My Quick Fix

Problem
You can’t subscribe to any Podcasts in iTunes music store because the the buttons are greyed out. An example is shown below:
Greyed subscribe button
Solution
This happens when the ‘Podcasts’ item is not enabled in the iTunes library. To enable it, follow these steps:

Open the iTunes Preferences. To do this, either press ‘Ctrl+,’ (that’s the control key, and the comma key at the same time); or Go to ‘Edit’ in the top menu, and then ‘Preferences’.
Select the ‘General’ tab, usually on the left most.
Tick the ‘Podcasts’ item in the ‘Show:’ options list …

Problem
For a long time, MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger have been able to display what is currently being played on Windows Media Player. It gets displayed next to your ‘Display Name’. If you use iTunes, what you’re playing can also be displayed in the same way.
Solution
Firstly, open iTunes and go to the Preferences window. You can do this 2 ways:

Press ‘Ctrl+,’ (that’s the control key, and the comma key at the same time).
Go to ‘Edit’ in the top menu, and then ‘Preferences’.

…then click on the ‘Advanced’ tab, usually on …

Problem
Recently I bought an Apex single from iTunes. Excellent though the tracks are (They really rock, honestly, if you like D&B, have a listen!), they both have about 5 seconds of blank ‘emptiness’ at the beginning. This is quite annoying when cueing them for an impromptu mix, or when they are part of a playlist.
Solution
I found this by accident, while looking for a solution. If you right click on the track in iTunes, then select the ‘Options’ track, you should see an option labelled ‘Start Time’. This is the time …

This is a REALLY simple one… Today, I was looking at the preferences / settings in iTunes (version and saw the ‘sharing’ tab. I’d never noticed it before. So I had a play and 1 minute later four of us at work were sharing our whole libraries with each other. Excellent!

Click on ‘Edit’ > ‘Preferences’ from the toolbar.
In the Preferences window, select the ‘Sharing’ tab.
In here, tick the ‘Look for shared libraries’ and ‘Share my library on my local network’ tickboxes. CLick ‘OK’.
Do this on as many other iTunes …