Essentially, what this is saying is that if you have turned on Apple Music, and
also uploaded tracks using iTunes Match, then it is now possible that songs you
download from the cloud, as you would with iTunes Match, may come bundled with
DRM. This does not apply to purchases, and it is only a
Started experiencing the strange phone-warming effect of iOS 8.4. I think I
fixed it, by resetting all network settings. Give it a shot.
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Yes, that’s correct; you can’t write the blocks to a mount point. First find
the device node. Use “diskutil list” to find the device node (e.g. /dev/disk3)
on which your USB stick is located. You can do this by size or using the slice
names underneath it (e.g. disk3s1). Then eject the volume
There are really two separate components to “Continuity”, but both require
iCloud. They differ in how they use the network.
For iMessage SMS and FaceTime phone-call proxying, the devices just need Wi-Fi
proximity and access to the same iCloud account. In my experience this part is
reliable—ce
What about audio? Have you tried a USB audio interface or headset to see if
the latency is cut simply by avoiding VMWare sound emulation? In my
experience, it often is.
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MailMate? That came close, last time I looked …
Nah, you’re right—this is one area where it sucks to be a Mac user, bigtime.
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Yes, that’s exactly what I meant: tell Fusion to treat your USB sound card just
as any other USB device. The downside of course is that now your Mac can’t
share audio output with your VM, but it’s definitely a boost for latency.
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Compared to the competition on other platforms, Mac Mail is rather slow and
misbehaved, and is increasingly feature-spartan as Apple continually removes
them. If I could use Thunderbird, I probably would. On other mailing lists,
Mac Mail is a fairly good way to ensure your mail won’t be read a
Pegasus Mail was awesome, back in the day. It’s still being maintained but I’m
not sure I’d want to use it now—or even if I could.
MailMate is promising for we power-users, but there are still some
accessibility challenges. Thunderbird is off, on OS X. Mozilla don’t seem to
have put in the s
It probably won’t surprise you to learn that I receive RSS feeds via email,
using rss2email, in effect bringing back the functionality of Apple’s RSS
support in Mail (which I actually thought was quite leet) but with the added
advantage that the format is open and thus the messages are shareable
About bloody time too. I love iPod Touch, and I’m happy to see them take it a
bit more seriously this time around.
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Meh. Shouldn’t affect me personally, but I’m getting a bit tired of all this
iOS rot. If Apple are so deeply concerned with “Security", why not give
everybody a limited account by default, and just make it an option to enable
the system administrator account from the recovery area?
I just wen
Very similar story at my end: belligerent XP user won’t move because he just
can’t see any point and everything he already has works, except half the web
which he just avoids.
I disagree with those saying it’s an obvious jump to later versions of Windows.
Notwithstanding that there’s still a c
I really can’t imagine why not. Same specs; only the storage option is
different. Absent any specific information to the contrary, I’d go ahead and
assume that VoiceOver runs just fine on the 16 GB iPod Touch.
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If you want raw performance, the 2012 quad-core twin-SSD server is still a
better bet. For reasons best known to Apple, current Mac Minis simply don’t
have a quad-core option. I think that’s a crying shame, personally, because it
makes the newer Mac Mini a great deal less suitable as a headles
There’s a missing step. When in recovery mode, before choosing the reinstall
option, use Disk Utility to erase the startup partition. Otherwise you just
reinstall the OS, without deleting any data.
If you didn’t do this yet, give it another go.
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No, the server just uses a second disk in place of the optical drive or, in
recent models, in the empty space where the optical drive once was (silly
Apple!). However, there are no longer Mac Mini servers; they’re all Core I5
desktops now. I think Apple just aren’t interested in that segment a
Well I suppose the biggest counterargument to that is that a Mac has more
processing power, bandwidth and listening capability to an iPhone. So it’s
conceivable that the results would naturally be better, regardless. I’m always
surprised just how good the results are compared to my phone, anyway
I will eventually adapt my filters so that entire subthreads to certain posts
are also axed, but in the meantime, is there some way this list can operate
some sort of “Five strikes and your out” policy? Because I’m getting a teensy
bit annoyed by threads that start out legitimately being deraile
It’s best to filter server-side if you have that option. Filtering on the Mac
would make running OS X mail a requirement just to get mail filtered, plus your
iPhone would still be notified of new mail even if opening Mail then showed it
to have been moved/deleted.
