iTunes

iTunes is Apple’s all-in-one music ripper/library/player/shop front, and should require no further explanation.

h3. Resources:

table(compact). |. Date |. Item |. Notes | |\3. 2010 | | Mar 27 | Dissecting iTunes links | a handy reference. | | Jan 07 | Show only exact duplicate tracks in iTunes | Holding down the option key changes the menu to “Show Exact Duplicates” | |_\3. 2007 | |/5. Older | syncOTunes | merges libraries across machines. Hasn’t been updated in a while, redundant with Home Sharing | | Fetch Art | a scripting add-on that looks up Amazon cover art (also outdated) | | Dragging files to the library with the @Option@ key held down will add (but not copy) them to the library | useful for managing things on network drives. | | iTunes Not Quite Latin-1 | When (re-)tagging MP3 files with Western European accented characters on a Linux system for use with iTunes make sure you use ISO-8859-1 encoding (@$ export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1; easytag &@) | | Oriental (Japanese or Chinese) tagging using BIG5 or Shift-JIS are another problem entirely | Not even UTF-8 (which should be the uniform representation by now) seems to work. |

h3. Bugs:

table(compact). |. Radar |. Date |. Notes | | #4225479 | Sep 2007 | When adding album cover art by selecting multiple items and using “Get Info”, iTunes will _not add cover art to any files it happens to be processing for determining volume levels. Other ID3 fields, however, will be filled correctly. |

h3. Trivia:

Here are the different icons across versions (up to 7.0):