Tuesday, September 30, 2014
iTunes Match Album Art
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A track deleted from iCloud but still present in the local library.Murphy’s obsessions come and go. Recently it was the wrong album art showing up on my iPhone. Fixing my Pretenders album art only to see it revert to the wrong image a few minutes later got frustrating quickly. Until I realized the cloud-based Match versions of my album art were coming down and overwriting my locally stored tracks.
If you don’t know how iTunes Match behaves you could run into some problems. Here’s what worked for me:
Sign into a Mac or PC with a local user account that does not have your music collection stored locally in iTunes. You could create an additional user on your Mac (or PC) or do what I did: sign into a dummy Windows account running on a virtual machine.Open iTunes. Ideally there won’t be any local music stored there.Sign into iTunes using the AppleID used for iTunes Match.You should see all your music that resides in the cloud. Delete the song that needs the artwork updated. This will delete the version stored on Apple’s servers.Once you’re done with the previous step you can sign off the dummy Mac or PC user account.Sign into your Mac or PC account where the local copy of your music resides.Fix the album artwork by selecting the track or tracks you want to update, then right-click the track(s) and select Get Info.You can delete the existing artwork on the Artwork tab and add a different image. Close the info panel.Right click the corrected track and select Add to iCloud. Done.
Once the artwork has been fixed you can send the track back to iTunes Match.Why do we need to use the dummy PC or Mac account? Because the process for deleting a cloud-based copy of a song presents a complication when there’s a local version of the track. ITunes forces you to delete the local copy of a song before it allows you to delete the cloud-based version. You might not want to delete the local version – doing so would wipe out meta information like the play count. By deleting only the cloud version our local track and its meta data are preserved.
The obsession with album art has passed for now. When I see some pixelated album covers on my phone again it’ll be back, but for now it’s forgotten.
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Monday, September 29, 2014
How to restore your new iPhone from an iTunes backup
Whether you backed up your files on iTunes or iCloud there is always an easy and simple way to restore and download those files into your new iPhone. We will help you here in this article to get all your data to your brand new iPhone, just make sure that you are using the most recent version of iTunes before you start.
After turning on your new iPhone and follow the setup steps we explained earlier in our articles, In the Setup Assistant, once you reach “Setup your device”, then just tap “Restore from iTunes Backup”. To begin to restore your iPhone data from the backup, connect your iPhone to the computer that you normally sync it to that contains the backup file. If you aren’t already connected to your computer containing your iTunes backups, your iPhone will prompt you to do so. In the center of the iPhone management screen, you’ll see a “Restore” button. Click that.
Now you just have to follow the prompts in iTunes in order to select your most recent backup. After a restore, your iPhone will restart. You should then see “Slide to set up”. Follow the steps in the iOS Setup Assistant. One more thing, if your iPhone keeps on restarting without any response or without showing the Apple logo, then all you have to do is to place it into recovery mode and then try restoring again.
That’s all there is to it. Your iPhone will begin restoring from your iTunes backup. Keep in mind that the more data you have, the longer it will take. Just be patient and make sure you don’t disconnect your iPhone until iTunes tells you that your restore is complete.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
9to5Toys Last Call: iPad Retina aire/mini desde $299 / $369, audífonos Bose OE2i $80, iTunes GC 15 – 33% de descuento, más
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