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	<title>Kirkville &#187; iPod &amp; iTunes</title>
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	<description>Writings about more than just Macs, by Kirk McElhearn</description>
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		<title>Neil Young Doesn&#8217;t Like Digital Music Files</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/02/01/neil-young-doesnt-like-digital-music-files/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neil Young was interviewed by Walt Mossberg about digital music, and made a number of statements where he expressed a desire to see more high-resolution audio files. He claims that only &#8220;5 percent of the data present in the original recording&#8221; is present in MP3 files &#8211; though he doesn&#8217;t specify what bit rate. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iWant: Automatic Sync for iPods, iPhones and iPads</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/26/iwant-automatic-sync-for-ipods-iphones-and-ipads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/26/iwant-automatic-sync-for-ipods-iphones-and-ipads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Doug Adams, who runs Doug&#8217;s AppleScripts for iTunes sent me an e-mail yesterday asking if there&#8217;s any way to have an iPod sync with iTunes automatically. He has one old device connected to a dock that he uses as a clock radio. It made me realize just how useful auto-syncing would be. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hear Me Discuss iTunes on the MacVoices Podcast</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/13/hear-me-discuss-itunes-on-the-macvoices-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/13/hear-me-discuss-itunes-on-the-macvoices-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To correspond with the release of my Take Control of iTunes 10: The FAQ, Second Edition, I sat down (virtually) with Chuck Joiner and talked about iTunes and music on the MacVoices podcast. It&#8217;s just under an hour, and you can listen here.]]></description>
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		<title>Update: Bad Tracks from iTunes Match: Who Do You Complain To?</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/13/bad-tracks-from-itunes-match-who-do-you-complain-to/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/13/bad-tracks-from-itunes-match-who-do-you-complain-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of people have found that iTunes Match sometimes matches incorrect tracks; not that the songs are wrong, but that the versions might be wrong. This seems to happen especially with music that has been remastered. iTunes may match either an original or remastered track, and the user who matched the track may have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Updated: Take Control of iTunes 10: The FAQ, Second Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/12/just-updated-take-control-of-itunes-10-the-faq-second-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/12/just-updated-take-control-of-itunes-10-the-faq-second-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My ebook, Take Control of iTunes 10: The FAQ was a best-selling compendium of tips, tricks and explanations about how to use iTunes to wrangle your digital media collection. More than a year has gone by since its release, and, even though Apple didn&#8217;t up the version number by an integer, iTunes has undergone enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The iTunes Guy &#8211; That&#8217;s Me</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/10/the-itunes-guy-thats-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2012/01/10/the-itunes-guy-thats-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Macworld, we&#8217;ve just introduced Ask the iTunes Guy. This occasional column will take readers&#8217; questions and explain how to do what you want with iTunes. I&#8217;m the iTunes Guy, and I&#8217;ll be answering questions over the coming months. So far, response has been well above what we expected, and we have dozens of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ballooning iTunes Album Artwork Folder</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/28/ballooning-itunes-album-artwork-folder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/28/ballooning-itunes-album-artwork-folder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently noticed that the Album Artwork folder in my iTunes folder (~/Music/iTunes/) has more than doubled in size. I recall, not long ago, that it was around 2 GB, but it is now around 4.6 GB, for roughly the same amount of music. (About 80,000 tracks, or just over 5,000 albums; the album number [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>What I Listen to Most</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/21/what-i-listen-to-most/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/21/what-i-listen-to-most/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[classical music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just because I can. Using Doug Adams&#8217; mySpins, which aggregates play counts from your iTunes library: The first column is the number of plays by artist &#8211; you&#8217;ll note that I set the artist for classical music to the composer&#8217;s name, as it&#8217;s easier to navigate on iPods with the tag set this way. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon: Take Control of iTunes 10: The FAQ, Second Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/17/coming-soon-take-control-of-itunes-10-the-faq-second-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/17/coming-soon-take-control-of-itunes-10-the-faq-second-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished my update to my ebook Take Control of iTunes 10: The FAQ. Unlike what Apple usually does, incrementing the iTunes version in the fall, this year they released iTunes 10.5, which is in spite of its version number, a fairly important upgrade. The iCloud features added to iTunes may change the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple Now Provides Incremental iTunes Updates via Software Update</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/13/apple-now-provides-incremental-updates-via-software-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/12/13/apple-now-provides-incremental-updates-via-software-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple & Mac OS X]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an update to iTunes available for me this morning: iTunes 10.5.2. And while downloading the update, I noticed something for the first time: it was in incremental update. Instead of being the 100 MB or so download as it has been in the past &#8211; the size of a full program download from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Get iTunes Album Art Without Using iTunes</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/26/how-to-get-itunes-album-art-without-using-itunes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/26/how-to-get-itunes-album-art-without-using-itunes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[iPod & iTunes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend shared with me an interesting tip, which allows one to get iTunes album art without using iTunes, but instead from a web browser. Since I always want to add album art to my music when I rip CDs, and don&#8217;t always find it in iTunes (select the tracks, Control- or right-click and choose [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gadget Review: SRS iWow 3D Audio Enhancer for iPod, iPad and iPhone</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/22/gadget-review-srs-iwow-3d-audio-enhancer-for-ipod-ipad-and-iphone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/22/gadget-review-srs-iwow-3d-audio-enhancer-for-ipod-ipad-and-iphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[iPad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the search for better sound from portable devices, such as iPods, a number of add-ons (or plug-ins, literally) are available. There are several small headphone amps that you can use with an iPod or other portable music player, and then there&#8217;s the $70 SRS iWow 3D. This device plugs into the dock connector of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mac OS X Lion Freezes &#8211; Is iTunes the Culprit?</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/22/mac-os-x-lion-freezes-is-itunes-the-culprit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/22/mac-os-x-lion-freezes-is-itunes-the-culprit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently posted an article about Lion video freezes occurring with my new Mac mini. There were clear error messages, showing that this is related to the previous Lion video freeze problem I experienced. Since then, I&#8217;ve a couple of other freezes, unrelated to video. And looking at the logs at the time they occurred, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>iTunes Match Feature I&#8217;d Like to See: CD Matches</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/21/itunes-match-feature-id-like-to-see-cd-matches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/21/itunes-match-feature-id-like-to-see-cd-matches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I have some issues with iTunes Match &#8211; notably the fact that it doesn&#8217;t match very well &#8211; I was ripping some CDs today, and realized that there is one feature that could be very useful. I got a 12-disc set of Murray Perahia playing Mozart&#8217;s piano concertos, and had to spend a long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Overview of Apple Lossless Compression Results</title>
		<link>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/05/an-overview-of-apple-lossless-compression-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mcelhearn.com/2011/11/05/an-overview-of-apple-lossless-compression-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently pointed out that the Apple Lossless codec has gone open source, meaning that this lossless codec can now be freely used in both hardware and software. The Apple Lossless codec is similar to FLAC, and offers the same advantages. When you compress files in a lossless format, you lose absolutely none of the [...]]]></description>
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