Episode 103: Lotta Little Knives

TOPIC: Modern Media Management: iTunes Match

This week Dan and Merlin begin a 3-part series on Modern Media Management: handling your iTunes Library, iOS Devices, and iTunes Match without making yourself crazy.

In this episode, they cover setting up and using iTunes Match, being safe and paranoid, what to do after you get the iTunes ping, some smart playlists that will help you exclude kwanzaa music, find stuff you don't want to listen to, and maintain your sanity.

Next episode they'll discuss wrangling metadata and smart playlists. Then in the last episode of the series, they'll cover managing the libraries on your devices and some grab bag stuff.

Links for this episode:

• Pokemann - Check out this 8bit version of Plica Plica that...
  
• iTunes Store: Subscribing to iTunes Match
  
• Dealing with iTunes Match's 25,000 Track Limit | Macworld
  
• Apple - iCloud - All your content on all your devices.
  
• Apple - iTunes - Match
  
• [SPONSOR] Squarespace (use offer code `NICE` for an additional 10% off)
  
• 5by5 | Back to Work #41: Carpal Tunnel Diem
  
• How to upgrade tracks to iTunes Match, fast | Macworld
  
• iTunes Match: One year in | Macworld
  
• Squarespace Service Blog
  
• Inscribed Something very, very special has... | kung fu grippe
  
• Debutante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• John Bonham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• 8-Bit "Plica Plica" [B2W theme song] by slashram
  
• Pokémann
  
• A podcast with Merlin: SodaStream, BULKBUG, comics - 2000 Nickels
  
• Maintain – Cocktail
  
• Secrets
  
• Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson: 9781401220846: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Animal Man Vol. 1: The Hunt (The New 52): Jeff Lemire, Travel Foreman: 9781401235079: Amazon.com: Books
  
• Star Wars continuity mistakes - YouTube
  
• Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane - YouTube
  
• Fugue state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  

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