Hi Esther, To clarify my last message, I forgot to add that once I have found an album using the music browser, itunes will not let me select any tracks. Usually, I can do it using the shift and vertical arrows, but this is not possible after I narrow down the tracks listing inside the itunes music table, by selecting an album using the command b music browser. Any idea why shift arrows does not work? It would be the easiest way to find and get rid of tracks.
Best, thanks in advance. Paul. On Nov 6, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > 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.