How you filter is down to your
I think we’ll need more detail.
What kind of USB adaptor is it, for starters? Does it have any ports, or is it
wireless (including 3G/4G cellular from a phone company)?
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The Ethernet adaptor should indeed “Just work” when connected.
Go to System Preferences, Network. Look at the Services list. How does it look?
The adaptor (Thunderbolt or USB) should show as connected. If it doesn’t, then
what does it show? There’s an explanatory message just under the table whe
You can use the References: and In-Reply-To: fields to axe just the part of the
thread initiated by a certain condition. You just need the Message-Id of the
post which you store in a list, which will expire after a month, and which your
script can compare References or In-Reply-To against. This
Yep. Just add more accounts in System Preferences under Internet Accounts.
Be aware that only the primary iCloud account can use certain iCloud features
such as iCloud Drive, Find My Mac or Back To My Mac. You’ll be advised of this
when you set up additional iCloud accounts.
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I do think a black-and-white laser is a good accessible choice, regardless.
This makes sense when you think about it, but it’s always nice when
professionalism and accessibility align so closely. :)
I have an HP LaserJet MFP125MW. It works very well for me. I’ve set up all
the goodies includ
I don’t agree with the author. Of course, this is MacWorld—some amount of
Apple butt-kissing is to be expected—but I find his attitude very worrying.
First, “Responsible disclosure” vs “Full disclosure” is a choice of
researchers, and privileged authors of the press shouldn’t be using their
pe
For what it’s worth, I have dealt with Apple’s security team; on one occasion I
was very unimpressed by the response and ended up disclosing to the public one
month after the deadline I’d given Apple (sixty days) and on the other occasion
I got a straight and immediate reply confirming the behav
They’ve messed up a few times now with supporting each hardware instance, and I
wouldn’t be surprised if you’re just on the tail end of that. That’s
especially true if you were using the beta or developer release. You could of
course go into System Preferences, App Store and revert to the stab
What Mac did you say you had again? Not all Macs—especially recent ones—run
Win7. And of those that do, not all support USB boot, or correctly boot in UEFI
mode.
Might just be worthwhile connecting an external DVD burner and burning the ISO
to it, then copying the drivers separately to USB. No
Awesome.
You’d know the drivers were installed because the Intel HD audio on Macs isn’t
natively supported in Windows—at least it wasn’t when I was last in there a few
months back. So, you should know. :)
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Yes indeed, this list has gone from, at various stages of its life, totally
noisy and idiotic, to totally over-regulated, veering back toward the noisy
end. I too am a great fan of the love-it-or-leave-it style of discussion, but
there’s something to be said for having a person—possibly just on
This used to work, at least for replies to a recipient. But, as of Mavericks,
they broke it. I have the bug listed for reporting at some stage. Now I just
do as others do, i.e. just set the address manually.
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It does say a lot that the list is in the generally healthy state it’s in now,
for sure. I like to think that’s just a kind of natural mutation resulting
from pressures on opposing sides of the moderation extreme. However, much as I
support a hands-off approach, I do feel that some of the nons
Freelists runs on Ecartis, a wonderful mailing list manager for its day, but
I’d agree, a rather tragic outpost of abandonware now. Hopefully Freelists
have changed whatever it was that was still broken about the latest Ecartis,
but I’ve since unhappily cut over to Mailman, which I hate with a
Of course, as always, it helps to remember that if nobody replied to the
abuser, we wouldn’t have these issues. But it also helps to know that a
moderator can do this quickly in response to a general consensus or clear harm
being done, and that, for better or worse, people will respond angrily
Last he checked in with me, Saqib was still working at Microsoft. I too was
around at the very beginning, but I’ve been on and off since. Of course, many
of you will know that Cara very graciously took up the reins and has made her
presence felt since that time, until she slipped into the shad
You must be talking about a different Mailman, as on my site I get:
No manual entry for mailman
Mailman 2.x, at least, stores its data in Python pickles, not SQL databases.
