Thanks very much, Esther. I think you are right about the problems
with focus in Leopard: I've noticed the same thing. Hopefully Apple is
on to it.
With best wishes
Simon P.S. After weeks of rain, the sun's shining in Wales - or at
least in some parts of it (Smile) - and I'm elated. Sorry for this
personal remark but we have had an absolutely rotten summer, and to
see/feel the sun is just such joy!
On 18 Sep 2008, at 02:44, Esther wrote:
Hi Simon,
Yes, you should be able to add all your album songs in a block to a
playlist. I'm finding Leopard's focus is finicky. This is a problem
that I've noticed with focus, where the VoiceOver cursor and/or the
mouse cursor doesn't always correctly move into the new area. What
happens is that unless you interact with a particular selection in
the Songs Table before you do the Select
All (Command-A), VoiceOver doesn't find the contextual menu and
bring it up. Sometimes if I turn on Mouse Cursor tracks VoiceOver
Cursor I get better results, but not always (at least, not under
Leopard). Control-Click seems more reliable than VO-Shift-M.
Anyway, try the following, When you bring up the browser and
interact, and then move to your Album selection, make sure that your
are on the Album selection in the Browser, then Stop interacting. VO-
right arrow twice, and interact with the Songs Outline. You'll hear
that you're a specific row -- probably the first one of the album.
Only then do your Command-A to select all. The try VO-Shift-M. If
that doesn't bring up the contextual menu with the "Add to Playlist"
option, do a Control-Click (where your hold down the Control key and
press the trackpad key of your MacBook) to bring up the contextual
menu and add the whole album to your playlist.
Incidentally, Scott's suggestion of making an album playlist by
selecting the album in the browser and doing a Command-Shift-N (New
playlist from selection) is robust against the current Leopard focus
finickiness.
The other thing you could do is use a smart playlist and chain
together rules like "Album is <your album>" and "Playlist is <your
playlist>", adding each rule one by one. Then, once you've added
all your rules, stop interacting with the rules section and VO-left
arrow back to the first line, which now has a pop up button so you
can either Match any or match all of the following rules. Change
the pop up button to "ANY", Then the smart playlist will include all
tracks that match any of the rule conditions you've given (album,
playlist, etc.).
I actually find it easy to just add my selections on in blocks with
a regular playlist, as long as I'm careful about the sequence of
interacting and stopping interacting so that I can get the
contextual menu to show up in the songs table.
Remember that you can check the total time and/or space of tracks in
your playlist by doing a VO-down arrow from the Songs table for your
playlist, once you've stopped interacting.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Esther
Scott wrote:
Simon.
the way i do it is to simply choose the album in the browser then
do a command shift n and it will automatically create a playlist
with that album and artist's name
.
Works fine here I know it's not exactly what you wanted but really
having an album in it's own playlist is the easiest way to go.
On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear All,
Here is my dilemma: I have an album which I wish to add to a
particular playlist in one fell swoop. How can I do this? Having
imported an album of songs or musical pieces, or having bought one
from the Itunes store, all the songs on the album get placed in the
Music Library of Itunes. I can find the album by activating the
browser and selecting the album. As a result of this, I get all the
songs listed in the song list. When I selecte them all with command
+A I thought I could press vo+shift+m for the contextual menu and
add them all in one go to the selected list. However, this doesn't
seem to work. I have to do it one song at a time. I was hoping that
in the browser, having selected an album, I could press the same
key combination for the contextual menu and add the album to the
selected playlist but i wasn't able to do so either.
So is there a way to do it? Or do I have to continue to add each
song individually? It's a bit long-winded to do this way. It's not
a major gripe of mine. Smile!
With best wisehs
Simon
