Videos by Andy Slye

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How To Clean Up iTunes Library – Fix All Songs Automatically!

In this video I’ll show you how to clean up your iTunes library. We all know how hard it is to keep your iTunes library organized with all the correct song, artist, and genre information especially when you have hundreds and even thousands of songs in your iTunes music library. It’s nearly impossible to do that manually. That’s why you need an application like Neat Music to clean up your iTunes library. This program uses intelligent music recognition to complete missing artist, track, album, and genre information for your songs. It corrects “untitled” or “unknown” track info. It adds missing album artwork, groups scattered album songs, and organizes all your music for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod.

First, click the link at top of this description. That link will take you directly to the free download page for Neat Music, which works on Windows PC computers. You can try this application out for free. It’ll fix up to 100 songs in your iTunes library with the free version. If you have more than 100 songs in your iTunes you can buy the unlimited version at a special discounted price so you can fix your entire iTunes library. Once you download it, install it on your computer. Then open up iTunes and open up the Neat Music application.

It gives you a preview of your iTunes library at the bottom. As you can see if I go back to my iTunes I have these songs that I have no information for. I have no idea what the song name, artist name, album, genre, year, etc. There’s no album artwork either so it would take me forever to do this manually, but with Neat Music it does it automatically for me.

With Neat Music you can select all the songs in your library and click the Identity button. That will identify all the song info. It’s very fast and only takes about one second per song to get the information. Once it’s done you’ll see this red icon for success, and you can click on each song and it gives you a little preview of what info it has found for that song. To save that information in your iTunes just select the songs and click the Save button. It’ll import all the information into your iTunes, cleaning it up automatically with all the correct track names, artist names, album names, etc.

Neat Music also gives you the ability to get all the album artwork. Click the Get Album Art tab at the top, and it gives a list of albums in your library. Select all the albums then click Get Album Art. It gives you the standard album artwork. It also gives you high quality versions. I usually just go with the standard so double click that and it’ll import it into iTunes. Go back into iTunes, and you’ll see now it has all the correct song information, the correct album information, the album artwork – everything. It did it within just a few seconds. That is how to clean up your iTunes library automatically, quickly, and easily. That’s with the program called Neat Music. You can download the free trial version with the link at the top of this description. Enjoy!

By Andy Slye

How To Jailbreak iOS 7 Untethered with Evasi0n (iPhone, iPad, iPod)

This video shows you how to jailbreak iOS 7 on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod. The first step is to connect your device (your iPhone, iPad, or iPod) to your computer, and when iTunes opens select “Back Up Now” to make a backup of your device. It’ll only take a few minutes. Step number two is to restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to the latest iOS version (during this video it’s 7.0.4). While it’s connected to iTunes click the “Restore” button. As long as you just made that successful backup you can click “Restore and Update” and it’ll restore to the latest version of iOS so you can do the jailbreak. Restore your device from the most recent backup that you just did.

Next, go on your device and disable any passcode lock that you have on it if you have one. You can re-enable it once you’re done with the jailbreak. After you’ve disabled your passcode lock, go on your computer and visit evasi0n.com and download the jailbreak application for your operating system, Mac or Windows. Click the Download button to download it to your computer then double-click the application to run it. Make sure that your iPad, iPhone, or iPod version is supported by the jailbreak.

If you don’t already have your device connected to your computer go ahead and do that right now. Let it sync to iTunes, and then once it’s connected click the jailbreak button. The jailbreak process will begin, and it will take a few minutes to complete. During the jailbreak process your device will reboot several times. When it says to, continue by unlocking your device and tap the new evasion 7 icon. It’ll come up and go right back down and reboot. The device will reboot one last time, and evasi0n says that it’s done. After the final reboot you will see evasion complete some final tasks while it completes the jailbreak.

Now you can go into your device and go to the last page and you should see Cydia. Tap on it to open it. It’ll prepare the file system. Once your device re-springs it’ll come back up. Go back into Cydia one last time then choose User. Complete any upgrades if available. Your iOS 7 device is now jailbroken! You can go into Cydia and start adding all the tweaks and apps that you want. Enjoy!

By Andy Slye

CaseCrown Bold Standby Pro iPad Mini Case Review

One of the best iPad Mini cases. Highly recommended!

This is my review of the CaseCrown Bold Standby Pro iPad Mini case. This is a premium quality case that is compatible with the iPad Mini & iPad Mini with Retina Display. This case has a nice synthetic leather exterior, and it’s actually water resistant which is pretty cool. When you first open the case up you notice it does have magnetic covers built-in where the front cover just snaps right on if you close the case. It automatically puts the iPad Mini to sleep when you close the case, and it automatically wakes it up when you open it.

The inside has a nice microfiber soft interior and feels really nice. It also has an elastic nylon band for secure grip. As you can see the case does have magnets on the back as well. So the front flap snaps right on to the back when you have it open. This case offers very good protection and is very durable. It keeps your iPad Mini secure because it has a velcro connection on the inside so it doesn’t fall out.

