Sep 14
Looks like the AppleTV is getting some attention after being ignored during the Music event Apple just hosted. Apple has done away with the 40Gig AppleTV and slashed the price of the 160Gig Model to US$229. Perhaps they are clearing inventory in preparation for a new AppleTV? It seams lately all other Apple Products have been getting all the love maybe we can look forward to a revision of the AppleTV.
Whatever apple ends up doing one thing is for sure they need a Software update, even if its only to add support for the new iTunes LP format. It would be nice to be able to browse all that new content on my Big Screen.
I know of several people that don’t understand the AppleTV but I love mine, what are your thoughts on apples Media device?
written by Brandon Leon
\\ tags: Apple, AppleTV, Hardware, iTunes, Media, Media Center, Music, Technology, video
Sep 21
If you wonder what this little icon in iTunes 8 is, its the Genius button. according to Apple Genius is:
a brilliant way to create perfect playlists. Play a song, click the Genius button, and iTunes creates a playlist of other songs from your library that go great together. Genius playlists help you discover songs in your library you never knew you had — and rediscover forgotten favorites.
So far I’m failry happy with it, although from time to time its fumbled a bit, tossing a loan country song into a mix of Disturbed and Metallica. How do you use this little gem you might ask… EASY when listening to any song in iTunes you’ll see the Genius icon in the lower right portion of the iTunes window click it and WHAM! iTunes will create you a 25 song playlist (yes you can adjust this after your Genius playlist is created at the top of the windows you can select a 25, 50, 75 or 100 song playlist for Genius to create, I have mine set to create a 50 song list.
What are your experiences with Genius?
written by Brandon Leon
\\ tags: Apple, iTunes, Music
Mar 17
Not to long ago I wrote about an application for automatically downloading lyrics, If you Gave Harmonic a shot you may have noticed recently that Harmonic has been having trouble downloading lyrics and/or taking a long time doing it.
Turns out this was an issue with the LyricWiki, their API had stopped returning lyrics correctly. as of Yesterday this has been fixed and Harmonic should be returning Lyrics correctly again.
Harmonic is curently looking for a few good lyric websides to act as a “backup” for when there is an issue with LyricWiki,
Head over to http://mindquirk.com/ to download Harmonic and start populating your iPod or iPhone with Lyric data!
written by Brandon Leon
\\ tags: iTunes, Music
Looks like the AppleTV is getting some attention after being ignored during the Music event Apple just hosted. Apple has done away with the 40Gig AppleTV and slashed the price of the 160Gig Model to US$229. Perhaps they are clearing inventory in preparation for a new AppleTV? It seams lately all other Apple Products have been getting all the love maybe we can look forward to a revision of the AppleTV.
Whatever apple ends up doing one thing is for sure they need a Software update, even if its only to add support for the new iTunes LP format. It would be nice to be able to browse all that new content on my Big Screen.
