Posts tagged “itunestuesday”
iTunes Tuesday: My Beatles Smart Playlist
In which I explain how to build an iTunes smart playlist of just Beatles tracks
iTunes Tuesday: Building a Smart Christmas Playlist
In which I explain how to build an iTunes smart playlist of holiday music
iTunes Tuesday: Giant Files
In which I explain how to save hard drive space by analyzing your iTunes library
iTunes Tuesday: Listen to This
Depending upon the size of your iTunes library and how you have your playlists configured, you could have a bunch of awesome songs that you are either hearing over and over and over again, or that you’ve not heard in ages. Those are both terrible situations, of course. You want to have a happy medium.
iTunes Tuesday: The 90s
Here’s a quick and easy smart playlist for you. Let’s create a collection of only songs released in the 90s. This is a very simple playlist, and its utility is primarily as a component of other smart playlists. In iTunes click File → New → Smart Playlist …. Then choose the parameters set in this
iTunes Tuesday: Good New Songs
I’ve already written about how you can use one playlist as the basis for another, and now we’ll put this ability to a good use. We’re going to make a playlist that will let you hear all the good new stuff. These are the songs that you’ve added recently, that you’ve rated highly, and that
iTunes Tuesday: Simple Tutorials
If you’re just getting started with iTunes, the hands-down best place to learn how it all works is the Apple website. The “Find Out How” section offers dozens of video and text tutorials which will get you up and running quickly. You can learn how to import music from your CD collection, edit your music
iTunes Tuesday: iPhone Music Streaming
No matter how hard you try to keep your music library organized, compressed, and free of ABBA, eventually you’re going to have more tunes than you can fit on your iPhone (or iPod, or any other mp3 device). The most recent iPod Classic has a capacity of 120GB, which can certainly hold a lot of
iTunes Tuesday: How to Organize Playlists
If you’ve been creating new playlists left and right, eventually you are going to have a long and cluttered list of them running down the left side of your iTunes window. You do know you can group them into folders, right? Just click File and then New Playlist Folder. Now you can drag and drop
iTunes Tuesday: Create Playlists Quickly
In the previous episode of iTunes Tuesday I explained the difference between Smart Playlists and user-created playlists. Basically the key difference is that Smart Playlists are ones that iTunes creates for you based on criteria you define and user-created playlists are ones you make by picking and choosing songs. Today I’ll show you a couple