11 Best iTunes Tips You Should Know

Do you think you are skilled in iTunes? If not, here I would like to share 11 must-know iTunes tips with you.

Back Dating: Back date your Albums to them time when you have brought them. For example if someone bought you a Elvis back in 2000 as a gift. Make sure that the date you enter in the library is 2000.

Genre: Change the genre of some of your biggest artists and you will have changed genres of hundreds of songs. For example, search for Pink Floyd and change the Genre of songs to Rock n Roll or anything and you will see a lot of progress.

Automatic Album Artwork: By registering yourself on iTunes which you can do using Paypal too, you can automatically download album artwork from the iTunes Store. In order to so that from the Advanced menu, choose “Get Album Artwork.”

Create Ringtones: Paying $0.99 for a ringtone on iTunes store regardless of the fact that you already own the song, is pretty stupid to me. However, you can use iTunes to create rintones from the songs you already own and listen to everyday.

 

Smart Playlist: For tracks with no genre, no artist name, or no year set up an Unrated (0 Star) Smart Playlist, and SPLs. Create an SPL for tags with no year, then type 20 in the search box and you will be presented with a list of songs with 20′s in their properties comments. And here you can chage year quickly which will save you  heaps of time.

Music transfer: In just one step you can add songs from a CD into a playlist. All you have to do is select the CD in the Source pane and then drag a song (or songs) from the CD tracks list to the white area below all items in the Source pane. iTunes imports the song into your library, creates a playlist and then adds songs to it. The same procedure can be used to enter new tracks into existing playlist.

iTunes Genius: The iTunes genius feature is not that genius at all. It slows down your computer and iTunes by sending random data to Apple and also creates playlist that sync with your iDevice each time you connect it, thus wasting your time. We recommend you turn off the Genius feature under the drop down menu of  “Store”.

Wish Lists: There might be many songs on iTunes store that you would like to buy and  at that time might not be in a position to buy but are planning to buy it in the future. Now, how do you find one when you want it? Simple, Just make a wish list. Create a new playlist in iTunes and then shop the iTunes Store. When you find a song that you want, drag the listing to your new playlist. You can then listen to a preview of any item on your wish list and even buy it directly from the playlist too.

Parental Control: If there is stuff you would like to keep away form from naughty children or oldies you can change the parental control by going to the iTunes Preferences, and clicking on Parental. Then Select the items you wish to disable or restrict and then click the lock to prevent changes. To change your settings, click the lock and then enter your password to gain access again.

Backup: Perform frequent back ups so that you don’t have to go for collecting your precious music from the bottom again if your data is lost sometime. You can do this by going to File, Library, Back Up to Disk. You’ll get the option to back up the entire iTunes library and all playlists, or just your iTunes store purchases, or even just items added since your last backup. This option is best for backup of a small library to a blank DVD.

Update: iCloud pretty much turned this feature useless. With iTunes match, you can store upto 20,000 songs in Apple’s cloud storage and if you have a lower quality song, they will replace it with a higher quality song.

That is all, if you have any more good iTunes tips, please don’t hesitate to contact with us.