Although I know about a third-party command-line tool (called mailmanadmin)
which does most moderation from the shell or c
It’s fair to say that this is a hard problem to solve and sadly, even in the
best case, it’s needlessly complicated. Thank our industry for not getting off
their collective bottoms and giving people proper connectivity to the Internet
that allows them to run servers of their choice and particip
Gah! I hate this upgrade treadmill. All this does is support slightly improved
graphics APIs and Windows 10. Also VMWare’s cloudy solutions which are now
integrated into the product. Will I need it? Well, I don’t really know, but
since I also have to upgrade Workstation to 12 I’m not in the leas
Yes, you can update to 10.6.8 from 10.6.3 for free using Software Update. Once
that’s done you will have the Mac App Store, with which you download and
install Yosemite or, if your hardware doesn’t support that, Lion, Mountain
Lion, or Mavericks (but most likely Lion). You may have to put down
But the emulated hardware is sufficient to run Win10. Why on earth is a PC
emulator struggling to support a newer OS when that OS would run on
contemporary hardware of the same age as the current version of VMWare?
Even if there are valid reasons, it’s been less than 12 months. VMWare makes
m
I suppose, yeah. And guest support. Also Apple now have an API for building
hypervisor applications on top of the OS without needing kernel-space helpers;
I wonder where they’re going with that.
I’ll be looking out for any info about running 7 for a while longer, but I’ve
made a note to pay t
Hi,
Anyone here have any experience of iTerm? I’m wondering if it might be any
more responsive than Terminal, or any more prone to ease of VoiceOver access,
especially for automatically reading output and stopping navigation at window
boundaries. The rest of the features look interesting, but
Hi Scott, good points.
I pay for Fusion because I don’t think we have much of a choice, though I
certainly like the VMWare codebase. On Windows Workstation is a much better
product; you can use Workstation to build VMs that Fusion will run.
I can appreciate that everything changes and usually
Hi all,
I just checked out CereProc again, and unless my ears deceive me, there does
seem to be a substantial improvement since I last visited some years back.
Is anybody now using CereProc voices in production under VoiceOver, and how do
they find it? These voices are expensive—£25 a pop—so I
Hi Gabriele,
You’re right, Skype is a good idea. It has NAT traversal built-in. It will
save you a lot of work.
Let’s say you’re insane and decide to do this the hard way anyway. Basically
what you have to do is tell the box that manages your Internet connection to
knock a hole in its firew
iTerm2 home page is here:
https://www.iterm2.com/
Not on the MAS, as far as I can see.
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It’s not you.
You’re right. Braille support in OS X’s VoiceOver is truly lamentable. I’m
the same: run a VM with Windows or Linux in it for braille support that
actually works. Usually Linux, for BRLTTY which I can use to ssh back in to
the Mac for more extensive tasks.
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I use Debian unstable with a BrailleNote Apex. The installer images of Debian
support BRLTTY so you can install out of the box. You will need to tweak
things a bit if you use any USB adaptors or serial interfaces but it’s not
hard; often things just autodetect. Then under VMWare Fusion you just
My preferred method is to move the .AAX files from my Safari Downloads folder
into my iTunes media library’s “Automatically add to iTunes” folder. Do it in
Finder while iTunes is either running or not; copy the file to the pasteboard,
navigate to the auto-add folder and option-paste. Or using
IPv6 is lovely and awesome and wonderful and I simply must have more of it. :)
Right now I’m stuck behind a CGN (two layers of NAT) with IPv4 only on a 3G
connection. I can tell you from the bottom of my heart that I especially miss
it now, even though honestly it depresses me just how much CG
The only other I know about in this space, for the Mac at least, is Cepstral.
