Oh Esther, hugs to you. This is fabulous! I view the list online, so I forwarded your message to my email for reference. This is great because I can read it and try certain things. Awesome! Thank you thank you!
Hugs, Randi Esther wrote: > Hi Rayna, > > Look through Tim Kilburn's VoiceOver pages for an overview of iTunes > and creating playlists. Here's the link to the iTunes 7 description: > > http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/itunes7.html > > You can just Google on "kilburns VoiceOver" to find one of his pages > -- usually, his downloads page comes up -- and then use item chooser > menu to find the link to home as the starting point. This is for > iTunes 7, but is a good overview. Main change in iTunes 8 is added > accessibility for the HTML part of the iTunes Store, but the old > descriptions work, and are particularly helpful for buying individual > songs using the songs table part of the store -- you just route your > mouse cursor to the place where you hear the price announced and use > VO-Shift-Space to purchase. Read more details on Tim's page. > > You create playlists either by creating a blank playlist with Command- > N, which you then name and add items to, or by selecting an item or > group of items in the songs table (or in the iTunes browser if you > have that toggled on/off with Command-B -- will allow you to refine > your songs table listing by album, artist or genre selection) and > using Command-Shift-N to make a new playlist from your selection. Add > to playlists either by using the context menu (VO-Shift-M) on selected > songs in the songs outline, and "Add to Playlist" by selecting an > existing playlist from the list, or copy and paste from your songs > outline selections to the playlist in the sources table. > > Easiest way to search for podcasts is to use the "Search" feature in > the iTunes Store. You can bring this up from the menu bar of the > "Store" menu option in iTunes (VO-Shift-M to the menu bar, press "s" > to go to "Store", arrow down and press "s" to go to "Search" and > return), or on any main page in the iTunes Store look for the "Power > Search" link with the item chooser or link chooser menu. For details, > see this post in the archives: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg40999.html > (Searching for content in the newly accessible iTunes Store) > > You can even bookmark a direct link to the podcast power search page: > http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearch?mt=2 > > Your best bet for detailed instructions is to search the Mail Archives > for this list. Here's an old post that covers podcasts in iTunes: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg45414.html > (in response to a general request for new user resources, but specific > answer about podcasts) > > It also has some information on how to search the archives. > > Another old archived post: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg39671.html > (Summary: Subscribing to podcasts in iTunes -- just before the iTunes > Store became fully accessible, so there are now more options. Also, > don't try to use the links in that post to get Mike Arrigo's podcasts, > since the episodes from over 9 months ago are no longer on the direct > feed.) > > Here's another post from the archives search: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg45013.html > (Miscellaneous Tips for working with iPods and Playlists -- was in > response to the issue of making up playlists for the Nano 4G and > explains how playlists are ordered in the sources list, how they can > be organized in to folders, and how to check total time. Most of the > beginning is specific to selecting playlists when you have your Nano > connected, so you can skip over this.) > > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg35740.html > (Re: How do I move ITunes songs to another playlist? -- gives more > detailed instructions about using the contextual menu to add songs to > playlists). > > There was also a more recent post last month about smart playlists: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg01294.html > (Introduction to Smart Playlists in iTunes (long)) > > Again, if you learn to use the search feature on the secondary mail > list archives for this list you can find all sorts of topics, and even > read down the threads. My post of a few days ago in reply gives an > example of how to do search: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg02201.html > > In general, just go to the Mail Archives page for the old list > (December 2005 - January 2009) at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/ > > or the new list (February 2009 - present) at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/ > > tab to the search field, put in a few search terms, and press return. > There's a gap of nearly a month before archiving was requested for the > new list at the Mail Archives, but everything from the last day of > February and later should be in the new archives. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On May 10, 2009, at 8:14 AM, rayna424 wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone. Mark helped me figure out search, so I have found and > > downloaded some stuff. How though, do you crate a playlist? I clicked > > on create a playlist, and the fields made no sense. I got a bunch of > > classical stuff that I want to put in a folder. Also, is there an easy > > way to get just single song? I searched for a song I wanted and had to > > click around a few links to get to just the song and not the whole > > album. I heard how much it was, and my boyfreind saw, buy now, but I > > didn't hear that, and it wasn't a button. Could it just be that it > > wasn't available? I'm sure there are podcasts on how to do this with > > Voiceover, or an article or something. How would I search for > > podcasts, I mean, what words would I enter? And does anyone know of a > > good article? > > > > > > Thanks, and iTunes rocks!! I got the 50 most essential pieces of > > classical music for eleven bucks!! Sweet! > > > > Randi > > > > rayna424 wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> I haven't used iTunes yet since buying my macbook in December. I > >> opened it 2 days ago and it asked some preliminary set up questions > >> and opens what I assume is the player. I've looked all over it and > >> there's no way to access the store to do anything. I think I need a > >> crash course. One of the questions it asked was if I wanted to > >> download an upgrade and I didn't for some reason. Now I don't know > >> how > >> to tell it to get the upgrade. Could this be the problem? Don't know > >> what to do with itunes. It doesn't make any sense haha. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Randi > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
