PC or MAC?
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BadMoon
Demi G0D Overseer
Guess what I got today...
27" of iMac goodness!
Well what do you think? How about the setup? Plug it in and go!
Skiman
Super Freak
BadMoon
Demi G0D Overseer
Yep! Easy as pie!
I'm typing on it right now!
Bet you didn't have to delete any crap off of it when you turned it on either did you?
Been having a little trouble with iTunes.
I am trying to preserve the playlists from the iTunes on my Windows PC. I have been on the phone with techs trying different ways of loading the music from my external drive (I have loaded everything 3 times already!) and will be calling one back on Monday.
It's not looking good for playlists, but all my music, movies, and podcasts are on the Mac in iTunes.
But here is my biggest concern. You know when you don't have artwork for a particular album and you get the generic musical note icon? Well on several occasions I have seen this in iTunes:
Makes me nervous. Should I delete everything from the Mac and start with a clean fresh iTunes and start reloading things again?
To be clear, it doesn't always look like this, but it has on several occasions.
I am trying to preserve the playlists from the iTunes on my Windows PC. I have been on the phone with techs trying different ways of loading the music from my external drive (I have loaded everything 3 times already!) and will be calling one back on Monday.
It's not looking good for playlists, but all my music, movies, and podcasts are on the Mac in iTunes.
But here is my biggest concern. You know when you don't have artwork for a particular album and you get the generic musical note icon? Well on several occasions I have seen this in iTunes:
Makes me nervous. Should I delete everything from the Mac and start with a clean fresh iTunes and start reloading things again?
To be clear, it doesn't always look like this, but it has on several occasions.
Kabukiman
Greatest Person Ever
On a mac, a quick permissions repair or tossing the itunes plist would probably take of that problem. I'm not sure what the Windows fix would be. Probably run the latest iTunes installer. I'm guessing there is some support file within the iTunes program that iTunes is having trouble accessing. A reinstall (or a fix install from the Add/Remove programs control panel) *should* take care of that for you.
What's this? Something isn't working right? ON A MAC? You have to reinstall something?
Kabukiman
Greatest Person Ever
What's this? Something isn't working right? ON A MAC? You have to reinstall something?
Nope, everything is dandy on the mac. Maglor is having problems with his PC.
Like automaton said, you can just import new artwork, but I think that would just mask whatever problem that's going on. A good reinstall should take care of it. Your icons shouldn't be looking like that.
Another thing that could be going on, if the reinstall doesn't work, is your video card driver may need to be updated or reinstalled. Do you see things like this happening in other programs? Particularly programs that display transparent icons or pictures?
If all that doesn't do it, then I would suggest getting a mac. This ____ just doesn't happen on the mac.
Devil_666
Super Freak
That made me laugh
You can also add the artwork manually if itunes can't find it. This link explains the process pretty well.
https://www.wikihow.com/Get-Album-Artwork-for-an-iPod-or-iTunes
https://www.wikihow.com/Get-Album-Artwork-for-an-iPod-or-iTunes
Doctor Who
Super Freak
I own both.
So both for me.
PC is good for the internetz and gaming and IMing, and the Mac is good for Predator hunting, art, music, and has some fun apps.
So both for me.
PC is good for the internetz and gaming and IMing, and the Mac is good for Predator hunting, art, music, and has some fun apps.
I know how to get album art. I just have some obscure stuff that I need to manually find artwork for. But that's not my question.
My question is why do the spaces where I don't currently have artwork look all f___ed up?!
If you look at the pics I posted, that IS the Mac. The Ween was right. Sad but true.
Here they are again:
And here's one I didn't post before, that actually looks kind of cool:
^^^^^
That one apeared after going from the "Podcasts" tab back to the "Music" tab. Then after jumping back and forth between other tabs ("Movies" etc.) It looked fine again. (That happened twice.)
For reference "fine" looks like this:
^^^^^
That's how it looks right now. But who knows if it will get f___ed up again...
I haven't seen it in any other programs.
The question of whether it's possible to move playlists from a PC's iTunes to a Mac's iTunes will be dealt with tomorrow.
My question is why do the spaces where I don't currently have artwork look all f___ed up?!
Like automaton said, you can just import new artwork, but I think that would just mask whatever problem that's going on. A good reinstall should take care of it. Your icons shouldn't be looking like that...
If all that doesn't do it, then I would suggest getting a mac. This ____ just doesn't happen on the mac.
If you look at the pics I posted, that IS the Mac. The Ween was right. Sad but true.
Here they are again:
And here's one I didn't post before, that actually looks kind of cool
:
^^^^^
That one apeared after going from the "Podcasts" tab back to the "Music" tab. Then after jumping back and forth between other tabs ("Movies" etc.) It looked fine again. (That happened twice.)
For reference "fine" looks like this:
^^^^^
That's how it looks right now. But who knows if it will get f___ed up again...
I haven't seen it in any other programs.
The question of whether it's possible to move playlists from a PC's iTunes to a Mac's iTunes will be dealt with tomorrow.
Kabukiman
Greatest Person Ever
If you look at the pics I posted, that IS the Mac. The Ween was right. Sad but true.
D'oh! I read the question and it sounded like you were on a PC. I looked at the pictures, but focused on the messed up icons and didn't notice the dock.
I answered that for you a few posts up:
To fix it, close iTunes and launch "Disk Utility" found in Macintosh HD /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility
Then click "Repair Disk Permissions". If that doesn't do it, then it's probably a graphics driver problem which Apple would need to patch.
Why does your iTunes say "iTunes 1" and "iTunes 2" in those photos?
btw - next time, instead of taking a photo, you can hit command+shift+3 to take a screen shot, or command+shift+4 to bring up crosshairs to take a shot of a specific section of your screen.
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