However, there seems to be much less choice there, and the voices while
responsive are definitely towards the compact end of the spectrum.
Honestly, my kingdom for a formant synthesiser on OS X. :)
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I believe the confusion comes from Apple’s use of the Mac App Store for both
software updates and Mac apps and updates, which are technically delivered
through two different pipelines.
Here is how it works: you don’t need an Apple ID just to get software updates
for installed software, i.e. the
Yes, just go to the VMWare Store and purchase Fusion 8 or 8 Pro upgrade.
They’ll ask you to log in, at which point you can see your registered Fusion 7
Pro license. Select it and they will revoke the old license and replace it
with the new one once you’ve paid. Quite straightforward, though t
Well, of course, you won’t be running OS X on non-Apple hardware (a PC) without
some serious hacking. So, if you intend to run OS X, you’d better have that
iMac. You can always run Windows on your iMac.
I recently got one. Relative to other machines on the market, they are by no
means the fa
Hold off for a bit. I’ve just been double-charged and issued two Fusion keys
at upgrade price, even though I only upgraded one license.
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Thank goodness. That option has been misleading more people, and doing more
harm, than it ever should have been allowed to. If not for the early days of
Apple’s own self-inflicted problems caused by sloppy installers, which have
long since gone, the option would have no use at all. It has sin
Well, the good news is that iTerm isn’t inaccessible. In fact, it’s
surprisingly accessible—just like Terminal, in fact.
The bad news is that honestly I can’t see much reason to switch. Sure, it has
features, and I especially like the shell integration, but most of the time I
don’t even get c
Fairly common occurrence, unfortunately.
If you have sight, use the Option key at boot to select Windows and see if it
starts and runs. Even if you don’t, try guessing; hold Option at the chime and
then press, say, left and then enter.
You can use the bless command from Terminal to set up the
Summary: CereVoice and Cepstral are too crash-prone, laggy and inaccurate to be
bothering with for any serious uses. Stick to what Apple provides, plus
Acapela as a fair second.
I had sufficient data on my 3G plan that I thought I’d get the two TTS engines.
The trials were inadequate to test
Yes, it sounds like we’re talking about the same voices.
While I’m happy that at least CereVoice is working for you, I’m running the
current stable Yosemite build and can’t get five minutes out of them without at
least a freeze sufficient to cause me to have to restart VO. So, for now at
least
You should be able to browse other disks from the Time Machine MenuExtra or
Dock item. When you are looking in Finder at the files you want thrown out,
open the context menu and choose to remove it from the backup. I’m not in
front of a TM-enabled machine at the moment so the details are hazy,
Sort of. The image function handles Apple disk images, which include raw disk
images. The restoration (i.e., copying) of a source to a target, either of
which may be an image, is facilitated by ASR (Apple Software Restore) which
performs a block-by-block copy, except that it knows about filesy
Yes, reverse it.
For extra points, defragment and zero the Windows partition, and use bzip2 to
compress the output of dd. That makes an even smaller file.
It’s a shame that all this can’t be easily automated, although to be fair Apple
has taken great care of Apple’s own side of the fence. And
Look, to be honest, whatever you do now is risky.
I can help you reinstate a protective MBR, so you can boot back up OS X and
possibly use BootCamp assistant to blow away your Windows partition so you can
re-enlarge the OS X partition. Perhaps you can do it without using Terminal,
if you try i
Although I respect the wishes of the list owners (they are running the list,
after all) it’s certainly true that I would prefer to discuss related Apple
technology on this list and would prefer not to be on the ViPhone list. Part
of the reason, ironically, is the relevance of traffic: there are
OK, yes. This is all good.
