Hello David, The first thing I would do is permanently configure iTunes with the sidebar showing, so that it appears in the default view of all the previous iTunes versions of the past several years. I refer you to the TUAW article on "iTunes 11 for old fogies: goin' back to the way it was" by Erica Sadun: http://aol.it/ShCsm3
1. Press Command-Option-S to restore the Sidebar in iTunes 2. Select the "Songs" radio button 3. Press Command-slash to restore the status bar Once you are in the traditional list view after selecting "Songs", you can sort by any column you like. Your playlists should be available in the sidebar that you've restored. Your playlist information about total playing time and number of items, should appear in the status bar, as before. If you use the "Column Browser", and have enabled viewing of "Artists", "Albums", and "Composers" under the "Column Browser" submenu of your "View" menu option (on the iTunes menu bar), you can access them as before. Write back if you still have problems. I've answered your other questions about navigation in a separate earlier post. You can still access all the other features from this view. If you don't want to be able to check information on total playing time and number of items in your playlists, you leave off step 3 for enabling display of the status bar. Cheers, Esther On Jan 25, 2014, at 12:52 PM, "David Griffith" <[email protected]> wrote: > Very helpful. I have been using the option command S to jump to the sidebar > and use it as a sources list but of course every time I do this I toggle the > status of the sidebar from visible to hidden. > Is there an alternative way of jumping to the sidebar in lieu of the missing > sources list? > > David Griffith <--- 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> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
