 | Sep 5 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND You know how you start listening to iTunes, putting it in the background so you don't get distracted from your work, then a new song comes on that you really like, so you go back to iTunes to rate it, then you notice the song is from a compilation and it's tagged all wrong, so you start re-tagging it, then you notice that the entire album the song came from is also tagged wrong, and the artwork is missing (or worse, it's a 50kb x 50kb square photo that you grabbed from google images when you were drunk and burping up beer and pizza fumes so toxic it nearly melted your monitor), and the albums next to it are also tagged wrong because the dillhole who uploaded it put the genre down as "Spoken Word" instead of "Rock" and embedded his stupid sig, BiGgIe B@LLz MuZiK BoY!, in the comments? Now you have no choice but to drop everything you're doing to address these crimes against your music library and once you get started, you simply can't stop, and the next thing you know, it's 5pm - time to go home! You just wasted your entire flipping day fixing your iTunes library. Again. Well one day, my friend, you will realize that "perfecting" your iTunes library is an impossible goal -- iTunes is The Rock and You are Sisyphus. Give up. Relax. Enjoy your music again. As long as you have it tagged with album title and artist, who cares about the rest? Toss it in there and press play. Then fire up I Love Stars to rate your music without looking at iTunes and you'll never be distracted again. Tested and working fine in Snow Leopard.
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 | Sep 24 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND Thanks for another great update. I wasn't having any issues, but I appreciate your efforts and generosity! This is a great little app. Thanks for keeping it free :)
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| Sep 11 2009 |
STEVEN GOODHEART Apologies! I Love Stars is just working just *fine* on my Snow Leopard machine -- I made a really silly mistake -- don't ask! -- anyway, I love it and find it a most useful adjunct to iTunes 9.0.
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| Sep 11 2009 |
JCTULL Start iTunes and have a song playing, then ctrl-click or right-click the menu item for I Love Stars. That will bring up the option to quit the application. Then you can replace it without any problem. Alternatively, you can find it in the Activity Monitor application and quit the process that way.
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| Sep 11 2009 |
MTCOBRA Activity Monitor! Thanks! It's a utility I had totally forgotten about - time to review Don McAllister's ScreenCast SCO0109. I appreciate your help.
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 | Sep 11 2009 |
MTCOBRA Help me out here.... I saw this upgrade to I Love Stars, so I launched my current version thinking it would advise me of the upgrade and I'd pull in the upgrade, but no such notification. So I quit iTunes and proceeded to download directly the 3.2 version. When I tried to replace the old one, it wouldn't, because the older version was in use. I tried to trash the older version but couldn't do that, it was in use. The menu bar stars had disappeared, iTunes was closed, but ILS was still 'in use.' I'm going to restart my computer THEN move the new version to applications, but this shouldn't be required. What did I miss/forget? 'case something like this happens again? Oh, CMD/OPT/ESC did not list I Love Stars so I couldn't force-quit. Stumped, but not done yet.
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| Sep 11 2009 |
STEVEN GOODHEART That's weird behavior, for sure. I downloaded this update...it ran for a few seconds, and then quit, disappearing from the menu bar. And indeed, the Force Quit menu didn't show it running. If you want to clean everything out and start again, I Love Stars only seems to exist in the Application folder, where you installed it, and: HD:Users:(you):Library:Caches:com.potionfactory.ILoveStars HD:Users:(you):Library:Preferences:com.potionfactory.ILoveStars.plist ...of course, if you had it as a login item, delete it there. Good luck on figuring this out. I'm curious to see if others can get it to run on Snow Leopard. It won't run on mine.
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| Sep 11 2009 |
ALIENDUDE Um, just out of curiosity, why would any one need a rating program? Why would you have low rated songs on your Mac/iPod to begin with?
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 | Sep 11 2009 |
MISHA For many people, there are not just "good" and "bad" songs (with "bad" not being part of their collection to begin with). There are shades of good... and sometimes even great or perfect.
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| Sep 11 2009 |
ALIENDUDE Misha, that makes sense. Thanks for the answer. :)
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| Sep 12 2009 |
ANOTHERSCOTT re: "Why would you have low rated songs on your Mac/iPod to begin with? " It happens all the time! You download an album you haven't heard to your ipod, you're bound to end up with some songs you don't like. Rating them down is an easy way to note them. Then when you get a chance, you can go into itunes and delete the ones you rated as bad.
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| Sep 9 2009 |
A DUDE Wonderful wonderful app, but doesn't work in iTunes 9! Eagerly awaiting 3.2...
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| Sep 10 2009 |
A DUDE nm, it's all good! i love i love stars :)
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| Jan 26 2009 |
NICALAND Great, and loving that it's free
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| Dec 24 2008 |
HENDO Very clean and simple Really nice, well done!
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| Jun 5 2008 |
SPUNGEE let's try this again with perky, top-star-rated goodness added...
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