Comments on: Trigger Happy Tunes

By: danbee

danbee — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:35:03 +0000

fang – Nothing wrong with AAC, it’s a better codec than MP3. And PC users can play them fine, iTunes for Windows is the obvious choice, but Winamp will play them, as will foobar2000.
Certainly it’s far better to leave them as AAC than to transcode to MP3 (ick).

By: fang

fang — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:33:28 +0000

yeah, i am a confessed itunes addict… but, the problem that I made when I got my G5 is that itunes imports ripped cd’s in AAC as standard. (duh) I was in too much of a hurry to get my CD collection on that I left it like that. Months down the track, i’m suddenly on a LAN with about 20 other PC users primarily running XP. They want me to ‘share’ my music over the network to them (we cant do it over the internet or even P2P as were now on a proxy server), but AAC is useless to them…
I them ran ‘Jhymn’ to convert all my Aac’s to mp3 (12000 tracks to mp3 = 3/4 days nonstop) so if anyone has experienced the pain like me, use Jhymn i guess…
On another note, does anyone know of a good free forum style website dedicated to apple support from other apple users? I don’t feel like forking out the fee for Apple protection plan over minor trivial issues I would like to ask. cheers (i dont mind you shooting an email to me about the site you know, or posting it here?)

By: Trev

Trev — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:17:28 +0000

I am having a very strange problem importing my CD’s into iTunes. I put the CD in the drive, and iTunes recognizes the CD. It then pulls up the track list from the Internet database, and it looks like it is ripping each of the tracks from the CD onto the hard drive. But the process goes much too fast, and then when I go to look at the tracks on the hard drive (through iTunes), all of the tracks are listed, but with a track time of 0:00. Of course, when I go to look at the actual file that was copied onto the hard disk it is way too small (all of the files are 51KB). I have tried everything I can think of, but I can’t fix this problem. (I know that the CD drive is fine, because when I try to rip the CD using another software program—like Windows Media Player—it rips just fine.) Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

By: Luca Bigon

Luca Bigon — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:52:08 +0000

Have you never try SizzlingKeys4iTunes?
http:// http://www.yellowmug.com/
I think this is the most beautiful application for control iTunes.

By: Fabrice

Fabrice — Mon, 10 May 2004 17:21:25 +0000

Just try Butler (ex another launcher) it as all the above functions… and lots more

By: Ryan MacCarthy

Ryan MacCarthy — Wed, 05 May 2004 20:05:11 +0000

M-Beat by The Little App Factory is another solution that I've been using for some time now. M-Beat. Here's an old copy (that I believe to be free): v1.26

By: chris

chris — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:03:01 +0000

yeah, i’m interested in a windows version, too. i’ve been searching for a hot keys program to control iTunes for Windows, but i can’t seem to find any.
i had one for winamp (called hotamp), so i’d like to get one for iTunes before i fully switch over.

By: brett

brett — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 04:11:13 +0000

it’s a shame it only works on mac platform… i have windows, but also have itunes. is there a windows version that i can download somewhere?

By: rich

rich — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 02:39:03 +0000

fantastic…. though i’ve just cleared out all the little icons and widgets from my menu bar … guess i’m gonna have to get used to having it look kinda full again cos Synergy looks to good to miss :-)

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 02:36:40 +0000

I use a similar app called X-tunes. Description: X-Tunes is a free utility to to control iTunes without bringing iTunes to the foreground, or having the iTunes window on screen. Contrary to iTunes or other controllers, X-Tunes does not display a window permanently on screen, but only when you press a given key combination (Apple+Space by default). This window appears in front of all applications so you can click on its buttons while remaining in the current application. As soon as you release the key combination, the window disappears smoothly.