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Photo : nikkimeel ( Shutterstock ) If you have a great Apple Music playlist for holiday-themed parties but it includes a few tracks that aren’t appropriate for ears of all ages, you don’t have to worry about making your mixes family friendly anymore. Forget about painstaking recreating it yourself using “ clean” versions of explicit songs yourself—there’s a Siri Shortcut for that. This isn’t a functionality Apple has built into their streaming service, although they probably should. Instead, it comes from Reddit user AdTrue6877 . Their Siri Shortcut scans all the songs in any Apple Music playlist and creates a new playlist that replaces all explicit songs with their clean versions. It’s the fastest way to create family friendly playlists on Apple Music. To start, download the Make Clean Playlist s hortcut and run it on your phone. The s hortcut will automatically show you a pop-up that allows you to scroll and select any of your Apple Music playlists. From there , the shortc...

Photo : Piotr Piatrouski ( Shutterstock ) Spotify and Apple Music may be great for music discovery , but they don’t do a great job telling you more about who you’re listening to. You could know every lyric to “Don’t Stop Believin’,” but if you don’t know what year it came out, you’re going to let your trivia team down. (I t’s 1981, by the way.) NowPlaying is an app that wants to become the encyclopedia of music trivia. It gives you more information about the song, album, artist, or band you’re listening to, and goes into some pretty great details along the way— including where the song or album was recorded, and the names of all of the musicians who worked on any track. The app listens to songs playing around you, or links with your Apple Music account to pick up songs from your playing history, which makes it pretty convenient to look up trivia. It packages that information in a nice interface, as well. To give you a sample of what you can expect, we looked up Green Da...

Photo : nicklbaert ( Shutterstock ) AirPlay a llows you to stream music from an Apple device to your HomePod, or mirror video content from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac to a bigger screen. As long as all devices are connected to the same wifi network, AirPlay works really well with in the Apple ecosystem. But even if your primary computer is a Windows PC, you can still use AirPlay to stream to other devices— even from Windows. Here’s how . Use iTunes to stream to AirPlay-enabled devices Apple’s iTunes app still works on Windows, and you can download it for free to make your PC work with AirPlay devices. Once you’ve added your media to iTunes, you can click the AirPlay icon in its top bar (next to the media controls), and select the device you want to stream to. With this feature you can use a HomePod as a speaker for your Windows PC. Similarly, you can connect to any other AirPlay-enabled device to your computer. This method can also allow you to stream movies from iTunes to your...

Photo : GaudiLab ( Shutterstock ) If you’re tired of music streaming apps deciding what you should listen to, you can take back the power . PlaylistAI is an app that uses AI to help you create playlists easily, and it is compatible with Spotify and Apple Music. It lets you specify the kind of music you’re looking for and creates custom playlists for you. Here are a few ways you can use PlaylistAI to expand your musical horizons. Create playlists from music festival posters Big music festivals tend to announce their lineups with a large poster that contains the names of all participating bands. PlaylistAI can scan these posters, identify all the artists, and create stunning playlists for you. You simply take a screenshot of a posters and upload it in PlaylistAI . I tried this with a poster for the Bottlerock music festival. The app identified all the bands in the poster and gave an option to remove the ones I wasn’t interested in. It also asks you to choose the number o...

Photo : Olga Alper ( Shutterstock ) Valentine’s Day falls on a Tuesday in 2023 , which means most of us will be working. If treating your special person to a dinner out in’t in the cards on a weekni ght, your first if going to have to be creative enough to tide them over until Friday night . Here are our best bets: eight s pecial gift ideas that show how much you care and that you like to think outside the box of candy . Get inspired, and get romantic. https://www.tausiinsider.com/7-creative-valentines-day-gifts-under-30/?feed_id=322362&_unique_id=63d784bf86a16