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Viewing Custom lyrics for iOS 11.2.1
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Changes in the new iTunes ( a review)
Learn about changes to Apps, iTunes U, Internet Radio, and more.
You mean, let’s see how much you’ve fucked up iTunes again?
iTunes v12.7.0.166 No Longer Supports iBooks
Posted on 13 September, 2017 by Nate Hoffelder in e-Reading Software, iBooks, iDevice, iTunes // 26 Comments
Apple rolled out a new version of i Tunes today, and something is missing. Early downloaders reported on MobileRead, and I can confirm, that Apple has removed the iBooks section from the iTunes app for Windows.
According to the changelog, Apple now expects Windows users to manage their iBooks libraries on their iThing rather than in iTunes on Windows.
The surprise change has left a number of users perturbed:
(source-Mark Phillips on Twitter)
Apparently Apple has decided that since Windows users (still) can't read iBooks ebooks on their PC, they have no reason to manage their ebooks in iTunes. That is more than a little strange. iTunes is a media manager, and some users were storing all of their personal ebook library in the app and then using iTunes to transfer the ebooks to their iDevice.
Now they're going to have to (I think) transfer the ebooks to an iDevice's shared storage over USB using a file manager, and then tell the iBooks app to look for the ebooks in the storage. (Or at least I think that will work; I don't have an iThing to test.)
In any case, this is going to be a pain for users.
Here's the changelog for iTunes v12.7.0.166:
iTunes U: Collections of iTunes U content appear in the Podcasts section of iTunes.
Internet Radio: Your Internet Radio stations appear in your music library's sidebar. Click Edit in the sidebar to show or hide Internet Radio.
Ringtones: iOS 11 supports redownloading ringtones directly to your iOS device, without the need to use iTunes on your Mac or PC.
Books on Windows: Books on iTunes for Windows are managed in iBooks for iOS.
iTunes: Books begone!
How the fuck is iTunes so terrible?
submitted 9 months ago by _nk
[–] ebilgenius 1844 points 9 months ago
You start with a simple idea. A simple music player exclusive to the Mac.
It's 2000 and Apple acquires SoundJam MP and develop it into iTunes 1.0, a simple music player for the Mac. Compared to music players today it's spartan but it has everything you need to just play some music!
iMac G4 - I received the email for the billing of a rented movie. I clicked on the link “Report a problem” and saw this. I guess they doen’t really want to hear problems.
How to Back Up iBooks PDFs
by Kelly Wilkerson June 29, 2017 at 04:20 PM Categories: itunes, iphone |
I do some serious PDF hoarding in the iBooks app on my iPhone. Calendars, e-books, flyers, things I loved reading and want to read again, things I want to love reading someday in the future... it's all there in a flurry of mismatched PDF previews. It would be pretty sad to lose all my PDFs from iBooks, so today's blog post is about how to backup PDFs from iBooks.
Back in the day (circa 2014), PDF files saved to iBooks were part of a normal iPhone backup, but that is no longer the case. Since PDF files can now be synced to iBooks on your iOS device, they're now categorized as "synced stuff" and "synced stuff" doesn't get backed up. (If that is an interesting sentence to you, you may enjoy this post about iTunes sync vs iTunes backup.) Let me make sure I state this clearly: PDFs in iBooks are NOT backed up as part of an iPhone backup in iTunes. If you don't believe me, here's a reference :).
MISSING BOOKS TAB in iTUNES 12.7
With the latest iTunes update, the Books tab is now missing. Alongside the iBooks tab, ringtones and apps are missing as well.
^ The books tab on an older version of iTunes Previous iTunes versions has made it e-books easily accessible to purchase via the iTunes books store. But all of it is missing now. WHY IS IT MISSING? No fucking idea. Ask Apple.
Been experiencing a lot of battery and other hardware issues with my 5th gen iPod.
‘Key things’ you have to do to prevent fast battery drain: 1. Turn off Location Services done. 2. Disable GPS done. 3. Turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when you don’t need them. off 99% of the time anyway. I just use my iPod to read ebooks transferred from iTunes, and listen to music. 4. Close out Running Applications I do this religiously. 5. Disable Notification Center options Already did. Never found a use for it. 6. Turn the Brightness down. My default brightness settings are usually 20-25%. When use at night, it’s 5%.
Doing all these hadn’t stopped the ultra-fast battery draining. It’s come to a point that my powerbank acts like a life-support for my iPod. Constantly connected to a power source so it wouldn’t die out on me in approximately 5-10 seconds after it’s been unplugged. You’d always see me holding my iPod, listening to music, the iPod tethered to my powerbank. It wouldn’t go from 100% to less than 20% in the average use of 8-hours of constant music-playin and perhaps an hour of ebook reading. Oh no. It just takes less than a couple of minutes to go from 100% to 50%, just by reading an ebook. I’d plug it up and in 5 seconds, i’d get my battery from >20% to 50% in 2 seconds flat.
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In a minute, I get 100% and my iPod will tell me to disconnect as it’s ‘fully charged’, I’d unplug and it’s the same shit happening again: battery dying in less than half a minute. I’ve tried charging with Apple’s wall-plug and cable for the recommended full charge of 6-7 hours. Unplugged it after and guess what? Problem still persists. Restoring your device isn’t going to work. This is a hardware issue. That’s a no-brainer. But what caused it? Perhaps it’s the new IOS installed, the flaky program that has bad battery life, or maybe the battery’s been overcharged, . But really, no one fucking knows. It’s Apple’s IOS. People might tell you to reset and restore your device. My solution? Buy a goddamn new iPod. Because the fuck are the people at the Genius Bar and the Apple stores gonna do? It’ll cost a fucking arm and a leg just to get them to change your battery, and the problems to make an appointment with them.
