Windows Vista no longer recognizes my iPhone 3Gs as a drive and I can't sync with iTunes. When I connect the phone it appears in the iTunes sidebar but no longer appears as a drive in Windows. My phone says it's syncing (set to manual, not automatic) but nothing syncs. So far I've tried: changing the USB cable and ports, reinstalling iTunes, hard booting computer and phone, and installing new iPhone driver. Any ideas? Thanks.
posted by carriest
on Apr 25, 2010 -
2 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 -
8 answers
I sometimes rate songs on my iPhone or computer. I would like these ratings to persist in the cloud (e.g. independent of any particular computer). I want the ratings to get automatically uploaded to some storage site periodically and synced to my iTunes library (and from there or directly, my iPhone) periodically. Is there a way to do this?
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posted by jcruelty
on Apr 19, 2010 -
5 answers
iTunes will not download the latest podcasts from my subscriptions. Even if I unsubscribe and delete all my podcasts and then subscribe again, it won't download the latest ones. This happens for multiple podcasts. I've uninstall/reinstalled iTunes and the same thing. If I go to the podcast directly in the iTunes store, I can click on the specific episode and download it but it won't update in iTunes even if I try to manually update. Any ideas? It's driving me crazy and Apple won't help. My settings haven't changed. I have it set to check every hour and download the most recent one and to only keep unplayed podcasts.
posted by paulyballs
on Apr 14, 2010 -
7 answers
iTunes filter: I store all my MP3s on an external hard drive, and iTunes is set to automatically sync my iPhone whenever I plug it in. Everything works fine, except when I'm traveling without my external hd and I plug in my iPhone. If I do that, the next time I check my iTunes all the songs that are on the iPhone have a gray exclamation point next to them. Help!
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posted by bjork24
on Apr 10, 2010 -
4 answers
Why won't iTunes 9 Home Sharing let my wife drag songs? She can see the [XP] server's library on her Mac, can browse the library, but cannot drag songs into her own library.
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posted by chazlarson
on Apr 9, 2010 -
9 answers
There seem to be some interesting plugins for doing tedious library management chores (like say, TuneUp or TidySongs). Googling produces tons of non-reviews reviews and noise, and I don't feel like messing my stuff (and time) with lots of try-and-see's, not to mention you have to pay for them (yes, I'm ok with paying for a couple of these things if they are worth it but not just to experiment). So if you're so kind to share, tell me your personal experience and recommendations for iTunes plugins, for Windows. If your experience if
s of something so vile I should run away from it, do tell too!
posted by Iosephus
on Apr 8, 2010 -
8 answers
Is there any way to sync my voice notes with my iphone that doesn't involve them ending up in my music section?
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posted by rileyray3000
on Mar 30, 2010 -
8 answers
I'm a lazy bastard who spends a lot of time on the computer. I'm running Snow Leopard right now, and I want to know if there's a quick, easy way to pause iTunes when I start watching a YouTube video.
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posted by Despondent_Monkey
on Mar 26, 2010 -
12 answers
Looking for the most efficient way to manage new music I download with iTunes and my external hard drive.
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posted by foreversport
on Mar 15, 2010 -
9 answers
How can I consolidate music files from two computers (one windows, one linux) into one folder without duplicates? I'm thinking of using rsync.
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posted by double block and bleed
on Mar 14, 2010 -
3 answers
I'm utterly baffled...why does iTunes import long CDs with errors every time I turn
ON error correction, but with error correction off it works fine?
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posted by arniec
on Mar 4, 2010 -
8 answers
Is there a way to tell which songs in my iTunes Music list are part of one or more of my playlists?
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posted by ollyolly
on Mar 2, 2010 -
5 answers
iTunes 9 seems to have killed the ability to disconnect from one's NAS library and re-consolidate when re-attached. Does anyone have a working solution? Details inside..
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posted by Señor Pantalones
on Mar 1, 2010 -
5 answers
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 -
2 answers
How can I better organize my podcast subscriptions and access them from any computer and my iPhone?
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posted by lucyleaf
on Feb 24, 2010 -
6 answers
I have an XBox 360, a Macbook with Connect360 and TV shows that I bought from iTunes. How can I make them play nice?
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posted by youcancallmeal
on Feb 15, 2010 -
8 answers
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 -
30 answers
How can I search lyrics in iTunes on Windows? I used a program to automatically add lyrics to many of my songs in iTunes. Some of the lyrics now consist of things like, "These lyrics are missing. Could you please submit them?" due to a failure to automatically retrieve anything. I'd like to search for common terms and either purge the bad lyrics or move those song to a playlist where I can then run them through a lyrics cleaner. Looks like there's a few good Mac/Applescript solutions but nothing I can find in Windows.
posted by scottso17
on Feb 10, 2010 -
2 answers
Can I use iTunes to handle the music on my iPod Touch, but use another program (gPodder, Juice) to handle podcasts?
