From becca_price at yahoo.com Fri May 9 06:38:29 2008 From: becca_price at yahoo.com (Becca) Date: Fri May 9 06:38:38 2008 Subject: [iTunes] scheduling podcasts Message-ID: <90295.14973.qm@web39602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I'd like to schedule my podcasts to download at 3:00 am when I'm sleeping... but I don't see any way to specify the time other than scheduling the interval (hourly, daily, weekly). Other than getting up at 3 to set it up, is there any way I can schedule it? my problem is, I have a lot of podcasts that I follow, but if they download during the day, our ISP says I'm over-using our connection, and invokes the fair use policy which drops us down to dialup speed for 24 hours. (and no, we can't switch isps -- we live way out in the country and have a satellite connection) thanks, Becca "But its at the edge where science is alive - the well-known is the corpse of science." - "frog" from a comment on the blog Pharyngula ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ From kirkmc at mac.com Fri May 9 06:39:35 2008 From: kirkmc at mac.com (Kirk McElhearn) Date: Fri May 9 06:39:52 2008 Subject: [iTunes] scheduling podcasts In-Reply-To: <90295.14973.qm@web39602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <90295.14973.qm@web39602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On May 9, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Becca wrote: > I'd like to schedule my podcasts to download at 3:00 am when I'm > sleeping... but I don't see any way to specify the time other > than scheduling the interval (hourly, daily, weekly). Other than > getting up at 3 to set it up, is there any way I can schedule > it? No. Are you saying that you leave your computer on all night, when you're not using it? What a waste of electricity... Kirk Author of: The Mac OS X Command Line: Unix Under the Hood http://www.mcelhearn.com/unix.html - - - - - - Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more From kestevens at mac.com Fri May 9 07:13:43 2008 From: kestevens at mac.com (Ken Stevens) Date: Fri May 9 07:14:01 2008 Subject: [iTunes] scheduling podcasts In-Reply-To: <90295.14973.qm@web39602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <90295.14973.qm@web39602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <7FCC1793-8A23-4BE7-A98B-B46C48E520D2@mac.com> Hi Becca, This works on the Mac so I assume it will work on the PC. Set your computer clock to 3:00 am and download your podcasts after this is done set the preferences to download daily. Return your computer clock to the correct time. It will now download every day at 3:00 am. As far as leaving your computer on all night, experiment and see if iTunes will wake the computer from standby or sleep mode to download the podcasts. If it won't, turn off the monitor and switch several bulbs in your house to fluorescent bulbs to save electricity. I used to have the same fair use issue when Hughes Satellite was my ISP. I set the Mac to turn on at a specified time during the night, download podcasts and turn itself off. Ken On May 9, 2008, at 7:38 AM, Becca wrote: > I'd like to schedule my podcasts to download at 3:00 am when I'm > sleeping... but I don't see any way to specify the time other > than scheduling the interval (hourly, daily, weekly). Other than > getting up at 3 to set it up, is there any way I can schedule > it? From becca_price at yahoo.com Fri May 9 07:41:31 2008 From: becca_price at yahoo.com (Becca) Date: Fri May 9 07:41:44 2008 Subject: [iTunes] scheduling podcasts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <955049.2582.qm@web39606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --- Kirk McElhearn wrote: > Are you saying that you leave your computer on all night, when > you're > not using it? What a waste of electricity... I hate to do that, but the alternative is to have fair use invoked every Thursday and Friday, which is when all my podcasts seem to download. I can deal with a painfully slow connection when I'm just reading my email, but it interferes with the kids' ability to do their homework. -becca "But its at the edge where science is alive - the well-known is the corpse of science." - "frog" from a comment on the blog Pharyngula ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ From jeff at carruthers.com Fri May 9 08:01:06 2008 From: jeff at carruthers.com (Jeff Carruthers) Date: Fri May 9 08:01:30 2008 Subject: [iTunes] scheduling podcasts In-Reply-To: <955049.2582.qm@web39606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <955049.2582.qm@web39606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <0DFA9967-9699-41A3-AA77-A3A35FA9AB78@carruthers.com> On May 9, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Becca wrote: > > --- Kirk McElhearn wrote: > > >> Are you saying that you leave your computer on all night, when >> you're >> not using it? What a waste of electricity... > > I hate to do that, but the alternative is to have fair use > invoked every Thursday and Friday, which is when all my podcasts > seem to download. I can deal with a painfully slow connection > when I'm just reading my email, but it interferes with the kids' > ability to do their homework. > > -becca I have the same problem with our satellite highspeed. So I start-up iTunes at midnight and start my podcast downloads when I go to bed. That way, we're able to avoid the dreaded FAP. Jeff ----------------------------------------------- J-K Carruthers Limited Tel: 613-278-0390 678 2nd Concessions N Sherbrooke, RR1 Fax: 613-278-2929 McDonalds Corners, ON K0G 1M0 cell: 613-720-2350 www.carruthers.com e-mail: jeff@carruthers.com Publishing Orders in Council for more than 25 years From i.am.list.boy at gmail.com Sun May 11 06:48:17 2008 From: i.am.list.boy at gmail.com (i.am.list.boy@gmail.com) Date: Sun May 11 06:48:50 2008 Subject: [iTunes] inappropriate ! signs Message-ID: 10.4.1 7.6.2 Sometime in the last week my Mac Mini shut down... Its a repository for a portion of songs in my Powerbook's iTunes library. Now I'm stuck with all of these "!" signs, which are in fact inaccurate; when I doubleclick on one of these songs in iTunes, they will in fact play. Anyway to, in batch, get iTunes to realize these are not in fact missing? