Hi Holly and Others, It there's anyone still running Tiger, you can use that Automator action to place, say, your folder of Podcasts under iTunes in the Dock and navigate the episodes very fast from there. You simply navigate to the dock (VO-keys+d), left arrow (or right arrow) to the "Podcasts Folder", then use the contextual menu command (VO-keys+shift+m) to display this as a hierarchical menu. Type the first few letters of the podcast subscription folder name to go to that folder (or use the up or down arrow keys), then press the right arrow key to get a submenu of the podcast episodes in that folder. You can either type the first few letters of the episode name or use the up and down arrow keys to navigate the submenu. When you carriage return, iTunes will open up (if it wasn't already open) and start playing the episode you selected.
There are some neat features about this. For one thing, the hierarchical menu navigation is very fast if you have lots of folders -- faster than using the Finder because you're navigating aliases to each of the folders rather than opening up each folder. For a second thing, you can play podcasts continuously, because in the iTunes Songs list you're actually in smart playlist named PODTRUE (if you check the Sources Outline). The default order is the date added. If Leopard ever brings back hierarchical menus (in place of stacks), you could also do this in Leopard. Just to reiterate, you don't want to open this folder in the Dock. If you use VO-keys+space, VO-keys+shift+space, or carriage return after you've navigated to this folder, you'll simply open up this folder in finder. What you want to do is open the contextual menu with VO-keys+m, or with the down arrow, or Control-click. Then either type the starting letters of the folder or use the up and down arrow keys or some combination of both to navigate the menu. When you are at your selected folder use the right arrow key to enter the subfolder/submenu and again use your up and down arrow keys or typing of the start of the episode name to select the file. Press return to start playing your selection or escape to quit without making a selection. Hope this is of interest to somebody! Cheers, Esther On June 01, 2008, at 05:33PM, Holly Anderson wrote: >Hi. Thank you thank you thank you. I've been looking for a way to do >this. It works like a charm. Your instructions are brilliant. Nice >job. :) >Holly >On Jun 1, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > >>> Hi Matthew, >> >> You wrote: i somehow got this removed by mistake when i tried to >> open it up. how can i get it back in the doc? thanks in advance. >> >> TK: VO normally does not have that feature of dragging folder >> references to the dock. If you go to my web-site at >> http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover >> and then click on the Downloads link. There is a download there >> that allows VO users to add folders and such to the Dock. All the >> instructions you need are within the download. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >> >>> >> >> Tim Kilburn >> & Carter the Canine >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > > >
