September 2010
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Using iTunes, Part 5: Isn't it Genius?
In the last episode, we talked about ways to get a good selection of songs that might be easier to rate than your main library. Most of this was fairly simple - last played songs, most often played songs, good albums. Now let’s introduce a little bit of crowdsourcing, shall we?
I’m sure you are familiar with Genius. If you have enabled it, you will for sure have seen the resource...
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Using iTunes, Part 4: Let's get the Rating started
Previous Posts:
Using iTunes, Part 1: Introduction to Stars
Using iTunes, Part 2: Quarantine periods
Using iTunes, Part 3: The magic of iTunes
In the last part, I promised you some way to make the tedious process of rating more bearable. Let’s start up front by saying that I will not show you some magic way to get a library with 35.000 tracks rated in an hour - this is a lot of work,...
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Using iTunes, Part 3: The magic of iTunes
So far, we’ve seen a few simple ways of dealing with iTunes libraries. They all have one thing in common - they depend on actually rating songs. Now, if you have a big library and have never actually rated a song… good luck. This is really tedious work, that might be fun for the first few hundred dozen songs, but after that…
Nonetheless, we have to start somewhere, so...
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Using iTunes, Part 2: Quarantine periods
In the first part of this series, we’ve created smart playlists for songs rated with 5 stars (and 4.5 stars, and 4 stars, and…). As long as you will meticulously maintain each song’s rating (we’ll come to that later…), you can now simply chose the playlist 5 stars and know for sure that you won’t get Miley Cyrus or Tokio Hotel (and if your mileage varies on that...
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Using iTunes, Part 1: Introduction to stars
I consider myself an avid iTunes user. In fact, I would call myself an iTunes fan, although I know, accept and often join the typical rants about iTunes. Yes, it is bloated beyond belief and so far, Apple doesn’t seem to care about treating us with something more modern - 64 bit? Maybe at least Cocoa for a change? No way Jose.
Still, below its overwhelming interface with such gems as iOS...
May 2009
1 post
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Internetsperren: Mail an Unicef
Folgende Mail habe ich am Wochenende an Unicef geschrieben, als Antwort auf ihre schon etwas ältere Pressemitteilung zum Thema Internetsperren:
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, auch wenn ich bisher kein besonders großer Spender war, sah ich Ihre Arbeit und Ihre Ziele als unterstützenswert an und habe dies nach meinen Möglichkeiten auch unregelmäßig gezeigt. Ihre bedingungslose Unterstützung der...
February 2009
2 posts
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