodes of podcasts that I listened to & deleted appear in the podcast list (with the little cloud icon). Is there ...
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Best strategy for using iTunes on VirtualBox
The scenario
I'm a Mac user
A friend of mine bought an iPod
She is an Ubuntu user and by no means she wants to go back to Windows
She doesn't have the money for a Mac
Frankly, there's no real open ...
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How to play same music through computer speakers as well as network audio with Windows Media Player?
I want to be able to use Windows Media Player in the same manner as iTunes using the computer speakers as well as network attached speaker system. When I use the Play To feature this works fine but ...
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iOS 7 sync with iTunes 10.7
I was wondering if I can sync my iPhone 4S (with a not already WiFi-installed iOS 7) with iTunes 10.7 without upgrading it to the 11.x version…
If not in a standard way, perhaps it could be in a sort ...
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How to subscribe to various media players' events like pause or track change? [closed]
I want to write a platform independent library to subscribe to media player events. I want it to work on both windows and linux and want it to support as many media players as possible. Ideally I ...
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iTunes refuses to install, registry issue?
I have a legit copy of Windows 8 x64 Professional. I had iTunes installed previously, but it wouldn't update to the latest version. It also had issues being uninstalled; I had to use a couple third-...
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Audible Books does not install my books into my iTunes and wants me to do it manually, I can't figure out how
Audible Books fails to install into iTunes
I am using a desktop with Windows 7 64 bit. I have been downloading Audible Books for 3 years and have 85 installed. Several months ago downloading them ...
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Can I transfer ITunes music from Time Machine to Windows 7
I don't have a Mac available to me (the logic board died). I have my whole Mac backed up on an external HD by way of Time Machine. I would like to copy just the music to my new Windows 7 laptop. I don'...
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Terminal Hacks to Manually Transfer Ipod Music To Computer
I need to transfer a clients ipod music to a new computer and in to a new Itunes library. As you know, Apple does not allow you to reverse sync music from an Ipod to an itunes library as this would ...
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Choosing Specific Files from Time Machine After Reformat
I had been using Time Machine for full back-ups of my MacBook Pro for a couple of years. Today, I reformatted my internal drive with the intention of building it up piece by piece, so I opted to NOT ...
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How do I download podcasts and put them on in WMP format, so I can transfer them to my non-ipod mp3 player?
I have a Sansa Disk MP3 Player. Is there a way to get the files from iTunes onto Windows Media Player?
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Erasing and syncing library in iPod Touch
I've formatted my computer recently (Windows 8). For some reason, I couldn't import my backed up .itl file.
I've decided it would be less trouble if I just made a new library and erased and synced ...
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Unable to import iTunes library after format
I followed the steps in this article in apple's site to backup my iTunes library before a format: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
I use windows 8, with the latest ...
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Can Adobe Bridge metadata be transferred to iTunes?
I'm thinking of using Adobe Bridge as my digital media manager (ebooks, audio, video, etc), as it's really powerful when it comes to managing and organizing stuff, and it has some cool features that I ...
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Converting iTunes m3u file to be readable by mpd (special characters and encoding issue)
I have generated a iTunes m3u file because it is easier to create specific playlist (with intelligent playlists). It needed a little conversion to replace ^M characters to newline, but now I have ...
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Can you read an Ibook on a PC?
Actually this part of a broader aim on my part. I would like to be able to download free stuff from the Itunes web site and run it on my PC - this covers Ibooks (free), podcasts and courses of various ...
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Deleting the duplicate files made from iTunes - consolidate feature
I selected the iTunes folder library as [home folder]/Music
Having music files in the same folder ([home folder]/Music) I select File -> Organize Library -> Consolidate Files.
Which created doubled ...
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What program can I use to add album art to music?
I have a lot of mp3 files which I get from Game/Anime OSTs, ED/OP Singles and the Collector's Soundtracks that come with Premium or Limited Edition Games. A lot of the time these aren't tagged with ...
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How do you transfer videos to iTunes/iPod?
I have a load of videos from my old Walkman that I transferred to my new computer, and want to put them on to the iPod I bought as a replacement MP3 device.
When I press the "Add File/Folder to ...
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iPod not connecting to Windows 7 PC
I have an old iPod which is not connected to my Windows 7 PC. I have iTunes in my PC but still nothing works.
Actually I have't use it in last one month, yesterday I have try to ON it but battery is ...
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itunes and ipod music files corrupted
I synchronised my ipod with PC as normal and now have a strange problem – lots of the songs on my ipod are now labelled incorrectly, ie. if I select a Rihanna song and press play it plays another song....
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iPod Touch not recognized by iTunes/iExplorer on one PC but is recognized on other
I have restarted PC, restarted iPod service, etc. It is recognized by PC as a device, but not on iTunes/iExplorer.
Here is an image:
I need to manage files. My iPod is jailbroken.
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