Hi, Colin's suggestion should work too, if it's a complete album.
Cheers, Esther On Nov 6, 2011, at 11:19, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi Paul! > Just for the purposes of getting rid of that album! > Why don't you change the view to grid and pick the album view! > I've got mine like this and all the albums are in order and all I've got to > do is open that album and select all and delete! > Album gone! > hth Colin > > On 6 Nov 2011, at 20:22, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Esther, >> Again this answer is worth saving for later reference so I did that, but I >> still have questions. >> >> 1. I'm trying to find tracks, all belonging to one album from one artist, >> present in my itunes library, and I want to get rid of them in itunes. >> Here's what I do, but it fails. >> 1. Start itunes, go to the music browser. >> 2. Select an artist and then an album. >> 3. From the songs table, I hit vo command f5 to pull the mouse over to the >> vo cursor, and then I click with vo shift space, just to get itunes focus >> into the songs table. >> 4. Now, I move to the first song and I hit shift plus down arrow, keeping >> shift down, and repeatedly I hit down arrow. This does not select any >> tracks, while if I shift arrow down in the songs table when I did not use >> the music browser before trying to shift arrow, selection works just fine. >> In other words: if I open up itunes, and I start shift arrowing in the songs >> table, then selection happens just fine. However, when trying to select >> tracks after having narrowed down the songs table, by selecting an artist >> and album from the music browser first, then selection does not work any >> more. Any idea what I'm doing wrong here? >> >> 2. Why would you want to use playlists anyway? Are they necessary in order >> to delete tracks? Only time I can think of, when a playlist is necessary, is >> if I want to make an audio cd from selected tracks, because then, I must add >> them to a playlist, in order for itunes to go burn them to cd. When wanting >> to delete tracks from my itunes library, do playlists come into play at all? >> >> Curious. >> Paul. >> >> On Nov 6, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Esther wrote: >> >>> Hi Paul, >>> >>> Can you select and use the Shift+Arrow keys in the songs table if you first >>> click in this table with VO-Shift-Space? First, I find that I can select >>> the album in the column browser and create the playlist directly from there >>> If I click on the selection with VO-Shift-Space and then press >>> Command-Shift-N to create a new playlist from my selection without having >>> to navigate to the songs table. If I want to create a playlist after >>> navigating to the songs table (e.g., I stop interacting with the column >>> browser and navigate to the songs table and interact), I'll first click >>> with VO-Shift-Space and then navigate around to do my selections, including >>> holding down the Shift key. However, I can only delete tracks if I select >>> them from the songs table, and not from the column browser. >>> >>> When you delete tracks from playlists you generally do not delete them from >>> your iTunes library -- only from the playlist. If you want to force >>> deletion of tracks that you select from a playlist, you have to press >>> Option+Delete instead of just Delete. Then iTunes will prompt you with a >>> dialog window asking you whether you really want to delete these tracks >>> from your library. >>> >>> Hope this answers your questions. Write back if anything is still not >>> clear. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Esther >>> >>> On Nov 6, 2011, at 09:41, Paul Erkens wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Esther, >>>> To clarify my last message, I forgot to add that once I have found an >>>> album using the music browser, itunes will not let me select any tracks. >>>> Usually, I can do it using the shift and vertical arrows, but this is not >>>> possible after I narrow down the tracks listing inside the itunes music >>>> table, by selecting an album using the command b music browser. Any idea >>>> why shift arrows does not work? It would be the easiest way to find and >>>> get rid of tracks. >>>> >>>> Best, thanks in advance. >>>> Paul. >>>> On Nov 6, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Esther, >>>>> Thanks for your as always thorough and clear response. I have been >>>>> playing around with the music browser a few days now and it seems to work >>>>> for me. I even cleaned up stuff I didn't even know I still had in my >>>>> library, and I was also able to correct a few genres. >>>>> >>>>> I still have a question though. After I select an artist and then an >>>>> album in the music browser, why is it that I cannot select any files in >>>>> the music table? I want to delete an album once I found it. How do you >>>>> delete an album once you got it displayed? >>>>> >>>>> Paul. >>>>> On Nov 2, 2011, at 9:54 PM, Esther wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Paul, Doug, Aser, and Others, >>>>>> >>>>>> A more useful general way to access your music in iTunes by Artist (or >>>>>> Album, or Genre, or other categories) is to use the Column