What Is iTunes? The 56 Things Apple's Behemoth Does
It's 56. Or maybe more. Not fully sure.
An early iTunes logo, showing its digital age.
The release of iOS 7, the software that powers iPhones and iPads, wasn’t the only major update from Apple yesterday. The company also released iTunes Radio, a Pandora-like feature which will play a stream of music inspired by a given song, artist, or album.
Which got me thinking: What is iTunes? The software dates back to 1999, when it was conceived by two independent Mac developers as Soundjam MP. Apple secretly purchased and adapted Soundjam, then released it as “the world’s best and easiest to use ‘jukebox’ software” on January 9, 2001. Since then, the software has been made to sync with iPods, released for Windows, and turned into the iPhone’s and iPad’s central connection to the computer.
Apple’s desktop operating system, Mac OS, is built on UNIX code. UNIX is an old, open-source technology, and it carries certain ideals and traditions. Early UNIX programmers developed a philosophy for the system, a preferred method of writing software. One of its tenets? “Make each program do one thing well,” wrote a UNIX pioneer, Doug McIlroy. “To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.”
How to delete any app on iPhone or iPad: Remove Stocks, Tips, Compass, News, Maps, Podcasts, Reminders, Apple Watch app, other preinstalled apps in iOS 10
iOS 10 lets you remove unwanted pre-installed iOS apps (such as Stocks, Tips, News, Watch, Weather and Podcasts) from your iPad or iPhone. Here's how to delete or hide any app on iPad or iPhone in iOS 10, all the apps that can and can't be deleted, and our explanation of what will go wrong if you remove Apple's own apps from your device. Plus: workarounds that let you delete or hide Health, Game Center and other Apple apps in iOS 9.
I have seen posting on this board, commenting on problems with iTunes music syncing. I just thought I would add my problems to the list. I sent the following to Apple feedback but I don't expect anything to come of it. I'm very disappointed with the state of music syncing in iTunes. In fact, I recently got rid of iTunes match, because I was have some of the same syncing issues with that service. I thought it would be better with regular USB or over the air syncing. Silly me. GRRRRR I have a 128 GB iPad Air 2 and a 128 GB iPhone 6 plus. I bought the large storage capacity versions of these devices solely for the reason of being able to store a large part of my iTunes music library. Syncing is horrible. Period. Syncing over wiFi seems to rarely work. It gets to the last part of the sync cycle and just stalls. Hardly ever really finishs. When it does, the songs are not updated. Syncing via USB works somewhat better but only by a kludge of a procedure and it takes forever. Here is a recent example of the problem. I added a few songs to an existing playlist and created a new playlist of 9 songs. The new playlist of 9 songs were bought from the iTunes Store. After an extremely long time (30 minutes or more), it tells me that I am over capacity, that I am trying to copy too much. The last time I synced, it told me I had 20GB of free space. Now it tells me that I am 20GB over capacity. The only way I can free up space is by deleting playlists and apps which I have had access to since I first set the phone up. So I go through the laborious effort of deleting apps and music to get the capacity down and finally it will sync. But then it will only add songs that I have bought from the iTunes store. The few songs that I have ripped myself, years ago, that I am trying to add to an existing playlist, will not transfer at all or sync. Finally, out of desperation, the only way to get it to sync (and I read about this by just doing an internet search for this exact problem) is to uncheck "sync selected songs, artists and playlists" and let it start removing the content. And then check the "sync selected songs, artist and playlists" checkbox and let it start adding songs back. Then the playlist that has the non-iTunes store songs will update. Sometimes even the iTunes store songs won't be added when I initially try to sync. It's ridiculous to have to go through these steps just to add a few songs to my phone. And regarding the being over capacity when I am trying just to add a few new songs, twice now I have had this experience of it telling me that I am over capacity. I guess what I should do is completely erase all content and reinstall from the backup and maybe that will fix it but again... ridiculous to have to go through these kind of contortions just to add a few songs. Thank you for letting me rant.
davejack , Wise, Aged Ars Veteran registered: Jul 2, 2001
Manually added lyrics in iTunes
If you are brave enough to let Apple's notoriously bad Cloud services mess with your music, but if you're doing a regular iPhone/iPad sync via iTunes, when you click on the device icon, clicking on the iPhone's Music field brings up this screen, where you can choose various music syncing options.
Every time you sync your Apple device, the lyrics disappear from the [device], and you’d have to uncheck, re-sync (removing/purge all music from device), re-sync and check the box, so iTunes transfers all the music tracks back again.
1. ☐ Sync Music 2. [Sync device] 3. ☑ Sync Music 4. [Sync device]
An extremely painful and annoying procedure.
It seems that many users are having problems in regards to viewing lyrics on Apple’s latest iOS Music app. Probable solution being:
having to re-sync ALL songs alongside custom lyrics that were manually added. That being said if problem still persists, there is an explanation: According to Kirk McElhearn (author of Macworld's "iTunes Guy" column), this is a flaw in IOS 10's Music app. It therefore will need to be fixed by Apple. (original article link) (article on tumblr) Apple has added lyric search and display to iTunes, and this feature was available in iOS 10 betas. You could view lyrics for your own music, if you had added lyrics to the tracks, and iTunes and the Music app would look for lyrics if you hadn’t. However, in the shipping version of iOS 10, this feature has been changed. You can only view lyrics for Apple Music tracks. If your music contains lyrics that you added in iTunes, there’s no way to view them in the Music app.… I’ve added lyrics to a lot of my music, and I can view those lyrics in iTunes. I would expect to be able to view them on iOS, which I have been able to do for many years. [comment by: Barry Fass-Holmes ]