You can maximize the iTunes window to take up the fullscreen by holding down the Option button while you press the green button. Without the Option key held down, the green button sends iTunes into mini-player mode. This mini-player mode is different from the album art mini-player though, which is new to iTunes 10. Another … Read More
Every once in a while you’ll come across a song or video on the web that you just can’t find anywhere else. Maybe it’s a remix, maybe it’s an interview you want to listen to, whatever it is, you can easily convert that web video’s audio track to an MP3 file, which can then go … Read More
The iTunes Visualizer is a neat feature of iTunes that’s been around forever, more recent incarnations of the app have brought a more attractive visualizer which is a bit more fun to play around with. In fact, there’s some hidden commands that you can access while in iTunes Visualizer that modify the appearance of what’s … Read More
You can change the placement of icons on your iPhone or iPod touch much faster by moving them around directly within iTunes. Plug your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad into your Mac or PC Launch iTunes Select your iPhone Click on the ‘Apps’ tab within iTunes Drag icons around the visible homescreen As long as … Read More
If your computer doubles as your stereo, you’re not alone. Anytime I just have iTunes playing music, I like to put iTunes into fullscreen mode.
Updated 5/9/2012: If you don’t have a credit card you can still create an iTunes account. Effectively this is creating a free iTunes account, with access to download all the great free apps and other free content from the App Store. Setup iTunes Account Without a Credit Card This is the process to create an … Read More
You can easily convert any WAV file to MP3 format by using one of two free methods we’ll detail below, both are simple and fast. The first trick uses iTunes, and the second tip uses a utility called All2MP3 to handle the audio file conversion. iTunes is ubiquitous and cross-platform with Windows and Mac OS … Read More
Did you know iTunes can find missing Album Artwork for you? If you have ripped your own CD’s or downloaded music from around the web, it’s not uncommon for songs to be missing album art. But worry not, you can spruce up the appearance of your iTunes music collection by using an excellent feature that … Read More
Want access to 3,900 classic audiobooks on your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad for free? Then you’ll want to get this cool free app called, appropriately, Audiobooks. The app allows you to download audiobooks for offline playback and listen to them whenever you want.
You can play any song or audio file directly from within the Quick Look windows of Mac OS X, and that means music can be played from Finder as well as Open and Save dialogs, or anywhere else you can use the Quick Look function.
Mac users can quickly get the bitrate of any MP3, m4a, or other audio file from the command line of Mac OS X.
The iTunes 10 player defaults to include the album art inside the playlist, the size of this album art is adjustable. All you need to do is click on the “Album by Artist” list header to pull down a menu where you can adjust the size to either Small, Medium, or Large. The album art … Read More
If you come across a song playing in iTunes that is not playing at an appropriate level, perhaps it’s playing back way too loud, or maybe it’s far too quiet and it doesn’t play loud enough for your preference, you can individually increase the volume level of any specific song in your iTunes Library. Likewise, … Read More
You can disable the new iTunes Ping sidebar from appearing in iTunes 10.0.1 by using the following command within the Terminal:
iTunes 10.0.1 is a minor update that replaced the iTunes store arrows with a Ping pull-down menu button instead. I think it clutters the iTunes interface a bit so here’s how to remove this feature. Launch the Terminal and type or paste the following: defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown -bool TRUE Then quit and relaunch iTunes … Read More
Apple now allows iPhone ringtone creation apps to be sold on the App Store, in a somewhat strange turn around from their previous policy. The reason I say this is strange is because you can make ringtones with iTunes 10 for free without any additional software, and you can also buy ringtones on iTunes for … Read More
Here’s something you might not know. Your Mac will periodically send out anonymized data to Apple with location specific information, the intended use is for providing location based services to it’s customers with Apple products. But in Mac OS X Snow Leopard you can turn this off and disable the location feature.
You can trim any MP3 file for free in Mac OS X thanks to the bundled QuickTime Player app, which comes preinstalled on every single Mac. Though we’ll cover trimming MP3’s, it turns out you can actually use QuickTime to trim just about any audio file, as the app supports many more other audio formats … Read More