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posted by JoshTeeters
on Feb 9, 2010 -
2 answers
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
Attending a "jukebox" party, where several people bring their music files on external drives and play through one computer.
How can we (or should we) use iTunes without creating all kinds of mayhem?
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posted by smelvis
on Jan 17, 2010 -
6 answers
I have an iPhone 3G and an old iBook G4 running iTunes 8.2.23, and this morning when I plugged the phone into the laptop iTunes no longer seemed to recognize the phone. iPhoto opens automatically and asks if I want to download my photos, but when I go into iTunes the phone doesn't show up in the menu on the left side of the screen and I get the spinning wheel of death. I've had the phone for about a week and it worked just fine with iTunes/my laptop until now. Any suggestions?
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posted by The Card Cheat
on Jan 16, 2010 -
5 answers
How do I rescue my playlists in iTunes after switching computers?
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posted by norm
on Jan 14, 2010 -
4 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
Airport Express and Windows 7: New laptop! My wireless works, but my airtunes just hangs when I select it in iTunes! Help!
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posted by pdxgirl42
on Jan 12, 2010 -
1 answer
I want to put my itunes library on a shared drive or NAS. I have 2 spare older laptops and was hoping to connect external drives to them and share them. But I have some (a lot of) songs that have filenames not in english. Some are unicode and some are big5 (an asian character encoding). I also want to be able to admin my itunes from windows and mac os or maybe just mac os.
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posted by brinks
on Jan 3, 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 -
10 answers
iTunesFilter: I got an iTunes gift card for Christmas - $15. What could I possibly buy on iTunes that I couldn't just download somewhere else?
posted by Bobby Bittman
on Dec 28, 2009 -
25 answers
I am not renewing my MobileMe account this year and I am in the process of switching over the email address for everything attached to it. The only sticking point? My Apple ID is currently tied to my MobileMe account, so anything I have purchased from the iTunes store is tied to that account. How do I change this? I tried just logging into Apple's My Info site, but you can't change you ID if it's tied to a MobileMe account. Do I need to create a new account and transfer everything over to that somehow? (Can you do that?) Or is there some obscure and Apple-obfuscated way of actually making this change?
posted by smallerdemon
on Dec 27, 2009 -
2 answers
Dad's a consultant, and travels constantly for work. Work provides a laptop, but won't let him install iTunes. Is there a way to get music & audiobooks to synch to his ipod through an external drive, or cloud computing or something? Doesn't have to be iTunes, just a way to connect my dad and his music without offending corporate IT.
posted by Caravantea
on Dec 25, 2009 -
15 answers
Please help me install a Last.fm scrobbler for iTunes on Mac OSX 10.5.8 without administrator privileges.
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posted by puritycontrol
on Dec 15, 2009 -
4 answers
iTunes is ruining my music! After importing or ripping an album, an average of 5 tracks will skip and begin playing again at the start. This gets VERY stressful when I import about 5 albums a day and don't get a chance to listen to the music until a few days later, causing me to have to re-import many times over to make sure all the songs play through.
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posted by Germs of Love
on Dec 13, 2009 -
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Itunes is not retrieving titles for CDs from CDBB. It tries to but gets nothing after a few seconds. I am not sure it is even connecting to CDBB or what error(s) are occurring. I even reinstalled Itunes 9 (9.0.2 - newest) and it still does it. I do get the response "This CD was not found in CDBB database. You can enter information for the CD and each of its tracks. If this is not a commercial CD etc etc etc"...I've tried several CDs such as the Doors, Pete Townsend, Roxy Music...all ones that have worked on previous Itunes incarnations. I am not sure if it is an Itunes thing, a Mac/computer thing, or CDBB thing. This is a new thing and wasn't happening before. I have had the computer about a year if that matters. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help and have a good upcoming holiday.
posted by snap_dragon
on Dec 13, 2009 -
14 answers
My iTunes library is somewhat corrupt. The actual library file is fine, but I have about 700 (out of 14k) songs that are pointing to random files around my hard drive. Where do i start in repairing the file?
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posted by sammich
on Dec 13, 2009 -
11 answers
Restored my iPhone to factory settings (after backing it up) in an attempt to fix an app updating issue. Now I can't restore all my previous stuff because iTunes says "the backup session failed." Please help.
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posted by Captain Cardanthian!
on Dec 10, 2009 -
7 answers
Can I force the new iTunes visualizer (magnetosphere) to ALWAYS display the current track info? Failing that, any recommended alternative visualizations for iTunes on Windows?
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posted by thisisnotbruce
on Dec 6, 2009 -
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