How to make “Genius” Playlists work on the iPhone
So, yesterday the 2.1 firmware came out for the iPhone. Amongst other things, it promised the ability to use Genius Playlists on the phone itself. Hooray, I thought.
Except that the blooming things wouldn’t work for me. Oh dear.
Syncing the Next n Unwatched TV Shows to your iPod, AppleTV or iPhone using iTunes
Storage space on an iPhone is at a premium. There just isn’t enough space on it to be able to store an entire season of a TV Show that you’ve ripped from the DVDs you bought. But then, there shouldn’t…
Why I won’t be buying an iPhone
First off, lets get one thing straight. Generally, I love my Apple products. I have a MacBook Pro, a Mac Mini, a G4 iBook, a 160Gb AppleTV, a 30Gb iPod Video and a 1Gb iPod Nano so that I can…
Six Things I’d Like to See iTunes Do
A little over a year ago, I wrote about some of the things that I wished that iTunes would do. Soon afterwards, collapsible playlist groups actually were implemented and I came away a happy boy. Over the last month and…
Listening to events generated by iTunes on OS X
Is it possible to listen for events generated by iTunes running on OS X? When iTunes is running on Windows it is possible to listen for, say, “OnPlayerPlayEvent” - an event which is fired every time a song starts playing….
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iTunes Agent
I’ve only just discovered iTunes Agent, and like most great discoveries it was made completely randomly. iTunes Agent is a little Windows application that allows you to synchronise playlists in iTunes with any MP3 player that connects to your PC…
One More Thing
The “One More Thing” announced by Steve Jobs today was in fact a video iPod. Looks like I was wrong when I said it couldn’t possibly be that then! To coincide with this, iTunes 6 has been released (as…
Buying Music Online
Well, that’s another of my 101 things knocked off the list. This morning I finally bought some digital music online via the iTunes Music Store. It was nice and easy and downloaded quite happily onto my computer. Now, I’m…
iTunes COM Interface for Windows updated in iTunes 4.8
It turns out that the release of iTunes 4.8 did bring with it an update to the iTunes COM Interface for Windows. Version 1.3 of the iTunes Type library adds the IiTunes::ConvertOperationStatus() property, IITIPodSource::SoftwareVersion() property and the _IITConvertOperationStatusEvents::OnConvertOperationCompleteEvent() outgoing…
iTunes 4.8 released
iTunes 4.8 has just been released by Apple. I’ve just downloaded it now, and will report back later if I find anything like the five users per day limitation going on again. According to SmartPlaylists.com, the following features have…
Four Things that I’d Like to See iTunes do…
Following on from my last post about Smart Playlists, I feel like I need to get a few feelings off my chest about iTunes. It’s a fantastic bit of software, but there are a few things that I really…
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Creating Smart Playlists in iTunes
Whilst writing my dissertation I’ve been doing a lot of research into automatic playlist generation. The application which I’ve been writing will create playlists for you based on the songs that you’ve listened to whilst you’ve been in certain…
iTunes DAAP Servers
I’ve been meaning to post about DAAP servers for quite a while now, and almost got around to it last month when deleet’s DAAP Project wiki picked up my “iTunes streaming now only allows five users per day” blog…
iTunes streaming now only allows five users per day?
I upgraded iTunes to 4.7.1.30 a few days ago, when it became available, and I’ve had no problems with it, except one. Whilst it’s been the case for a long time now that iTunes will only allow five people…
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Apple Keynote Speech - Because posts are random…
Well, if you’ve got any interest in Apple Computers at all, you’ll know that on the 11th Steve Jobs gave his keynote speech at the MacWorld Conference over in San Fransisco. During the course of his speech, two nice…
Java and the iTunes COM interface REDUX
This entry has now been superseded by the Using the iTunes COM Interface with Java and Swing article, which contains a fuller explanation of how to use the iTunes COM interface with Java Well, yesterday I said that I’d managed…
Java and the iTunes COM interface
This entry has now been superseded by the Using the iTunes COM Interface with Java and Swing article, which contains a fuller explanation of how to use the iTunes COM interface with Java I’ve spent the entire afternoon playing with…