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How To: Fix iTunes
It took quite a while for me to come around, but iTunes eventually changed the way that I listen to music (and download podcasts) on my PC. I was a long, long, long time WinAmp user, and until iTunes released a version that minimized to my system tray, and I could find a way to control iTunes with keyboard shortcuts, I wasn’t interested. Well, the first problem was dealt with a while ago, and for my second problem I found iTunesKeys, a program dedicated to solving iTunes’ woefully missing keyboard shortcut access. But, after using iTunes for awhile, I realized that while Apple has given us an incredibly elegant and fun to use media player, its developers suffer from some serious delusions that iTunes users will never make mistakes, or decide to delete songs. I can’t quite fathom why you would have an application show a [!] symbol when it finds a missing file, yet offer no way to actually remove the reference to that missing file. 
Enter idleTunes. idleTunes was made for people who love iTunes, but wish that it would just:- Find and insert album artwork into tracks
- Copy iTunes playlists to any MP3 player
- Export iTunes playlists as M3U, PLS, or B4S
- Remove "dead" tracks from your library
- Create playlists for all of the albums in your library
- Create playlists for all of the artists in your library
- Delete user playlists
Finally, no post about how to fix iTunes would be complete without some directions on how to clean up your library and get consistent ID3 tags. For that, I'll direct you to Connected Internet, who has a great primer on how to use MusicBrainz Tagger to rationalize your music collection. It takes some time, but MusicBrainz makes it as quick and painless as it can be, and the results are definitely worth it.
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Subscribe to commentsRichardNov 25th 2005 10:10PM
I HATE YOU GUYS.
just as I was looknig for a way to export itunes playlists to m3u or pls, to play on my xbox 360, HERE you go again.
frickin download squad, always making my life better.
warpedNov 25th 2005 10:17PM
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19. but for a free version of the exTray thing it seems good... (who pays $12 for this s(@#* ???)
Posted at 2:22 PM ET on Nov 25, 2005 by billybob1863 0 stars
I spend more than $12 when I fill up my car or go to lunch. That's not very much money for a good stable software that someone obviously worked very hard on. I just tried ituneskeys and it feels like freeware. In fact while I was typing this msg it's track change notification popped up and stole focus from my typing. exTray does not do that.
I know the developer of exTray and it was just released. The price will be adjusted if needed or given away. Heck the free version is awesome. I'm hoping it gets some $ support so the program continues to grow.
Carson MorrowNov 28th 2005 7:37PM
iTunesControl (http://itunescontrol.com) is another hotkeys application for iTunes on Windows.
KajjaNov 25th 2006 2:19PM
I want to tweak iTunes so that you can delete directly to the recycle bin instead of frst clearing it from the library, then deleting it manually. I know you can do this but only if its in the iTunes music folder which sux, cuz I only have like 2 songs in their because i mainly use bearshare for songs.
Any suggestions??