Couple more observations:
1. Quit 1Password to get the use of proper text editing back in other apps.
Restarting VoiceOver isn’t sufficient. You’ll know when this happens because
QuickNav won’t work, and moving by line will only announce the first word.
2. This
OK, so I’ve found that you can avoid the silly backwards storage of password
fields by using cut-and-paste. That’s right: simply type your secret somewhere
else, then cut and paste it into where you know the secret text field will be.
So yeah, back to having a laugh. :)
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Because life is an adventure and you only get one shot at it. By all means
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but don’t expect the red carpet to be rolled out. The unfortunate reality is
that, while I’m enjoying 1Password a lot, it is a serious barr
Do Not Disturb, of course. :)
Find it in Notification Centre. The preferences are in System Preferences,
Notification Centre. Tell the system to let calls in from nobody. Now
activate DND whenever you want your peace, and disable it again when you’re
less inclined to be annoyed by the phone
Weird. When I had an iPad, I was sure what you described (jumping to the right
side of Settings and landing on the first item when the left item was chosen)
was the default behaviour. Maybe it’s just iOS bugs or something.
Anyway, try containers. See if navigating by containers does what you
Hi Jessica. If you only just disabled FileVault then it’s probably still
decrypting, and you won’t be fully disabled until that’s done. Check in System
Preferences, Security and Privacy, FileVault what the status is. If the button
to turn it on is not there, try again after it appears. You s
Hi Donna,
Alas, no, it doesn’t appear that turning on DND works across all devices. Only
the watch and iPhone can stay in sync. It should be that way for everything,
though.
Glad you’ve found your solution, anyway. I’ve been contemplating turning off
FaceTime on my Mac too, but somehow I ju
Yeah, as Chris says, broken. Either downgrade to Yosemite or switch back to
Windows. I know my next reinstall will be Yosemite, anyway. Or at least I
think so …
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Well, it definitely used to work in the past. Some regression or other, then.
Anyway, as of very recently, I have no iPad. iPhone 6S Plus is big enough for
me. Even my iPod has gone now; the battery in the 6S Plus is really good.
Strange, how times change …
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I think it has something to do with the way VoiceOver handles cursor movement.
It makes me very uncomfortable, because it will probably some day lead to my
ending up with corrupted passwords in the database when I type and don’t check
back, or fail to reverse correctly in my head, especially if
Apple is Selling You a Phone, Not Civil Liberties
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> FBI and Justice Department officials, we think, can be forgiven if they’re a
> touch cynical about all of Apple’s elaborate legal argumentation and suspect
> that this all just
iTunes is all you need on Windows to get to your iTunes Music subscription or
iTunes Match, if that’s what you’re asking.
You need the “iCloud Control Panel” for the other stuff, like iCloud Drive.
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Yes, precisely. Works with Thunderbolt Ethernet adaptors too, and allegedly
also with the USB Fast Ethernet adaptors too, although I’ve never got that to
work.
But, despite all that, I do wish Apple would allow one to simply type in SSID
and password blind. Ultimately this *is* an accessibili
Hi Alex,
As with most things iTunes, the answer is “No”.
Your problem is that Apple TV 3 has no means to stream media locally from
anything that isn’t iTunes. And iTunes won’t run on a Raspberry Pie (or any
NAS). Hence, you can’t get to your FairPlay-protected content on any device,
or any c
Yeah, I understand.
FWIW, I will continue to use 1Password, as long as I can verify its operation.
I trust the cryptography and synchronisation in it better than iCloud, but I
probably won’t be generating any passwords with it. I’m hopeful that things
will get better, based on the continued i
There was also a “Spoken Interface Preview”, which was the precursor to
VoiceOver, introduced as a separate download for Mac OS X 10.3.
Leopard was when things really started to shape up, and when Alex was
introduced. It’s when I jumped on board the Macintosh train for sure.
