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Music remixing with a Mac?

I have few songs which I want to create mixes from, maybe adding some additional beats, etc. Does anyone know how I can do this with a Mac (OSX)? Surely this sort of arts-related activity is well ...
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How do I store my music collection in their new(-ish) location on macOS?

When I check the size of my music collection (Ventura; Music 1.3) $ du -hs ~/Music/iTunes 131G /Users/sam/Music/iTunes $ du -hs ~/Music/Music 61M /Users/sam/Music/Music I see that all the ...
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Why do some songs in my iTunes library stop prematurely and go to the next song?

For the past couple of weeks a whole bunch of the songs from my iTunes library stop early and skip to the next song (just as if it was at the end of the song). Although the point where it skips varies ...
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Compress MP3 downloaded from the web?

I recently downloaded a bunch of raw audio streams from the web as MP3s and I realize now that they're huge! 60 MB a song… I would like to compress these, but the other question similar to mine links ...
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3 answers
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Learn playing guitar right from the mac?

I am eager to learn playing guitar by the help of my MBP. Is there a software around helping you to play mp3 files of your choice? P.S: I know nothing about guitars and bought one out of sudden ...
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Mac CD rippers and Metadata

I want to rip some of the old CDs into MP3. I know thats easy. But, how can I also save myself from tedious step of adding the artist names and song name into teh ripper. Itunes only shows data ...
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3 answers
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Apple Music skipping through songs

Few days ago I noticed iTunes skipping through songs. I didn't really understand what was happening so I started investigating: Different networks make no difference no problem with my router / ...
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Prevent Music.app from starting on F8 (play) button (osx 10.15)

I want to control Spotify using the function key media shortcuts, but Music.app opens instead of Spotify playing (even though Spotify is open already. How can I prevent Music.app from listening to ...
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Ultimate low-footprint music player for Mac OSX? [closed]

My Mac at work has 2GB of RAM total, and I'm constantly using enough middleweight programs simultaneously that I wind up in Rainbow Circle Hell. I've been using Songbird, but it frequently runs into ...
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8 answers
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Control iTunes from Spotlight (or similar)

Is there some sort add on or program that lets me easily change (and choose) songs using keyboard shortcuts (or perhaps Spotlight)? The ideal program would add iTunes indexing to Spotlight and allow ...
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1 answer
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Delete currently playing song from iTunes

Is there anyway to make a global shortcut, via Automator or anything, so I can quickly delete currently playing song from iTunes? I know how to delete a song from iTunes. What I want is to create a ...
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2 answers
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How do I delete songs not in playlists in iTunes?

I have lots of music in iTunes, but there's tons of crap I never listen to just taking up space. Is there a way I can easily delete all songs not in a playlist? All the music I have put into ...
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browsing music in cover art in vlc

Is it possible to activate a cover art view for the music library in vlc? I mean something like you can see in iTunes. I am running vlc under osX and I can't find the appropriate preference.
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Using iTunes to access all your music on a NAS but keeping the library.xml local... Is it possible/how? (Mac OSX))

I've pushed across my whole music collection to my Buffalo Linkstation NAS recently. This is the entire iTunes folder including artwork, music, library.xml, the whole kaboodle... (I have iTunes in ...
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2 answers
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Moving iTunes tracks with all metadata

I would like to move some iTunes tracks out of my iTunes library and off my machine while preserving all the associated metadata in the process. I'm hoping to accomplish this in a way that things like ...

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