Hi Esther, Thanks for your as always thorough and clear response. I have been playing around with the music browser a few days now and it seems to work for me. I even cleaned up stuff I didn't even know I still had in my library, and I was also able to correct a few genres.
I still have a question though. After I select an artist and then an album in the music browser, why is it that I cannot select any files in the music table? I want to delete an album once I found it. How do you delete an album once you got it displayed? Paul. On Nov 2, 2011, at 9:54 PM, Esther wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
