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• Who’s Listening To Your Shared iTunes Music?

  via Hackszine.com (via LifeHacker): perfect for those late-night shutdown routines to delay the actual shutdown until after all the connections have been closed…

  (tags: Terminal OSX iTunes hack lsof todo)

• iPodDisk
  via command-tab: an application that allows iPod browsing more/less from the Finder as well as copy the tracks back down off the iPod.
  (tags: iPod iTunes music software Mac OSX tools)
• Map of the Internet
  via xkcd (via /.): “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language” - - in this edition: a map of the Internet…
  (tags: art comic geek map network visualization internet)

• devnevyn: linkd — make cross-application links to VoodooPad
  What does “linkd” offer that the linkback framework does not?
  (tags: VoodooPad hack linkback linkd todo)
• microformats
  (tags: microformats dev framework language publishing tagging xml web)
• Apparently, less IS more
  via My Boring Ass Life (via Daring Fireball): Kevin Smith’s Celebrity playlist for iTunes (the one that Apple cut)
  (tags: humor iTunes music)
• GasLight
  via Steel Skies: an iTunes visualizer plug-in
  (tags: graphics iTunes visualization)
• Teleport
  via abyssoft (via Pounet on Flickr): a VNC alternative for OS X and keyboard/mouse sharing between Macs…
  (tags: Mac OSX VNC tools software todo)
• OmniGraffle Scripts
  (tags: omnigraffle applescript Mac OSX visualization)

Dear [tag]iTunes[/tag] crew:

Enough with the meta data already…

[tag]Skip Count[/tag]? [tag]Last Skipped[/tag]? Jeez… I thought *I* was obsessive about this stuff but then along came these and I just… I just don’t know what to say.

On the other hand: Thanks for getting “[tag]Album Artist[/tag]” in there. That solved a lot of problems. (While simultaneously creating a lot of new ones. But we won’t discuss that here.)

currently playing: Delerium “Orbit of Me”

The Sampo Method
(Last Played is in the last 7 days, Date Added is in the last 2 weeks, Genre does not contain “Mix”; Limit to 10 items selected by most often played.)

1. TV on the Radio “Wolf Like Me”
2. Midlake “Roscoe”
3. Built To Spill “Goin’ Against Your Mind”
4. Built To Spill “Mess With Time”
5. Built To Spill “The Wait”
6. Peeping Tom feat. Norah Jones “Sucker”
7. Built To Spill “Liar”
8. Built To Spill “Wherever You Go”
9. Psapp “Curuncula”
10. Built To Spill “Traces”

The “That Was So Last Week” Method
(Last Played is in the last 7 days, Play Count is greater than 10, Genre does not contain “Mix”; Limit to 10 items selected by leasy recently played.)

1. Sister Machine Gun “Influence”
2. Sasha “Immortal”
3. KMFDM “D.I.Y.”
4. Blonde Redhead “Melody”
5. Morrissey “Seasick, Yet Still Docked”
6. Meat Beat Manifesto “Edge Of No Control, Pt. 1″
7. Soundstream “Let’s Break”
8. Delerium “Fallen”
9. Monster Voodoo Machine “Defense Mechanism”
10. Julius Papp “Warm Chill”

The Most Immediate Method
(Genre does not contain “Mix”; Limit to 10 items selected by most recently played.)

1. Lamb “Gorecki”
2. The Pipettes “Dirty Mind”
3. Gus Gus “Gun (Schizoid - Man Remix)”
4. Kobayashi “Release”
5. Candy Bars “The Birthday Song”
6. Gus Gus “Cold Breath ‘79 (Craze)”
7. Starecase “Vapour Trails”
8. Hybrid “Theme From Wide Angle (Dark Skies Remix)”
9. East West Connection “Once I’ve Been There”
10. Wilderness “Monumental”

Observations and Other Notes: Soundstream’s “Let’s Break” (I’ve noticed) seems to show up in all sorts of unexpected playlists; I think iTunes is trying to tell me something. I can’t believe The Pipettes made it in there; I’ve been trying to avoid them (I don’t care what you say, they’re freaky). Lastly, somehow I managed to not run a Sampo Method report while The Dining Rooms’ “Pure & Easy” was still eligible; shame on me.

