Hi Donna, I'll comment on Ricardo's suggestion to use the Search field, which you can get to with Command-Option-F (or Control-Option-F in Windows). It's a good one, provided you know that the search doesn't pull in items from other fields. The thing to realize about the Search text field is that it works as a filter on everything that you choose to display for a track in the "View" options for that library. So as long as you type a search field that matches only the items in your album, it's fine to do a command-a to select all and then delete. Let's say you typed "Abbey Road" into the search field. It will match all instances where these words appear in the Album title, song title, comments, or any other field that is views in the songs table -- so you may pull out the same song from other albums. Unless you're very sure that you've typed in a unique search term, you'd be better off at least navigating to the songs table after your search and doing a sort (VO-Shift-Backslash) on the Album column (and yes, you do need to interact), and check that the same album name is at the top and bottom of the list -- no interlopers of music tracks that you don't want to delete. If you're clean, do the Command-A to select all and then delete. If not, go up to the last matching album list entry, press your shift key and arrow up to the top (or to the first matching entry) and delete.
The trick to working efficiently in iTunes is to work in large blocks with each action, and a combination of the file browser and the search box can quickly get you to many combinations, since they can work together. With the browser you can separately select by artist, album, genre, composer etc. in any combination (e.g., first select an artist to filter out all works, then select one or more of the albums you want, then use command-option-F and type in search text to filter the remaining results). If that doesn't work, you can also use "smart playlist" rule criteria to find things --- e.g. the songs by artist so and so that I played more than 50 times in the last 3 months. Just some things to think about. Cheers, Esther On Feb 27, 2011, at 10:13, Donna Goodin wrote: > Hey Ricardo, > > thanks! I share your aversion for interacting with things, so I'll > definitely play around with this. It hadn't dawned on me to use the search > function. It's amazing how many different ways there are to accomplish > things on the Mac, and how, even after using a Mac for a year and a half, you > realize how much more you have to learn. > Cheers, > Donna > On Feb 27, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > >> Hi Donna, >> >> What Tim said works fine but, I think their is an easier way. Just go to >> music in the sources list and then press command option F to take you to the >> search field. Now type in the name of the album. All you have to do now is >> navigate to the songs table, press command a to select everything and hit >> backspace. Note: You will want to make sure only songs from the album you >> typed int into the search are in the songs table. I just feel avoiding >> interacting with things is a faster way to go about tasks like this. >> >> hth >> >> Ricardo Walker >> [email protected] >> Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 >> >> >> >> >> On Feb 27, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Donna Goodin wrote: >> >>> Hi Tim,. >>> >>> Thanks so much for this. The VO-Shift-Backslash is a command I hadn't >>> seen before. >>> Best, >>> Donna >>> On Feb 27, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> 1. Go to Music in your Sources List. >>>> 2. Interact With the Music Table. >>>> 3. Navigate to the Album column. >>>> 4. Press VO-shift-back slash to sort by Album. >>>> 5. Navigate to the first item in that album. >>>> 6. Hold down your sift key as you arrow through the rest of the album. >>>> 7. Press the Delete key to remove it. >>>> 8. You can press "m" to tell iTunes to Move the items to the Trash when >>>> the dialog appears. >>>> >>>> Note: If the Album column is not displaying, press cmd-j to bring up the >>>> View Options and check the Album column. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> On 2011-02-27, at 11:03 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello all, >>>>> >>>>> I have a CD in my itunes library that is a compilation of songs from >>>>> different artist. I'd like to remove it. Does anyone know if there's >>>>> some way to just remove the whole album, rather than hunting out each of >>>>> the different artist and deleting individual tracks? As always, any help >>>>> is much appreciated. >>>>> Best, >>>>> 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.
