Ask iLounge 5-17-07

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Ask iLounge offers readers the opportunity to get answers to their iPod-related questions from a member of the iLounge editorial team. We'll answer several questions here each week, and of course, you can always get help with more immediate concerns from the iLounge Discussion Forums. Submit your questions for consideration using our Ask iLounge Submit Form. We reserve the right to edit questions for grammar, spelling, and length.

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How do I copy music from my iPod onto my computer?

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How do I put DVDs on my iPod?

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Q: What are the best headphones to use with my iPod? (10, 72-75, and 90-92)

Q: I really want to get a nice case for my iPod. Do you have any suggestions? (36-37, 54-67, and 90-92)

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Q: Are there any batteries that I can use to extend my iPod's battery life? (82-83 and 90-92)

A: Answers to these and many other questions can be found in two places. Our Free iPod Book 3.3 provides a complete report card to all of the iPod accessories we've reviewed as of summer 2007, as well as over 125 iTunes and iPod tips & tricks. Further, our new 2008 iPod & iPhone Buyers' Guide has accessory tutorials at the page numbers listed in parentheses above. These and other publications in our Library are free downloads, developed by the editors of iLounge!

And now, for this week's Ask iLounge column:

Q: I recently retired my Treo 650 Smartphone and moved to a Blackberry since the iPhone isn’t available yet. Is there any way to convert my e-books from the Palm format to plain text so I can view them in the notes section on my iPod?

- Cal

A: Although there are no actual e-book reader applications available for the iPod, the “Notes” feature can be used to read any files that are in text format.

Unfortunately, for working with existing e-books, it’s difficult to suggest a solution that will work for all types of content, as there are many different e-book formats for the Palm OS, and whether you can convert them back to text will depend upon where you have obtained your e-books from and what format they are in.

If your e-books were encoded yourself, or downloaded from free or open e-book services, there are some methods available that can convert these e-books back to text format. Unfortunately, e-books that were purchased from online e-book stores such as eReader and MobiPocket are encrypted with DRM protection in much the same way that iTunes Store purchases are, and therefore cannot be viewed using any e-book software other than the applications provided by those services.

If you do have standard Palm “DOC” format e-books (not to be confused with the Microsoft Word document format), you can convert them back to text format by using the free MakeDoc tool. Detailed instructions on how to accomplish this, as well as how to convert between some of the other various e-book formats can be found at HANDebooks.

Once you have an e-book in text format, it will still needs some processing to be usable on the iPod, since the iPod Notes feature can only display files that are less than 4 KB in size. Therefore, all but the very smallest e-books will have to broken up into a series of 4 KB segments. Fortunately, there are some applications out there that will handle this for you:

iPod eBook Creator is probably the simplest solution, as it is a free web-based service, rather than a software program, which will take an uploaded text file and split it into a series of individual 4KB “pages” complete with internal links to move between the various pages.

Two software-based solutions are also worth a look for users with more sophisticated requirements: iPod eBook Maker and iPodLibrary provide some additional management features, as well as the advantage of being able to convert additional formats such as Microsoft Word, Rich-Text-Format (RTF), and in the case of iPodLibrary, even PDF documents and Microsoft LIT format e-books.

Q: I deleted some playlists that I had created ages ago on my iPod and added some more
songs and new playlists. My iPod is almost full so I deleted more songs but now all my songs have diappeared and when I connect the iPod the error message “Songs on the iPod cannot be updated because all of the playlists selected for updating no longer exist” comes up. How do I get my songs back onto my ipod!?

- Laurie

A: In this case it sounds like you were synchronizing only “Selected Playlists” to your iPod rather than syncing your entire library. This may be due to you selecting specific playlists, or if your library was too large for your iPod, iTunes may have automatically set up a selected playlist for you to fill your iPod.

Either way, however, iTunes is telling you that it has nothing to sync to your iPod as you’ve deleted the playlists that it was using to determine what to put onto your iPod. For the same reason, your iPod will be empty as all of the playlists in iTunes that were being copied to the iPod are now gone.

