Duplicate songs in iPod app

I’ve got a number of duplicate listings of songs in my iPhone’s iPod app when iTunes clearly has no duplicates of them. The strangest thing is the duplicate songs have modified artist IDs.

I’ve got the album The First Blooming by Kara, a K-pop group. The album is listed twice, one with KARA as its artist ID spelled out in all caps, the other with Kara (카라) in both latin and Hangul.

Because the iPod app sees the songs as by different artists, it has them listed in separate entries giving me two albums, listing the same songs. That is certainly not how it is in iTunes. There’s only one copy of the album and its songs in iTunes’ library listed as by Kara (카라).

I unsynced the songs so the iPhone has no songs in its storage and synced them back in but they came back as they were. I don’t recall this ever happening before. I wonder, has anyone ever come across something like this?

I am particularly glad to no longer be asked when the Beatles are coming to iTunes

Ringo Starr

Knickknacks & Whizbangs: Yesterday

Yesterday,  
All of Apple fans saw a display,
Now it seems there’s nothing much to say,  
Oh, I believe in yesterday.   

Suddenly,
I’m not half the man I used to be,  
There’s a shadow hanging over me,
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.   

What they had to show
I don’t know, I couldn’t care.
I said, ”what the hell?”
now I long for yesterday.   

Yesterday,
Store announcements had something to say,  
Now it’s less than notes on my display,  
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

What they had to show
I don’t know, I couldn’t care.
I said, ”what went wrong?”
now I long for yesterday.   

Yesterday,  
Apple seems they had so much to say,
All I saw were songs my mom could play,  
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Knickknacks & Whizbangs: Yesterday

What is “Other” and why have I got it?

iTunes really love to freeze on me -_-.. isn’t it about time to have a separate Music Player and App Manager?

@rajasa

I don’t recall this feature in iTunes 9. iTunes 10 apparently recognizes which subscribed podcasts I haven’t listened to in a certain period of time and automatically stops the subscription. On the side of the podcast title it will mark them with an exclamation mark inside a gray circle just like songs or videos that are missing from the library.

That last point is an issue in itself. Missing items in iTunes have always been marked with that icon. By marking neglected podcasts with the same icon, it can lead people to think their podcasts are missing. Of course, clicking on the icon brings up the dialog box above which explains the situation, but it’s still grounds for confusion.

It’s almost like how Apple uses the same tunes for the default SMS tone in iPhones as when Mac OS X finishes a disc burn or completes an installation.

Source: twitter.com

iTunes 10 now tells you which step it’s on during the synchronization process. This reduces the guessing game while you wait for the sync to finish. It’s less useful when you’re already familiar with the steps but for those who don’t pay attention that closely, and that includes most people, it certainly helps.

Apple posts iPod + iTunes timeline

It’s been almost a decade since Apple first introduced the iPod. Back in 2001, $399 got you a 5GB white iPod with monochrome back, a rotating wheel and a battery that lasted 10 hours in the size of a brick. It was badly received but caught attention soon enough. Its ease of use was second to none.

In 2010, $399 gets you a 64GB multi-touch mobile computing device with a 326ppi screen, dual video camera with high definition support and video calling, wireless internet and data sync, weighing 100 grams, works as an exercise monitor and a video editing console with a 40 hour battery.

That’s quite a jump in technology.

iTunes in the mean time went from a music jukebox to… a music jukebox with an online store that sells music, movies, tv series, audiobooks, and apps, a comprehensive podcast directory along with university lectures, and a music oriented social network.

Apple posts iPod + iTunes timeline