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bhikkhu 
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 Posted: August 26 2007 at 10:51 |
 E-Dub wrote:
The only thing that drives me nuts is if you want to load in the album's artwork and it's not in the iTunes store's database, it'll replace it with something of a slightly similar name. For example, for the very first Saga album it's got the artwork by some female rap artist named Saga. Or Kino's Picture has some folk dude with the last name of King.Morons.E
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Automatic features like that never work 100%, but when it does, it's a good quality picture. It's really not that difficult to find artwork and add it yourself.
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Shakespeare
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Posted: August 27 2007 at 10:28 |
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I don't buy music from iTunes, so it doesn't do that automatically for me. But still, I have a fun time looking through the google turnout, and choosing which one I like best.
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E-Dub
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Posted: August 28 2007 at 16:39 |
bhikkhu wrote:
E-Dub wrote:
The only thing that drives me nuts is if you want to load in the album's artwork and it's not in the iTunes store's database, it'll replace it with something of a slightly similar name. For example, for the very first Saga album it's got the artwork by some female rap artist named Saga. Or Kino's Picture has some folk dude with the last name of King.Morons.E
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Automatic features like that never work 100%, but when it does, it's a good quality picture. It's really not that difficult to find artwork and add it yourself.
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HT, is there a way to load the artwork in yourself through iTunes? I've done some searching and can't find any way to do it. Cracks me up how they have just about every major Marillion album cover EXCEPT for Misplaced Childhood! E
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Shakespeare
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Posted: August 28 2007 at 16:55 |
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E-Dub, you do realize that if you hit the upward arrow in a box (in the bottom left section) then the artwork pops up in the bottom left of the screen? Are you? Well, if you don't have image at the moment, it is blank and says "Drank Album art Here". You can either drag a picture into that box, or you can right click on the song, go to "Get info" click the "Artwork" tab, and add a picture from your photos.
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rileydog22
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Posted: August 29 2007 at 00:08 |
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I can't say I've ever used WMA or Foobar or anything else very much, but I can say that I've been using iTunes for a few years now and it's never given ME any sh*t.
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Shakespeare
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Posted: August 31 2007 at 18:26 |
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Trademark
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Posted: August 31 2007 at 22:58 |
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A simpler way of replacing or adding artwork in itunes. Select the songs you want to add artwork for. under the file menu choose "get Info". when the info window opens simply drag the new artwork into the box and click OK. This way you can do whole albums at once rather than one song at a time.
You can also add comments, alter genre descriptions, change groupings, correct spelling errors etc. in all the other information for those songs you have selected.
I've got over 26,000 songs in my itunes library and I use the Get Info menu extensively to keep things organized.
Edited by Trademark - August 31 2007 at 23:15
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Shakespeare
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Posted: September 01 2007 at 10:20 |
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YOu don't even have to go into the "Get info" menu. If you highlight a song, and then click on the area you wish to alter (the name, the album, genre, et cetera) you will be able to edit the text that way. Also, you don't have to go into "Get info" to add artwork, you can simply drag it into the box in the bottom left of the screen.
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bhikkhu
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Posted: September 01 2007 at 15:02 |
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Or, for a whole album, you highlight the album title in the browser, click get info, and drag the picture to the artwork square. It will put the picture on all the songs for that album.
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goose
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Posted: September 02 2007 at 11:35 |
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I installed iTunes for about half an hour, but I am no longer annoyed with it because i use Quod Libet (and formerly foobar2000, when I had Windows.)
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Shakespeare
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Posted: September 03 2007 at 09:45 |
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iTunes pwns!!! Geez...
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activetopics
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Posted: September 06 2007 at 21:39 |
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Peter
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 09:35 |
 I get annoyed with the way so many people randomly use apostrophes with plurals and words ending in "S," but maybe that's just me.... 
 Seriously, English speakers go through years of education, graduate high school, and still don't have a fewking CLUE about the correct use of apostrophes! Why I outta...
BLAM! 
That's better....
kind of....
Edited by Peter - September 07 2007 at 09:37
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
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Peter
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 09:42 |
 So, is that "get is" or "belonging to, or of, get?"
Get's a nice word.
That's Get's house.
C'est what? 
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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kazansky
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 09:43 |
^ maybe you're just TOO sensitive  
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Peter
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 09:53 |
kazansky wrote:
^ maybe you're just TOO sensitive |
 They've made a monster out of me -- curse you, books and education! 
(Or should that be BOOK'S?) 
Seriously, that thread title has been DRIVING ME MAD for weeks!
What is the big mystery about apostrophes -- and why do people go all the way through school, and STILL not understand them?
...and don't get me started on " alot!"
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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kazansky
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 10:00 |
actually i didn't really realized the whole thing untill you brought that up, it looks alright in a glimpse
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The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.
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bhikkhu
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 10:12 |
Peter wrote:
kazansky wrote:
^ maybe you're just TOO sensitive |
They've made a monster out of me -- curse you, books and education!
(Or should that be BOOK'S?)
Seriously, that thread title has been DRIVING ME <FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#99cc00>M<FONT face="Courier New, Courier, mono" color=#0099ff>A<FONT face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif" color=#ff00cc>D for weeks!
What is the big mystery about apostrophes -- and why do people go all the way through school, and STILL not understand them?
...and don't get me started on " alot!" |
Bugs me too, just like improper speech. It's a mystery how people who grew up a mile away from me can say things like, "I ain't got none."
But I also know that typos are often the culprit here. As much as I stress proper grammar, my fingers betray me quiet often.
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rushfan4
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 10:47 |
I think Peter is too sensitive also, but I think that I have seen somewhere that he is a teacher, so it his job to be sensitive towards these things. However, I also agree with him and I think that people should take more pride in their work and what and how they are typing/saying here.
I know that In my case I try to use proper spelling and punctuation but sometimes it is hard to remember the various rules that, in some cases, I was taught twenty years ago.
As far as apostrophes go, I prefer Frank Zappa. 
As to his alot, I know that that it one of the rules I don't remember very well. A lot or alot. My biggest hang up is the "then" versus "than" usage. I have been trying to figure this one out for years but still can't get a handle on it.
My biggest foul-up that I am aware of is the "their", "there" and "they're" usage. I know the proper usage of these words, however, my fingers tend to type the wrong one more often than (or is it then?) not.
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Posted: September 07 2007 at 10:51 |
Peter wrote:
What is the big mystery about apostrophes -- and why do people go all the way through school, and STILL not understand them? |
I think the problem is that the use of apostrophes was never properly explained at school in the first place. It was either taught when the children were too young to appreciate the difference and then never reitterated later when they were old enough or never really taught at all.
This is then componded by people not explaining why the use of an itinerant apostrophe is wrong in the given context -in this instance Peter did, but all to often the culprit is slapped down with no explanation.
Your and you're and there, their and they're are other homonyms frequently crop up in informal correspondance such as this forum, but to be fair to the posters, this is rarely due to ignorance, just speed. Also the similarity to the forum to coloquial chat implies that adhering to strict gramatical rules is not that necessary... after all, there are no apostrophes in speech. Since their misuse does not affect the understandabilty of the text, (as the human brain is perfectly capable of filtering out the nonsensical meanings from the one the poster was trying to convey), I don't think it is that big an issue.
I can remember a time when to flipantly use a split infinitive was a gramatical faux-pas.
Edited by darqdean - September 07 2007 at 10:51
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