Thanks very much for that Teresa. Perhaps you could help me a little more. In your response you said to find my iPod in the sources table and then vo right arrow once and I should be in a table. When I do that, I simply move down one row to the next item in the sources table. I have noted that when focused on my iPod in the sources table, voiceover informs me that the device is charging and the state of charge. Voiceover also informs me that the device is collapsed. Am I to assume that this means that I have no direct access to the device. If so, how do I change this. Many thanks to all those who have responded to my request for help. May I just add that ITunes has to be one of the most unintuitive programmes that I have ever had the misfortune to come across. Why Apple do not allow users to simply use their devices as external drives remains a mystery to me. Martin
-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: 07 October 2011 16:45 To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: An Idiot's guide to creating playlists in iTunes Hello, Martin, First of all, once you connect your drive, go to Itunes and press command-o to add items to your library. You can browse in that dialog for your drive. Import your files. Then, in the sources list, go to "recently added". Your files should be there. Turn cursor tracking off with VO-shift-f3. This will allow you to move the VO cursor around without moving the system cursor, so you can select the files you want. Go to a file and press command-option-control space to tell VO to select it. Keep doing this for each file you want to copy. Hit command-c to copy, then turn cursor tracking back on with VO-shift-f3. Once you have your IPod connected, find it in your sources area. Once you have it, VO right once and there you should find a table. Press command-v to paste the files you have copied there. You might have noticed that your Ipod area has some settings available. The setings here will depend on your Ipod model. These will allow you to sync your music in various ways. Once you have done the manual method I've outlined, you might want to try setting these up, so that your Ipod will sync your music for you. Personally, I do everything manually, but that is just my own preference. Hope this helps, Teresa On Oct 6, 2011, at 5:22 AM, Martin Brown wrote: > Everyone, > > I would like to create playlists so that I might put specific music into them in order to use my iPod Touch. I have a Mac, but I just cannot get to grips with how to use iTunes and copy music into it from an external drive in order to make playlists. > > Please, please, please, could someone give me an idiot's step-by-step guide on how to do this? > > Many thanks. > > Martin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
