Hi Mike, I'm not running iTunes 8.1, but one thing you can do is move or trash your preferences file for iTunes. Quit iTunes and bring up Finder. Your iTunes plist file is:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist where the initial tilde character indicates this is the user account of whoever is logged in. You want to move that to your Desktop or some other area. If there is no preference file for an app in the Library/Preferences folder for your account when the application is opened, a new preference file is created with all the default values the next time you open the application. This effectively wipes out any settings you may have created to use iTunes DJ. If you keep a copy of the original preferences file elsewhere, you can always move it back in the event that trashing your plist file did not help. So, to navigate to this file, when in finder use the Command-Shift-G "Go to folder" command. This brings up a dialog window with a text field where you can type or paste in: ~/Library/Preferences/ You may have to VO-left and VO-right again to hear the "Go to the folder" and the field to enter the text. Press return after you type in the folder name or else navigate with VO-Right Arrow to the "Go" button and press it (VO-Space). I go to a list view window (Command-2) which I have ordered by date modified (interact, VO-right arrow to the date modified column and sort with VO-Shift-Backslash on an English language keyboard) so that the most recently modified items are displayed at the top of the list. (The sort command will give either ascending or descending order, but if this is the first time you're sorting on date modified, it should give your results with most recent mods first, just as the first time you sort on file names will give you alphabetical order.) Then, if the app was just recently quit, the plist file will be near the top of the list, and you can just arrow down the first few entries to find it. Once you've moved, or copied this file to another location and deleted it from the Preferences folder, start iTunes again. It should open as usual, without any of the new preference changes that gave you problems. If you have problems with Finder, you can handle this with the Terminal app. 1. From Finder, navigate to the Utilities folder with Command-Shift-U. Press "t" to go to the Terminal app and open it with Command-Down Arrow, Command-O, or VO-Space (according to your preferences). 2. In the terminal window type or paste in: mv ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes.plist Desktop/ and press return. This will move your plist file to your Desktop, and you can open iTunes again. For your information, iTunes DJ is supposed to work with iPhones and iPod Touch models that have the Apple Remote app loaded. The Apple Remote app runs an interface that allows the iPhone app to select a library and navigate its contents based on what is displayed on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Selection of music contents is not accessible. This may also be where the prompts to select an iTunes library are coming from, because each Remote app/iPhone combination doesn't have a particular iTunes library associated with it when it first uses the iTunes DJ mode -- it's supposed to set up the selection as a preliminary to setting up requests. I don't have any experience with this <grin>. HTH Cheers, Esther On Thursday, April 02, 2009, at 06:20AM, "Mike" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi all: > >I'm currently running iTunes 8.1 and as of last night, I ran into a >serious problem. >1ST of all, I'm providing the music for a party this weekend and I >began to play around with the iTunes DJ. >Thinking that it would allow song requesting and the like with the Mac >Remote, instead the remote app for the iPod and phone. >Now every launch of the iTunes ap, prompts me for the library and >continues to do so when I point the file brouser to the library. >I removed all aspects of the iTunes ap I could find, downloaded the >dmg again, re_installed, added my music to a new library and guess >what? >The problem persists. This is in a since is a disaster because this >party was planned for weeks and I was asked to provide the music. I >can either down grade or burn off 7.4G of music and flatten my Mac and >re_install from scratch. >I do have a windows box but don't relish transfouring because the kb >on my win laptop is not functioning that well. >Oh one more note, I did set the library name option in the iTunes >preferences. > >HHHEEEELLLLLPPPPP!!!!! > >Mike > >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
