Hi Ester, Is this just streams that last 2 weeks in the recently added list? I'm asking because I've had things on my recently added list for months. I have it set to show the 150 most recently added items to iTunes.
On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, going to your "Recently Added" playlist is a great general way of > finding recent content. This tip is not limited to streams, but also helps > you find anything that has just been added to iTunes (within the last two > weeks, and not a podcast), so it's particularly useful to find content which > was added, but which lacks tagging information. You can select these items > and use "Get Info" (Command-I) to add this information. I was going to > suggest using "Recently Added", but it struck me that some people may have > played other streams in the past (i.e., added more than 2 weeks ago) and > wondered where they went. Creating a smart playlist that shows all streams > is a good way to solve that problem. Thanks for the suggestion, Ricardo; > it's a good one. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Feb 1, 2010, Ricardo Walker wrote: > >> 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.
