Daily Tip 9: Delete / Remove Duplicate Songs from iTunes

October 9th, 2008  |  1,191 views | Published in Apple, Audiophiles, Daily Tip

Over the years, when collecting music, your iTunes library may get out of hand, in fact, it may even be too cluttered or too messy.  Here is a tip on how you can get it to be nice and clean by deleting duplicate songs you may have in your iTunes.  This will save you room on your iPod or iPhone and will definately make your playlist much better with less clutter and no duplicates.

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Daily Tip 7:How To: Remove / Strip DRM off iTunes Music Tutorial

September 23rd, 2008  |  4,038 views | Published in DIY, Daily Tip, Hacks, How To's

The tutorial shown below is for users who is annoyed by iTunes DRM and wants to strip it off because they want to play it in other devices, use it as background music in a home video, or anything else that DRM limits it to do.  Many people know you strip off the DRM of iTunes music by simply burning the song to a CD, and ripping it back over, losing very little quality (if settings are correct).  This method does the same exact thing but you will not need a CD-RW disc, a CD ROM drive, or even need to burn anything!  It’s that simple.  Let’s show you how to perform this.

We are going to be using a program called TuneClone.  TuneClone is basically a program that acts as a virtual CD drive that allows you “burn” MP3 from iTunes and “rip” it.  TuneClone “lies” to your computer saying that you have a CD-RW drive that it will burn to (like Alchohol 120%).

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Genius’ Suggestion Tells Me That John Lennon is like…

September 9th, 2008  |  418 views | Published in Apple, Funny Stuff

I thought after hearing iTunes 8.0 new feature, Genius, I would give it a shot.  For those of you who don’t know what Genius is, it is a little tool in iTunes that searches your Music library and it will suggest you new songs that you might like based on other people’s library.  It can also create a playlist in one-click by clicking a song you like and it will find all songs that are similar (at least somewhat so far) to the one currently playing.

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