To fix this issue, simply connect your iPod to iTunes, and select it in the source list. The main screen should show a summary of the iPod configuration. Select the “Music” tab, and you’ll see a configuration screen similar to the following:

From here you can either change the setting to “All songs and playlists” (in which case your entire music library will be copied to your iPod during the next sync), or select the specific playlists that you want transferred to your iPod. Once you’ve adjusted these settings, simply hit the “Apply” button that appears in the bottom right corner, and your iPod should synchronize the content you’ve selected.

If after hitting “Apply” iTunes determines that it cannot fit the items you’ve selected to sync on your iPod, it will advise you of this with a warning message. If you’ve chosen to synchronize “All songs and playlists” iTunes will offer to build a playlist for you and autofill your iPod with selected content. It does this somewhat randomly, however, so you may prefer to set up your own playlists for this purpose.

Alternatively, if you’re already syncing only selected playlists and the content is still too large to fit on your iPod, iTunes will simply notify you of this fact, and you will need to revise your selections by either selecting fewer playlists, or removing some of the items from your selected playlists.

One other consideration: If you think that your iPod should be large enough to hold the music you’ve selected, yet you’re receiving errors telling you that your selected items won’t fit on the iPod, take a look at the amount of storage being taken up in the orange “Other” category on your iPod, which can be observed in the capacity bar at the bottom of the summary screen.

If you actually have no music or data files on your iPod and this number is higher than 100MB, this may indicated “orphaned” music files. In this case, you should perform a “Restore” on your iPod by using the appropriate button on that same screen, which will reformat the iPod and erase everything on it, giving you a clean slate on which to reload your music.

Q: When I make a playlist there is a big difference sometimes in volume (gain) from track to track. Is there a way to bring continuity so that all tracks are the same volume (gain)?

- Kevin

A: The simplest way to do this is to use the “Sound Check” feature that is available in iTunes and on the iPod. Sound Check is a feature whereby iTunes analyses your music tracks and applies a volume adjustment to normalize the volume between tracks.

To enable Sound Check, you first need to visit your iTunes Playback preferences and select the appropriate option:

Enabling this option for the first time will cause iTunes to scan through your music library to analyze the relative volume of your tracks, applying adjustment values in the process. Note that this does not actually modify the audio of the tracks themselves, but rather just adds a tag into the track information telling iTunes that it should adjust the volume up or down accordingly. It also tells iTunes to scan any new tracks as they are imported, and add the appropriate Sound Check information to them as well.

You can see this volume adjustment for each track indicated in the “Summary” tab of the track’s properties (which can be viewed by selecting a track and choosing File, Get Info):

Once Sound Check has been enabled in iTunes, your tracks should play at the same relative volume when listening to them on your computer. Further, this information will be transferred to your iPod during the next sync.

To take advantage of this information on the iPod, however, Sound Check must also be enabled directly on the device. For the full-size iPod models and iPod nano, this is done under the Settings menu, using the “Sound Check” option. For the iPod Shuffle, Sound Check is enabled from the iPod’s Summary tab in iTunes itself:

If you decide to turn Sound Check OFF for any reason in iTunes itself, the Sound Check information that was previously added to the tracks is retained. Should you then later re-enable Sound Check, iTunes will simply use the existing information in tracks that already have it, scanning only the new tracks that you may have added during the time that Sound Check was disabled in iTunes.

Q: I have iTunes set to automatically organize my music files in the iTunes Music Folder; however, I have noticed that iTunes truncates the file names if they are relatively long. I really don’t like this functionality. Is there a way to turn this off? And what would be the benefit in having the shorter file names?

- Zach

A: Unfortunately, there isn’t any specific way to override this behavior, although where iTunes chooses to truncate the file name is somewhat dependent upon the underlying file system (ie, FAT32 or NTFS on Windows, FAT32 or HFS+ on Mac OS X). The file names are truncated in order to maintain compatibility with the file systems on both the computer running iTunes, as well as to ensure that they’ll be supported when transferred to the iPod itself.

