Hi Jane, Glad to hear that the keyboard shortcuts worked for your Podcast folders.
On May 23, 2008, at 01:30PM, Jane Jordan (Gmail) wrote: > >Thanks for the undocumented shortcuts--they worked like a charm. Of >course, it helps, too, that I have a mouse I can use. > The Command+right bracket and Command+left bracket "undocumented" shortcuts for expanding and collapsing podcast folders from the iTunes Songs Outline work on all folders simultaneously. VO-keys+backslash should work as a toggle open or close on an individual folder. It's useful to know both of these. I'm pretty sure that Command+] and Command+[ work on U.S., U.K., Canadian, and Australian keyboards, but Søren reported this didn't work on a Danish keyboard. Perhaps this is not surprising since the right and left bracket characters get mapped to very different keys on non-English keyboards. >Then (a little egg on face here) I had to >subscribe to the podcast first--I could have sworn I was, but I guess >I wa snot, even though I had the files copied over from the iBook. >*Then* I was able to watch it automagically start downloading the >podcasts. Yay! > Even though you copied podcast files and added them to your iTunes library your subscription status has to be separately set up. After all, it's possible to unsubscribe to a podcast using the contextual menu (VO-keys+shift+m then up arrow to "Unsubscribe to Podcast") in the Songs Outline for podcasts when you have selected a podcast folder. The fact that previous podcast episode files are still in your library doesn't say anything about your subscription status, or about your iTunes preferences for how often to check for new podcasts, whether you want to download just the latest episode or all available episodes, or how many of these you want to keep in your library. If you want to restart your podcast subscriptions on your new iMac, you could import a Podcasts.opml file from your iBook. Someone asked a question about whether iTunes could output OPML files earlier this week. Here's how you can get a list of all your podcast subscriptions from your iBook over to your iMac by exporting an OPML file from the iBook to the iMac. 1. From iTunes on your iBook, tab to the Sources Outline, interact, and select Podcasts. 2. Use the contextual menu (VO-keys+shift+m) and select "Export Song List" 3. In the new window that appears, there will be a text field that allows you to specify the name of your song list, and popup buttons that allow you to choose the folder in which the song list will be saved. You can ignore most of this and just tab (or VO-keys+right arrow) to the popup button that specifies format. Tab until you hear "Plain Text popup button". VO-keys+space and arrow down to "OPML" and return. (You can VO-keys right arrow or tab to the "Save" or "Cancel" buttons, but I usually just press return to save or escape to cancel). 4. You should now have a Podcasts.opml file in your home directory. 5. Copy this Podcasts.opml file to your iMac 6. From iTunes on your iMac, type the keyboard shortcut to import: Shift+Command+o (or else, choose the Import option from the File menu on your iTunes menu bar: VO-keys+m to the menu bar, type "F" to go to the File menu, type "I" to select Import, and return) 7. In the import window, select your Podcasts.opml file and return. (Navigate this window as you like - use any finder shortcuts for your home directory, or use the sidebar, or interact with the popup button for folder, or type in the name of the folder in the search text field after choosing the folder, etc. You can also VO-keys right arrow or tab to the "Choose" and "Cancel" buttons if you prefer.) Now, you will be subscribed to all the podcasts you subscribed to on your iBook. You can also send the OPML file to friends, if you want to recommend that they try out subscriptions to these podcasts. The OPML file is simply a list of podcasts with the source of the podcast feed and the program's web page. (You can read a few lines in TextEdit). This can save you having to "subscribe" to each podcast again from the contextual menu if you have lots of podcasts. >I am working on getting my entire music library onto the iMac, and >then sharing it with the iBook, that way I have more space over here >for, say, installing Linux to play with so I have a dual-boot system >and a chance to play around with it again. You have a few different options for sharing iTunes music. You can turn sharing on in iTunes and stream music from your iMac to your iBook as I described in an earlier post. The limitation on this is that you can't add streamed songs to a playlist in your own iTunes library, set ratings or edit tags. The shared library is also only available when iTunes is running on the other machine, and you're limited to only 5 users sharing streaming this way per 24-hour period. Another option that you might find more flexible is to share the iTunes music folder associated with a particular library across your network. This allows each user to maintain their own playlists but share the same media. The disadvantage is that when new content is added as either a podcast or ripped CD each user who is sharing the folder has to import the content he/she wants added. I know some other list members may be sharing libraries. I'm a bit limited in discussing this since I only have the one Mac laptop! Cheers, Esther
