MacFixIt reader Scott Rose reports some odd behavior (that may be by design) from the iPod Shuffle, where the device will not mount on the desktop, nor appear in iTunes if it is changed from its ...

If you are close to my age, you have probably made at least one mix tape in your day to give to a friend. It might have described the meaning of your essence as a human being through power ballads, or ...

Behind every great band is a great arranger. The same might be said of Apple’s new iPod portable music player. Yes, its sleek design is marvelous, but what really sets the iPod apart from the pack is ...

Our fellow editor at the naughty Fleshbot suffered a catastrophic hard drive crash that killed every file in sight, and needs our help piecing things together. Dashiell writes: So I lost my entire ...

The iPod's greatest charm is its ease of use. Dumping your entire music collection onto one of the devices is close to automatic -- a simple one-click process. But what about getting music off an iPod ...

HELP! I have my iPod library set up on my work computer and the office is going to upgrade my computer and take this one away. Blasted! So I went to iTunes and did File/Export Library. The saved file ...

Yesterday’s update to iOS 4.2 brought a lot of great new features to the table, but for some users, it introduced one big problem: the ability to listen to music on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

iTunes seems to use contextual menus to its detriment in the case of the iPod, where you can't change your iPod preferences without having your iPod plugged in. What do you do if those preferences are ...

As I write this, I am listening to one of my many mood-sensitive playlists from the iPod library on my computer. I'm not one of the hip, trendy twenty- (or even thirty-) somethings you see gyrating ...

My annual Spotify Wrapped tends to tell me two things. The sheer number of listened hours each year tells me I spend a lot of time listening to tunes. But the eclectic mix, and Your Mix playlist ...

Digital photos can take up a lot of hard drive space, so it's sometimes beneficial to keep your photo libraries on an external hard drive instead of on your computer's internal drive. If your company ...