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iTunes Plus: Remove Personal Information and Email Address
June 4th, 2007 by professoripod
The new iTunes Plus songs do not have copy protection but still contain your email address and other private information. This information is in the metadata in the music file. If one of your iTunes songs is placed on a P2P site, your personal information will be available for everybody to see. This is great as it is a resistance to people giving all their files away. However, if your music is stolen (through spyware or other means), you might be considered a pirate!
Soon people will release automatic methods for doing this, but you can do it right now with currently available software.
1. Download AtomicParsley for windows or mac.
2. Uncompress it into your music directory
3. Open a command line box in windows (RUN -> cmd.exe) or open the terminal in OSX
4. View all the metadata with the following command:
atomicparsley song.m4u -t
Here is some example output:Atom “©nam” contains: Everybody Whatever
Atom “©ART” contains: Yoyou
Atom “aART” contains: Yoyou
Atom “©alb” contains: Sandballs for Diggers
Atom “gnre” contains: Rock
Atom “trkn” contains: 1 of 14
Atom “disk” contains: 1 of 1
Atom “©day” contains: 2003-02-14T08:00:00Z
Atom “pgap” contains: 0
Atom “apID” contains: xxxx@xxx.com
Atom “cprt” contains: ℗ null 2002
Atom “cnID” contains: xxxxxx
Atom “rtng” contains: Inoffensive
Atom “atID” contains: xxxxxx
Atom “plID” contains: xxxxxx
Atom “geID” contains: xxxxx
Atom “sfID” contains: United States (143441)
Atom “akID” contains: 0
Atom “stik” contains: Normal
Atom “purd” contains: xxxxxxxxx
Atom “covr” contains: 1 piece of artwork
5. If you want to remove one of the atoms, using the following command:
atomicparsley song.m4a –manualAtomRemove “moov.udta.meta.ilst.ATOM”
For example, to remove the email address, one would do the following…
atomicparsley song.m4a –manualAtomRemove “moov.udta.meta.ilst.apID”
6. The new file stripped with the information will be created as a new temp song file. Test it in iTunes to make sure it still works before deleting your original.
7. If you want to remove several pieces of metadata at once, you can stack commands like the following:
atomicparsley song.m4a --manualAtomRemove moov.udta.meta.ilst.cnID" --manualAtomRemove "moov.udta.meta.ilst.atID" --manualAtomRemove "moov.udta.meta.ilst.apID"
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iTunes Shortcuts for Apple and PC
April 15th, 2007 by professoripod
If you love shortcuts like I love shortcuts… you’ll digg all of these iTunes time savers.
Shortcuts for Mac
Cmd+B - Show/Hide Artist & album columns
Cmd+E - Eject CD
Cmd+L - Highlight current playing song
Cmd+M - Minimize iTunes
Cmd+T - Show visualizer
Cmd+Q - Exit iTunes
Cmd+? - Show Music Store Help
Cmd+^ - Increase volume
Cmd+< - Play previous song
Cmd+> - Play next song
Shortcuts for PC
Ctrl+B - Show/Hide Artist & album columns
Ctrl+E - Eject CD
Ctrl+L - Highlight current playing song
Ctrl+M - Minimize iTunes
Ctrl+T - Show visualizer
Ctrl+W - Exit iTunes
Ctrl+? - Show iTunes
Ctrl+^ - Increase volume
Ctrl+< - Play previous song
Ctrl+> - Play next song
And if you thought that was lazy, listen to this:
You can answer dialogue box questions by pressing “Y” or “N” instead of clicking “Yes” or “No”.
Nice!!
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Watch videos in iTunes
April 5th, 2007 by professoripod
It’s as easy as 1, 2 and 3:
At the bottom left-hand side of your iTunes window, click the button fourth from the left. Now go to:
- Preferences > Playback
- Choose “Play Videos In The Main Window” & click OK.
Make sure you have a video clip in your library to view; otherwise the window will show an album cover, if nothing at all.
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Taking advantage of Smart Playlists
April 3rd, 2007 by professoripod
I hear you say, what are Smart Playlists?
Smart playlists are simple playlists that find songs of any attribute in your iPod and compile them into a playlist for you, thus saving you hours of finding specific songs manually. For example, if you only wanted to listen to your favorite songs, you would go to:
- File > New Smart Playlist
- Set the first parameter to “My Rating”.
- Select “is in the range” of 4 to 5 Stars.
Another great feature of the smart playlist is that it auto-updates when you add more songs to your criteria. This makes things quick & easy, and you can add many parameters on one playlist to narrow down your search and find the exact songs you want to listen to.
Gotta love iTunes…
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Purge your song searches quickly
March 25th, 2007 by professoripod
Searching for a song on your iPod is easy with iTunes, just use the field in the top right-hand corner of the window.
You already knew that though, right?
Now, whenever you are done searching, just click the little (x) button at the end of the field instead of deleting the text you just entered to purge your song search.
Ha! Did you know that too?
Didn’t think so 
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Password protect your music
March 20th, 2007 by professoripod
If you really want to, you can set a password for your iTunes library. All you have to do is go to:
- Preferences > Sharing
- Check the “Require password” option at the bottom of the window.
- Set the password.
Now click OK and make sure that you won’t forget the password you just set. You might want to write it down somewhere safe just in case.
Seriously though, who does this?
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iTunes Music Store: Buying wisely
March 18th, 2007 by professoripod
For the users who buy songs on impulse at the iTunes Music Store, I have a solution
Go to:
- Preferences > Store
- Check the “Buy using a Shopping Cart” option.
This adds all items into one big order which you can view after you are done browsing and want to purchase the songs at the checkout. Doing this will help you re-consider buying that certain song.
Problem solved! Or is it?
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Play songs from your iPod through your PC
March 17th, 2007 by professoripod
I know, I know, it’s common sense.
- Connect your iPod to your PC.
- Go to iTunes.
- Select your iPods icon in the source pane.
- Select the song(s) you want to play.
- Press the Spacebar or click the Play button.
It can’t hurt though Someone may have even benefited from it!
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Delete playlists without prompts
March 17th, 2007 by professoripod
If you would like to bypass the dialogue box which pops up and asks “Are you sure you want to delete the playlist ‘name’?” every time you want to delete a playlist, simply highlight the playlist and press “Ctrl+Del” (”Cmd+Del” for Mac users).
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3 Useful iTunes Tips
March 13th, 2007 by professoripod
Keeping it simple for you. Hope these help 
Check total play time
The bottom bar of iTunes displays abbreviated play time. To switch to detailed time, which displays the exact play time, just click on the bottom bar once.
Convert video to MP3
When you have a video in your iTunes library, simply right-click (PC) or control-click (Mac) it and choose the “Convert Selection to MP3″ option.
Delete duplicate songs
A duplicate song is the same song added twice into your iTunes playlist by accident. To find these, go to:
- Edit > Show Duplicate Songs
Now simply highlight and delete them.
If there is a problem you are having with iTunes let us know and we will look into it. We’re here to help
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