With Daylight Saving Time in essence so early this class , music lover can be forgiven for remember ahead to a favorite summertime - even tradition : concerts . Chances are , at least a few of your best-loved melodic acts are coming to your area to do live under the stars ( or the stage lights ) . But how to you observe out when ? One clever elbow room is iConcertCal ’s eponymous iTunes plug - in , iConcertCal 1.1 ( ) .
After instal iConcertCal and then relaunching iTunes , you go to iTunes ’ View menu and pick out Visualizer : iConcertCal . Then turn on iTunes ’ Visualizer ( by prefer View : flex On Visualizer or pressing Command+T ) . The main iTunes window orbit will be replace by a two - pane concert calendar : on the left wing , a scrolling tilt , in chronological order , of events ; on the right , a large calendar with artist names displayed on the date(s ) they ’ll be play in your area . ( If the calendar is smaller than your iTunes windowpane , prefer a larger Visualizer size in iTunes ’ View card . )
Of course , you ’ll want to tell iConcertCal exactlywhereyour surface area is . You do this by typecast your metropolis and state into the City and State athletic field in the upper left hand of the calendar display ; you may also restrict the listing to venues within a certain distance of your location . ( Oddly , these fields do n’t look editable until you cluck on them . ) In the screenshot above , I ’ve chosen Cupertino , CA with a radius of 75 miles . Once you do this , iConcertCal will update its result calendar once a week . ( If you last outside the U.S. , put your country in the State box and your city in the City box ; Canadians should put their responsibility in the State box seat . )
Move your shiner pointer over an creative person name and the particular date and localisation of that concert , along with the opening deed , will be displayed at the top of the iTunes window . select an creative person name and you ’ll go to entropy about that event on the Web — iConcertCal get its concert info mainly from JamBase.com , but also from regional sites such as The List and Tour Filter . you could promptly toggle between iTunes ’ normal display and the in style concert information by pressing Command+T.
“ Interesting , ” you may be thinking , “ but why is this an iTunes visualizer as opposed to , say , a apportion iCal calendar ? ” I have to admit , putting concert schedules inside iTunes , rather than on the Web or in a calendar app , seems a bit leftover . ( Then again , you ’re most probable to be thinking about going to concert when you ’re actually listening to your favorite euphony . ) But this interaction with iTunes is really what ’s unique about iConcertCal . You see , it bases its events listing on the contents ofyouriTunes library — it looks at all the creative person in your library and then searches for upcoming operation by those artists .
What if you desire to see concert for artist not in your iTunes Library ? You just make a text single file listing any such artists , one artist per line , and save it as ~/Library / iTunes / iConcertCal / iConcertCalOtherBands.txt . The next metre you relaunch iTunes , iConcertCal will list events boast those artists , as well .
Conversely , if you have euphony in your iTunes library from band you ’d neverwantto see live , you may restrict iConcertCal ’s calendar to particular artists . To do so , you create a new playlist in iTunes callediConcertCaland then add at least one cart track from each artist you ’d be interested in control . The next metre you relaunch iTunes , iConcertCal will name only performances by those creative person ( along with those in your iConcertCalOtherBands.txt list , of class ) . The interesting affair here is that this iConcertCal play list can be asmartplaylist ; for example , you could have it list only trail you ’ve rated with four or five ace — thus create a list of artists whose music youreallylike .
iConcertCal does have a few drawbacks . The most meaning is that because iConcertCal gets its information from extraneous sources , it includes only shows list on those Web internet site . ( iConcertCal used to access Pollstar.com , as well , an additional source that increase the comprehensiveness of iConcertCal ’s video display , but when Pollstar need a fee , the site was dropped . The developer of iConcertCal claims this has n’t strike listing that much , and that updates to iConcertCal will include additional web site . ) Another drawback is that if you ’re really a fan of an opening act , rather than the headliner , it ’s not easy to find performances in iConcertCal , since only the headliners are visible by default ; you have to creep over each headliner name to view the opening acts — a tiresome operation .
in the end , I experienced a twosome iTunes wreck while navigating the concert calendar . grant to the developer , this is a known issue that occurs if your nonremittal circumstance for iTunes ’ Visualizer ( find in the advance screen of iTunes Preferences ) let in get Display Visualizer Full Screen enable and the Visualizer Size set to something other than Large . Indeed , after changing my preferences I did n’t live any more trouble .
iConcertCal is a unequaled and fun add - on for iTunes — and one that , for many people , in the end put iTunes ’ Visualizer feature to use .
iConcertCal requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later and the late reading of iTunes .
