Hi Shaun, You asked about quickly collapsing podcast folders in iTunes. You could either collapse all folders with Command+Left Bracket or use the column sort option when you're on the Release Date column to quickly change your position on an episode with respect to its parent podcast folder, but the best answer depends on what you're trying to do. I usually don't have all my folders closed, so I don't want to collapse all folders with Command+Left Bracket and expand all podcast folders with Command+Right Bracket.
And when you expand a podcast folder (at least for me, in Tiger) you stay on the line for that folder after expansion, so there's no problem collapsing again, while it sounds as though you might be taken to the latest episode in the list, and that's positioned furthest from the parent folder. It could just be that I'm not up to date with the latest version of iTunes and OS, so could you please identify your OS (Leopard, right?), and version of iTunes (latest is 7.6 I think, which I haven't updated to), and whether/when you think this expand podcast folder changed? On Jan 24, 2008, at 12:34PM, Shaun Jones wrote: >Listers in I Tunes I often find myself expanding a pod-cast selection >by mistake. I go about collapsing the selection by arrowing up to >where it says expanded and interact, then press VO shift back slash to >collapse it. I wanted to know if there is a easier way? > > > When you've interacted with the songs outline and are at a specific item your VoiceOver cursor stays positioned with that item when you issue sort commands. For example, I imagine you have your podcast episodes appearing in release date order, so the most recent episode appears last. If I want to check on the most recent podcast episode in a long list for a podcast folder I just expanded, I can VO-keys right arrow to the Release Date Column (for my podcasts, the columns are ordered: (1) status, (2) Podcast, (3) Time, (4) Release Date, and (5) Description). Then I can use the VO-keys+Shift+backslash command to sort on that column. The first time you issue the sort command, it chooses that column to sort (if it wasn't already selected), and does a forwards sort. The second time you issue the command on that column it will do a reverse sort. Since iTunes remembers the sort options you've applied (unless you change your preferences), you should be careful to leave your ordering the way you want. When I expand a podcast folder and arrow down, if my podcasts are sorted by release date in ascending order, the first episode will be the oldest. If I reverse the sort before I arrow down, the first episode I reach will be the latest. If I sort on the release date column while I'm at an episode, then the position of the episode may change with the sort. For example, you'll hear that it's on one row, which may be the row closest to the podcast folder before the sort, and then after the sort you'll hear that the episode you're at is at another row, which is the row furthest from the parent podcast folder. Hope this makes sense. I'm still guessing at what you want to do. Cheers, Esther
