Hello!
I personally believe that it is a bug that Radio Streams do not
have contextual menus. Playlists can contain radio streams. But,
how do you add them to a playlist? Here is my workaround.
1. Select the radio stream(s) that you want in a playlist.
Selecting multiple items (by "disabling cursor tracking" with vo
+shift+f3, then "shift-clicking" with vo+shift+space bar on each
item you want in the playlist) will work the best, so select as
many as you can. Don't forget to "enable cursor tracking" once you
are done making your selections by pressing vo+shift+f3 again.
2. To create a playlist from the items selected, go to the File
menu and select "New Playlist from Selection
" or press command-shift-N. Type in the name you want to give the
playlist, (lets say "Favorite Radio Streams) and press the return key.
Now you are done... Unless you want to add more radio streams to
your "Favorite Radio Streams" playlist. This is the tricky part.
3. Select the radio stream(s) that you want to add to your
"Favorite Radio Streams" playlist. As before, it will be better if
you select as many as possible at once.
4. Since there is no contextual menu to add to an existing
playlist, you will have to create a "dummy" playlist by going to
the File menu and selecting "New Playlist from Selection" or
pressing command-shift-N. Assign it a temporary name (like temp or
1 or something) and press Return.
Now, you have to get the items from the "temp" playlist you just
created into your "Favorite Radio Streams" playlist. Fortunately,
you have contextual menus to help.
5. Select the temp playlist you just created in the "Source" panel.
Go to the "Songs" panel and "Select All" with a Command-A.
6. Open the contextual menu with vo+shift+M, then select the
"Favorite Radio Streams" playlist from the "Add to Playlist" submenu.
Don't forget to go back to the "Sources" pane and delete the "temp"
playlist.
Lou.
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:42:17 -0500
From: Rafael Bejarano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Contextual menus and Itunes
To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
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In that case, how would one go about adding a radio station to a
playlist?
Rafael
On Mar 15, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:
No all items have contextual menus attached to them. This is the
case with radio stations in iTunes there simply is no menu to display.
Greg
On Mar 15, 2007, at 10:25 , Rafael Bejarano wrote:
Thanks. Pressing Control-Option-Shift-M works for accessing the
contextual menus of songs, but I can't seem to access the
contextual menus of radio stations in this way. I was hoping to
create a playlist of my favorite stations.
Rafael
On Mar 15, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Greg Kearney wrote:
To reach any contextual menu with VO navigate to the item, in
this case a song in the song list and press the VO-keys-shift-M
Greg Kearney
On Mar 15, 2007, at 08:27 , Rafael Bejarano wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone on this list know how to access the contextual menus
in Itunes with VoiceOver? That is, must one use a mouse to
access them, or is there a VoiceOver command that will also work?
Rafael Bejarano
