I have an iPod shuffle and it's pretty neat, though of course I'd love to have a tiny screen on it. Problem is, a lot of the time the music that iTunes drops onto the iPod isn't what I want. I do aerobics, and there's nothing that's a buzzkill faster than a slow song in the middle of a workout!...

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Now that I'm working in an office setting, after spending a year or so in the kitchen of my house doing contract work, I see that some of my office mates have their music libraries available on the network. Nice, lets me listen to their tunes and learn more about their musical tastes too. I'd like to share my own music library on my Mac too: how do I do that?...

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I have a pretty large music collection that I've poured into Apple's iTunes program and am wondering if there's a way that I can tell it to only play that subset of my music that I haven't heard before? Do you know what I mean? I know it keeps track of how many times I've played a song, so it seems theoretically possible. How do I get iTunes to do this, Dave?...

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What a gaffe! I wanted to get more information about the new TomTom turn-by-turn directions application for the Apple iPhone 3GS and clicked "Buy App" instead of the icon for the app. Next thing I know, I've just paid $99 for this app and it's downloading onto my computer. Not good, not good at all! What can I do?...

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If you're like most people, you've found yourself at least once in the situation where you have your music library on an old computer that's the system you used to sync with your fancy iPod. No problem, until you get a newer computer or laptop and suddenly find that you can't just switch: iTunes wants to wipe your iPod (or iPhone) before its first sync. Not good at all. There are various ways you can...

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I've bought a fair amount of music from the iTunes store and have also ripped much of my old music collection too. Now I want to make a few audio CDs of favorite songs that I can listen to in the car. How do I do that?...

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I was in the Apple store the other day and watched as an employee slipped a music CD into the iMac and had iTunes automatically launch. Very cool. How did they set that up? When I put in a music CD it starts up Disk Utility, which is annoying as all get out!...

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I got a great gift from my folks, an Apple iTunes gift card. Nice. And I have an iPod. What I don't have is any clue how to redeem an iTunes gift card. Help!...

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Hi Dave, I was looking at your site on how to download music onto a mp3 player. I am buying one for my friend for her birthday and didn't want to get a really expensive one (she just wants it for when she runs) so I am looking at one other than iPod. I want to load it with music for her from cd's (I have a lot) but don't know how to do that....

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I am always listening to music on iTunes - I love, love, love it! - but since I make extensive use of Spaces, it's frustrating to have the iTunes control window always in the wrong place. is there some way I can download or otherwise make it a little controller that can be neatly tucked into the corner of ALL my Spaces?...

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Okay, so your article yesterday about Genius playlists in iTunes (see How to Create Genius Playlists in iTunes 8) has me intrigued and I'd like to experiment with it. But on my iPhone. Is that a possibility? That is, can I create a Genius playlist on my iPhone 3G or, I suppose, on an iPod Touch?...

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I read your commentary about the new Genius feature in Apple's iTunes 8.0 and am curious to try it. I enabled it as per your earlier blog entry (see Start working with iTunes Genius), but now I'm not entirely sure how to actually use it to create these fabled Genius playlists?...

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I've heard a lot in the last week about Apple's iTunes 8.0 and its new Genius feature, which is supposed to recommend music similar to what you're hearing. Sounds interesting, a smart recommendation engine. But how do you turn it on and get it working?...

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I followed along on your article yesterday about how to add cover art to a video I have in my Apple iTunes library, but what I don't see how to do is to move a video from the "TV Shows" category to the "Movies" category: for some reason a few of my movies are misfiled and I can't drag and drop them....

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I've been adding videos to my Apple iTunes library, but almost all of them end up with a black box as the visual image, which is less fun than box covers, like my albums have. How do I add artwork to my video files?...

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I was in a Starbucks the other day and noticed that they had cards offering free songs from the iTunes Store, cool, but what was really cool was that it was a track from the new Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis album Rainy Day Blues. I want. But how do I get?...

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I just heard that there's a software update for the Apple iPhone 3G. I want it! But I'm confused: how do I update the software on my phone?...

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I just upgraded from a first generation Apple iPhone to a shiny new 16GB white iPhone and am excited to switch over completely. All my data, phone book, etc are on the old system, though, and I am perpetually anxious about first sync as I'm afraid that the empty phone address book will overwrite my huge address book data already on the computer? How do you clone the old iPhone and the new?...

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Now that I have a shiny new iPhone, I've gone a bit wild adding applications from the iTunes Application Store. So many applications that it's out of control. Now I want to delete some, but each time I delete them on the iPhone then hook the phone up to the computer, they reappear! :-(...

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I'm excited to add the many new capabilities and improvements to my beloved Apple iPhone, but have heard that the jump from 1.1.4 to 2.0 completely wipes your phone. Can you show me how to step through this firmware upgrade and reassure me that my contacts, photos, music, etc will all be there on the other side?...

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