Thank you! I wasn't interacting with the table, that's probably why I wasn't seeing the context menu. It's crazy, but after nearly a year on a Mac, I still forget to interact with stuff. :)
thanks for the help! Donna On May 24, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Donna, > > Sorry, my bad for the typo. Yes, I mean context menu (VO-Shift-M). If you're > in the songs table and want to add tracks to a playlist, select the track or > tracks you want before you bring up the context menu. To add the present > track, use VO-Shift-M. To add all the tracks, select all with Command-A > before you use VO-Shift-M. To add a block of 10 tracks from your first > track, hold down the shift key and press your down arrow 9 times, then use > VO-Shift-M. (You can also highlight non-contiguous selections, but let's not > get into that now.) Remember to interact with the songs table before you make > your selection. You want to use the menu item "Add to Playlist", and if you > right arrow from the selection the submenu contains a list of your existing > playlists. > > HTH. Cheers, > Esther > > On May 24, 2010, at 06:16, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> Hi Esther, >> >> I'm a little confused. You say "Context Menu, VO-m. Do you mean the >> context menu, or the regular menu. When I press VO-m, the only option i >> have for add is add to library. When I press VO-Shift-m, I don't see any >> context menu at all. >> Thanks, >> Donna >> On May 24, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Esther wrote: >> >>> Hi Donna, >>> >>> Two ways to add songs to an existing playlist: >>> 1. Highlight some selections you want to add in the songs table and use the >>> context menu (VO-M), then press "A" for "Add to Playlist", Right arrow to >>> the sub-menu, and either arrow down or type the first few letters of the >>> name of the playlist you want to add these songs to. >>> 2. Copy your highlighted selections in the songs table with Command-C, then >>> navigate to the sources table and paste them into the playlist you want >>> with Command-V. This takes makes you navigate outside your songs table, >>> but you may find it more intuitive. You can use VO-J to jump between the >>> songs table and the sources table (for your selected library or playlist of >>> highlighted songs to add) and then navigate to the playlist you want to add >>> to. This method also works to manually add tracks to an iPhone or iPod -- >>> you just paste the selections onto the device in the sources table. (Note: >>> at the present time you must paste tracks from playlists onto the device, >>> you can't paste the playlists themselves. If you want to manually add >>> playlists to to an iPhone or iPod, you'd have to do that in the sources >>> table with VoiceOver's drag and drop onto the device, which is more >>> complicated.) >>> >>> HTH. Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>> Donna Goodin wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how does one add additional songs to >>>> an existing playlist? I've been through the help files, but can't seem to >>>> find this info. >>>> TIA, >>>> Donna >>> > > -- > 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.
