Not only a media player, iTunes manages apps and data syncing to iPod and iOS devices.
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Why isn't iTunes shuffle random?
This is a problem that has bugged me for the last 5 years, across multiple devices, operating systems and installs of iTunes and iPods.
I have found that the iTunes shuffle feature does not randomly ...
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How can I clean up 'Other' storage on iPhone 3G?
My iPhone 3G is currently showing 3.1GB of 'Other' disk space in iTunes, and this amount seems to be growing by about 0.1GB every couple of days. I can't find any good references for what this space ...
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How many Apple IDs should one household have?
To date my wife and I share one Apple ID for all Apple purchases and devices. We currently own a first and third generation iPod, iPhone 4, and will own an iPad 2 in the morning. Thus far having the ...
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Is it possible to merge two iTunes Store accounts so we can share apps and other purchases?
My wife and I each have iTunes on our PCs. Originally, I set these up with separate iTunes Store accounts. I was led to believe that we ought to do this because an email address is used for the ...
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How Many Genius Mixes Are There in iTunes?
Every so often I'll add a couple hundred new songs to my iTunes and discover a new mix has been created. It makes me wonder then, exactly how many mixes are there, what genres are they, etc.
Here's a ...
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How can I transfer iPhone + iPad data to a new computer?
I have iTunes installed on my old computer (Win XP) and all iPhone + iPad apps + all backups are done on this computer.
Now I would like to use iTunes on my new computer (Win 7) and retire the old ...
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How to get iTunes to keep downloading podcasts even if I don't listen to them right away?
As the owner of a Mac and an iPhone, I've naturally been using iTunes as my podcasting program. It works pretty well, except for one huge problem: if it determines that I haven't been listening to ...
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How can I change the country of an iTunes account?
When I first set up my iTunes account, I didn't have a credit card, so I set it up as a US account, as this was the only way I could create one without a card (and thus use my iPod Touch).
The ...
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What is the safest way to move the iTunes Library from one hard drive to another?
This may happen later with my iMac, but right now it is happening for my iTunes on PC. The PC had 60GB of partition to install Windows 7, and right now it is down to about 2GB of free space. All ...
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How to change the language of iTunes and the App Store?
I live in Italy and have an italian billing address; because of this Apple assumes that I want the app store in italian which is not the case.
The whole UI is in italian, the app descriptions and ...
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How does a family with multiple idevices and multiple laptops share music and digital movie copies?
My wife and I both have our own laptops with our own iTunes accounts. Then we have a shared desktop. In the past, this was fine as all we had for iDevices was an iPod each. So we just managed our own ...
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If I purchase an app for my iPhone can I download it for free on my iPad?
If I purchase an app for my iPhone can I download it for free on my iPad?
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How do I remove files from iTunes which have been deleted on disk?
When cleaning up my disk I deleted a couple of files from my music collection which iTunes was managing. Now when I try to sync a device I get an error message that it can't sync these files because ...
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Why is the coreaudiod daemon using 5% or more CPU?
Every time I listen to music on iTunes or VLC, I notice that the process coreaudiod causes an unusually high CPU usage (5% or more).
Are you having the same issue? What's the reason for such a high ...
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Is there a button in iTunes to say “Stop after playing this song”?
Because I might just want to go to bed after this one song (but don't want to stop it midway – It's a classic).
Edit: Found a workaround in iTunes 11, a two-click solution but it works. See my ...
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How can I move an iTunes library from one computer to another?
I'm getting a new laptop and I want to move my iTunes library from the old to the new computer. How can I do this? Of course I want to preserve as much information as possible: metadata such as ...
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iTunes Match - This item is not eligible for iCloud
I signed up for iTunes Match and have uploaded nearly all of my collection to iCloud. Unfortunately, I have several tracks that have given me the following error:
This thread indicates that I can ...
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How to share an iTunes library with other user accounts on the same machine?
I would like to share the iTunes library my the account of my wife.
But (in importance order):
files should not be duplicated
playlist and rating are user dependent
podcast are user dependent
...
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How can I revert the appearance of the close, minimize and zoom buttons with iTunes 10?
The new vertical layout is causing me all sorts of grief - is there any way to revert this back to the normal horizontal orientation of the close, minimize and zoom buttons of every other Mac OS X ...
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How do I get podcasts downloaded directly to my iPhone and iPad to match the ones on my Mac?
Background
I have a podcast subscription on my Mac. For example, Marketplace. It's a daily podcast, and I often get them by downloading them to the Mac (Snow Leopard 10.6.8) with iTunes (currently ...
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How can I sync my iTunes music library between two Macs for free?
I have a desktop system that I use as a server. I also have a MacBook Pro that is my main computer. I've done a lot of organization and cleanup of my music library and have it all on my MacBook Pro.
...
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How do I unlock my iTunes account when my old e-mail is unavailable?
When I originally set up my iTunes account, I used an email address from my prior employer. I later moved my account to a personal rather than corporate email address and I have since changed jobs. ...
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With iTunes DJ gone from iTunes 11, what's a good replacement solution?
With iTunes DJ gone from iTunes 11, how can I go to replace or even enhance the lost functionality?
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How can I get my iPhone to sync with a new computer without being erased?
For some reason, Apple has imposed a most absurd restriction where the only way to get an iPhone (or other iDevice) to sync with a different computer is by erasing it first. I haven't verified ...
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How can I get explicit versions of songs from iCloud?
I use iCloud / iTunes Match and have just discovered that all my lovely songs with explicit lyrics have been replaced by versions with clean ones. In some instances it's fine, and it doesn't bother ...
