Hi Paul, Doug, Aser, and Others, A more useful general way to access your music in iTunes by Artist (or Album, or Genre, or other categories) is to use the Column Browser, which can be toggled on or off between the "Show" and "Hide" positions with Command+B. You can configure this under the "View" menu on your iTunes menu bar. Use either VO+M or the general OS X shortcut of Control+F2 to navigate to the menu bar, press "V" to go to the View Menu, arrow down, then press "C" or use arrow keys to move to the "Column Browser" menu option. Press either your right arrow key or VO-Space to move to the "Column Browser" submenu. You can arrow down and press "Return" to check or uncheck entries you want to be shown once the Column Browser is toggled on. (You need to do this for each item you want to check or uncheck.) For example, I have Artists, Albums, and Composers checked, and I have my column browser set to display on top, with options to "Group Compilations", and "Use Album Artists".
Then, when the browser is toggled on, you can navigate to separate column listings of Artists, Albums, and Composers (or whatever options you have chosen). These work to filter the results in your songs table by categories, and I generally keep my library displayed in list view (Command+Option+3). For example, you can either go directly to an alphabetical list of album titles in the browser (if you checked "Album" as one of the items to be displayed), highlight the album you want, and then create a playlist of it with the Command+Shift+N "New playlist from selection" shortcut. Or, you could first select the "Artist" in the alphabetical list of artists in the browser, again assuming that was one of the options you checked, then navigate to the "Albums" column of the browser to view all albums of works by that artist. Or, you could select a Composer in the browser, then select an Artist, and view Albums by an artist interpreting a classical composer's works, for example. Using selections by categories in the column browser, possibly in combination with inputs into the search text field, provides a very fast way to locate and tailor tracks listed in the songs table of your iTunes library. (The column browser works for other categories than just Music, but the options you can check will be different.) This feature has been around since the first accessible version of iTunes, and earlier, and I basically just restore the iTunes options to something like the original settings, which were, from memory, "Genre", "Artist", "Album", and "Composer", viewed "On Top", and "Group Compilations". This last settings shows up albums that cannot be associated with single artists, e.g., "Cinema Classics of 2009", under a "Compilations" category, where they can be found by album title. I believe the default setting of the browser now is to only have "Artist" checked, and to display "On left", but I don't recall the specifics. Paul, in general, iTunes on your Mac can be configured to do a lot more than on your iOS device, an pretty easily. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Nov 2, 2011, at 06:58, Aser Tolentino wrote: > In iTunes, move one element left of iTunes search, where you should find > something called view mode, interact with that and select grid view. When you > then scroll passed the source list, you should eventually encounter buttons > that allow you to group by artist, album, genre etc. Select which one you > want and then keep scrolling until you hear VoiceOver say "grid view, one > item selected" or something similar. Interact with that and you should find > your music sorted by the criteria you selected above. > > HTH > > Aser > > Sent from my iPad > > On Nov 2, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Doug Lawlor <doug.law...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I seem to remember a plugin for doing this some ware but can't remember >> where I saw it. I would love to know if this is still possible. >> >> Doug >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 2011-11-02, at 1:04 PM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> On an iphone, you can sort the itunes library by artist. On my mac, I only >>> see tons of songs, and if I want to delete an entire album, or all songs >>> from 1 artist, I need to carefully select each of them, and then delete >>> them from the itunes library. Is there a better way on the mac, to view the >>> itunes library by artist, or by album, without seeing the artist and album >>> names 16 times vertically, once for each song in a given album? >>> -- 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.