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/itunes/attachments/20080511/ff459739/attachment.html From dshera at mac.com Sun May 11 08:50:38 2008 From: dshera at mac.com (Dale Shera) Date: Sun May 11 08:50:53 2008 Subject: [iTunes] scheduling podcasts In-Reply-To: References: <90295.14973.qm@web39602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: On May 9, 2008, at 8:39 AM, Kirk McElhearn wrote: > Are you saying that you leave your computer on all night, when > you're not using it? What a waste of electricity... If you turn your monitor off, and if you have your computer configured to spin the hard drives down after x amount of minutes of non-use, you aren't wasting all that much electricity. You're, essentially, only spinning the computer's fans. As for downloading podcasts on a schedule, iTunes itself doesn't offer that functionality. But, there are third party tools to accommodate the task. I'm not much of an Applescript writer myself. But, I suspected that an Applescript could be written to do this type of activity on a Mac. In fact, might already have such a script. I didn't find it immediately. So, I did a Google search hoping to find something on the topic. Sure enough, I found this: > The solution is a simple iTunes AppleScript: > tell application "iTunes" to updateAllPodcasts > You can use iCal, or any other scheduling app you like, to run it > when it makes the most sense for you. I use cron with the following > entry: > 00 5,17 * * * osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to > updateAllPodcasts' Granted, Becca isn't using a Mac. So, these instructions wouldn't help her... But, on Windows, I found this solution after a Google search: How to schedule iTunes to download Podcasts on Windows: So, the solutions aren't necessarily simple--nor are they as elegant as they would be when integrated into iTunes, yet. But, you can accomplish this task without too much difficulty. Dale From lucien124 at yahoo.com Wed May 21 01:41:10 2008 From: lucien124 at yahoo.com (Louis) Date: Wed May 21 01:41:34 2008 Subject: [iTunes] iTunes behind the times Message-ID: <625723.57708.qm@web42103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Am I one of the first to want to do away with CDs and convert all my music to MP3s? iTunes's antiquated features makes this a dicey proposition. iTunes not only provides poor filing/organization options, the few options that they do offer (e.g. playlists and folders) cannot be copied or backed up to an external memory device. At least that i know of! This is a major drawback. Does anybody know of a more up-to-date MP3 program that offers better file management? And reproducible file features? Thanks. Louis From kirkmc at mac.com Wed May 21 01:43:05 2008 From: kirkmc at mac.com (Kirk McElhearn) Date: Wed May 21 01:44:00 2008 Subject: [iTunes] iTunes behind the times In-Reply-To: <625723.57708.qm@web42103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <625723.57708.qm@web42103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <316D3B57-93AE-4D0E-BA74-0E9163B2B4F9@mac.com> On May 21, 2008, at 10:41 AM, Louis wrote: > iTunes not only provides poor filing/organization > options, the few options that they do offer (e.g. > playlists and folders) cannot be copied or backed up > to an external memory device. At least that i know of! > This is a major drawback. Well, I won't comment on the first problem (because I think you just don't understand the program) but you can back everything up - you can back up your files, which remain in normal Finder folders, and you can back up your playlists by exporting them. Oh, and iTunes even has its own backup function; whaddya know... Kirk Author of: Take Control of Users & Accounts in Leopard http://www.mcelhearn.com/tco.html - - - - - - Read my blog: Kirkville -- http://www.mcelhearn.com Musings, Opinion and Miscellanea, on Macs, iPods and more From michaelprete at cox.net Wed May 21 09:51:35 2008 From: michaelprete at cox.net (Michael Prete) Date: Wed May 21 09:52:01 2008 Subject: [iTunes] iTunes behind the times In-Reply-To: <625723.57708.qm@web42103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <625723.57708.qm@web42103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1C06CD55-2374-4C9E-93D4-CAE25F18DE00@cox.net> On May 21, 2008, at 1:41 AM, Louis wrote: > Am I one of the first to want to do away with CDs and > convert all my music to MP3s? Not by a long shot. > iTunes's antiquated features makes this a dicey > proposition. iTunes is antiquated? My impression is that until iTunes, everything else sucked so bad that non-geeks never felt comfortable manipulating MP3's until it came along. Given that the combination of the ease and convenience of iTunes combined with the superior design and function of iPods, iPods have now crushed the market, gaining over 75% of total market share. That didn't happen with the other software that existed before iTunes. > > iTunes not only provides poor filing/organization > options, the few options that they do offer (e.g. > playlists and folders) cannot be copied or backed up > to an external memory device. At least that i know of! > This is a major drawback. You reveal the weakness of your argument. You simply don't know what you are talking about. There is a specific backup function under the File menu (in the Mac version) called, wait for it, "Back up to disc...". If you didn't know that, which is not difficult to find and is logically placed, I suspect you also simply don't know how the excellent filing/organization options work either. Perhaps you might consider taking advantage of the excellent tutorials that Apple offers that would show you how to use this application? http://www.apple.com/itunes/tutorials/ > Does anybody know of a more up-to-date MP3 program > that offers better file management? And reproducible > file features? I'm not aware of any. Notice that I acknowledge when I don't know something, rather than just state that "There are none". ------------ Michael Prete More will be revealed.