A New Chapter Begins... Or Does It?

Just a quick post after a long time... I want to become an actor. Yeah you read it, an actor.

Life has a habit of playing games. I'll be completing my one month acting course from Mr. Anupam Kher's Actor Prepares. Anurag Basu, a successful director, agreed to have me assist him with few of his projects with the possibility of acting later on. And guess what, one of the important employees of our family business decides to leave.

So now I am going to be tied up in business and acting dreams can go for a toss.

Let's see how this works out... if any body out there is reading this... wish me luck! Maybe some day people will be flocking to my blog also, just like Aamir (dreamy eyed look).

How to save favorite iPod / iTunes playlist forever.

When you format your computer or recover from a crash, you loose all your iTunes playlists, including the one you may use to sync with iPod. In that case, you have to go through ALL the songs again and add them to a new playlist all over again!

To get around this, do the following:

1. In case you do not use a playlist to sync songs with your iPod, create a new playlist to do so, say My iPod.
2. Use the option of "Sync songs in following playlists" in iTunes, and select My iPod playlist.
3. Now all and only those songs that are in My iPod playlist will be synced with your iPod.
4. Add all songs you want to sync with iPod into this playlist.
5. Select all songs after you have added them to the playlist.
6. Press Ctrl+I to display the dialog using which you can modify ID3 tags of songs.
7. Click on the Info tab.
8. In the Comment field, type Favorite or any other word that catches your fancy! Press OK. WARNING: you'll loose any comments that might be present originally.
   
9. Now, Favorite is forever embedded in the ID3 tag all all these songs in the Comment field.

Note: For any new song you add to your My iPod playlist after this process, you'll have to individually add the word Favorite in its Comment field manually.

Now after recovering from a crash to after reformat you can recreate your original My iPod playlist very easily without having to add all the songs manually all over again by:

1. Add all your songs to iTunes library as normal.
2. Display the Comment field in the Music tab of iTunes (right click on any column heading and check the Comment field).
3. You'll see the word Favorite in Comment column against all the songs present in your original My iPod playlist.
   
4. Sort songs by Comment and select all these songs and add them into your new My iPod playlist and set the option to sync songs in this playlist with your iPod.

Finito! Now you never have to worry about losing your ratings or playlists etc. because unlike ratings or playlist information, Comment are embedded into the ID3 tag of the file and wherever the files goes, it goes. You'll never loose it even after reinstalling Windows.

ॐ गणेशाय नमः

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