Showing posts with label iTunes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iTunes. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Why is Genius under Store in iTunes?

The option to turn Genius on is under the 'Store' menu heading in iTunes. Why? Presumably because Genius is used to recommend songs with the desired goal being that you purchase them, hence it being a store-related activity. This categorisation seems to be based on an Apple related goal/concept of Genius, rather than a user goal/concept. Having Genius under Store makes little sense when one is thinking about Genius mixes and playlists.

I love my iPhone. iTunes? Not so much...

Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Transferring playlists in iTunes

This is the best I've managed to come up with so far for transferring playlists (for some reason you can't drag and drop through home sharing). This was done between my iPhone and what is hoped to be it's new host computer.

1. Connect device (home share?)
2. Find the relevant playlist
3. Right click and select Export, and export the file to somewhere handy
4. In iTunes go to Library -> Import and select your newly exported file

Voila!

One of those "seems obvious when you know how, but why am I stuck doing it this way anyway" things.