Because I just can’t help myself, a few more comments on iTunes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The iTunes 7.0.1 maintenance update<\/span> (no longer online: apple.com\/support\/downloads\/itunes701.html) has finally dropped. I haven’t noticed any real speed improvements, but Apple has fixed the bug of dragging image files to the album art window not working. Partially fixed, rather… you can now only drag one image, not multiple as you used to be able to do, pre-version 7 (you can still do so via the pop-up Song Info window).<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve had an “iPod with Video” for months, but just now noticed an oddity. One of Apple’s touted features is the elegantly simple “Shuffle songs” menu item. One click and you’re served up a random steam of the entire contents of your iPod. The problem is, it draws from the entire contents<\/em> of your iPod, including video!<\/p>\n\n\n\n So if a video comes up on shuffle, it plays the audio only, with a still from the video serving as album art. I obviously rarely look at my iPod screen unless I need to change something, so the only reason I noticed this issue is that it started playing a song for which I know I only have the music video purchased from the iTunes Store. Video soundtracks are typically of a much lower audio quality than a dedicated MP3 or AAC audio file, so it sounded terrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To avoid having videos mixed in with your audio, you apparently must forgo the Shuffle menu command altogether, and take the extra step to navigate through the “Music” menus, or to a playlist you’ve manually created yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And finally, an iTunes Smart Playlist question: is there a way to refresh a smart playlist generated at random? If you set up a smart playlist of, for instance, 10 random songs from the 1980’s, iTunes will create exactly that for you, but it appears to be frozen that way unless you change a criterion. What if I just want to refresh it, to get a different<\/em> random 10 songs from the 80’s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because I just can’t help myself, a few more comments on iTunes: The iTunes 7.0.1 maintenance update (no longer online: apple.com\/support\/downloads\/itunes701.html) has finally dropped. I haven’t noticed any real speed improvements, but Apple has fixed the bug of dragging image files to the album art window not working. Partially fixed, rather… you can now only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2177],"tags":[829,1384,1382],"class_list":["post-8415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-ipod","tag-itunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/itunes.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-2bJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":412,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-september-13-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":8415,"position":0},"title":"Notes on Apple’s “It’s Showtime” special event","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"September 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Time for some obligatory mouthing off about Apple's latest iFiesta, the \"It's Showtime\" special event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. iPod with Video (such an ungainly name): enhanced with more storage and brighter screen. iPod Nano: totally redesigned. 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