Troubleshooting iTunes 4 (#6): Some MP3 players supported by iTunes, but not Mac OS X; Capitalization and renaming of tracks
Troubleshooting iTunes 4 (#6): Some MP3 players supported by iTunes, but not Mac OS X; Capitalization and renaming of tracks
Some MP3 players supported by iTunes, but not Mac OS X The Nike-Philips line of psa]play 64 and psa]play 128 MP3 players are listed in Apple's Knowledge Base as being iTunes 3- compatible players. (an iTunes 4 compatibility list does not yet exist).
However, the Nike-Philips players - and several other listed MP3 devices - are not Mac OS X compatible. Dean White received a response from the company's technical support team:
"I talked to the 'Macintosh expert" at Philips 2 days ago, and he had no information about plans to release a patch to make the players OS X compatible. Despite the OS being 2 years old. I patiently explained to him why this wasn't a particularly strong business strategy, and that the forthcoming Macintosh operating system won't boot into 9.2.2 at all. "Oh," he said. 'Maybe they'll release a patch then.'"
Capitalization and renaming of tracks MacFixIt reader Brett Wickens describes a problem with renaming multiple tracks under iTunes 4:"If you want to change the title of album for a number of tracks at the same time, you normally select all the tracks, do a 'get info' and then type the new name of the title in the dialog box, which will change the title across all the selected tracks. However, it seems to have a problem with capitalization and lower case.
"For example, I ripped Future Sound of Londons 'ISDN' CD, but the CDDB database provided the title as 'Isdn', with incorrect capitalization for the acronym. I selected all the tracks and used 'get info' to change the title, but each time I tried to type it in caps, it kept using 'predictive typing' to change my caps to lower case. The best I could type was 'IsdN' - seemingly it allows you to override the last character. The same happened with Crystal Method's Vegas CD, which CDDB had as 'VEGAS' and which I wanted to change to 'Vegas' using 'get info'. The best I could to was "'VegaS'.
"The only workaround I could find was to select the album title in the library list, type the correct title in one of the tracks, copy it, and then paste it one at a time into the subsequent tracks (while still in library list view). It seems that iTunes keeps a list of all existing album titles and then predictively fills in the titles in the 'get info' dialog. This process overrides any user desired case changes."
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