Hi Ronni I haven't had time to do more with iPhoto but I am sure I shall be able to manage with your excellent instructions.
I have managed to master iTunes. I had fun and games with the Peggy Lee, George Shearing Album. iTunes divided it into five, one had the original cover (on both my LP & CD), two had the same photo but cropped differently, one had an Archive Collection cover and the last was Generic iTunes. I edited them to have the same artist description and ticked the 'part of collection' box and got one album but not my preferred cover picture. Today Daniel delivered my Time Capsule and brought back the drives from my dead G5. He showed me how to find the covers for the albums I had copied from LPs using Spin Doctor. So then I changed the PL/GS album cover to my preferred cover. I am very pleased with myself! Thanks again for your wonderful instructions. Best wishes from Diana On 21/02/2012, at 1:49 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hello Diana, > > Where do I start… I think perhaps in parts. You first need to understand a > bit about iPhoto and iTunes. > > PART ONE: iPhoto: Are you using iPhoto 9.2.1 (iLife’11)? > First you need to understand how iPhoto works. > > iPhoto '11 presents two ways to view your library: by Thumbnails of every > photo or by ‘Events'. > > What you have mentioned below is “Events”, so I will explain ‘How to use > iPhoto Events to Organise Photos’: > > An event groups photos taken during a certain time period. Each event is > viewed as a thumbnail, and when you mouse over that thumbnail, you can skim > through the photos it contains. > > Viewing by events in iPhoto makes it easier to scroll through your photos, > particularly when your library contains thousands upon thousands of photos. > > iPhoto creates events as you import photos, and you can set parameters on how > it goes about doing so. > > You have four choices on how iPhoto creates events: > > Via iPhoto > Preferences > General, you you'll find a menu item labeled, > Autosplit into Events. > The choices are: One Event per day; One Event per week; Two-hour gaps, and > Eight-hour gaps. > The last two options are for serious photographers who take hundreds of shots > in a given day. > For most, creating an event per day or per week will suffice. > > You can merge and split events, should you, for example, import a week's > worth of vacation photos and find you created seven separate events. > Simply highlight the event or events you want to merge into another and then > drag and drop them on top of the event with which you'd like to merge them. > (To highlight multiple events that are next to each other, use the shift key. > For events that are not next to each other, use the command key.) > > To split an event, open an event and highlight the first photo that will be > the first photo in the new event. > Then under the Events menu option on the menu bar, choose Split Event. > > You can also move a photo or photos from one event to another. > To do so, highlight two events and then double-click on one of them, which > will open both events. > You can then drag and drop photos between the two open events. > > Lastly, you can choose the photo in an event to be the image to appear in the > thumbnail. > Apple calls it, the key photo. Drag your cursor over an event thumbnail to > skim through the photos. > Find one you like and hit the spacebar to assign it as the key photo. > ========= > > PART TWO: iTunes: Are you using iTunes 10.5.3? > How to Import a Music CD: > > You first need to setup your Import Format preference or leave it at default > which is AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) Format). • It is part of the MP4 > standard and can be used by any hardware or software. iOS devices understand > this format, but some MP3 players don’t support it. Probably the default > setting will suit you. > > (* I prefer to import using the same quality as the CD which is AIFF Encoder: > Both AIFF and WAV files encapsulate raw sound data from a music CD in file > headers so the data can be used on computers. This format is uncompressed, > and it takes up a lot of space, around 600–700 MB per disc, or about 10 MB > per minute of audio.) > I won’t go into Bit Rates at this time. > > 1. iTunes > Preferences - General: When you insert a CD: Show CD > 2. Click on Import Settings: this is where you can change the default AAC > Encoder if you wish. > 3. Select “Automatically retrieve CD track names from the Internet” > Select “Automatically download missing Album Artwork > Select Check for new software updates automatically > 4. Click OK > 5. Quit iTunes > > 6. Insert you your Music CD into your optical drive, after it spins up iTunes > should open (If not, Open iTunes and the CD will display in the Sidebar, > under Devices, then check the Gracenote CD Database for tag information. If > it finds this information, you’ll see the names of your album, artist, and > tracks > > 7. To Import the whole CD: > A) Select it in the Sidebar > B) Click ‘Import CD’ button > > Your Music CD will be imported into the iTunes Library. > > To View by Album: Select Music (under Library), Click the "Album by > Artist/Year” Column (at the top menu) > To View by Artist (which is probably what you have done), Click the “Artist” > Column > > You choose a view by clicking a view button at the top of the iTunes window. > From left to right, the buttons are for 'List View', 'Album List View', 'Grid > View', and 'Cover Flow View'. > > To Choose which Columns to Display: > Choose View > View Options to open the View Options dialogue window. > Then, check a checkbox for a column name to display it, or uncheck one to > hide it. > > After adding columns, you may want to reposition them by dragging them to the > left or right, and resize them to show all the information they contain, or > to make sure they fit in your iTunes window. > > One way to resize columns is to Control-click on a column header, then choose > Auto Size Column or Auto Size All Columns. iTunes will fit the size of one or > all visible columns to hold the longest text that they contain. > You can also resize a column by dragging the divider between any two column > headers. > > That’s enough for the now, Ronni needs a coffee ;-) > I’ll look through my huge documents folder and also my Bookmarks in Safari > anything that might be of help to you. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.7.3 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > On 21/02/2012, at 12:15 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote: > >> I have avoided iPhoto & iTunes up until now as I thought they were >> unnecessarily complicated. >> >> I hate the way iPhoto puts one camera download in multiple folders if the >> pics were not all taken on the same day. I previously used the Canon >> software but my camera is so old there is no OSX version. Now I have a >> MacBookPro it is iPhoto or a card reader. >> >> I only used iTunes to put Pod Casts on my iPod but now I find I like some >> music on my iPad. I imported a Peggy Lee / George Shearing Album from CD and >> it filed the two instrumentals under George and the vocals under Peggy. Same >> nasty busy-body behaviour! >> >> But I need to learn to cope with this and manage my files. Please someone >> point me towards a tutorial for the simple-minded. >> >> And maybe someone can advise me about the iTunes Store. I wanted to buy a >> few tracks from the Kate Bush Album 'The Kick Inside', it is $8.99 and >> contains 13 tracks, 12 at $2.19 each plus one at $1.69, doesn't add up. >> Buying the album is the best option but can I be sure I shall get all the >> tracks? If I don't get them all they may not include the ones I want. >> >> Best wishes to all from Diana > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
