Dear Esther, Thank you so much for taking the time to send such a thorough explanation! This is incredibly helpful, and I truly appreciate your efforts!
Cheers! Desi On Apr 15, 2012, at 4:17 PM, Esther wrote: > 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. 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