Some more awesome features that this case has are the viewing and typing angles. You can stand the iPad Mini up so you can view or type on it easily. The front flap slides right into the clip on the back, and it holds it in there. This allows you to keep your iPad Mini in a certain position for viewing and typing. This is great for typing long notes and watching videos.

It has cut-outs for all the connections, speakers, and buttons. I did find it slightly difficult to switch the vibrate and volume buttons because of how much protection it offers on the sides, but it’s something that you can get used to. Also I like the red color, but sometimes it can look kind of pinkish in certain lights. Overall this is a fantastic case. It’s very nice and high quality. I recommend this for any iPad Mini owner who wants a good looking case with strong protection.

By Andy Slye

How to Backup iPhone, iPad, or iPod with iTunes (PC & Mac)

How to Backup iPhone, iPad, or iPod with iTunes (PC & Mac)

This video is going to show you how to backup your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to your computer using iTunes. This works on a Mac and a Windows PC. Backing up your iPhone, iPad, or iPod is an easy task, but I get a lot of questions about it so I figured I’d do a video for you guys. There are 2 main ways to backup your iPhone (or whichever iOS device you have). One way is to go on your iPhone itself, and go to Settings, iCloud, Backup. As long as you’re connected to a Wi-Fi network you can back up your iPhone to your iCloud account. The second way is what I do and what most people do, and that is to back up your iPhone to your computer using iTunes so I’m going to show you that today.

First, open iTunes then connect your iPhone to your computer using the USB cable. Most likely it’ll automatically backup your iPhone when you connect it so if you click on your iPhone in the devices list on the left hand side you can see when the most recent backup was on your computer. My iPhone automatically backs up whenever I connect it. If yours doesn’t do that you can manually back it up by clicking the “Back Up Now” button or you can go up to File, Devices, Back Up. Either way they both backup your iPhone to your computer.

If you want to view a list of recent backups just go to Preferences and go to Devices, and you can see all the backups that it has stored on your computer. If you want to see where these backups are stored on your computer just right-click and then choose Show in Finder if you’re on a Mac or Show in Explorer if you’re on a Windows PC. It will open up the folder where your iOS backups are stored.

What is all included in the iPhone backup when it backs up to your computer? Well pretty much everything that is not in iTunes is backed up. Now what I mean by that is your music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, books, apps, and ringtones are already in iTunes so those don’t get backed up to that backup folder. What does get backed up is your camera roll, your saved photos on your phone, your text messages, your iMessages, your contacts, your calendar, all your settings, app data, etc. All that data gets backed up during your iPhone backup. See the official iTunes backup details here.

If you want to restore an iPhone, iPad, or iPod to one of your backups all you have to do is connect that iOS device to your computer, open iTunes, and once it’s connected go to File, Devices, Restore from Backup. You can choose from your most recent backups to restore the device. So that’s how to backup your iPhone, iPod, or iPad to your Mac or Windows computer!

By Andy Slye

How to Download Free Music on iPhone, iPad, iPod – Free MP3 App

How to Download Free Music on iPhone, iPad, iPod

In this video you’ll learn how to download free music directly to your iPhone, iPod, or iPad without using a computer or jailbreaking. First, go on your iOS device and open up the App Store and search “free music”. You should see a list similar to this. The app that you want is a free app called MP3 Music Downloader Free by Webtechies. Tap on that and install it. Once it’s installed open up the Free MP3 icon, and you’ll see the homepage.

This is the home screen for the free MP3 music downloader app. This page gives you a list of resources for this app: how to use it, general questions, etc. If you want to go right into downloading free music it gives you some free legal music sites on the homepage. If you tap on Last.fm it brings up the Last.fm website which is a popular music website where you can download free legal music. You can search for a song or artist. Or just download a song right from the homepage. Tap on the Free MP3 button and you’ll see a window pop up asking if you want to download, open, or copy the link. You want to download the MP3 for free so just tap the red Download button. It’ll ask you to enter the song name. You can leave it the same if you want.

The free song download will start. You can go to your Downloads section and see it downloading. After it’s finished downloading you can tap it to start playing it with the audio player. But what if you want to download a free MP3 that’s not listed on Last.fm or any of the other free websites that it lists on the homepage? Well, you can go up to Google search and just search the artist name + the song name + “MP3” at the end. The first couple of search results are going to be an MP3 of that song that you should be able to download for free.

Any of the first few links should take you to an MP3 website. Find an MP3 result that has high bit-rate quality and has the correct song length. Then just tap the Download button. If the same windows from earlier pops up then you know it’s a downloadable MP3 file. Download and name it. That’s basically how you use this free MP3 app to download free music right from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod. You can add/edit playlists with this app as well. Any music that you download with this app you can play straight from within this app with its built-in audio player.

By Andy Slye

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