The last time I bought a stereo, Reagan was president. I don't know if they're even called stereos any more. Please help me figure out what I want and how to set it up.
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posted by The corpse in the library
on Feb 2, 2013 -
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Did my iPod Classic finally kick the bucket? It's a generic "Portable Audio Player" now, and Windows refuses to format it.
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posted by muckster
on Jan 23, 2013 -
12 answers
Is there a clean and simple alternative to iTunes for getting music
from my Macbook Air
onto my iPhone 4S?
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posted by gottabefunky
on Jan 2, 2013 -
10 answers
My daughter put a password on her iPod and promptly forgot it, which would be fine if iTunes didn't stop responding every single time we try to sync it. I really don't want to lose everything that is on there, especially her pictures and purchases. Help me be a hero to my daughter and tell me how to fix it.
posted by Ruki
on Apr 14, 2012 -
10 answers
I have 300gb of music, a house, several Mac laptops, a Mac G5, a router, two iphones, an ipad, and several external HDs where the music is stored. I would like to be able to play music anywhere in my house, control it wirelessly without the laptops and update libraries as well as all my devices with whatever I like anywhere in the house, without having to drag out the external USB HD to plug into various laptops like I do now. I'm willing to buy equipment to let this happen. Bonus if it lets me move movies onto a USB stick to plug into my nifty new tv. Details under the fold.
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posted by nevercalm
on Nov 19, 2011 -
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What tool, perhaps something besides iTunes, can I use to rip CDs I own and put them onto my iPod?
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posted by shipbreaker
on Nov 10, 2011 -
11 answers
A few days ago syncing my iPod Touch with iTunes deleted all but its original apps (My fault for not noticing that the list of apps in iTunes had, for some reason, reverted to the factory defaults). While slowly restoring my purchased apps via the App Store App>Updates>Purchased, I noticed that ad-supported Instapaper was no longer listed. Googling 'Instapaper Free' told me that the ad-supported version was removed from iTunes and support discontinued sometime in April of this year. This has led me to several questions:
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posted by Alvy Ampersand
on Nov 9, 2011 -
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Using iPhone/iPad between two computers with roughly the same data. Is this possible? More inside:
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posted by damiano99
on Oct 14, 2011 -
9 answers
What's the best technology for a little kid listening to music? My five-year-old loves music. We only have song on iTunes and iPods. He can't read the song titles, and it's too easy for him to mess things up. I'm wishing for a stack of records ("like we had when I was a kid") that he could manage himself. Any advice on creating a self-operable music listening system for kids in this age of digital music? Thanks!
posted by largecorp
on Mar 26, 2011 -
14 answers
Classical music + itunes + video (classic) iPod. Help me figure out the essential (minimum) amount of metadata needed for happy music listening.
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posted by Homo economicus
on Mar 1, 2011 -
6 answers
Recently, I have new (weird) problem with iTunes. (9.0.2.25 on XP)
After starting the app, the music store show-up and vanish..
Link to Video.
I didn't made any critical changes to my XP machine recently.. (Firewall, Hosts file..)
What can cause this issue.. ?
posted by nagalr
on Feb 16, 2011 -
4 answers
Does anyone know a good way to sync multiple devices on the same iTunes account on multiple machines easily?
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posted by emjay
on Feb 6, 2011 -
5 answers
Some songs on my iPod and through iTunes seem to be running slow - just enough to be noticeable and to drive me crazy. Songs that I've downloaded recently seem fine until I play them enough, and then it's almost like they wear out - what gives?
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posted by AthenaPolias
on Jan 22, 2011 -
7 answers
I bought an Ipod Nano off a friend (4th gen). He was running the latest version of Itunes. I have A G5 Mac with OSX Version 10.4.11. The newest version of Itunes Apple will allow me to download is Itunes 8.2.1. My computer can't access the Ipod at all. help me?
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posted by kristymcj
on Jan 13, 2011 -
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What's a decent iPhone app for downloading/listening to podcasts? I'm trying to avoid syncing it to iTunes every time I want to get new podcasts, so I'd like to use this app to subscribe to one and let me know when new episodes are available (that's the important part), listen to them, and delete them. Didn't find much of anything in the AskMeFi archives except a reference to Podcaster, but does anyone have any personal recommendations? Free or not-free. Thanks!
posted by jroybal
on Jan 7, 2011 -
3 answers
Anyone know of a workaround that would enable someone to modify the point at which a song is counted as "fully played" in iTunes?