Browser, >>>>>> which can be toggled on or off between the "Show" and "Hide" positions >>>>>> with Command+B. You can configure this under the "View" menu on your >>>>>> iTunes menu bar. Use either VO+M or the general OS X shortcut of >>>>>> Control+F2 to navigate to the menu bar, press "V" to go to the View >>>>>> Menu, arrow down, then press "C" or use arrow keys to move to the >>>>>> "Column Browser" menu option. Press either your right arrow key or >>>>>> VO-Space to move to the "Column Browser" submenu. You can arrow down >>>>>> and press "Return" to check or uncheck entries you want to be shown once >>>>>> the Column Browser is toggled on. (You need to do this for each item you >>>>>> want to check or uncheck.) For example, I have Artists, Albums, and >>>>>> Composers checked, and I have my column browser set to display on top, >>>>>> with options to "Group Compilations", and "Use Album Artists". >>>>>> >>>>>> Then, when the browser is toggled on, you can navigate to separate >>>>>> column listings of Artists, Albums, and Composers (or whatever options >>>>>> you have chosen). These work to filter the results in your songs table >>>>>> by categories, and I generally keep my library displayed in list view >>>>>> (Command+Option+3). For example, you can either go directly to an >>>>>> alphabetical list of album titles in the browser (if you checked "Album" >>>>>> as one of the items to be displayed), highlight the album you want, and >>>>>> then create a playlist of it with the Command+Shift+N "New playlist from >>>>>> selection" shortcut. Or, you could first select the "Artist" in the >>>>>> alphabetical list of artists in the browser, again assuming that was one >>>>>> of the options you checked, then navigate to the "Albums" column of the >>>>>> browser to view all albums of works by that artist. Or, you could >>>>>> select a Composer in the browser, then select an Artist, and view Albums >>>>>> by an artist interpreting a classical composer's works, for example. >>>>>> Using selections by categories in the column browser, possibly in >>>>>> combination with inputs into the search text field, provides a very fast >>>>>> way to locate and tailor tracks listed in the songs table of your iTunes >>>>>> library. (The column browser works for other categories than just >>>>>> Music, but the options you can check will be different.) >>>>>> >>>>>> This feature has been around since the first accessible version of >>>>>> iTunes, and earlier, and I basically just restore the iTunes options to >>>>>> something like the original settings, which were, from memory, "Genre", >>>>>> "Artist", "Album", and "Composer", viewed "On Top", and "Group >>>>>> Compilations". This last settings shows up albums that cannot be >>>>>> associated with single artists, e.g., "Cinema Classics of 2009", under a >>>>>> "Compilations" category, where they can be found by album title. I >>>>>> believe the default setting of the browser now is to only have "Artist" >>>>>> checked, and to display "On left", but I don't recall the specifics. >>>>>> >>>>>> Paul, in general, iTunes on your Mac can be configured to do a lot more >>>>>> than on your iOS device, an pretty easily. >>>>>> >>>>>> HTH. Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> Esther >>>>>> >>>>>> On Nov 2, 2011, at 06:58, Aser Tolentino wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> In iTunes, move one element left of iTunes search, where you should >>>>>>> find something called view mode, interact with that and select grid >>>>>>> view. When you then scroll passed the source list, you should >>>>>>> eventually encounter buttons that allow you to group by artist, album, >>>>>>> genre etc. Select which one you want and then keep scrolling until you >>>>>>> hear VoiceOver say "grid view, one item selected" or something similar. >>>>>>> Interact with that and you should find your music sorted by the >>>>>>> criteria you selected above. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> HTH >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Aser >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Sent from my iPad >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Nov 2, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Doug Lawlor <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I seem to remember a plugin for doing this some ware but can't >>>>>>>> remember where I saw it. I would love to know if this is still >>>>>>>> possible. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Doug >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 2011-11-02, at 1:04 PM, Paul Erkens <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On an iphone, you can sort the itunes library by artist. On my mac, I >>>>>>>>> only see tons of songs, and if I want to delete an entire album, or >>>>>>>>> all songs from 1 artist, I need to carefully select each of them, and >>>>>>>>> then delete them from the itunes library. Is there a better way on >>>>>>>>> the mac, to view the itunes library by artist, or by album, without >>>>>>>>> seeing the artist and album names 16 times vertically, once for each >>>>>>>>> song in a given album? >>>>>>>>> -- 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.
