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This should be extremely rare. This would mean that the disc in your CD-ROM drive just happens to have the exact same TOC as another disc in the database. The TOC is the "table of contents", the list of song lengths stored in the disc itself. Because of how the TOC is calculated it is extremely unlikely that two unrelated CDs would have exactly the same TOC. It does happen sometimes for discs with only one track, but the odds of this occurring go down with more tracks.
I was wondering how this was done. Pretty primitive. I'd imagined that I had to wait for masters to come back from the plant before I could submit to CDDB. But obviously I can use a reference copy of the master. This way I can control what goes to CDDB (ie, get the information correct) and the first customer who puts this disc in iTunes won't have to do any data entry. . .< 2:44:40 AM  >10.4: Select duplicate messages in Mail This AppleScript will select all the duplicate messages in the currently open Message Viewer window in Mail.app. To use this script:
Open up Script Editor and paste the code into a new window.
Save it somewhere convenient, ... **************** Blogswill change your business. Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up … or catch you later.(the emphasis is theirs - from the cover of Business Week, May 2, 2005 Issue)
I could not have said it better myself. [Via Scott Young's Radio Weblog] . .< 2:05:34 AM >Updated: Export Via QuickTime v1.2 Export Via QuickTime lets you export the files of selected iTunes tracks using QuickTime codecs. This latest version works around a scripting discrepancy in QuickTime 7 Pro. [Via Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes] . .< 2:03:53 AM >Washington hit by security alert The White House and Congress in Washington are briefly evacuated after a small plane triggers a security alert. [Via BBC News | World | UK Edition] . .< 2:03:07 AM >Four suicide attacks kill at least 71 BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide bombs killed at least 71 people in Iraq on Wednesday, taking to nearly 400 the number of Iraqis killed in guerrilla attacks since a new government was unveiled two weeks ago. [Via Reuters: World] . .< 1:28:47 AM >Apple - QuickTime - QuickTime Player Do you think great video deserves great audio? We do, too. And QuickTime 7 Player delivers truly outstanding multi-channel audio. In fact, it provides you with up to 24 channels of audio. So if you watch a movie that offers surround sound, you’ll be amazed at the heightened audio experience you’ll enjoy from your Mac or PC and your surround-sound speakers. A really good sport, QuickTime 7 Player supports a wide-range of industry-standard audio formats, including AIFF, WAV, MOV, MP4 (AAC only), CAF and AAC/ADTS. . .< 12:57:28 AM >Tiger Mail Weirdness I've had this happen a few times: I open a piece of mail and later on notice that the status is set to unread. I can't remember the steps I took previously but tonight I know that I opened and read the message, replied to it, sent the reply, opened another email, closed it and when I next looked at the inbox the email I'd just read and replied to was set to unread. I'm not sure exactly at what point the status got reset or if it was ever set to read. . .< 12:08:49 AM >Software Update Weirdness I just got notification that there was a software update for Pro Application Support. I like to download the files, use the Software Update app to run the installer and then back the file up to a drive. Tonight I started to do just that. But after I had entered my password and agreed to the software license the Software Update window rolled up as usual as if to display the progress bar but then immediately rolled back down again. I tried this several times with the same response. Finally I went to the Finder, double-clicked on the install package and everything proceeded went ahead as expected. Frist time I've had trouble with the Software Update app.
I like the idea of the new Birthdays Calendar. So I've removed the birthday reminders I had manually placed in iCal and put them in Address Book. But if I include the year of the birthday (handy if you are trying to keep track of someone's age) then an item appears in the iCal for every year they've had a birthday. This might be a bit of an annoyance when you are searching in iCal for events related to that person. You end up with a rather long list of entries. |
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