Itunes on Notes

iTunes statistics

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Thu, 28 Oct 2004 16:27:04 +0000

This is interesting for me. For the first time, my entire iTunes library does not fit into my 10Gb first generation iPod.

I know have 10,03 Gb of stuff, a total of 21 days, 15 hours of stuff. Of those, I have 3,44 Gb of audiobooks, a mix of Audible, IT Conversations, and past Your Mac Life shows.

Also 550Mb of iTMS stuff already. Must… not… click… buy…

iTunes in Motorola phones

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:24:44 +0000

Some phones from Motorola will be able to sync with iTunes. The phones should have removable media, so you might have a 1Gbyte storage space in there :).

I really could care less, I have an iPod. The point I that made me write this is: you will not be able to use the music as ring tones. Why? The ring tone is a $3.2Bn/year industry, the iTMS is a paltry $100M/year industry.

You know which one the phone industry wants to keep happy, right?

Via YourMacLife and Alberto Moriondo from Motorola.

iTunes usage

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:43:23 +0000

I was discussing with Nuno how he uses iTunes, and I was amazed that he likes party shuffle…

I don’t use party shuffle, too lazy to pick songs and stuff. So I have a special playlist, a smart one, that I use. This playlist assures me a continuous stream of music with 3.5 days turn around time (assumes you are listening to itunes 24 hours a day, of course, so it’s more like 10 days).

Here is the playlist I use. It assumes you like to rate songs. It will work out-of-the-box because iTunes gives 3 stars to new songs and I only filter those below that:

Create a smart playlist
Add 4 rules:
1. Genre is not Spoken Word: remove almost all the audiobooks
2. Genre is not Audiobook: remove the rest of the audiobooks
3. Genre is not Speech: IT conversations
4. My Rating is greater than XX (two stars)
Make sure you have Match all the following conditions
Don't limit the number of songs. If you do, chose least recently played as selection style
if you disable songs with the checkbox, select Match only checked songs. Otherwise clear it.
Live Updating on

I also have the prefpane Rating Bar.prefPane installed. There are other options, but I like this one.

So, this playlist makes sure I listen to different stuff all the time, and if I’m listening to a track I don’t like, I just change it’s rating to 1 or 2 stars and it stop’s playing (you must press play after, unfortunately).

One thing I noticed, is that I don’t have enough music: 10 days to rotate my music collection is small. I’ll have to start ripping more CD’s…

Longs periods of silence

melo@simplicidade.org (Pedro Melo) — Thu, 20 May 2004 11:42:53 +0000

I really hate CD tracks that have long periods of silence.

Case in point: “Beyond The Sea” from the Swing When You’re Winning by Robbie Williams. The music lasts for 4:30 minutes, and then you have this loooooong void, until 25:23 where we have small sound clips of the backstage.

Every time this song comes up in iTunes, I thing that it stopped playing and press the play button again, only is the pause button now… Arrggghh…

Hey, it’s probably art, right?