Hi all,
I think I may check these out. I'm struggling to work out how to
manually manage music in iTunes 12. It is done on a mac but similar
procedures should apply under Windows too.
On 12/12/2014 14:58, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
Hi Jessica,
Have you ever listened to Jonathan Mosen’s FS Cast about iTunes 11? I know that
in iTunes 12 some things changed, but there are a lot of concepts and other
things where the Podcast would still apply and maybe give you a better
understanding about iTunes. I think iTunes must be the singlemost hated piece
of software out there and for the most part this is because of people’s
perception that it’s inaccessible which maybe it was at one point many many
years ago. Right now iTunes is actually very accessible with a few kwirks and
for the most part the tab key and F6 are keys to remember and use a lot and of
course you have your shortcuts to get to the different libraries like music,
movies, TV shows, apps and so on. These are Control key Plus you rnumber keys
in the top row of the keyboard.
As for your question, what you may want to try is use the column browser. This
will display 3 listviews, Genre, Artist and Album. For example, I have a bit
over 4,000 songs in iTunes. When I open iTunes it always lands on the Genre
column which in my case has 19 genres, but Jaws will say 1 of 20 when I am at
the top because in each column you have an “All” entry at the top. If I tab
once I get to my second column listview which has 211 artists, but there are
213 entries because of “All” and “Compilations” which show up at the top. A
second tab takes me to the albums column which for my library has 362 albums
and again the “All” on the top. A third tab now puts me on the list view of all
my music which if I put focus on “All” in each column has 4117 entries and Jaws
will read out the first song, artist, album and length and say it is 1 of 4117.
If I select a particular artist in the artist column, for example if I type in
“e a” to go to “Eagles” and then tab twice to get to my music listview, Jaws
will read out the first song like this:
Hotel California, Time 6:29, Eagles, Album: Eagles, Greatest Hits Vol2, Genre
Rock, Track number 1 of 10
This is then followed by Jaws saying “1 of 36” which means in total I have 36
tracks by the Eagles.
Now, what you want to do to get this is as follows:
1. Open iTunes (I am assuming you use a PC/Windows)
2. Type Control+F to get to the search field
3. Now tab twice and you should be on a radio button for “Music” which I
assume is checked. If it isn’t, use the shortcut key Control+1 (in the number
row above the keyboard) to put focus on the music library
4. Tab past all the rest of the radio buttons. I can’t remember what the
default is since you can customize which buttons you have showing up here, e.g.
Movies, TV Shows, Apps, Tones etc.
5. After a few tabs you should get to a “More” button and if you tab past
it you will find 3 more radio buttons, My Music, Playlists and iTunes Store,
make sure “My Music” is checked.
6. If you tab past iTunes Store you’ll find the button for your device if
it is connected. If it is not connected you should hear one of the following:
Songs, albums, artists, composers, or Genres. This is the important button
because only if you select songs from this list (use spacebar to activate the
button, then tab once and you can arrow up and down in the list) can you
enable the column browser.
7. Make sure you are on Songs and press enter, the button should now say
:”Songs button”.
8. Now enable the column browser either by going to the View menu and
arrow down to Column Browser (shortcut is “c”) or you can simply use the
shortcut key Control+Shift+B for “Show Column Browser”. This is actually a
toggle and if you press it again it will again hide the column browser.
9. You can also make a few selections as to what is shown in the column
browser, below is the entire menu and I said beside each item if I have it
selected or not:
Genres – checked
Artists – checked
Albums – checked
Composers – not checked
Groupings – not checked (not totally sure what this does)
Group compilations – checked
Use album artist – checked
That’s it, once you set this up it will always be there and your main music
list view will always be a listview. By the way, by default if you type in that
listview it will go to artist. For example, if I type “SH” it will take me
straight to the first song I have by Shania Twain.
I always land on the Genre column if I open iTunes as long as I was in the
music library when I closed it. If I was in Apps, then of course it will reopen
to that library. But what I meant to say is that if I want to do something to
my phone, all I have to do is connect my phone, then open iTunes and since I am
on the genre column, I just shift tab 5 times to get to the device button.
Regards,
Sieghard
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