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Macworld 2010: Moodagent has synced over one billion songs

by David Winograd (Feb 12th, 2010)

In December we reviewed Moodagent [iTunes Link] a wonderful music app that puts you in control of creating Genius like playlists of your iTunes library. On release it didn't recognize about 20% of my library, but now, after analyzing over one billion songs, I find it to be about 95% accurate, and ...

Moodagent: Going iTunes Playlists one better

by David Winograd (Dec 19th, 2009)

Moodagent [iTunes Link] (free for now) puts a new spin on the iTunes Genius Playlist system. Instead of leaving it up to Apple to give you category based Genius Playlists, Moodagent, gives you some control over what songs will appear in a 25 song customizable playlist of your music. You are given ...

Batch move your playlists to an iTunes folder

by Sang Tang (Oct 22nd, 2009)

Folders, which have been a feature of iTunes since iTunes 5.0, serve as a means to better organize your music. For example, you could create genre- or artist-based folders with corresponding playlists nested within them. But moving playlists into folders isn't the most fun thing, and can be ...

Mac 101: Stars and Smart Playlists

by Robert Palmer (Jul 28th, 2008)

If you're anything like me -- and I sincerely hope you're not, for your sake -- you have a large iTunes music library, but the music that you like right now is only a small fraction of that total. (Yeah, that embarrassing '96 Dave Matthews Band album is getting pretty dusty.) Since my musical ...

New iPhone SDK build shows video playlists, portrait-mode playback

by Robert Palmer (Jun 11th, 2008)

An anonymous tipster sent us a short video showing new capabilities of the iPhone 2.0 software. It's a little hard to see around his building's attractive fluorescent lighting, but hopefully you get the gist. It appears that videos will be easily playable in portrait or landscape orientations, ...

Possible bug with iPhone synching and external iTunes libraries

by David Chartier (Jul 14th, 2007)

TUAW reader Jamie Phelps has possibly stumbled upon a nasty iPhone synching bug when keeping one's iTunes library on an external hard drive. While tips like our how-tos for setting up iTunes with external drives or even an AirPort Disk work pretty well even when synching iPods with them, Jamie found ...

Take a chance on your friend's music with an 'iPod exchange'

by David Chartier (May 25th, 2007)

The Ocala Star-Banner has an interesting story involving an 'iPod exchange,' where two of their reporters decided to swap iPod shuffles for a few days to get a taste for each others' musical interests. The key to their experiment, at least in their eyes, is the fact that they specifically used ...

TUAW Tip: open two separate iTunes windows

by David Chartier (Feb 12th, 2007)

This isn't the most advanced tip in the book, but I found the trick darn handy last night while performing some badly needed library cleanup. In iTunes, you can open a second window for almost any item in your sources list on the left - the iTunes Store, a playlist or - interestingly - even a ...

iTMS offers cultural explorations through music with new Back to School section

by David Chartier (Aug 29th, 2006)

Just in time for a new fall semester, the iTMS has introduced a Back to School (iTMS link) section, offering playlists based on the many cultures, cliques and stereotypes that (love it or hate it) exist and collide on so many college campuses across our great planet. Groups like Hipsters, Hippies, ...

Ask TUAW: What's your favorite Smart Playlist?

by David Chartier (Aug 17th, 2006)

While browsing Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes and Smart Playlists.com last night for some ideas on how to make iTunes do my bidding, it dawned on me that these handy tools of automated music wrangling might make for a great Ask TUAW discussion. After all: who doesn't love music, and who doesn't love ...

iPod.iTunes: powerful library synchronization

by David Chartier (Jun 5th, 2006)

iPod.iTunes offers 8 different ways of synchronizing your iTunes library and playlists between both devices, giving you powerful control over what files are moved where and how. All formats are supported, including MP3, AAC, protected AAC (iTMS purchases), Audible books, and video files. ...

Quicksilver scripts for tagging iTunes songs, creating playlists

by David Chartier (Jan 25th, 2006)

A MacOSXHints reader has put together an interesting set of Quicksilver scripts that will allow you to both easily tag your iTunes music as it is playing, and create on-the-fly playlists based on these tags. The way they work is simple: while music is playing in iTunes, you can use Quicksilver's ...

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