Hi Chuck,
On Sep 23, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Chuck Reichel wrote:
Has anybody found that "New Playlist from Selection" does not work
in new Itunes?
I was able in the old Itunes to find a station to listen to and hit
"command shift N" and it would bring up the dialogue for naming the
play list but it does not seem to be working when that stream is
selected whether or not you interact with songs table or not! What
is going on?
Ouch! Yup, I just took a look at this. And if you make a selection
and then check the File menu by using (VO-M to go to the Menu Bar,
Press "F" to go to the File, and Arrow Down) you'll find that New
Playlist from Selection is Dimmed. The only items you can use Command-
Shift-N ("New Playlist from Selection") on are the top level
categories for each Stream. Then you can delete the streams you don't
want. Sorry about that, but that's the only thing I can suggest. If
you want to put together a Radio Stream Playlist, or amend a previous
one, try first creating some regular playlists this way, then put them
together into a Smart Playlist. You would use the "Command-Option-N"
shortcut to create a new smart playlist and use rules like "Playlist
is <my Classical stream playlist name>" and "Playlist is <my Blues
playlist name>". Then stop interacting with the rules section and VO-
left arrow to the start of the Smart Playlist where it says "Match all
of the following rules" and press (VO-space) the popup button to
change "all" to "any".
Press return and enter a name for the smart playlist.
Alternatively, you could use VoiceOver's drag and drop to add the
contents of one playlist to another, but that's more of a pain to do.
HTH.
Cheers,
Esther