The only option is to turn OFF the Keep iTunes Music folder organized setting in the iTunes advanced preferences and then pre-name your music files yourself prior to importing them into iTunes. Note that if you do this, you will also need to either turn OFF the Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library setting in the same preference panel, or place the items to be imported in the iTunes Music Folder, otherwise iTunes will rename them as it copies them into its music library folder.

One other setting that might help if you wanted to continue allowing iTunes to organize your music would be to omit the track numbers from the front of the file names. This can be accomplished by UNchecking the Create file names with track number setting in the importing preferences.

While it may not make much of a difference, this will save you some space on the front-end of each file name, thus getting you two or three extra characters on the end of each file name.

Q: I’ve been finding that iTunes alphabetizes some of my albums so that the tracks are listed in alphabetical order. This is highly irritating with albums that are mixed to run straight through in an order. How can I stop it from doing this?

- Jodie

A: By default, iTunes and the iPod normally sort tracks with each album based on the track number. If the track number is not available, however, it will revert to sorting alphabetically. It is therefore important to ensure that all albums have the proper track numbers filled in within the file information.

You can enter the track information by selecting a track in the iTunes library and choosing File, Get Info. This will bring up the file information dialog box. On the “Info” tab, there is a field to specify the track number.

The first number is the primary requirement for sorting tracks properly with an album, whereas the “Of” number is for reference only and is not used by iTunes other than for display purposes.

Note as well that you can use the “Next” and “Previous” buttons to quickly navigate from track to track in the file info dialog box.

The track number column can also be displayed in list view by choosing View, View Options and checking the box for “Track Number.”

Note also from the diagram above that you can specify the sort order in iTunes for the list view, which will apply to all albums when playing them in iTunes directly from the library. Sorting by a common field such as Album or Artist will still default to a track number sort, however sorting by any other field that is not in common between all tracks, such as track name, will cause the tracks to be sorted within each album alphabetically instead.

Note that these sort orders selected in iTunes for the library do not transfer to the iPod itself. If you find that the iPod is still sorting tracks alphabetically, even after inserting track numbers, you may want to try removing these tracks from the iPod and re-adding them, particularly if you’re managing your iPod content manually. If you’re managing your content automatically, the easiest way to remove and re-add the tracks to the iPod is to set your iPod to “Sync checked items only” (in the iPod settings in iTunes), and then simply UNcheck the tracks in question, sync your iPod to remove them, and then RE-check the tracks and sync the iPod again, which will add them back.

One final option to keep in mind is that the sort order for playlists will transfer to the iPod, so if you have specific albums that you want to override the sort order for, you can always create a playlist for that specific album, set the order in iTunes to how you want it (even a manual sort order if you like), and then sync those playlists to the iPod.

Q: I am considering getting an iPod but I have a question about the song pause feature. How does it work? Can you turn it off and pick up where you left off without having to fiddle with it?

- Bob

A: Normally if you pause a song and leave the iPod alone, it will retain its place in that particular song. There are two exceptions to this, however:

Firstly, iPod models prior to the fifth-generation iPod and iPod nano had a “Deep Sleep” mode that the iPod would revert to after 36 hours of not being used. When going into “Deep Sleep” mode, the “Now Playing” list would be cleared, as would the playback position of the current track. This is no longer an issue with current generation iPods, however, so you don’t need to worry about this unless you’re considering purchasing an older model used iPod.

The second issue is that the “Now Playing” list is cleared whenever you connect your iPod to a computer, whether to sync it or use it as an external hard drive. This happens even on current model iPods, and the playback position of the current track will also be lost in this case as well. However, unless you’re regularly connecting your iPod to a computer, this should not be a concern either. Note as well that connecting the iPod to non-synchronizing accessories such as power adapters and portable speakers does not affect this.

If you want to retain the iPod’s current playback position for specific tracks, there is another option, however. You can set individual tracks in iTunes to “Remember Playback Position.”

