the columns are the same in leopard, but this command as far as i know
did nothing. i did it several times in this folder in the songs
loutline, but it didn't change anything.
On Aug 12, 2008, at 2:09 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi Matthew,
hi. where do i do this? on a podcast episode itself? in the folder
itself? i tried in the folder itself and episode 34 of this
particular is still showing first instead of the later episodes
which are now in the 40s.
VO-keys right arrow in the songs outline for your podcasts to
whatever column displays the release date. In Tiger you can find
out the column header in iTunes by using VO-keys-Shift-C, but I
understand that in Leopard this keyboard sequence has a completely
different result, and I think people have said that the headers get
announced as you move. In my version of iTunes, the podcast songlist
columns are: (1) status (played or unplayed), (2) name, (3) time,
(4) release date, (5) description, etc. Just VO-keys right arrow
until you are in the column you want to sort -- it doesn't matter
whether you are in the folder level or the episode level. You can
also customize what information you want displayed from any playlist
or library by going to the View menu on the iTunes menu bar and
selecting View Options (shortcut Command-J). So you could check the
box for "Date Added to Library", for example, and sort on that
displayed column. I'm assuming that you want the order in which
episodes are released from the podcast feed. In my version of
iTunes on Tiger I would VO-keys right arrow to the folder in the
second column of the Songs Outline of my Podcast library, interact
and expand the folder for my subscription, then VO-keys right arrow
to the fourth column in the Songs Outline and do a VO-keys-Shift-
backslash. If I found, as you did, that the episodes are ordered:
34, 35, 36, etc. up through 46 for example, and I wanted the
episodes to show up in descending order, I would issue a second VO-
keys-Shift-backslash. That would give me the episodes with 46
first, then 45, 44, etc. down to 34. You should also be able to
check this as you VO-down in this column -- the release dates should
go to earlier times as you move down the column, and if you VO-left
to the second column for the name of the episode you should get the
earlier episodes appearing first.
The only time that this would NOT work is if the Episode numbers did
not match the release date order. That happens some time, if the
podcast producer made a mistake, and failed to release an episode in
order.
If your version of iTunes on Leopard does not behave this way, or if
you have different column information so that these instructions
don't work for you, let us know.
Esther
On Aug 11, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Matthew,
this has just started happening. don't know why. all of a sudden
when i expand a folder for a podcast in itunes, instead of the
podcast being at the top, it's somewhere at the top or near the
bottom.
This sounds as though your podcasts got reordered because they're
sorted by some random column in your songs outline. VO-keys right
arrow to the column for the release date and use VO-keys-Shift-
backslash to your episodes by release date. Check the order when
the folder is expanded. You might need to do a second VO-keys-
Shift-backslash on the same column to reverse the sort order to
match what you want (e.g. most recent episode at the bottom of the
list or most recent episode at the top of the list).
You might have issued a sort command (VO-keys-Shift-backslash) on
the podcast episodes column inadvertently by pressing the Shift
key when you meant to expand the folder (with VO-keys-backslash).
If the folder was already open, that would have sorted the
episodes alphabetically (or reverse alphabetically) according to
the episode name.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
