Need to Esther if you don't mind! Thanks a lot, Johnny see Cakes
On May 16, 2012, at 9:14 AM, Stacey Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Ester, > I missed Ricardo's instructions as I had to do a mass delete of email. (would > never stay caught up otherwise) if you have those, could you send them to me > off list? > Thanks, > Stacey > mailto:[email protected] > On May 16, 2012, at 12:28 AM, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Paul, Ricardo, Jane, Mark, and Others, >> Just a few quick comments to add to these instructions. For Jane's >> question, the "Recently Added" smart playlist by default matches two rules: >> 1) Date added in the last 2 weeks >> 2) Kind is not podcast >> >> In addition, as Ricardo noted, once you navigate to the "Recently Added" >> smart playlist and use the context menu to "edit smart playlist" you can >> check the box to limit the number of items in the smart playlist and fill in >> a number. >> >> The items appear in the order they were added. Jane's idea of creating a >> regular playlist of these items is also a good one. You can either do this >> as Ricardo suggested, by checking the box and specifying number of items in >> the smart playlist, then move to songs table for the playlist (e.g., with >> VO-J) doing a Command-A to select all, then do a Command-Shift-N to create a >> new playlist from your selection and assign a name to the playlist. Now you >> can work with these items separately within their own playlist and reorder >> them, if necessary, without disturbing the "Recently Added" smart playlist >> when you make editing changes. >> >> I'll just add that for almost anything you want to do in iTunes, there's >> likely to be an AppleScript at Doug Adams' "AppleScripts for iTunes" web >> site. So if you want to turn your playlist into an "Album" with the tracks >> numbered in the order they appear in your playlist, there's an "Albumize >> Selection" AppleScript: >> http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=albumizeselection >> Bring up Links in your web rotor and type in "download" to locate the "Click >> to download this script" link. You can also find the PDF description link >> just beside it (either as the next entry in the Links chooser menu, or if >> you navigated to the "Click to download this script" link, just flick, right >> arrow (in QuickNav mode), or VO-Right arrow to it.) >> >> This AppleScript re-numbers the tracks in the album into playlist order, and >> optionally enters a new Album name for each track. The zip file downloads >> with instructions about how to use the AppleScript. (Place it in your >> account's Library/Scripts folder. Use Command-Shift-H in Finder to go to >> your home folder, then use Command-Shift-G to "Go to folder" and type into >> the text field, "Library", without quotation marks, and press return. Then >> create a "Scripts" folder (without quotation marks) from the file menu or >> with Command-Shift-N if this is the first time you are using AppleScripts. >> Navigate to the Scripts folder, and copy the AppleScript here. This will >> show up as an option in a new Scripts menu on your iTunes menu bar. Select >> your playlist, and choose this option from the Scripts menu on the iTunes >> menu bar to run the AppleScript.) >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
