Hi David,
First off, I gather from reading your individual earlier posts that
you were adding songs by albums to a large playlist, and that playlist
seemed jumbled, but then it turned out that these were songs from
albums in another iTunes library that you bulk copied into your iTunes
Music Folder and then added to your library.
When you create playlists the default order of tracks is the order in
which you added them to the playlist. (In the case of your music
library, this is the order in which you added your tracks to iTunes)
If you sort on any column (Album, Artist, Song Name, etc.) by
navigating there and doing VO-Shift-Backslash, your playlist will
appear sorted (or reverse-sorted, depending on how many times you
issue the VO-Shift-Backslash sort command) by that category.
Playlists, including music, movies, etc. library playlists remember
how you last sorted them and what columns you checked to be viewed
(with the Command-J "View Options" File menu option) for that playlist.
If you like working in list view (what VoiceOver calls "Text List" -
selected with Command-Option-3) and viewing your music ordered by
Album, then just navigate to the Album column and sort on that.
Either one or two VO-Shift-Backslash commands should give the results
you want (one in ascending order and one in descending sort order).
To get back to a list in the order tracks were added, do your sort on
the first (status) column in the songs outline.
You can also turn on the File browser to organize viewing of your
music library, but even so, if you want to make sure that ripped CD
tracks appear in the order they were listed in the Album, I would sort
on the Album column in your Songs table.
Also, if I connect to another machine through a local network
connection (Command-K) and I want to move files into my iTunes library
I just use the "Add to Library" command in iTunes and point to the
folder on the other machine. No need for individual copies and adds.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 19, 2008, at 6:36 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Thanks Justin, Command-b did the trick!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Harford"
Subject: Re: grid view solved my problem sort of:
Hi
Press cmd+b to turn on the browser. That will make it so you can look
at them by album and artist etc. In text lists rather than grid view.
I find that grid view works ok for my podcasts of which there are few,
but when I am fingering through 600 albums, it is not that great.
J
On Sep 19, 2008, at 8:20 AM, David Poehlman wrote:
Hi all,
My "songs" are all in one big list but if I switch to grid mode,
they are
organized go figure.
