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The Complete Guide to Managing iTunes Videos

I have been ripping my television dvd’s for storage on my hard drives so I can access them easily and avoid the forced, mind-numbing viewing of the FBI warnings and previews before you get to the actual dvd content.
At this point, I have thousands of episodes; My major issues with iTunes are as follows:

Whenever I import video, it automatically is tagged as a ‘movie’, marked to be skipped in the playlist, and marked to remember the location of my last viewing. I wish I could change these defaults, as everything in the library I am using is a television show that I don’t want skipped, and I don’t want it to remember the viewing location. I have had to change these settings hundreds, maybe thousands of times. What’s even more frustrating is that if I need to reimport the files, these settings are not remembered, so I have to go through and change them again.

Another gripe of mine is that the tabs in iTunes meta data editor aren’t logical or intuitive, and the location of data fields changes when you are batch editing as opposed to editing single files. Apple is known for elegant design, but iTunes has the feel of a hashed-together program.

Posted by Crewzcontrol on February 21, 2012 at 2:29 PM (PDT)

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Posted by Patricia a fleming on February 20, 2012 at 8:32 PM (PDT)

The Complete Guide to Managing iTunes Videos

I have an iPod Classic and iTunes 10.5.3.3.
Music DVDs do not have their own place in iTunes (I put mine under movies, since if you put them under Music Video, they automatically go to Music, which means you can hear them but no longer see them). Question: then why does my iPod have a heading Music Videos under Videos? I cannot put anything under Music Videos, since iTunes itself does not have that heading. I hear my Music CDs under Music and my Music DVDs under Movies, But why the useless Music Video heading on the iPod?

Posted by Guus Schippers on February 19, 2012 at 4:57 PM (PDT)

Free Music for Your iPod or iPhone

i think this is good becuse its free

Posted by Dajon Glover on February 19, 2012 at 12:48 PM (PDT)

The Complete Guide to Using the iTunes Store

I dont know how to reinstall or redownloding my games anymore.im tired to solve this problem.still WAITING guys.oh my god.i follow all the instruction but still WAITING!  Actually i use iTunes from my computer to my iPad 2.im Perth sure that i follow the instruction.  Please Help me….          Thanks,

Posted by Natasha on February 18, 2012 at 9:24 AM (PDT)

How to burn a CD in iTunes

I burned a cd without any time in between songs, the first 17 songs play fine then the next 7 songs skip alot?

Posted by Mary on February 17, 2012 at 8:26 PM (PDT)

Editorial: It's Time For Apple To Fix The iPhone 4's Glass Jaw

I am one of the unlucky ones. I have had my 4S for about 5 weeks but have had other iphone since inception. Well the back glass on the 4S is now shattered. I had a case on it but I guess it was the wrong one even though it was made for the iphone 4 and 4S. Evidently some cases are the cause of the shatter. Hope others have better luck. I am now negotiating with Apple to get a replacement. Wish me luck!

Posted by Sylves on February 16, 2012 at 6:18 PM (PDT)

How to import CD tracks to iTunes

I need help badly. why do i get individual tracks on my iphone instead of the whole cd playlist when imported from pc itunes ?

Posted by ipohjohn on February 16, 2012 at 10:04 AM (PDT)

Free Music for Your iPod or iPhone

want to download free music tomy ipod

Posted by christy lazenby on February 15, 2012 at 7:49 PM (PDT)

Free Music for Your iPod or iPhone

need to find decent music without paying through the nose

Posted by d ellis on February 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM (PDT)

How to create smart playlists in iTunes

I base most of my smart playlists off of songs ratings. It takes a while to rate your entire library but its so worth it. Especially after creating custom keyboard shortcuts to rate. Check out this tutorial to learn how to set that up

Posted by matt on February 13, 2012 at 6:33 PM (PDT)

The Complete Guide to iPod, Apple TV and iPhone Video Formats

Well done! I would really be happier individual if everybody wrote also as you do. Thanks once more

Posted by disc on February 13, 2012 at 6:01 PM (PDT)

Transferring your iTunes Library

I just moved my entire library (339GB) from a windows xp pc to my new mac using my network.  I was able to this by reading this article 5 times.  I understood and I did it.  I would have bought an external hard drive if I listened to the 2 geniuses I talked to. 

