Hi Desi, In iTunes, you can set up a preference for ejecting the CD after importing.
1. Press Command-Comma to bring up the preferences menu. 2. If VoiceOver doesn't announce "General Preferences", press Command-1 to select the "General" pane. (Alternatively, you can interact with the tool bar and navigate to a preference pane and then select it -- with VO-Space or by simultaneously pressing the up and down arrow keys if you have Quick Nav mode enabled, or by double tapping on the keypad if you have Trackpad Commander turned on. In this case you have to stop interacting after selecting.) 3. Navigate past the "When you insert a CD:" text to the pop up menu button, and VO-Space, then change the option to "Import CD and eject" and press "return" to confirm your changes and exit the preferences menu. If you are navigating with a trackpad, you can flick down to the "When you insert a CD" text field, then flick right to the pop up and double tap to select it. Then flick down to the "Import CD and eject" option and double tap to select it. Many new Mac users who have experience using iOS on the iPhone and other iOS device screens find Trackpad navigation faster and more intuitive than keyboard navigation. If you are using the keyboard, use VO-Down arrow or just Down arrow with Quick Nav mode enabled to navigate to "When you insert a CD", then switch to using VO-Right arrow or just Right arrow in Quick Nav mode. It's faster, since moving vertically with Down arrow (or flicking down) takes you to the main categories on the preference pane, and then you use Right arrow (or flicking right) to navigate to the specific entries. You could use your right arrow or tab keys to move through all entries and get to where you want, but the above way is more efficient. There are a few different ways to view your recently imported albums. You can select the "Recently Added" playlist in your sources table, and then switch to grid mode (Command-Option-5). By default, grid mode is set to display entries grouped by album, but you can change the radio buttons to group entries by artists, genres, or composers. I like to use iTunes in list view mode (Command-Option-3) and use the column browser, toggled on and off with Command-B, to display lists of albums, artists, genres, composers, or groupings of my own choice for my iTunes music library or playlists. This lets me browse and select combinations of items in my iTunes library from listed items in my column browser. By default, turning on the column browser with Command-B adds an additional column with Artists information before the music table, so if you were to navigate with VO-Right arrow, Right arrow (in Quick Nav mode), or by flicking right from the the sources table in iTunes, you'd hear VoiceOver announce "Music Browser" (unless your verbosity is set to low), before the "Music Table". You configure your column browser options in the "View" menu on the iTunes menu bar, under the submenu options for "Column Browser". Your preference settings are remembered separately for each library or playlist, so turning on column browser settings for your music library won't enable them for any other library or music playlist. This also makes sense because the browser categories you use would be different for TV shows or books than they would be for music. Here's what I would do to add "Albums" to the column browser: 1. In iTunes, press Command-B to toggle on the column browser 2. Navigate to the View menu either by pressing VO-M or Control-F2 to move to the menu bar, then press "v" to move to the View menu. 3. Navigate to the "Column Browser" option of the "View" menu by arrowing down and pressing "c" 4. Navigate to the "Column Browser" submenu options by pressing right arrow then either arrow down or quickly press "a l" to move to "Albums" and press return. 5. To set other column browser options, repeat steps 1-4, but change the option you select in step 4. You can check or un-check categories displayed in the column browser. These options include (for Music): "Genres", "Artists", "Albums", "Composers", and "Groupings". Other useful options are "Group Compilations" and "Use Album Artists". Compilations are albums without specific artists associated with the album, and generally have themed titles such as "Movie Cinema Hits of 2011". You can group them together as "Compilations". Album artists cover instances where you'd like to associate artists with an album. Maybe the individual tracks have the artist listed with a guest performer or with a backup band or orchestra. You can edit the tracks of an album so that a single artist is associated with all these tracks as an "Album Artist". This leaves in the detailed artist information for each track, but would allow you to select an "Artist" in you column browser, and then view his associated albums in the "Album" listing of the column browser, and have that album included. You can also change whether the column browser is displayed to the left or on top of the music table. By habit, I keep my column browser "On Top", which is the default position that was used for the browser in iTunes through version 8. This should not make a difference to your VoiceOver navigation, but I use it because: a) it's the preferred viewing arrangement for my sighted older relatives, because the information is "less cluttered" and b) it was the standard view used by iTunes for a long time, so if I kept it, I could answer questions about older system setups as well as current ones. Once you have column browsers set up in iTunes you can select an artist in the artist list, and iTunes will filter the results in the albums column browser list to show you only the albums by that artist. If you navigated out of the column browser to the music table, you'd see the individual tracks filtered by any of your selections in the column browser. You can also do things like select combinations of albums by a given artist in the column browser and use the Command-Shift-N shortcut for "new playlist from selection" to create a new playlist of all the tracks from your selection. If you want the tracks to appear in the order they would play in the album, just make sure that your music table is sorted by album before you issue the shortcut command. If you keep your music table sorted in album order, then you can make the selection and the playlist creation via shortcut entirely from the column browser. Alternatively, you can create the playlist, and then sort the tracks by album order when you view the playlist contents. A good general source of information about iTunes are the iLounge tutorials. They do use embedded images that aren't labeled, but the text descriptions are usually fairly detailed. Here's the link to "The Beginner's Guide to iTunes": • The Beginner’s Guide to iTunes by Jesse David Hollington (December 12, 2011): http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-beginners-guide-to-itunes/ Use Safari reader (Command-Shift-R) to view this. The Mobile page version of "The Beginner's Guide to ITunes", for better reading on an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad may be accessed at: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/mobile/articles/the-beginners-guide-to-itunes/ There are more tutorials listed at: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/tutorials/ HTH. Cheers, Esther On Apr 15, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Desi Noller wrote: > I am finally getting around to importing all of my music CD's into iTunes on > my Mac. I'm hoping someone can answer a couple of questions for me. > > First, can I eject a CD as soon as I hear the chime signaling that the import > process is through? Is there a way to have the CD automatically ejected upon > completion? Can anyone tell me how to see the list of albums I have > imported? I can see the song table, and I checked Album View in preferences, > but I can't figure out how to navigate to and read the actual album list. > Thanks so much in advance! > > Desi > > > <--- 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/>
