iTunes now sorted, further queries however....

[LeeDevelopment]

The new Mac has landed and so far very impressed with it. BUT.... there's always a but.... having problems setting up my iTunes. All of my music is subtitled music video/performance based, so they're all MP4's, I also have TV shows and some films too.

Have exported the library and playlists from the Windows machine, saved on the external hard drive and put it all across into the Mac. When I import, it says words to the effect of 'not everything could be found'. At the moment all the music videos are going into the 'Movies' section instead of the music part (like how it was on the Windows machine), so I'm sat flumoxed at what to do. There are a LOT of music recordings and I'm not really keen on going through each individually.

Can anyone offer me advice please?

Many thanks,


Lee.

 

[legrandefromage]

try this if you have an ipod, but not too sure if this will work:

close itunes on the mac and plug the ipod see if the mac sees it as an external hdd/ memory, if so, drag the entire contents of the ipod into a new folder

open itunes, and click on each track in the new folder and they should then automatically open in its original form in itunes.

 

[MikeD]

Somewhere in the iTunes settings there's a checkbox for "Allow iTunes to organise media folders" or some such. Which does what it says - takes your stuff and puts it where it thinks is best rather than where you perhaps wanted it. You could try unchecking that and copying stuff across again. Otherwise I'd have thought that "Add folder to library" and point it at wherever your files have ended up should do the job.

 

[cyfa2809]

use copy trans control
its bloody ace!!

 

[LeeDevelopment]

Back, iTunes was a bit of nightmare but now sorted, phew!

Need some more help before I put some cash down. On my Windows machine I used Firetrust's Mailwasher and would like something similar for the Mac, is anything out there? Mailwasher isn't done for the Mac sadly.

What else? Ah yes, Nero..... again do they do a media suite for the Mac, it was piss easy to use with recordings taken from the DVD recorder (off the TV). Some that will easily edit a recording down and convert to MP4/AVI etc.

Any other media based or video editing software I could look at?

Ta

 

[tintin40]

what is mailwasher? I find this site good for 3rd party softwear

www.versiontracker.com

 

[JohnH]

Need some more help before I put some cash down. On my Windows machine I used Firetrust's Mailwasher and would like something similar for the Mac, is anything out there? Mailwasher isn't done for the Mac sadly.

Hi Lee. OS X's own mail client, "Mail", has some spam-filtering capability built-in. I don't use it myself because I access my Yahoo mail account thru a web browser. Check out this vid for a quick overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3A38BGVA9A

If that's not enough, check out SpamSieve. It's had some good reviews, and you can download a free trial... http://c-command.com/spamsieve/

What else? Ah yes, Nero..... again do they do a media suite for the Mac, it was piss easy to use with recordings taken from the DVD recorder (off the TV). Some that will easily edit a recording down and convert to MP4/AVI etc.

The Mac equivalent is Roxio Toast, but the prices quoted on this site are way more than you'd expect to pay from a mail-order firm: http://www.roxio.co.uk/eng/products/toast/default.html

Any other media based or video editing software I could look at?

Don't overlook iMovie or iDVD that shipped with your Mac. They're both very competent applications, but you'll probably have to buy a "how-to" manual to get the best from them.

The app that I use for transcoding video files between file formats is "VisualHub". I don't know why, but the author abandoned this great app some time ago. You can pick it up here: http://www.machoe.com/1565/visual-hub-f ... rtero.html
Scroll down the page, and follow the instructions in the lime green box.