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iPod thoughts

Paul Westbrook | 13 February, 2006 23:44

I have been using the iPod for about a month and I do like it, but there are things that I would change:

  1. When a podcast track ends, the iPod goes back to the main menu.  This is annoying when you are playing a podcast of short content.  (Like Uwe Hermann's Music Podcast)
  2. Video podcasts should not appear in the Audio podcast section.  (How many people want to listen to the audio of a video podcast?)
  3. Better support in iTunes for libraries larger than the size of the iPod.  (By default, iTunes will pick a subset of the music for you, but you would have to manually update it.)  This page describes a good smart playlist for handling this, but it talk about weighting the randomizer with rating information

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script to filter tracks by location

Paul Westbrook | 13 February, 2006 23:20

When I added all of the tracks from our server to my iTunes library, I had a lot of duplicate tracks.  On my laptop, I had the protected AAC files, and the server has the mp3 format versions.

First I used iTunes "Show Duplicate Tracks" menu item to display all of the duplicate tracks.  Then I selected all of the tracks and created a playlist with those.  Then I ran this script which puts all of the duplicate tracks that are located on the server into a new playlist.

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