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As I mentioned in the other forum, - to make Live even more useful for djs - how about reading itunes playlists - if someone has spent an age putting together 'dj crates' /sets / genres etc in itunes - surely Live could read these playlists as does serato scratch.

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I've tried that - and it works great - but the thing is - I've already spent countless hours creating playlists and folders in itunes - various categories of tunes etc. There are more than 15,000 tunes in the library so I'm keen to find a solution which means that I don't have to ...

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Thanks for the tips oldbetseysatan - but this would use too much space - all my itunes files are in aiff format - and occupy the best part of 500gb! So copying files for each playlist is really my last resort. I was hoping that there was a way to have Live see the contents of an itunes playlist ...

I have a large itunes library - and need the playlists and playlists folder to make sense of it all. However, when I want to throw together the tunes in a playlist for a dj set etc in Live, I have to root around the hard drive searching for each individual file and then drag into live.

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One thing that seems to always cause the audio dropouts/sample rate/clock problems is using Kontact 2 - eg loading up one of its factory sounds etc. As before, going into the setups, changing to 44k and then back to 96k fixes it.

while I'm at it - posting bug reports - Synthogy Ivory running as a VST causes all sorts of screen redraw funny business - creating a new window for itself when sounds are loaded - taking up the top left quarter of the live page.

When running at 96khz, I notice that often, eg when playing a softsynth or a new piece of audio, the audio breaks up - sounding like Live has lost its connection to incoming clock. Going to the audio setup and changing to 44k and then back to 96k solves the problem.

System - Mac g5, 2.5ghz, 10.4.2 ...