Dear Esther and others,
Esther's way of adding all songs in an album in one go has worked, so
did creating a new playlist by selecting a title in the album list in
the browser and pressing command+shift+n. The list is by default given
the name of the album and artist. Of course one can change them.
David, I haven't tried to select more than album and adding it to an
existing list yet . But Esther's method was pretty straight forward
and the focus didn't fail me this time.
Best wishes
Simon
On 18 Sep 2008, at 12:33, David Poehlman wrote:
so if I am in the albums list, can I just ad a group of albums
instead of
having to select all the songs?
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From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
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Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: Adding whole albums to a new list in Itunes with
Voiceover
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
