Hi Paul and Nektarios, Paul, if these are your first purchases made with iTunes on your Mac, the tracks will already appear in two playlists that iTunes keeps the Sources table named "Purchased" (under the "Store" heading) and "Recently Added" smart playlist under the "Playlists" heading. The "Purchased" playlist contains all the (non-app) items you have purchased from the iTunes Store from your computer, listed in time order. The "Recently Added" smart playlist contains all tracks (excluding podcast subscriptions and apps) that were added to your iTunes library in the last two weeks.
So an easy way to create a playlist of each album that you can burn to audio CD is to select one of these playlists in your sources table, then navigate to the search text field with the Command-Option-f shortcut, and type in the name of the album to filter the results to only include matches. If you now navigate to the songs table, you'll find either the purchased tracks or the recently added tracks that correspond to the album title you typed in. Use Command-A to select all, and then use Command-Shift-N to create a new playlist from your selection, and assign the playlist a name of your choosing. You can now burn this playlist to a CD by selecting the "File" menu from the iTunes menu bar and choosing the "Burn Playlist to Disc" menu option. Select the radio button for "Audio CD" as the format in the Dialog window. However, a better way to create an album playlist is to use the Column browser, as Nektarios suggested. Select your "Music" folder in the sources table and then press Command-B to toggle the browser on. Depending on what options you have checked for it to display under your "View" menu in the "Column browser" submenu, you can select alphabetically ordered matches to genre, artist, and album. The search text field filter matches all fields, but the column browser lets you find only album titles, or display all albums by a given artist, for example, by first selecting the artist and then examining the list of albums. When you select an album in the column browser, you can also use the Command-Shift-N "New playlist from selection" shortcut to generate a playlist. Furthermore, the tracks will probably be ordered the way you want them, without your having to sort them by album or track number. And if you want to find specific tracks within a selected Album or Artist field, you can also use the Search text field to type in additional search terms to match, which will show up in the songs table. As with all other entries in the iTunes sources and songs table, you can move to selections in the column browsers lists either by using your arrow keys or by typing the first few letters of the entry. Pressing another Command-B toggles the browser back again to hidden. The combination of the column browser and the search text field is a very powerful yet simple way to quickly locate content in a large music library, and will answer most of your needs. The next step up is learning how to create and use smart playlists, that let you apply rules for selecting your playlist contents, so that you can do things like create a playlist of all tracks by a given artist that were added to your library within the last 6 months, that you rated 4 star or higher, and that you haven't listened to within the last two weeks. You can also specify that the playlist be no longer than 30 minutes (because you want it to fit in the time for a gym workout), and to prioritize selection to those tracks that were least frequently listened to. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 20, 2011, at 02:57, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > I am not sure what you are trying to do here. > If you have the column browser enabled and display all your albums, all you > have to do is to locate your specific album and then all your tracks will be > there. > > Nektarios. > > On Oct 20, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Dear listers, >> >> I just bought 2 albums from the itunes store. it is much easier to do than I >> thought it would be, even being a VoiceOver user. I would like to burn these >> to CD's. I googled and this is what I found so far. I need to create a >> playlist, add the tracks I want, and then burn. This works, but to do it >> right, you need to select exactly those tracks you want to burn. Isn't there >> an easier way to transfer the album in its entirety to a cd, because after >> buying, itunes knows which tracks it contains? Just wondering. Every time I >> work with itunes and I get to know it better as time goes by, I'm starting >> to like it more. What else could you do to organize a fantastically large >> library of music, films, podcasts and so on? I think Apple did a good job >> with itunes and making it so accessible on the mac, and it isn't bad either >> on windows. But for my question, just after purchasing, can I burn that >> right away, or is the playlist a must do, step? >> Paul. >> -- 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.
