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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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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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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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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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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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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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How do I make my iTunes library read-only?
I have a huge iTunes collection and have been researching this for a while but cannot seem to find an answer.
Basically I would like to leave my iTunes collection open so that people can select their ...
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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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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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How to share a music folder between OSX and Windows?
It's a question for OSX & Windows 7 users who jump between one system to another.
I'm on Windows now, and I've got this music folder in my main hard drive. I'm planning to buy a Mackbook Pro soon ...
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How to share and play music in my office
I would like to use my old MacBook (hooked to a stereo equipment) as a media server to allow everybody in my office to play or upload music, in a Jukebox style.
The best case would be a web interface ...
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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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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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Lightweight iTunes Home Sharing client
I have both a MacBook Air & an iMac on the same network. I'm using my iMac as the host with my iTunes library on it & it's being shared with Home Sharing. I'm wondering if there are any ...
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Is there software that lets you stream music from your computer to an iPhone over the web? [closed]
I'm looking for software that does the following:
Runs some sort of server on the notebook that I point at where I keep my music files.
Comes with an app or Web UI that lets me browse and play those ...
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