Category: itunes
How to connect your iPhone or iPod to your home stereo.
To connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod to your home stereo you just need a 3.5mm to RCA cable like this cable here. The RCA cable plugs into the rear of your stereo and the 3.5mm plugs into your iPhone headphone jack.
How to copy an Audible file to an older iPod
I still like to run with my old iPod Shuffle. Recently I tried to listen to an Audible book and it wouldn’t work. Apple Music and Audible do not play nicely together. But I didn’t give up easily… here’s how to listen to that audible book on an iPod! To download the audible file to…
How to download incompatible iOS Apps to an older iPhone
We have an iPhone 4 that we love. It is running iOS 7. But there are some apps that you cannot download to iOS7. If you try to download them from the App store you get this message: To get around this, you need an older version of the app. But Apple don’t give you…
How to download the new U2 ‘Songs of Innocence’ album for free
As part of their iPhone 6 launch Apple are giving away 500 million copies of the latest U2 album ‘Songs of Innocence.’ The album is available for free on iTunes for the next 5 weeks. I downloaded it yesterday and I’m loving it! To find it you need to go to your ‘purchased music’ section on…
How to play music to your stereo wirelessly from your iPhone, iPad or iPod on a non airplay equipped stereo.
The latest Stereos from Pioneer etc are coming with airplay built in (a bit like airprint) but the Apple Airport Express allows you to airplay to any stereo. Here’s how.
Best iTunes settings for importing songs from CD
The default setting on iTunes is not the best setting to use when importing songs. This article describes how to import songs into iTunes with the better quality bitrate.
How to import songs into iTunes using the LAME mp3 encoder
What the LAME mp3 encoder is, why it’s better than the iTunes default, and how to use it.
How to import songs into iTunes with no loss of quality
Why it’s best to import all your songs using the apple lossless encoder.
How to get cheap iTunes credit
A regularly updated list of iTunes card specials from around Australia.
How to convert an iTunes song to MP3
Some older music players do not sync with itunes but require you to manually copy an mp3 file onto them. Here is how to convert a song that you have in iTunes into an MP3 file so you can copy it to your mp3 player.
Switching to OS X
Switching to OS X from a PC is a big change. Here are a some of my random thoughts on the transition.
How to get a free iTunes account without a credit card
The children have a new iPod touch for Christmas and you want them to be able to download free apps, without being able to download paid apps to your credit card. Here is how to set up a free account without a credit card.
How to stop iTunes from playing while watching TV
With Snow Leopard Apple have made the pause button on the remote control ALWAYS start and stop itunes.
How to put a DVD movie onto your ipod
How to copy a DVD to your iPod or iPad.
Snow Leopard First Impressions
There was a knock on the door at 10 past 8 this morning – it was the Snow Leopard delivery man. I live in Dubbo, NSW, 6 hours drive from Sydney. I can’t believe Apple’s efficiency!
How to upgrade your iTunes songs
Apple had just released iTunes plus which has two main benefits, both are great.
How to import spoken word into itunes
I want to convert some aiff files to mp3 to be downloaded from net…
Mounting Samsung D900i as USB drive in OSX
Well it seems that OSX won’t recognise any Samsung phones. So to get my samsung D900i working on OSX I had to do this…
How to compress speech
I’ve been playing round with getting good quality compressed speech with LAME. Here’s what I’ve found.
How to find cover art for itunes
When you tell iTunes to find your cover art, it misses lots of albums that presumably are not on amazon.com where it looks for cover art. So what do you do?
How to fix the new itunes 7 if it crashes
The new iTunes 7 looks fantastic & has some great new features. However any quick survey of forum discussions will show you that there are some bugs that people are discovering.