I can’t wait. I just caved. I bought the 40gig ipod. for 318.94 FLAT 
I’m proud of myself. Thats a kick ass deal. E-mail me if you want to know how.
After changing the location in the preferences, use the Consolidate Library… command (in the Advanced menu). It should copy all music to the new location. (At least that’s how the Mac version works.)
Do you mean it lags when you hit the “next track” button at the top? My pokey 350Mhz G4 does this, but my 2x1.4Ghz tower at work doesn’t.
When I hit the next button there is a noticable(well, to me.) 0.5ish second lag time before the next song starts playing. If I just let it go the cross fader works beautifully and there is no break in the music.
I have a AMD 2000+ xp processor. I can’t possibly see it as a lack of CPU power.
Ok. The itunes help file is completely useless.
Does anyone know how the ratings system works? It’s out of 5 stars. Is 1 star better then no stars? or is no stars = 3 stars? I think 3 starts = no stars because when I click on top rated it only shows my 4 and 5 star songs. Can anyone confirm?
danke!
It’s kinda arbitrary. No stars = unrated. in my library, 3 stars is okay, 4 is really good, 5 is Great! and 2 is country. 
But you can set up a smart playlist to play, say, all 2 star songs that haven’t been played in the last 60 days.
Go to iTunes > Preferences and click the Burn icon. Under Format, be sure that Audio CD is selected, then click the box by “Use Sound Check.”
It means whatever you want it to mean. Click on your Top Rated list and hit (guessing) Ctrl-I or go to File > Get Info.
You can change the Top Rated list to show three stars and up, five stars only, whatever you want. It’s nothing but a smart playlist that they set up for you. You can customize it or delete it, if you want. You can also set up your own smart playlists using your ratings, or any other combination of criteria: Artist, Genre, albums containing the word “Greatest”, keywords that you place in the comment field, songs longer than three minutes, whatever.
Note that if you set up a smart playlist with “My Rating is less than ***” (or whatever number of stars) that includes songs with zero stars. So if you want zero stars to mean “worse than one star” you can do that. I, on the other hand, prefer zero stars to mean unrated, so I have a playlist named “Unrated” with “My Rating is less than *” so that I can listen to those songs and give them a rating if I feel like it.
I hope that helps!
I thought the rating system affected shuffle?
The stars mean whatever you want them to mean. You can edit the “Top Rated” playlist to show however many stars you want.
I tried it before, and it didn’t do anything for me. But then, given how infrequently I burn CDs, for all I know this was a bug that got fixed three revisions ago…
I hope no one minds if I stick another question in here.
Several playlists, including purchased music, don?t sync with my ipod anymore. Others are working fine. I can?t find a setting where I may have inadvertently set them not to sync. Any ideas?
It only affects the Party Shuffle, I think, and only if you select “Play higher rate songs more often.” I experimented with it a bit, and I think it actually does consider 0-stars songs the lowest rated.
When you shuffle while playing from your library or a playlist, it’s is completely random.
Ok. I’m reviving my own thread. I have another question to ask. Itunes has an automatic song title length cut off. Why the hell does it do this(Ipod limitation?)? How can I turn it off! I get songs where the title gets cut off… in the FILE NAME!
oh and my mini rant. DAMN UPS! my ipod was supposed to be here today! (23rd)
Just got a new PC with I-tunes a few months back. Took me a while to warm up to it, but now I like it.
Huh. Both MacOS and Win should allow 255 character file names. I just put in a super long title, and it did indeed get cut off at 254 characters. (Not sure what happened to the last one, but . . .) Are yours getting cut off shorter than that?
Curse them! shakes fist in sympathy
Itunes will autoformat songs and cut them off somewhere around the area of 30ish letters. I’m quite confused. I can then go in and fix the song. But I have no idea why it does this.
Ok. I did some testing. It did this on a few songs and not on others with really long file names. I have no idea what it’s trying to do. If I make a song with some random string of letters it will crop it. But sometimes it’ll crop a song with actual words too. WTF!
Ok. Stupid question. Is there any way to move the artist name in front of the song name? I think artist name - Song name not song name - artist name
I don’t think so. If you go to Edit>View Options, you can hide/unhide all the columns except Song Name. Song Name would appear to be the default first column.
Doesn’t matter. In both iTunes & iPod you read the “Title” part of the ID tag. The file name is irrelevant. iTunes can rename your files “oookeybookey_006.mp3”, when you sort, burn and play them in iTunes, you’ll be seeing whatever is in the tag, not the actual file name.
Try and grab the top of the column where it says “Artist” and drag it to where you want it to go. Kind of like re-arrangin columns in Excel, y’know? I don’t have iTunes here to check, but I think that might work.
Itunes will do this to songs with no id3 tags. it’s quite annoying. besides it looks ugly in my itunes window.
Nope. =(
I might switch back to winamp 5 + ipod plug in. Itunes has a few minor quirks that just irk me.
“Song Name” seems to be the only column you can’t move.