1. Quit iChat.
2. In Terminal, enter this command: defaults write com.apple.iChatAgent iTunesMessageFormat -string ‘%Artist - %Track’.
3. Enter the command killall iChatAgent — this kills iChat’s background daemon.
4. Restart iChat, and choose the Current Track message option.
Posts Tagged ‘ITUNES’
Fixing the order or iChat’s Track-Artist Auto Status
December 10, 2009 – 12:04 pm
iSproggler & iScrobbler: Synchonize Your iPod & Last.fm with iTunes
May 10, 2007 – 5:05 pm
A friend of mine, who shall remain nameless, is obsessed with accuracy and research. It’s no surprise then that shortly after he starting using last.fm (I’m a big fan) to power a widget on his blog he complained about it not capturing the songs he listened to on his iPod.
After a lucky search result I came across iSproggler (for windows users) and iScrobbler (for Mac users). These utilities enable you to send playing information from iTunes to Last.fm. They also enable sending playing information from all iPod models.
You need to join either group to download the utility or click here to download iSproggler version 1.0.1.
Some of the features listed on the iSproggler group page are:
- No restrictions on paused or repeated songs in iTunes
- MusicBrainz Track Identifiers are submitted
- Ability to pause and disable submissions
- iPod support - both automatically and manually updated
- iPod shuffle support
- Multiple iPod play support
- Motorola iTunes support
- Icons indicating network and submission status
- Exclusion rules for directories, artists and genres, podcasts and videos
Please note: I don’t have any personal experience with either plugin but if it’s good enough for my OCD friend then it’s probably good enough for anyone.
Join the appropriate last.fm group for more information on these utilities.
iTunes 7 and Gapless Garbage
November 6, 2006 – 11:43 pm
I’m finally starting to become happy with the setup I have on my home network for managing my mp3s. Once I have all the kinks are ironed out, I’ll be sure to publish a brief step-by-step how-to in case anyone is interested in setting up something similar.
Until that time, I wanted to share something I’ve learned about iTunes7. Hopefully this will help someone avoid the iTunes headache I’ve recently developed.
iTunes Can Be Helpful
Well if it’s not clear already, I enjoy using iTunes as my default mp3 player. Even more surprising might be the fact that I actually enable the ‘Keep iTunes Music folder organized’ option. Sure, there are some inherent annoyances with giving iTunes that much control over your files but for me personally, the pros outweigh the cons.
I like the fact that I can use iTunes to organize my genres, group compilations together, mass change artist information, identify duplicates, etc… and everyone of those changes is made to both the id3 tag (when appropriate) and the file name/location itself.
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