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How to get the Column Browser in iTunes 11 on the left side?
In iTunes 10, I had the Column Browser (the list of Artists/Albums) going down the left side of the main iTunes window. With the install of iTunes 11, it is back to the top.
I tried going ...
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Is there a way to keep my iPhone from receiving calls/texts/alerts while listening to music?
I like to listen to music on my iPhone when running, but it's really annoying for the music to be interrupted by calls/texts/alerts. I know I can put it in airplane mode, but that will keep me from ...
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iTunes: What is the usefulness of checked/unchecked songs?
I know the functional effect of unchecking a song: it doesn't play (except when explicitly double-clicked) and doesn't sync with an iPod/iPad. But how is this useful? Does Apple officially recommend ...
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Is there any way to add an ePub book to iBooks without iTunes?
I purchased a book and have it in ePub and PDF formats. I can easily add the PDF to iBooks from Safari. However, I can't find a method to get an ePub book into iBooks without iTunes. I'm away from my ...
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Will iTunes Match let me “upgrade” existing tracks to higher quality or bitrate?
I want to pay the $25/year for iTunes Match specifically to get my thousands of low-bitrate tracks "upgraded" to high-bitrate.
Will I be able to invoke the service, get high-bitrate tracks downloaded ...
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Remove all duplicates on iTunes library
I want to remove all duplicates from my library, to consider a duplicate the song must have the same encoding, bits, duration.
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Can I sync an iPhone to multiple computers without erasing all the applications?
I have followed advice from this website to sync my iPhone on multiple computers, but it is determined to erase my applications. I have about 50 apps on my iPhone.
If you try to untick "Sync ...
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Can iTunes Genius (or song metadata) be improved so songs without a match can use the feature?
My question boils down to: "Technically, how does the Genius feature work?" so that I may use it in instances where it fails to fine enough matches for a specific song.
Part of this question is ...
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Can I download a free app from the App Store without a credit card?
I just recently got an iPod Touch and wanted to download some free apps. The App Store wanted me to get an Apple ID, no problem. But now it's telling me to input a credit card. I don't have one, and ...
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How can I gift a copy of an app that I already own?
I own an app. I want to purchase an additional copy of that app for a friend using iTunes' gift functionality. In the iOS App Store and the iTunes store on a Mac, the gift option doesn't appear for ...
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How to stop syncing apps with iTunes without wiping them from my iPhone?
Is there a way I can stop syncing apps with iTunes without first obliterating the apps from the iPhone and re-downloading them?
Now that iOS 5 and iCloud are released, I want to stop storing all my ...
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How does iTunes make its decision as to what artwork to provide?
I'm trying to download Album Art by right-clicking a track in iTunes and choosing Get Album Artwork. Sometimes this works fine, but sometimes iTunes finds the wrong Album.
As an example, I have A ...
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How can I open FLAC files in iTunes without doing any kind of conversion?
I have done this before but it no longer works. Some combination of the XiphQT component and the FLAC Import component allows one to open FLAC files natively in iTunes. After an update I was no longer ...
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Can an iPhone be used without iTunes?
Can an iPhone (all current models) please be used without having to install iTunes on my home PC?
Would I need to have my local Apple store activate it for me?
What functionality (if any) would I ...
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Can I create an iTunes account without a credit card?
I am trying to create a iTunes account for my younger cousin, but he does not have a credit card (he's too young). Tried Google, seems outdated on this issue.
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Can iTunes find all songs with no Album Art?
I want to find all songs or tracks which don't have Album Art associated with them in my iTunes music library. I want to do this so that I can fix Album Art problems in advance of a backup. How can ...
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How do I disable Ping?
Although I do like and enjoy using iTunes, I'm not a fan of the new Ping service that Apple has embedded into it.
Is it possible to disable the Ping link under "Store", the Ping sidebar, and the ...
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With the “small” Mac keyboard, how to simulate a HOME, END, and PageUp, PageDown key?
My desk is a little too narrow for the long type of Apple keyboard -- the one that has the keypad and the Home ↖, End ↘, Page Up ⇞, Page Down ⇟ keys... (it will take up the space for the mouse).
So ...
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Can I transfer or sync purchased as well as non-purchased songs from my iPhone to my computer?
So, I wiped my drive clean on my MacBook and reinstalled the OS. Happily the best of my music was safe on my iPhone and I figured it would easily flow back to my iTunes library.
Not so happily, I ...
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Verify that entries in iTunes are actually on disk
I have a ton and a half of songs in my iTunes (Windows 7). I recently consolidated my library from 3 different Hard Drives.
I also deleted some of the unwanted music folders on my C Drive (but I ...
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What do the various iTunes Match icons in iTunes mean?
Enabling iTunes Match adds a new default column to song lists in iTunes that displays several new icons:
What do each of these icons (as well as no icon at all) mean?
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How can I remove pending downloads in iTunes?
I have an update for the Dexter game on iPhone which is 400MB in size. Since I don't play this game anymore, I deleted the app. But iTunes still wants me to download the update and tells me I have "1 ...
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iTunes Sync: X items could not be synced. See iTunes for more information
Every time I sync my iPhone or iPad (both running iOS 5) with iTunes, I get this error. iTunes displays no information that I can find about what the mystery six unsynced items are. How do I find out ...
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How do I change the playback speed in iTunes?
On the iPhone I can speed up the playback of podcasts to 2x.
Is there a way to do the same in iTunes?
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Stop iTunes from automatically stopping podcast downloads
I subscribed to about 30 interesting podcasts which I would like to listen to one day when I have time... maybe never, but I hope I will soon.
I just noticed that iTunes has not been downloading some ...