Also, I have a bootable SSID and a 2TB standard drive, with my Itinues content on the bootable and my iTunes media folder in the 2tb.  Again, without this article, I’m in trouble. 

Thank you Jesse Hollington, and some of the replies on her that also educated me.

Posted by Tom on February 13, 2012 at 7:36 AM (PDT)

Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide

Wow! That actually hit the mark, and this comment would be to say thanks!

Posted by bulging on February 12, 2012 at 9:21 PM (PDT)

Transferring your iTunes Library

Great tutorial! Clear and to the point (unusual for an iTunes “how-to”). I only wish I had found this five minutes earlier, BEFORE I re-re-located my iTunes folder BACK to the original location to try again from scratch (I’m one of those “I just moved the whole folder, and it didn’t work” people). At least I only wasted two hours, and not five or six.

Posted by Mary on February 12, 2012 at 8:47 PM (PDT)

The Complete Guide to iTunes Books, Podcasts + iTunes U

Try making a separate playlist for iTunes U content.  It works for me.  The only problem is that I can’t delete it.  I you can also try Syncing iTunes U from the iPod menu.

Posted by Dylen on February 11, 2012 at 6:56 PM (PDT)

Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide

Well, iTunes 10 - as opposed to Windows Explorer - doesn’t know about \iPod_Control\Music folder. It sees \iPod_Control alright but no + sign before it, hence the \Music folder is unreachable, can’t be added to iTunes on my laptop. I’m running winXPpro, and have a 30GB iPod Classic.
Thanks in advance for any useable ideas!

Posted by cheebase on February 8, 2012 at 3:09 PM (PDT)

Copying Content from your iPod to your Computer - The Definitive Guide

hi how do you put music on the ipon nano with out deleting the privious musics because i had the old music on my windows xp but now i have changed to windows 7 and put itunes back on how do i put the music on with out deleting the old music

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Posted by joshuaulysses.com on February 7, 2012 at 11:45 AM (PDT)

Game Center for iOS: Understanding Apple's New Video Game Matchmaking + Tracking App

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Posted by Tommy Solari on February 6, 2012 at 7:55 PM (PDT)

Making The Case For - And Against - An Apple iTV Television

@#7,

Derek, ol’ pal, you DO realize that Cisco had iOS and iPhone and Apple just basically took them and ran, right?  You think some limey TV station is going to stop the AAPL steamroller?  Not me! 

Posted by sb on February 6, 2012 at 4:33 PM (PDT)

Making The Case For - And Against - An Apple iTV Television

Just a thought - it’s all very well considering the TV viewing situation in the continental US, but there is, you know, the rest of the world? Where there are lots and lots of people who also buy TVs & etc. And almost all of us have a different way of doing things to you guys.

If Apple build a TV set that only caters to US broadcast standards, they’re throwing away a vast amount of cash.

It would be much better to just give the thing a couple of HDMI inputs and let whatever is out there already deal with ‘live programming reception’. However then they’re going to have trouble justifying any sort of price premium over existing ‘smart TVs’.

All this to me suggests actually making an ‘Apple Branded Television’ is far more trouble than most US-focussed industry commentators seem to think it will be.

Posted by Jonathan on February 6, 2012 at 10:14 AM (PDT)

How to create playlists in iTunes

can i directly make a playlist (without first adding in library) from a folder in my pc which has my favourite songs? So that i can have all my favourite songs in a new playlist.

Posted by Mayur on February 6, 2012 at 8:27 AM (PDT)

The Complete Guide to Backing Up your iTunes Library

In depth but by no means ‘Complete’.

Why doesn’t anybody cover how to backup your equaliser settings or even realise that people put as much attention into these settings as anything else in iTunes?

Posted by Ben on February 5, 2012 at 5:47 AM (PDT)

How to burn a CD in iTunes

I don’t get the menu you display.  I see general playback sharing,..... etc.

nothing that lets me “burn”  I suspect I’m launching the wrong ap or finding a newer version under edit/properties.

any thoughts?

Tnx
Dennis

Posted by dennis carroll on February 4, 2012 at 4:05 PM (PDT)

iPhone Gems: 15 Clock Applications, Reviewed

Take a look at TrainStationClock (Bahnhofsuhr), a simple, beautiful reproduction of a swiss railway clock.

Posted by Kurt on February 4, 2012 at 2:50 PM (PDT)