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how to make ipod play more random

slim — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:22:11 +0000

I always listen to my ipod on random shuffling by song not albums. Although I have this set I have many songs I never seem to hear in most if not all playlists. On the other hand I have songs that I am constantly hearing making me wish the play order was more random. So a while back I found that you can change the order of playlists as they are stored on the ipod. This little tutorial will show you that and how it can help get more random play out or your ipod or nano. All of this is done through iTunes of course.
Step 1.

Select a playlist on your ipod and make sure that the “PlayCount column” is shown and selected as shown below in red.

Step 2.

Now click the shuffle button a few times making sure that you are toggling between shuffle on and shuffle off. You really only have to do this(turning shuffle off and then on) once. Notice that it changed the order of the songs. Nothing new to you I’m sure.

Step 3.

Now that your songs are shuffled a little differently hopefully more than you originally had them, right click the playlist on your ipod and select “Copy to Play Order”.

Technically speaking this does nothing to change the random play of the ipod, but it has definately helped me in hearing less of the songs I have “randomly” heard way too many times and I hear more of those songs that have been swept in the corners for so long a lot more often.

Don’t forget to check out my new software to get movies and songs off your ipod

creating smart playlists

slim — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:46:01 +0000

to my knowledge you cannot create a smart playlist with iTunes SDK. This seems wierd that you can create other playlists but you can’t create a smart playlist. If anyone knows how to do this it would really be appreciated. Please let me know.

need a new theme for blog

slim — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:24:45 +0000

i have noticed that this tonus theme on my blog does not display very well for IE users, anyone suggest a new theme… looking for something new, different

ipod song and movie exporter

slim — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:32:41 +0000

I have just released my little ipod software app to help people get songs and movies off of their ipod. You can check it out here www.itunessdk.com/xport . Of course if you find problems or have questions let me know. Hope this helps some people. It is to be used with itunes. All you do is select the song on your ipod in iTunes and click the button and it will add it to your library.

Flash Memory as low as $25 for 16GB

slim — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 14:55:06 +0000

I don’t think apple pays much more for the manufacturing of their ipods.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/51498.html

firefox shortcuts

slim — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:14:43 +0000

I thought this reference was very helpful

firefox is better

slim — Sat, 06 May 2006 04:40:19 +0000

http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/?id=19542

I think this movie pretty much epitomizes Internet Explorer users.

if(browser == I.E.) print( “thats YOU !!” );

itunes sdk examples

slim — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:58:59 +0000

So How do you create playlists in iTunes or add songs to a specific playlist? How do you add playlists to an ipod or even songs to it? Hopefully these code snippets will help show how to do just that. This should show you also how to add songs to any playlist and how to get the name of any devices(iPods, nanos, etc.) listed in iTunes.

  Here's how to create a playlist or search through playlists
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using iTunesLib;
iTunesApp itunes = new iTunesAppClass();

// create a new playList
IITUserPlaylist newPlayList = (IITUserPlaylist)itunes.CreatePlaylist("TheOldiesButGoodies");

// search for a certain playlist
IITUserPlaylist playListImSearchingFor = null;
foreach (IITPlaylist pl in itunes.LibrarySource.Playlists)
{
if(pl.Name.Equals("Butt Rock"))
{
playListImSearchingFor =(IITUserPlaylist) pl;
string songfile = @"C:\music\song.mp3";
playListImSearchingFor.AddFile(songfile); // add a song to that playlist
}
}

This show how to get songs or playlists off of your ipod and how to get ipod info like the name
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using iTunesLib;
iTunesApp itunes = new iTunesAppClass();
IITSourceCollection _sources = itunes.Sources;
foreach(IITSource s in _sources)
{
if(s.Kind == ITSourceKind.ITSourceKindIPod)
{
Console.WriteLine("Type: " + s.Kind); // This should print out the kind, ipod, library etc
Console.WriteLine("Type: " + s.Name); // This will print out the name of your ipod

IITPlaylist l = s.Playlists.get_ItemByName(s.Name);
// this will return a playlists of all the songs on your ipod
// now you can loop through this playlist to get song info
}
}

Renu Contact Lens Solution causes blindness

slim — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 05:12:02 +0000

I read this article and realized I have used renu contact solution few times, hope I don’t go blind.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/10/health/main1487535.shtml

ipod or some grandma’s cookies ?

slim — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:14:24 +0000

So I read this article about selling ipods in vending machines and thought I should try to convince my work to get one of these new vending machines. “Hey can i borrow a dime, I’d like to get me one of the chocolate black ipods. Please…I’m really pretty hungry for some movies and music this morning and all I really have is $299.90″

check the article out here

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185300929