Hi, Or you can also go to your "Recently Added playlist". Depending on how you have your fields sorted, ascending, or descending, it will be near the top or bottom of the list. On Feb 1, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Mary, Donna, Mark, and Others, > > The other way to locate streams that have been placed in the iTunes music > library (in case you weren't able to use Command-L for the stream while it > was playing) is to use the smart playlist feature and with a rule like "Kind > contains stream". From anywhere in iTunes, press Command-Option-N to create > a new smart playlist. You'll hear "smart playlist, selected by". Then, > VO-Right arrow so that you hear "rules section" and interact (VO-Shift-Down > arrow), in order to supply a rule or rules for inclusion in the smart play > list. You'll be on the pop up button that says "Artist". Use VO-Space and > then press "k" to change this to "Kind" in the menu for the pop up, then > press return to commit this change. VO-Right arrow past the pop up button > for "Contains" to the text field and type in "stream" without the quotation > marks. Then press return to commit all changes and leave the smart playlist. > You'll be prompted in a "Name Playlist" dialog window to enter a name for > your playlist. The name "stream" will be entered as the default suggestion, > but you can type in your own selection. Press return to commit your changes. > Now, there will be a smart playlist in your sources table named "stream" or > whatever title you assigned. If you want this to appear at the top of your > smart playlist entries, add a hyphen to the start of the name you choose, > since all playlists appear ordered alphabetically by category in the sources > table. A playlist name like that is preceded by a hyphen or other character > that appears alphabetically before letters or numbers will show up first in > the list of smart playlists, before default smart playlists like "recently > played". > > Downloaded files with names like "listen.pls" or "listen-1.pls" don't show up > as playlists in iTunes. Instead, their contents appear as streams in the > music library. The list of iTunes radio streams is fixed to only include the > streams that appear in that category. However, you can construct your own > playlists of streams. Use either the context menu for selections and "add to > playlist" or copy and paste the entries to a playlist. > > The usual difficulty people have is locating the streams after they have been > added -- hence, Mark suggested using Command-L to track the stream as it is > playing. The smart playlist solution is a quick way to find all streams in > your library -- including the ones that got added before you could identify > the tracks. Then, you can use "Get Info" (Command-I) and navigate to the > "Info" tab for the entry to add tag information or even your own comments to > make these streams easier to locate for iTunes searches. Or, you can simply > go back to your "stream" or "-stream" (that's the same name, "stream", but > with a hyphen preceding the name) smart playlist to locate your streams. > > My description of creating the smart playlist was a bit sloppy from a > pedagogic point of view -- if you use VO-Space instead of pressing return to > select pop up menu items you don't run the risk of exiting the smart playlist > early. (VO-Space is used to "perform the default action"). And you should > really stop interacting with the rules sections (VO-Shift Up Arrow) then > navigate (e.g. with VO-Right arrow) to the "OK" button and press it with > VO-Space to nicely view the other smart playlist options and commit the > changes to the smart playlist. Because I'm familiar with the smart playlist > menu structure, I press the return key to commit my changes and exit the > menu whenever I'm finished setting specifications and I press the escape key > to cancel actions and quit instead of navigating to the "Cancel" button and > pressing it with VO-Space. For a detailed description of smart playlists in > iTunes, see the (long) archived post titled "Introduction to Smart Playlists > (long)" at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg01294.html > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Feb 1, 2010, Mary Otten wrote: > >> Thanks, Mark. You rock! Itunes let me make a playlist with the current song, >> so that should do it. >> >> Mary >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