currently playing: Pop Shuvit “Conversations (Shiloh remix)”

If you (like me) have dropped the little iTunes hack bomb on your system’s user accounts for maximum user sharing, please take heed of the following instructions before upgrading to new iTunes 7 shiny-ness:

1. Make a back-up copy of your iTunes Library file. (Back-up to anywhere, the Desktop is good.)
   • Normally you find this file at ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library
   • But if you’ve done what I’ve done, that’s just a symlink to something more like /Users/Shared/Music/Master iTunes Library
2. Download your shiny (matte?) new copy of iTunes 7 for hot upgrading action.
   • Remember where you backed-up your iTunes Library. Hopefully you won’t need it (as I did)…
3. Run the installer/upgrader. If you’re using Software Update, this is done for you. (Lucky you.)
4. IF YOU “DID WHAT I DID”: Copy that back-up of your iTunes Library file into ~/Music/iTunes to overwrite the symlink.
5. Launch iTunes and agree to the T.O.S. to get in.
6. Wait for it to update your iTunes Library. (My guess is that it’s checking all of your album artwork and updating the iTunes Library file to some new format.)
7. After iTunes has finished updating the iTunes Library file, quit the application.
8. mv /Users/$YOUR_USER_ACCOUT/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Library $YOUR_SHARED_PATH/Master\ iTunes\ Library
9. sudo chown -R root:wheel $YOUR_SHARED_PATH/Master\ iTunes\ Library
10. sudo chmod 766 $YOUR_SHARED_PATH/Master\ iTunes\ Library
11. ln -s $YOUR_SHARED_PATH/Master\ iTunes\ Library /Users/$YOUR_USER_ACCOUNT/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Library
12. Repeat step 11 for each other account that needs access to the iTunes Library. Resume enjoyment of your regularly scheduled music programming.

Hopefully you won’t need the back-up. If everything re-launches normally, you can throw it away (or burn it to disc for posterity). I expected this install to play nice with my hacked set up like all of the previous upgrades did. However, when it started throwing “iTunes can’t find the Library file” error messages, I knew something was up. Seeing system-generated backups of the Library in previously non-existent sub-folders of ~/Music was the dead giveaway. Anyhoo– TAKE WARNING!

currently playing: Violet vs. Mantronik “Burn The Elastic”

Variations on a theme? Yet another [tag]iTunes[/tag]-inspired song [tag]meme[/tag]. This time via m00se:

• How many songs: 6,248
• First Song: Candy Machine “–”
• Last Song: Frederic Chopin “Zyczenie (Maiden’s Wish), Op. 74, No. 1 (Posth.)”
• Sort by time:
  
  * Shortest Song: 0:04 (”Dante’s Lament” off the Clerks soundtrack)
  
  * Longest Song: 2:57:17 (The Apostles “Live at the University Club”)
• Sort by artist:
  
  * First Artist: 1. Adagio sostenuto
  
  * Last Artist: Zinger Meats Spry
• Sort by album:
  
  * First Album: Cee-Lo Green “…Is The Soul Machine”
  
  * Last Album: Junkie XL “Zerotonine 12″ Single”
• Top Five Most Played Songs:
  
  1. Delerium “Orbit of Me” (118)
  
  2. David Holmes “Don’t Die Just Yet” (111)
  
  3. Amish Rake Fight “Sonda” (109)
  
  4. Chris Connelly “Come Down Here” (106)
  
  5. Underworld “Banstyle/Sappy’s Curry” (106)
• First song that comes up on Shuffle: Tribalation “Why Did You Do That?”
• Search by….
  
  * “sex”, how many songs come up? 66
  
  * “death”, how many songs come up? 28
  
  * “love”, how many songs come up? 176
  
  * “you”, how many songs come up? 402
  
  * “final”, how many songs come up? 5

currently playing: Broken Social Scene “Market Fresh”