iPod question

[Troy]

Glad you're up and running FA!

Maybe not for Macs but PC users have the option of the much better, easier to use MediaMonkey (free). And yes, it'll sync iPods (along with most other brands of mp3 players). Album art always shows up on the iPod, you can add album art to entire albums instead of the stupid drag-n-drop every goddamn song method iTunes uses, plus it plays way, way more formats.

Mediamonkey is simply a copy of iTunes that's been streamlined and optimized for use on the PC. See also Firefox, which is a knock off of Apple's Safari, but optimized for the PC. It's funny how few PC users understand that neither of these programs would exist without Apple inventing the technology and architecture for them. But anyway . . . iTunes automatically finds and installs the cover art for the album online. Doesn't mediamonkey do that, or do you always have to go find and install it? I'm with you on the monkey playing more formats, but it's never been an issue for me. Mp3, mp4, aiff and wav are all anybody really uses anyway and all are iTunes compatible.

Me>That's just not true. If you delete from the library you get a message saying "You sure you wanna delete that, you can't undo it, you know" and the file disappears from your HD.
MGH>Not on my iMac or my MacBook.

Just to be sure, from "Music" in the library listing it won't delete, eh?

Ok, try this. Go to iTunes preferences> advanced. Do you have the media folder location at "Users/you/music/iTunes/iTunes music", which is the default if you hit reset there? If not, then iTunes may not know to go there when deleting the files. "Keep folder organized" and "copy files to iTunes folder" should both be checked too. That way iTunes is taking care of all the organization of the root folders. iTunes works MUCH more efficiently if you let it do it's thing.

Me>Click one item in the list, hold the shift key and click further down the list and everything between will select too. Hit delete and they will all delete. You can gang select a non-contiguous number of files by holding the command key (option on PC?).

MGH>This does not happen on either my machines. So I've been deleting manually when necssary, and it's one of the very few things about the Mac that is quite frankly a pain in the butt. But, it's worth it because

WFT? Try this:
Have iTunes in list mode. Click on a song so that it's highlighted. Hold down the command key and click on another song. Both tracks should now be selected. You can select as many as you want doing that.

Now click with no keys held down and everything will deselect except the one you just clicked on. How hold down the shift key and click another track 5 songs down the list. Now all the tracks between the 2 points should be selected. This works in every apple program.