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posted by samac
on Dec 29, 2010 -
7 answers
IPod filter. If I down-loaded music from the ITunes store directly into my IPod, how do I get the songs into my ITunes on my computer?
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posted by Flood
on Nov 14, 2010 -
8 answers
Is it just me, or is iTunes the most annoying, inconvenient, fricking stupid piece of software ever created? Help me figure out how to use this piece of crap.
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posted by moorooka
on Oct 6, 2010 -
30 answers
On iTunes, is there a way to make it so that songs are arranged in the intended album-order rather than alphabetically?
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posted by jitterbug perfume
on Sep 17, 2010 -
18 answers
iTunes broke my calendar. I can no longer sync Outlook to my iPod Touch because "sync server failed to sync." I can't find an answer to this on iTunes help although I do see that others have had this problem. Any suggestions? I've always done this over a USB cable. Nothing has changed except the calendar won't sync anymore. My iTunes software is up to date. I think Notes and Contacts are syncing -- though I just realized I haven't really tested that. I don't sync music in this operation, I do that from a different machine with different settings.
posted by Sia Stewart
on Aug 25, 2010 -
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I have two kids. Each has an ipod touch. Planning on adding two more to the household (mom and dad). Problem: I created an itunes store ID for each kid. Looking backward, wouldn't it have been smarter to create ONE Apple ID for the family, so I can see what is being purchased? I had a recent breach in my credit card and had several unauthorized purchases from Itunes...having one account might have led me to see this fraud a little sooner. (apart from checking my credit card statement daily)
What do you multi-iphone-Touch families do? one account?
If the devices all get registered to one account, can one transfer a paid app from one device to another?
Will apps already purchased be lost if I consolidate the devices under a different username?
Any family Apple device strategies appreciated.
posted by teg4rvn
on Jun 7, 2010 -
4 answers
I want to gift somebody an new ipod with maybe a dozen or so audiobooks already on the ipod. How do I best do this, given how ipods and other Apple accessories are linked with itunes accounts?
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posted by The ____ of Justice
on Apr 23, 2010 -
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I can't seem to be able to download certain episodes of the
Answer Me This! podcast from the iTunes Store. Although the titles show up in my iTunes podcast library, they seem to be streaming links with no mp3 files actually copied to my machine.
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posted by blueberry
on Feb 26, 2010 -
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My music collection is practically non-existent. I have a new iPod, a laptop and 2GB per month downloads. What is the best and cheapest way to start building a music library from scratch? Should I just buy everything from iTunes, or what? And does anyone still pay for music?!
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posted by Weng
on Feb 11, 2010 -
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I have a 4th Gen click wheel iPod. It still plays and charges. Today, I got the "restore" error message when hooking it up to my iMac/iTunes. I tried restoring it but it then gave me the msg "The iPod could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1433)" and directed me to
here. I tried the usual stuff recommended including: unplugging and replugging; trying new cord; holding menu and center button down for reboot; trying on other macs -- and still get the same msg. Although the technology is old, the iPod itself has hardly been used. Any suggestions? (Besides buying a new one.)
Thanks for your input.
posted by snap_dragon
on Jan 19, 2010 -
15 answers
Can someone please tell me how to find the size of my iPhoto and iTunes files? I go into Library, find iPhoto and iTunes and then find bunch of subfiles, divided by date; but they don't seem to include all the pictures and songs. It doesn't make sense and Apple documentation doesn't clarify the matter.
Thanks.
posted by holdenjordahl
on Jan 14, 2010 -
4 answers
Can I use the iPod Nano MP3 player with my own headphones and non-itunes music?
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posted by katala
on Dec 30, 2009 -
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I can't figure out how to get my ipod to sync an audiobook playlist, a podcast playlist and then fill up with music from another playlist. Can you help?
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posted by tonylord
on Nov 30, 2009 -
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I have a smart Playlist on my iTunes which functions properly and has all the right tracks in it. I have it checked as a Playlist to export to my iPhone. The iPhone has a playlist with exactly the same name ... but completely different songs. I've double checked that I don't have two playlists with the same name in iTunes. Not just one track is different--none of the tracks overlap. Why is this happening?
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posted by You Should See the Other Guy
on Nov 20, 2009 -
9 answers
What audio format would you rip the recently remastered Beatles albums in for optimum iPod listening?
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posted by Avenger50
on Oct 27, 2009 -
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