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Ken takes center stage in the Crutchfield Kenwood KDC-HD942U CD receiver video. He explains that this versatile car receiver gives you plenty of listening options. In addition to an AM/FM tuner, the KDC-HD942U also plays CDs and burned MP3 discs as well. As Ken notes, that's just the beginning. He...
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Back in September I posted my experience with the Genius feature of iTunes 8 . My admittedly eccentric library proved something of a challenge to the then-new application, and I promised to retest Genius in a few months. For those not familiar with this iTunes option, Genius takes a song you select and...
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Recently, I found myself getting ready to mow the grass on an unseasonably warm weekend afternoon, and I decided I'd rather listen to music than the drone of a lawnmower engine. (My Klipsch in-ear headphones help tremendously with this kind of thing.) However, I didn't feel like carrying my full-sized...
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iTunes 8 has several new features, including Genius . Highlight a song and click the Genius button, and a playlist is instantly generated from your library of other songs that relate to your selection. And if you open the Genius sidebar (the button in the far right bottom corner), you’ll see some album...
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As I listened to my iPod the other day, it occured to me that there was something wrong. The song selection was excellent, of course -- after all, I'd hand-picked every tune loaded into the library -- but there wasn't much excitement. Was I *gasp* getting tired of my iPod? No, the problem was the silence...
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In my last iTunes Tune-up post I talked about changing the import default to burn CD tracks at a much higher bitrate for better sound quality. Since that time, music I've added has sounded great. But what about all those songs I had already saved at 128kbps before I changed the setting? It wasn't possible...
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In olden times my parents kept the family's holiday music in a separate part of the record cabinet. The LPs came out in November, and went back in early January. We carried on the same tradition with CDs, until I ripped them all into iTunes. But changing the format brought a new problem. With a digitized...
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I recently moved my iTunes library to an external hard drive. While it meant I could greatly expand the number of songs I could have in my library, the primary reason for the move was so I could upgrade the sound quality of the music I stored. iTunes automatically compresses songs as they're imported...
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Here's a new feature that's about to be introduced on select HD Radio™ receivers: a special "Tag" button that lets you queue up songs you hear on certain HD Radio channels for later purchase through iTunes®. Here's how it works: as you're listening to a tag-enabled HD Radio channel, press the "Tag" button...
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Ripping a CD to iTunes is simple enough. But moving a large collection of music from compact disc to iTunes can be time-consuming. Here are three simple tips I've discovered to make the process go a little faster. It may only take a few seconds off the process when I'm transferring a selection of songs...
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In my last post I talked about relocating my iTunes library from my PC's hard drive to an external drive. The process worked so well, I decided to do it to my laptop, too. My laptop serves as a portable office, and I have it with me just about all the time. While I usually leave it set up in the same...
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It didn't take long for the size of my iTunes library to start taking over my computer's hard drive -- especially once I started saving songs at a higher bitrate for better audio quality. Fortunately, it was pretty simple for me to move my cramped collection of tunes out of my PC and into a 250GB external...
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There's a growing concern about unauthorized music downloading, and the legal consequences it can bring. What's not talked about are the thousands of free, legal downloadable songs available on the Internet. Many artists offer free tunes from their catalog as a way to build an audience. If you're willing...
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What do you call a series of free downloads that automatically arrive on your computer? A podcast. TMC recently reported on a study by TDG that shows that while approximately 11 percent of online consumers listen to at least one podcast a month, for most people the concept of podcasting remains a cipher...
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I assembled my iTunes library of 4,000+ tunes from a variety of different sources. As a result, the volume levels varied greatly from track to track, making for a less-than-ideal listening experience. iTunes provided a simple fix that works for most of these problems. Inside the "Preferences" menu, under...