![]() ![]() It wasn’t opening it any more and was asking for the “Library File”. Until today, when I switched from macOS Mojave to Catalina and Music.app messing up my library. Both of them are amazing tools in the music organizer’s tool box. ![]() Incoming files were tagged with Yate and Beets. Over the years I fed my library with ALAC files converted from FLAC files via XLD and meticulously maintained my library. This meant I couldn’t download tracks for offline consumption and always felt a bit awkward as I actively had to jump through hoops to use both of them which obviously didn’t feel right. That hybrid solution was to have Apple Music enabled but without the Cloud Music Library. After messing up my library once, by enabling Cloud Music Library, in the early days of Apple Music and ending up with duplicate Apple Music tracks injected in my own ripped albums I ran with a hybrid solution for now. I could still tag it with my own tools, tags were written to the files, the folder structure was organized nicely and all was well. If you can’t find it, you’ll need to uninstall and reinstall iTunes.I didn’t exactly love iTunes during the last few iterations but even with Apple Music slowly creeping into the interface it was still the same old - powerful - iTunes under the hood. Now select the Startup tab and check to see whether iTunesHelper is present and correctly checked. To check that iTunesHelper is running at startup, open the System Configuration Utility (hit the Start button, select Run, enter the command msconfig and hit enter. What iTunesHelper does is spot whether you’ve connected an iPod or iPhone, and tell iTunes to start if you’ve activated that option (see step 2). Like me, you might well have deactivated iTunesHelper, thinking that your iTunes didn’t need any help, thank you very much. ![]() If you’re anything like me, you’ll visit the System Configuration Utility (AKA msconfig) every few months, looking for background services that can be disabled. Select your iPod and make sure Open iTunes when this iPod is attached is checked:ģ – Check that iTunesHelper is running at startup To check that you have everything set up to launch in the correct order, make sure that iTunes is set to start when your iPod is connected. If you have iTunes and Last.fm starting in a different order, you might well find that Last.fm has problems identifying your iPod scrobbles. The order you want to achieve is: Connect iPod > iTunes starts automatically > Last.fm starts automatically. In order to get last.fm to scrobble your iPod, you’ll need to check that the different programs involved launch in the right order. Simply open the Last.fm client, hit Ctrl+O, select ‘iPod’ and then click Clear user associations.Ģ – Make sure everything starts in the correct order It’s a good idea to start from scratch if your having problems with your iPod and Last.fm. ![]() I’ve finally fixed the problem and I thought I’d share my method. But at the end of last year, I noticed that whenever I connected my iPod to my work PC, Last.fm would report No scrobbles found on your iPod, which could be seriously annoying when I’d actually been away listening to Royal Trux for a whole week. So when Last.fm added support for iPod ‘scrobbling’ in 2008, I was happier than ever!įor a while, iPod scrobbling seemed to work fine. But what Last.fm still does better than any other service is statistics: nowhere else can I track what music I’ve been listening to for the last few years, and find people with similar tastes. Last.fm might not be the darling of the free internet radio world anymore – especially given that Spotify seems to have more tracks available to listen to. 3 – Check that iTunesHelper is running at startup.2 – Make sure everything starts in the correct order. ![]()
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