KEXP delivers for all a wonderful podcast for the Song of the Day with links to all the previous days in case you missed the download. These are normal mp3s that can be automatically setup for itunes or viewed in Firefox for manual saving. A few days ago I found this and was pleasantly relieved [...]

I’m a sucker for old music. It can be folk. It can be blues. It can be gospel. I’m not too picky, although I can get tired of Billy Murry, acoustic era skits, and unoriginal popular oldies.
WFMU is a diverse radio station that also delivers free podcasts through the internet. Mp3s are available for [...]

Forgive my use of the words “power users.” I don’t write exclusively for the advanced. I tend to write simplistically even when the task is a bit in-depth. This one is actually pretty easy (but explaining the default sorting abilities is a nightmare). I’m using 7.0.2 I believe, so if you are the type who [...]

Someone recently contacted me with this question and I figured I’d share it with everyone. They found me from a search from organizing checked items for iTunes.
What I am about to show you how to do isn’t very new, but it is a trick that might come in handy in cases that require desperate measures. [...]

As described at the end of my guide to online music, here’s are some playlists that will give you the power tools to organize your music better like a power user.
Smart Playlists
Top 100 Played
Limit to 100 items selected by most often played
I listen to post rock and instrumental stuff while sleeping sometimes, so I exclude [...]

(If you have a short attention span and don’t care much for commentary, skip this paragraph and go straight to the five steps for the online music lover)
Years ago, it was harder to find out more detailed information about songs and their writers without searching catalogs, or finding related articles or interviews, or talking with [...]

ROCKbox is open source firmware that can be dual-booted (at least with my 5th generation iPod) with the original iPod system so you don’t have to erase all your music by overwriting and re-transferring all your things. And it works on many mp3 players, not just Apple. Rockbox for the 5G iPod does not manage [...]

After test driving several media players, I have tried to customize foobar2K as a replacement of my current music program, iTunes. Although I was initially negative about the raw power of foobar2000, I still decided to give it one more try. Right away I could tell this was not going to be intuitive. I tried [...]

In an attempt to give six other applications a try (I’ve been an iTunes user), I wrote up a review comparing several freeware media players with a focus on those that are designed to manage, organize, and use your music collection. I’m fairly satisfied using iTunes at the moment, but I have been searching for [...]

I’m on a roll with iTunes-related tips lately. To better myself and others, I have made scripts that can edit music file tags, create technical playlists not possible even with Smart Playlists, and other workarounds for missing features and requests. Some work out-of-the-box, and the rest just need you to enter your desired customizations in [...]