Hi Tim.
Very interesting. I'll think to do this next time. It is, as you
say, tedious, but it makes sense since dragging and dropping doesn't
work for us right now in this app I guess. I actually ended up doing
something different but equally as tedious. I wrote down the track
names in the order I wanted them and then created a new play list.
Then, I hunted and copied each song to the new play list in the
written-down order. Now, I want to rename the new playlist to the
original playlist name, but haven't figured that out yet. :-)
Thank you for your input and assistance.
-Jason
On Jan 9, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi Jason,
You said: It's my first time doing this. I've just created a play
list to burn a CD for someone and now want to rearrange the order of
things. Is this something we can do? I just did a search and got
mixed results on this, but none seeming to come from mac visionaries.
TK: In the sighted world, the user sorts things by the first column
of the playlist then drags the songs up and down dropping them
wherever they please. VO seems to have problems with this process.
I can sort things by the first column using VO-shift-back slash
which puts it in custom order. Using VO commands to Drag and Drop
after that did not result in what you're hoping for. All it did for
me was duplicate whatever song I dropped the mouse on. Now, the
work around I've figured out is to do the following:
• Select the given Playlist.
• Press cmd-j to bring up the View Options.
• Check the box for Comments which will place the Comments field as
the last column in the Songs Outline.
• Interact with the Songs Outline.
• For each item in the Playlist, press cmd-i to Get Info on the
item, select the Info tab then navigate to the Comments field.
• Place "01" in the Comments field of the song you wish to be first
and "02" in the second and so on. Rather tedious but workable in a
playlist of 15 to 20 songs that would fit on an audio CD.
• Once you've put the numbers in, then navigate to the Comments
column and press VO-shift-back slash to order the playlist according
to the Comments column. If by chance it sorts them backwards the
first time, simply press VO-shift-back slash again to flip the sort
order.
A few things to note though. If you've selected the Info tab within
the Get Info dialog, you will not need to do that every time as that
will be the tab selected on subsequent times you enter the Get Info
dialog. Using the Item Chooser menu brings you to the Comments
field the quickest. Simply press VO-i then type "Comm" to quickly
bring focus to the Comments field. If you've put other information
in the Comments field, then simply put the "01" and "02" etc as the
first text in the field and it should then be sorted properly.
Hope this works for you. it's not entirely pretty but it does
work. If someone has something more pleasant, by all means, let us
know.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
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