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    Creating Your Own ITunes Radio Station
    Creating Your Own ITunes Radio Station
    Creating Your Own ITunes Radio Station
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    Creating Your Own ITunes Radio Station

    By Siegfried Walther

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    This book will help you to use smart playlists on iTunes to turn your iPod into a virtual radio station which plays your current favourites more often, other current songs less often in order of preference. In addition, it will also randomly add your older favourites from past years into the mix without repeating any song until all songs in each applicable playlist have been played once. This is a detailed explanation about how to use smart playlists on your iPod or iTunes (on your PC) to create a virtual radio station which plays your favourite songs more often and others less often in a way similar to the formats used by many top commercial radio stations.

    It covers everything you need to know about getting started on iTunes, including the settings, backup and restore, to mention just a few vital topics.

    Volume levelling is also dealt with in great detail. The reader is informed about how to use the i Volume program to eliminate variations in song levels. This includes all the advice about all the settings you will require.

    All explained in a simple and easy to comprehend manner.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSiegfried Walther
    Release dateFeb 9, 2015
    ISBN9781311418494
    Creating Your Own ITunes Radio Station
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    Siegfried Walther

    Born in Cape Town, South Africa.Practising Advocate of the High Court of South Africa specialising in civil litigation. (1999-to date)Former Attorney of the High Court. (1993-1999)Former Law Officer in the South African Defence Force during National Service. (1990)Writer, Aviation Analyst, DJ, Flight Simulator Pilot,

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      Creating Your Own ITunes Radio Station - Siegfried Walther

      Creating your own iTunes Radio Station Playlists

      By Siegfried Walther

      Published by Siegfried Walther at Smashwords

      Text copyright © 2015 Siegfried Walther

      All Rights Reserved

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be sold

      or given away. It may not be reproduced copied or distributed for commercial or

      non-commercial purposes.

      Smashwords Edition

      Foreword

      I write this as a part-time DJ, with many years of experience and as full-time music enthusiast.

      This article will help you to use smart playlists on iTunes to turn your iPod into a virtual radio station which plays your current favourites more often, other current songs less often in order of preference. In addition, it will also randomly add your older favourites from past years into the mix without repeating any song until all songs in each applicable playlist have been played once. The idea is to achieve a format of your choice in a way similar to those used by top commercial radio stations.

      It takes a bit of effort, but the result is worth it. No "radio station" playlist it creates ought ever to be the same. When you press the button, fifteen songs or so in a format of your choice will pop out. And when they’re done, the playlist will automatically refresh and one press of a button again, and off you go. Great for listening to music on your own and even better for dinner parties, weekends way etc.

      I grew up realising that in the main, I preferred listening to a variety of artists rather than to one album. And to be fair, over the years, one thing has not changed - most artist’s albums are terrible with one or two good tracks.

      So, enter the mixed-tape. Oh dear, I’ve probably scared away a younger reader or two who thinks I have come from the dark ages. Let me quickly try to redeem myself by saying that I had the song Cool Kids by Ecosmith in my Top-10 chart long long before anyone in the UK or the US woke up to it. And unlike many older DJ’s, I happen to think that the dance music out now is as good, if not better, than the material I DJ’d with in the eighties.

      My music charts, by the way, are posted regularly on siegfriedwalther.blogspot.com.

      You can follow me on twitter at @SG_Walther.

      Okay, getting back to the mixed tape, the problem was that the playing order remained unchanged and that often forced one to make a new tape to allow for new songs one liked and to dump one or two one may have tired of. It took hours.

      Now, you can move any song up and down your ‘rankings’ and you will hear it and every other song on your iPod or in iTunes as little or as often as you desire.

      I should mention, however, that when I last checked, Apple’s brilliant smart playlists did not work fully on iPhones, the smart screen iPods or on iPads. The problem was that unlike in iTunes and the iPods, where the playlists automatically update, you need to connect your iPhone or iPad etc. to your computer to update and refresh those devices, which I think is a major drag.

      I have no explanation for why Apple seem, for so long, to be unable to fix this issue so that one of iTune’s most brilliant features can be used on those devices without having to update. I understand that the problem has to do with the IOS system which for some reason isn’t able to deal with certain aspects of smart list updating. If anyone, including anyone from Apple, knows for certain that this issue has been fixed then I would be pleased to be told and I will of course take pleasure in correcting this. I am aware of some people who have all sorts of strange work-arounds to deal with this issue. However when I last investigated, none of these allowed smart playlists using the field/function I find easiest to use, which is "least recently played" to be used.

      Although I love my iPhone and iPad, I still enjoy having a device specifically dedicated to music, like the iPod around. I am certain I’m not alone in this.

      Also, many people listen to music at home by connecting their PC’s or Mac’s to their Hi-Fi’s, speaker systems, and a wide variety of other devices which permit music and sound to be shared and played around the home. iTunes works perfectly for what I am about to help you to create.

      There is a quite a bit of work involved, though, to set-up your system. If you’re reading his, however, then I can’t imagine that you’re put-off by a labour of love. Keeping your system updated is fairly easy. I do so every time I get new music. You might prefer sitting down to rank new tracks and re-order your playlist less often.

      There is one topic close to my heart which, in my view, cannot be separated from the topic of mixed tapes, or mixed tracks. And that is input or playback volume. Music is recorded at differing volumes

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