itunes purple icon & blue icon with music note/burning cd/what is gift msg?

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itunes purple icon & blue icon with music note/burning cd/what is gift msg?

I have itunes on an intel imac and have imported songs on cd's (that I purchased) into itunes. When I created the playlists for these classical albums, the icons are purple (with a black flower in the middle). These were all old, classical albums, not available from itunes music store, so I had to hand type all the foreign song names. This weekend, a friend brought over a cd that she loves and we imported it into my mac's itunes. When I created a playlist for these songs, the icon is blue with a black flower--not purple. I suspect that this album could be bought from itunes, but I didn't check. What is the difference between when a purple icon is created by itunes for a playlist and a blue icon?

I want to burn my friend's songs onto a cd for my car. Is there any difference in burning from a playlist that is a purple icon versus a blue one?

I have a used cd-rw cd that has a previous computer's backup data on it. It looks like I need to go into imac's applications/disk utilities and erase it???
(I haven't done that yet.)

When I started to burn the cd, I got some message about do I want to give a gift or do something about a shuffle imix. WHAT is the msg all about?

THANKS....

intel imac, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Aug 28, 2006 3:59 PM

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Answer 1

macmenno

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Aug 29, 2006 12:48 AM in response to potpourri

Purple icons represent a Smart Playlist and blue icons a normal one.
It has nothing to do with contents being available at the iTMS.
Are you sure the blue icon has a flower in it and not a musical note?

Burning a playlist on an CD-RW and playing it will work fine on your computer, but many Audio players and especially car CD-players don't like CD-RWs at all.
You can give it a try, but chances are it doesn't work.
To erase the CD-RW, you indeed have to use Disk Utility.
When you check the 'Quick Erase' checkbox, the entire disc will be zero-ed first. A 'full' erase can take a long time (about 20 minutes!! on my system).

Using a CD-R to burn your playlist however, will have a much higher chance of successful playback in your car CD-player.

The message about the gift etc. appears when you click on the small arrow next to the playlist's name. I can't remember having it show up on burning, but I might have ticked a 'don't show again' checkbox at first appearance.

Hope this helps.

M

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potpourri Author

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Sep 4, 2006 12:18 PM in response to potpourri

THANK YOU, for answering my questions. Based on what you said, I was able to get my playlist to be a purple icon, like the rest of my cd's. Since I only have cd-rw cd's, I thought I'd try to see if it might work in my car's cd changer, so I first erased, via disk utility, the old data on the cd, and then burned an album from itunes onto my cd-rw. I took the cd to my car and was able to hear the first tune. I suspect the rest of the album is there. Thank you for answering my questions.

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