Hi Dónal, The radio streams in iTunes lack support for the kind of context menu options you have with music and podcast tracks. What I do is go down the list of radio streams and select/highlight the ones that I want, then I use the Command-Shift-N shortcut to create a "New Playlist from Selection". You should be able to consolidate different radio stream playlists that you create this way using copy and paste (e.g., create a few different playlists by category, then put them into a master playlist of radio streams by choosing individual playlists, doing a select all (Command-A) of their contents and copy with Command-C, and then switching to the master playlist in your source table and doing a Command-V to paste into the songs table entries.) You can also create composite playlists by using smart playlists. For example, create a new smart playlist with Command-Option-N and use for your rules that contents match any of the criteria of belonging to your stream playlist 1, stream playlist 2, etc. (where you set the first keyword pop up button to "Playlist" and you can leave the second pop up button set to "Contains", then type in the name in the text box.) If you name all your playlists with "Stream" as part of the name, having a rule like "Playlist" "contains" "stream", where the first two arguments are pop up buttons that you set, and the last is a text entry, your Master smart playlist for radio streams can contain all the streams that you assembled by hand in smaller lists. Of course, you can also always make this into a regular playlist by selecting the smart playlist, navigating to the associated songs table (e.g. with Command-Option-t or just by tabbing or by using your arrow keys with QuickNav, etc.), then selecting all (Command-A) and using Command-Shift-N to generate a new (regular) playlist from the selection. (This precaution guarantees that if you somehow later edit the criteria for membership in your Master streams smart playlist that alters its contents, you'll still be left with a usable regular playlist.)
Of course, you can also follow the various rules for non-contiguous selection of long lists of entries, or holding down your shift key to select a block of entries, but you can assemble your playlist of radio streams from snippets if you like. The key is using the Command-Shift-N shortcut to get them into a playlist to begin with. Then you can copy and paste, and assemble larger playlists either manually or using smart playlist rules. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Sep 19, 2011, at 08:50, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > Evening peoples, > > I have been playing around with the radio streams in iTunes. However, there > are probably 99.9999% that I won't listen to. Is there any way to create a > sort of "presets" or "favourites" list of radio stations? I don't seem to be > able to do any kind of copy-to-another-playlist or anything with them. > > Cheers > > Dónal > Dónal Fitzpatrick > [email protected] > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