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And as always, the command line is your friend: OS X includes avconvert, and
you can get and use ffmpeg from your favourite package manager. That’s how I’d
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I had this problem, too, until I learned to press the close button in the
calendar appointment.
Until you do that, the change is not submitted to the server. Yes, even if it
shows up in the flaming list as booked. Even if you quit and restart Calendar,
and it continues to show.
Here’s someth
Well, all right, it can’t hurt to try it. I ordered a pair of the Trek
Titanium, and I’ll find some unlucky recipient of these Bluez 2.
I don’t expect it to be like proper cans (I have wired corded and Kleer
cordless Sennheiser for indoor use) but I do want to be able to listen to my
narrated
The controls you need are in the device settings in iTunes. Select Music in
the table next to the scroll area, and beside the checkbox for syncing music
you can find a radio button for syncing only a selection. Check it, and then
check the boxes in the tables that follow to set up your precise
Thanks to the new iBooks storage location, it’s now very hard to back up your
stuff. In prior days, Books was just a folder in your iTunes media folder,
which could be anywhere on your drive or on another file system altogether. My
advice is to keep a separate Books folder somewhere with all t
Settings, General, Storage & iCloud Usage, Manage storage under local storage,
Music. Swipe up to Delete on anything you don’t want, or “All Songs”.
Be aware that if you delete anything in here that you can’t get from the iTunes
Store, or from iTunes Match if you have that switched on and to wh
Right, OK, so what’s the better of the Aftershokz headsets, then? If not the
Bluez 2 then what?
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The problem I have with the Aftershokz stuff is that first it leaks like a
sieve, and secondly they aren’t very loud. They’re good for the TTS if you
turn the volume up, but a lot of recordings at normal levels just won’t go that
loud even if you’ve used iTunes to bump up the playback volume.
Yes. When iPad first appeared with VoiceOver, pressing a button on the left
side of Settings would jump you to the first focusable item on the right side;
for example, pressing General would jump you to About, after a short click. I
know that is what I saw, back then. I had to use my mother’s
I was downgrading my main Mac to Yosemite at the time of the event, and had to
catch up using the Apple Keynotes podcast. There were exactly two things I got
out of the address:
1. The Mac is dead. The iPad Pro is clearly set to kill it, and Apple wants
to be in the driver’s seat when that h
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Cool, I replied to this.
Summary: I am ready to jump back to Windows 8.1 if the need arises. And my
main iMac is back on Yosemite. I
Yeah. I’ve been a pretty consistent Apple advocate since about 2007 with the
Mac. Back then there was a lot to write home about. Now I’m just not sure.
The change is palpable. I wasn’t totally behind Steve the autocratic
ringmaster but at least he had the good sense to put the consumers fir
Good question. Software-wise, short-term I’m thinking Windows with Linux as a
VM guest. This gets you an accessible app ecosystem but you don’t have to lose
access to a productive working environment like the Unix CLI. I’d pick Windows
8.1 plus Classic Shell because I know it works, and will
Yeah, OS X Server is lots of fun from the command line, although I’d take Linux
for that since you still can’t update it without control over the GUI. The
server package does include more than the front-facing app from the Mac App
Store, though; some of the pieces of the server like the databas
I’d watch it. The bits you’re interested in are at the start, where Apple talk
about recycling, and the end, where Apple proclaim that it’s “Really sad” that
people are using PCs that are five years old.
Me? Cynical? Never! :)
I think the Mac is dead, anyway. Well, if you disagree, cool bea
I turned the feature off. I like the idea of pressure-sensitivity, as a rule,
but think 3D Touch itself is fiddling and unwarranted. It seems to me that
what touchscreen UIs need is the universal equivalent of the shortcut menu, not
special treatment of extra pressure on any given control whic
You can split up an iTunes library across multiple disks, as long as those
disks are consistently accessible under the drive letters or volume names with
which they were identified at the time you added their contents to your iTunes
library. The trick is in iTunes Advanced Preferences; uncheck
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