Hi Esther, Again this answer is worth saving for later reference so I did that, but I still have questions.
1. I'm trying to find tracks, all belonging to one album from one artist, present in my itunes library, and I want to get rid of them in itunes. Here's what I do, but it fails. 1. Start itunes, go to the music browser. 2. Select an artist and then an album. 3. From the songs table, I hit vo command f5 to pull the mouse over to the vo cursor, and then I click with vo shift space, just to get itunes focus into the songs table. 4. Now, I move to the first song and I hit shift plus down arrow, keeping shift down, and repeatedly I hit down arrow. This does not select any tracks, while if I shift arrow down in the songs table when I did not use the music browser before trying to shift arrow, selection works just fine. In other words: if I open up itunes, and I start shift arrowing in the songs table, then selection happens just fine. However, when trying to select tracks after having narrowed down the songs table, by selecting an artist and album from the music browser first, then selection does not work any more. Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? 2. Why would you want to use playlists anyway? Are they necessary in order to delete tracks? Only time I can think of, when a playlist is necessary, is if I want to make an audio cd from selected tracks, because then, I must add them to a playlist, in order for itunes to go burn them to cd. When wanting to delete tracks from my itunes library, do playlists come into play at all? Curious. Paul. On Nov 6, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Can you select and use the Shift+Arrow keys in the songs table if you first > click in this table with VO-Shift-Space? First, I find that I can select the > album in the column browser and create the playlist directly from there If I > click on the selection with VO-Shift-Space and then press Command-Shift-N to > create a new playlist from my selection without having to navigate to the > songs table. If I want to create a playlist after navigating to the songs > table (e.g., I stop interacting with the column browser and navigate to the > songs table and interact), I'll first click with VO-Shift-Space and then > navigate around to do my selections, including holding down the Shift key. > However, I can only delete tracks if I select them from the songs table, and > not from the column browser. > > When you delete tracks from playlists you generally do not delete them from > your iTunes library -- only from the playlist. If you want to force deletion > of tracks that you select from a playlist, you have to press Option+Delete > instead of just Delete. Then iTunes will prompt you with a dialog window > asking you whether you really want to delete these tracks from your library. > > Hope this answers your questions. Write back if anything is still not clear. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Nov 6, 2011, at 09:41, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> 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.
