Hi Geoffrey,
Yes, you can browse your music library by albums or artists or genres.
I will try to explain but I am a novice too so please forgive me if I
make a blunder. However, I appreciate all the help I've been given
from others on the list so I will try to share it.
When you arrow up to your music library in the source table, press
command+b to activate your browser. The same combination of keys will
hide it. Then Vo+right arrow to the browser which Voiceover will
announce. Interact with it. Now as you move right and left you will
here the categories spoken: all albums, all artists, all genres etc.
You can interact with any of these and vo+up or down arrow a list of
your albums or artists. Let's say you arrowing up and down your album
list. You land on the one you want. I would then stop interacting
with the browser and move right to your song list. Now because you
have chosen a particular album in your music library, the song list -
instead of reflecting all the sogns you have in your music library -
will now show only the sogns that you have on this particular album.
You can interact withit and you will be in a table of details
containing the status info, name, artist, duration etc. You can vo+up
or down arrow this table. Now if you select all the songs in this
table by pressing command+a and then press command+shift+n you will be
presented with a dialogue to create a new playlist which will contain
all the songs highlighted, i.e. all the songs in your album. You can
give it meaningful name. When you are done, this playlist will appear
in the list of yourp laylists at the bottom of the source table. You
can add new albums/songs to this list in a similar fashion as
described before. The only difference is going to be that if you want
to add songs or all the songs in an album to an existing playlist
whose name you know, you take all the steps as described above in the
browser, and highlight the songs you wish to add, and then press vo
+shift+m to activate the contextual menu in which you can choose add
to playlist submenu and then open it by pressing right arrow and
choosing with your arrow keys the playlist to which you wish to add.
For simplicity, I have created a playlist in my Itunes that contains
all my pop or light music and another which contains all my classical
items. I then just add titles or whole albums to it in the way I've
described above.
Now once you connect your Ipod and Itunes is launched - either
automatically because you have chosen to do so, or by your actually
launching it manually because again you have made this choice in the
summary tab of your ipod - you need to find your ipod under devices in
the source table of the Itunes application. When you locate it, vo
+right arrow to the ipod setup scroll area and interact with it. You
will now have a number of tabs where you can make choices. The summary
tab is essential because that is where you decide whether you wish to
sync your ipod automatically - which you do not because your music
library is too large - or whether you wish to do it semi-
automatically. You need to check boxes which say something about
manually syncing your music folder with your ipod. I can't remember
the exact wording but it is quite self-exaplnatory. You also need to
check the box here which says "enable spoken menus" if you wish your
nano to give you spoken feedback while browsing through its menus. I
think if you are choosing this option for the first time, you need to
press the sync button for Itunes to generate your spoken menu headings
for the first time.
Then you need to explore your music tab and check manually sync
selected playlists. You will then be given a list of all your
playlists in a table. You need to interact with it in order to vo
+arrow up and down it so that you can hear which check boxes are
checked and which are not. Now here is a crucial moment: the table of
your playlist is a scroll area which only shows about 10 playlists. If
your playlists exceed that number you need to scroll this table. Press
vo+shift+s to start scrolling and execute scrolling by pressing up or
down arrows. You will hear voiceover saying up or down so that you are
reassured what's going on. When you've reached the end of the
scrolling area, you will hear the characteristic slapping noise of
Voiceover which means no further to go. Just be aware that if you have
30 playlists and you start scrolling after the first ten and if you
don't stop scrolling after 20 and carry on to the end, you will have
displayed the last ten but missed the ten in the middle. So you have
to know how many playlists you have and by how many you have scrolled.
To stop scrolling press escape.
Now while scrolling you can check the boxes next to the playlists you
want to sync and uncheck those you don't want to sync. Be cautious
because some of the playlists are checked by default like recently
added or recently purchased. When you are done checking your boxes,
stop interacting with the table of playlists and press apply. The
syncing is going to begin and if you stop interacting with your ipod
area altogether and vo to the top and start interacting with the
source table, you will be able to find a box where the progress of
your syncing is being displayed.
I hope this helps a little.
With best wishes
Simon
On 23 Sep 2008, at 16:27, jeffrey greene wrote:
Hi guys, well i got my new nano 16gb. I set it for manual syncing
since i have about 25gb of content in itunes. I was wondering can i
browse my library by albums and add an entire album to my playlist?
Also, how do i sync a playlist to my ipod? If i control click on the
playlist i get a menu but there are no sync to ... options in it.
Regards, Jeff Greene
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