This will solve many of the most common issues. You can try restarting your WiFi router as well.
If you’re looking for a blanket answer for how to fix an issue with your Firestick, the best course of action is to restart the device, either in the settings or with the remote as described below. However, there is a fair bit of overlap when it comes to some of these problems. Depending on which of these issues you’re having, your most likely fix will change. We’re going to look at the seven most common problems that Firestick users experience.
The device will shut down and restart, and you should see the Fire TV logo appear as it reboots.Īmazon Firestick Not Working: 7 Common Problems You can reboot your Fire TV Stick by holding the “select” and “play/pause” buttons at the same time for about five to 10 seconds.
If you’re not satisfied with iTunes’s accuracy in identifying duplicates, you may want to turn to Doug Adams’ $8 Dupin Lite (available exclusively on the Mac App Store), which gives you much better control over finding and zapping dupes. You’ll want to keep the ones with the kind ‘Apple Lossless audio file’ and delete the others. Look at each pair of duplicates, and if they look accurate, click the Kind column header to sort the duplicates list by file type. Next, choose File -> Display Duplicates and iTunes will show a list of what it thinks are tracks in your library with duplicate versions.
After you’ve added all your music to the same library, click the Music library icon in the iTunes source list, then make sure you have the Kind column visible (View -> View Options, check Kind). To simply merge your libraries (and if you don’t care about play counts, last played dates, or ratings) locate in the Finder the folder containing the lossless files and drag that folder into the iTunes window. Indeed, the option in iTunes 10.6 that lets you convert music on the fly to your choice of three bit rates (previously Apple only offered a 128-kbps option) makes it unnecessary to keep two libraries for most users. Now that iTunes offers the ability to convert those lossless files to 128-, 192-, or 256-kbps AAC files, how do I merge my two iTunes libraries in such a way that I don’t end up with two copies of each track, just the lossless versions when there are two of the same tracks? I ripped all my CDs in Apple Lossless format into their own iTunes library for archival purposes, and have the same music at lower bit rates in another library, which I use for syncing to my iPhone. This said, at a good bit rate-say 256-kbps-most people won’t hear the difference between a compressed file and an original from a CD. Compare that with with lossy compression-formats such as MP3 or AAC-where some musical data is removed to save even more space. If you create an Apple Lossless or FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) version from an uncompressed AIFF or WAV file (from a CD, say) the song will typically run 50 percent to 60 percent the data size of the original, yet when you play it back, you’ll enjoy every bit of data from the original. In music, similar compression techniques are used for lossless files.