Hello Kimber, I run iTunes on El Capitan, and it's the latest version of iTunes, 12.4.
Firstly, make sure that the category music is selected and the checkbox "my music" is checked too. Also, the way I look and search for my music is by enabling "music browser". To show "column browser" or hide it, you need to go to the view menu. Press vo+m once and vo right arrow till you hear "view". Then down arrow to till you hear "column browser submenu. Then right arrow to expand it. The first item in this submenu should tell you whether the column browser is showing or hidden. If it says "hide" then it is enabled and should be showing. Also, in this submenu, you can check the items that you want your column browser to show as columns. I have checked here genres, composers, and albums. So my music browser shows in columns these categories. You can move along these columns and as you do so, the table to the right of your music browser will reflect the music which you focus on in the music browser. I normally interact with the music browser first, choose what I want to show and then stop interacting with the music browser and vo right arrow to the music table and interact with it to see what's in there. This takes some getting used to so do experiment with it. I used to get frustrated with the music browser as it takes some learning as to how it responds to your arrow keys. For instance, in the music browser, if I by mistake select some obscure genre for which I have no music, then my music table to the right will not display any music. You may not wish to have the genre column at all in which case you can uncheck it in the view menu under column browser submenu. Also, remember that as long as you have "my music" checked, you can search for an album or artist by typing their names in the search box if you can remember them correctly. I hope this will help a little. Best wishes Andrew > On 23 May 2016, at 11:53, Kimber Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > I'm new to the list and pretty much a novice to the Mac though I've > had an iPhone for the past four years. > > I have an older MacAir running Lion which I want to use to stream > content from my iTunes library and Apple music. My problem is I'm > unable to locate the particular artist, album or playlist I want to > play. I have been able to get content to play, but it seems more by > luck than skill. Here's what happens. > > I have my iTunes displayed by artist. But when I get into the -- I > guess it's the table? -- where the content is shown, all I see is how > many albums or songs I have by each artist but not the names of the > artists. > > If someone could give me some basic steps for navigating around iTunes > and accessing my content I would be very grateful. > > Thanks in advance. > > Kimber > > -- > Kimberly > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
