Another itunes problem

(this is my standard advice, one up from "have you tried rebooting?" but it does often do the trick)

Have you forced prebinding? (Terminal program, then type sudo update_prebinding -root / -force)

That's not permissions, that's your filesystem and pointers all blown to hell. Definitely take it in to the shop. That sucks.

It sounds like Wooden's problem is beyond that, though, because of the trash thing. I dunno, I am too lazy to google a -50 error today and have decided I no longer care about anything to do with Unix until I get a new G5 iMac with Tiger.

It's a preventative maintenance thing, which is probably why it's too widely disregarded. Also, I highly recommend MacJanitor if you have a laptop, b/c OS X is programmed to run those functions in the background around 4 AM, but it can't do that when it's asleep. Again, just good to stay ahead of things.

warning this will give full read write execute permsiins to everyone

you'll have to give your password

you could always copy the ne file in using

sudo cp source-filepath destination-filepath

haha Ed i guess TT tags are a secuirty hole. who knew?

then repat as for user group everyone

so chmod 345 will give you
-wxr--r-x

I may ahve got that back areswards but its broadly correct.

Tracer is right, after you sudo I'm pretty sure you can do the permissions from the GUI using Get Info. Much less annoying than trying to remember what order to put the damn numbers in.

Using this, I can delete the relevant file, or rename it. But I can't add the new file into the folder, as the folder is locked too...

itunes believes i should listen to the momus track "girlish boy" every other song

In the Terminal window
sudo chmod 777 filepath

warning this will give full read write execute permsiins to everyone

you'll have to give your password

you could always copy the ne file in using

sudo cp source-filepath destination-filepath

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How come itunes refuses to parse some tracks with perfectly valid ID3 tags? (It loads them in but doesn't name or catalogue them properly).

ID3 v1

I had a few tracks doing that a while ago. I used MP3 Rage (Mac program, sure there are good PC equivalents) to retag them and the problem went away.

Yeah, figured that'd be the case. Just hoping there might have been a hidden "Alright stop messin about and behave yerself" option in itunes.

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/ did the job nicely.

anybody know of any way to get rid of the 'ringtones' play list that was given with the last update? i don't have any ringtones, or even a cell phone, so it's kind of annoying that that play list is just sitting there. i like to keep my itunes app and mp3 tags really nice and tidy too, so.

Go to prefs/general. Unselect show ringtones.

yeah, it's like the option to hide the play list is there, but the check box for it is faded and i can't deselect it. vexing.

i opened up my i-tunes this morning and it said "please select library before continuing", and i selected the most "recent" one, which was from two months ago so half my music was gone. i erased it and just dragged all my music files from my computer to the itunes so i didn't actually lose music, but my playlists and streaming radio are missing. what the hell happened???

So, I've got my laptop plugged into my home stereo. When I'm playing music from iTunes, the speakers' bass response sounds like they are blown - all fuzzy and farty.

When I'm playing a CD through iTunes, through the same connection on the same laptop, the sound is fine. When I'm playing my iPod through the same connection, the sound is fine, whether or not the iPod is plugged in.

By process of elimination, I've determined that nothing is wrong with the speakers, the amp/tuner, or the connections. Anybody else having this problem?

Got equaliser settings on?

Where are they?

View --> Show Equalizer

I'll check it out.

The reason I'm asking is itunes distorts music if the equaliser is on. Long story.

Also maybe try with the "Sound Enhancer" off. Open options, then click on playback and uncheck sound enhancer. I think it pumps up the bass pretty high for laptop/computer speakers.

Ah yeah.

In a nutshell, itunes and ipods don't cope with any equaliser setting which increases the low end.

You can run mp3gain/aacgain over your files to reduce the internal volume setting and almost completely eliminate the distortion. If this is your current problem, of course.

Problem solved - equalizer settings did the trick. Thanks, folks.

Now run all your files through mp3gain/aacgain and you can use the equaliser once again.

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