This will tell iTunes and the iPod to keep track of your position in a current track, regardless of whether you stop the track, select a new track, or synchronize it to your computer. As an added bonus, in automatic sync mode the playback position is even transferred from your iPod to your iTunes library during the next sync, so you could pick up where you left off when you return to your computer. This feature is intended primarily for audiobooks, but can technically be used on any track by setting the appropriate option, and you can even batch-set this option on multiple tracks in iTunes.

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12-9-06: Gifting specific items from the iTunes Store, Linking to photos from the iPod's Notes feature, Properly listening to iPod music in loud places, Using Mac-formatted iPods with an XBOX 360

12-1-06: iTunes visualizers, Programs stored on iPod, Converting music en masse, Charging second-generation iPod shuffle, Adding chapter markers to videos

11-23-06: iPod deals, Continuously playing videos on iPod, Getting replacement iPod manuals, Finding size and playtime of a group of tracks, Fixing podcasts that reset iPod

11-16-06: Extracting audio from videos, Transferring albums to iPod easily, Using iTunes Store gift cards, Dealing with a scratched iPod backing, Recovering contacts from iPod

11-10-06: Volume limit on iPod shuffle, Preserving On-The-Go playlists between syncs, Storing Audiobooks in proper iTunes library, Apple Lossless on iPod shuffle

11-3-06: iTunes Store displayed in foreign language, All tracks begin where they were last stopped, Converting tracks to mono in iTunes, iPod wakes up and plays tunes on its own, Greatest Hits album won't show on iPod

10-26-06: Loading TiVo/DVR TV Shows on iPod, Accessing iTunes music with a Media Center PC, Leaving an iPod in the car, iPod Hi-Fi remote control, Tagging tracks just added to the library

10-20-06: Disc capacity & song quality tradeoff, iPod sleep behavior explained, Ordering albums by year on iPod, Using an iPod while charging via USB, Restoring a deleted playlist in iTunes

10-12-06: Displaying singles in iPod's Artists menu, Party Shuffle not advancing tracks, Two+ iPods on one computer - revisited, Finding songs not in any playlist, Returning to beginning of iPod shuffle playlist

10-5-06: Only one song plays at a time in iTunes, Playing interactive booklets, Resetting iPod's language, Shuffle anywhere on iPod, Isolating MP3 songs from AAC

9-28-06: Suppressing 'Explicit' tags in iTunes Library, Restoring the 'Purchased' playlist, Differentiating 5G 30GB models, Album Artist on iPod, Just for You in iTunes 7

9-21-06: Splitting "hidden" tracks from other songs, Multiple iTunes libraries, Movie trailers in the iTunes Store, iTunes-fetched artwork on iPod, Isolating Music Videos from songs in iTunes

9-13-06: iTunes 7 issues: Preserving library upon upgrade, Authorizing games for iPod, Audio severely distorted with static, Album artwork retrieval problems, Enhanced podcasts menu

9-7-06: Reverting to former iPod software updaters, iPod crashes and loses library, iPod not storing advertised song capacity, Cleaning out one's iTunes Library safely, Deleting Album Artwork en masse

8-30-06: Unchecked songs in smart playlist, Connecting iPod to car Aux-In jack, Deleting songs from iTunes, Filling iPods completely, Playing only one song in iTunes

8-25-06: Quickly erasing duplicate songs, Replacing iPod's front panel, Excluding videos from playlists, Using albums in smart playlists, Album art missing from iPod

8-17-06: Tags disappearing on play, Third party headphones on iPod, eAAC and eAAC+ codecs, Creating random batches of songs with smart playlists, Transferring iTunes Music Store tracks

8-9-06: Size of Smart Playlists, Changing an iPod's file system format, Backing up iTMS video purchases, iPod not automatically disconnecting, iPod shuffling problems

8-2-06: Airport Express not working under "Multiple Speakers", Tuning radio remote in 0.1 increments, Ordering albums properly, Video podcasts on older iPods, Multiple album artwork files per track on iPod

7-27-06: Exclamation marks near playlists, Artist column on far left of library?, Songs in multiple playlists, No options in for iPod slideshow music, Song numbering in iTunes' Library

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