“One of the new additions to iTunes is said to include Blu-ray support which lines up nicely with a recent AppleInsider report about Apple integrating Blu-ray into their new iMac line-up,” the report states.
“Something else that will most likely make a bunch of people happy is that we’ve been told iTunes 9 will finally include the ability to visually organize and arrange your iPhone and iPod touch applications.
Something that wasn’t so clearly described was some kind of Twitter/Facebook/Last.fm integration. Maybe broadcasting what song you’re playing to your friends?”
BGR says the Twitter/Facebook/Last.fm stuff from its tip was more vague, but you can imagine that if such features were integrated it would involve tweeting out or updating your Facebook status with what song you are listening to. It’s possible that for Last.fm, iTunes would build-in support for logging what songs you are playing, something which Last.fm currently does through its own software.
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Apple Scripts are actions (or sets of actions) that can be launched from almost all of your Mac’s (bundled) Apple applications.
These scripts are time saving solutions especially for repetitive actions.
And here’s an example with iTunes and some of the best Apple Scripts (to me).
First thing to do, check if you do have the scripts folders for iTunes, the best way to make sure you do have it is to run iTunes and take a look at the menu bar, it should looks like this:
The Apple Scripts logo is the one you see before “help”.
If you don’t see it, just go to your Home Folder:Library:iTunes and create a folder and name it “Scripts”:
To find my Top 3 iTunes Scripts, please make the jump.
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When you have 2 or more Macs, it’s easy to see one’s mac iTunes library and listen to it from another Mac.
But you may want to control your main Mac’s iTunes ( the one connected to your speakers for example ) Â when you’re using another Mac : you’d want to browse your songs, see the cover of the playing song, etc…
TuneConect 2 is a free and very well done app which exactly does what i described above.
 * First step you enable your main Mac as a server : just install the pref.pane provided with TuneConnect.
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The back up process can be a pain for iPhone users who have a lot of applications installed on their device.
If you’re impatient (or bored of the backup process) to synchronize only your iPhone and try to cancel the backup, the iPhone won’t sync, since it makes the backup before it synchronizes your datas. Worst, according to a blogger:
The other problem is that if you ever cancel a backup (by clicking the ‘x’ next to the progress bar), it apparently corrupts the existing backup — so if you do then go to restore your iPhone, the backup won’t be usable.
The solution is a command line to type from the Terminal; it will prevent your iPhone from backing up the datas and directly sync.
Prior to do this be sure iTunes is closed.
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A new Beta of AOL Radio 2.0 requiring at least Mac OS 10.5.2 is available.
It’s still the same good app referencing radios by genres, but it also has some new features like showing the cover of the current song instead of its icon in the dock and still the Growl-like notifications when changing the station.
You can download AOL Radio 2.0b1 here
AOL Radio is also available as a free App for iPhone/iPod Touch.
You can get it from the iTunes Music Store or directly from the iPhone’s AppStore.
This version is really slick and is the Apple Design Winner in 2008’s iPhone Developer Showcase.
Apple has released iTunes 7.7.1, a minor update to the media playback/purchase and iPhone/iPod sync tool, through Software Update. Apple’s release notes state only that the update ” includes fixes to improve stability and performance.”
Typical problems after iTunes updates include:
- iTunes cannot locate music files, fixes When the issue manifests, any attempts to play some songs are met with error messages indicating that iTunes cannot find a specified file.
- Freezes when connecting an iPod/iPhone If this problem manifests, try deleting the following files from ~~/Library/Preferences/ (your user library preferences folder):
com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist
com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist
com.apple.iTunes.plist
A lot of people are complaining about the fact their iPhone isn’t receiving anything from the MobileMe cloud; and I was one of them; but I finally managed and it is now up and working!
Here are the steps I followed to make my iPhone sync my data “over the air“:
- Sync the iPhone and uncheck the email sync (in iTunes)
- Open mail.app and deleted my .mac account
- Setup a “brand new” mobileme account
- Sync from system preferences the datas (contacts, ical etc)
- Sync the iPhone and check the MobileMe account (in iTunes)
- Went to the iPhone and set it up (pref>general>mail, contacts…) to sync these datas over the air
- (I saw) the contacts names appearing instead of their phone numbers in the recent/missed calls and on the SMS received and sent but still nothing in my address book
- Restart the iPhone: everything is there!
I still don’t know which of these steps made the “thing” work though…
There is a great number of applications that make controlling iTunes even easier like Coversutra…
CoverStream is one of them, it uses shortcuts to bring a small window to control iTunes, but the great thing is that it integrates a small Cover Flow on it!
It has other features like Last.fm integration, showing the currents playing song right on the Desktop and/or your Dock and Apple Remote integration.
CoverStream is available here and is worth trying.
