From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #228 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, December 29 2010 Volume 18 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Mo' itunes q's [2fs ] Re: Mo' itunes q's [Rex Broome ] calling the tech brigade (Mac division) [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:58:15 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Mo' itunes q's Incidentally, my future iTunes wishlist includes the ability to tell iTunes to ignore case in discerning duplicate tracks: Sorry, but in fact there is no difference between "Globe of Frogs" and "Globe Of Frogs" (and unlikely there ever will be: plus it's weird that case in the name field triggers "difference" whereas a totally different track timing does not. If you were deciding wheter you had two copies of the same track, which would you pay more attention to: track time, or capitalization?) On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > Maybe go to View>View Options (cmd-J) and check all the boxes you suspect > might be effecting this sort weirdness, e.g., Sort Artist, Sort Album, etc > Hopefully that will suss out the field that's causing this. > > -tc > > On Dec 27, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Rex Broome wrote: > > > So a friend of mind kindly allowed me to copy a bunch of his music files. > > Of course his tagging system is different from mine, including some > special > > tags (in fields other than "genre") separating out his compilations, > comedy > > records, soundtracks etc. (These take the form of entries in places like > > the "Sort Artist" field meant to trick iTunes' alphabetical sorting > system, > > like "z1 zz3 comedy"). I'm trying to free them to intermingle with the > > other regular files by deleting all this coded info. But for some > reason, > > it's not working on a big percentage of them. I have gotten it so that > on > > the "Get Info" prompt, all the fields on the "Info" and "Sort" pages are > > completely, positively blank with the exception of the essential stuff > > (Artist, Song, Album, Track), and still these files are alphabetizing as > if > > there's a "zz" in one of the sort fields. > > > > The result is that if I browse my artists, they're all alphabetical > through > > ZZ Top, and then there's a big string of randomly arranged artist names > > which used to be in my friend's collection as soundtracks, comedy, etc. > > > > Any ideas what little trick I'm missing? > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:15:04 -0800 From: Rex Broome Subject: Re: Mo' itunes q's Thanks, all... the answer seems to have largely been, "Wait for iTunes to catch up with itself because your library is too goddamn big. It'll get there eventually." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:42:00 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: calling the tech brigade (Mac division) Okay, so if I'm not mistaken, Mac's "AudioUnits" for sound modification apps aren't specific to an app; they're adaptable, right? So: how do I get those that are plugged-in to one app so they're available in another one? Specifically: both Audacity and Audio Hijack have loads of such effects thingies. I have a trial version (for 30 days, fully featured) of Twisted Wave...but fewer of those plug-ins are accessible to it. Can I copy some files around to let TW "see" them, or what? But where from & where to? I'm not that clear on Mac architecture, so detailed instructions are useful. (Also: will take as read suggestions to the effect that this would be way easier in Ubuntu or whatever.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #228 ********************************