yes, finders column mode has a twin in windows as does icon and list modes is all I was saying.
As far as browse mode in ITunes, you can use it to sort your list by album as well as jenre and composer and artest etc. Just for fun, I like to set it to all songs and go through the hundreds of songs and look at them in alpha order. it is an interesting view. ----- Original Message ----- From: "erik burggraaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 7:38 AM Subject: Re: ripping cd's Hi David, I was saying that finders column mode is most like the windows treeview, which it is. I've tried both icon view and list view. Icon was OK, but list really didn't do it for me. Regarding the browser in Itunes, I haven't played with it too much since I don't really plan to use Itunes for more than a transfer senter. I just popped it up for the sake of curiosity and noticed it had sorted all my music by genra. There are so many genras in there that at first I thought it was using a bunch of them as place holders in case I wanted to put something in there. Ah but no, it turns out my music tastes are a bit broader than I thought. I'm sure I could get it working the way I like with some time and possibly a tip or two, but I'm not really all that fussed about it, smiles. Best, erik burggraaf Certified Technician Assistive Computing LTD Support and training Sales department: 888-828-2445 Support and Training: 888-255-5194 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website coming soon On 10-Nov-08, at 5:50 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > Just a couple of notes. First, I have no idea what feature you are > addressing here but in your message, you say you like tree views > because > column view is like windows. For the sake of full disclosure, > windows also > has two other modes to view in just like osx. > > As far as organization, have you looked at the browser in ITunes? > you can > have all your albums listed, jenres, artists etc. I just the album > display. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "erik burggraaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS > X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 8:58 PM > Subject: Re: ripping cd's > > > Hi Scott, Sorry about that, I didn't even think to look in the ITunes > menu. Saddly my windowsish nature made itself evident, as I looked in > the help menu first and discovering it wasn't where it would be in > windows, dashed off an email, lol. So it's done, fwew. Hopefully it > will be useful. > > I must agree with you on tree structures. I keep my finder locked > into column mode which most closely relates to windows explorer > interface and it works extrordinairly well. This morning before the > great cd ripping debacle, I had Itunes up and was playing with the > browser. That'd be pretty nice, except that it came up with all my > music sorted by genra which really threw a branch in my spokes, > because I never knew I had so many genras in my music collection. It > also seems that a surprising number of artists are cross-genra. I was > going to have a play and see if I could get it sorted artist/albumn > the way things are laid out in finder, but then I got sidetracked on > the cd ripping issue. > > I'd love to put all my stuff back on line. I've been looking at > network attached storage, and we got a d-link dns323 up and running > here with two 1.5 tb hard drives for a client. If the four bay's were > reasonable it might be fun to grab one and stack it up. My > collection's pretty big, but that would definitely keep me going for a > while, grins. I still don't think I'd use ITunes though. All the > individual third party apps are so much less proprietary and more > powerful that it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. The > more I use Itunes, the more I think it's like a sell phone with all > the latest hardware: Digital camera, video, mp3, wifi, the works. If > you need to take a picture, the camera will do it, and it may do a > pretty good job. But if you are in extreme lighting conditions or you > want to do action shots at 30 to 60 fps, well, the sellphone camera > probably won't hack it. Most of the hardware in the rather expensive > all in one device is like that. It's not useless, and it isn't > necessarily crap just because it's in an all in one, but it just can't > beat the power of stand alone devices. The reason why I lose it with > ITunes is that where-as with most things you get a choice, ITunes > locks on and takes complete control, and you don't get an opt out. It > may be benine control for the most part, but if you are in any way > non- > conformist, ITunes fights you. > > Audiobook builder looks like exactly what I need. I don't really care > about chapter points and such. To me the real value of the thing is > that it'll playlist and segment audiobooks automaticly from the rest > of the library, making them hopefully easier to add and remove without > disterbing the perminant residents. Appreciate the tip, and thanks > very much. > > Best, > > erik burggraaf > > Certified Technician > Assistive Computing LTD Support and training > Sales department: 888-828-2445 > Support and Training: 888-255-5194 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Website coming soon > > > > On 9-Nov-08, at 3:37 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > >> Eric, first you can locate the option under the iTunes menu bar, >> just VO-m for the menu and arrow right to iTunes and arrow down to >> Provide iTunes Feedback. I don't fully understand the entire >> cataloging process, but it sounds as though you have a system that >> is considerably extensive and not always online and so iTunes may >> not have all the functionality you require. As far as managing a >> music collection, works great here, all my files end up in this >> lovely tree structure which I like so very much. I am a tree >> structure freak for sure. >> As far as importing a CD, I have to admit I'm not so sure why the >> settings aren't holding and you could possibly delete the plist >> associated with iTunes, but that seems extreme. I can say for the >> most part the audio book feature works well, but I did get a $10 app >> called Audiobook Builder which seems to help in the process. Syncing >> via iTunes to the iPod works very well indeed and so overall iTunes >> fits my needs well. I can understand of course you have a unique >> situation and so you need to use what works best for you. >> >> > > > > >
