Hi Cheryl,
Been there, done that <grin>. Sometimes I want to find imported items in
iTunes that were not recently added, but which may have problematic tagging,
and I find it easiest to use the "Recently Added" smart playlist but just edit
it to temporarily change the date added in the rules section from "2" weeks to
"4" weeks, or "2 months", etc. That's why I added the comments about moving to
the "Recently Added" smart playlist in the sources list, bringing up the
context menu with VO-Shift-M, and selecting "Edit smart playlist" in the menu.
You only need to arrow over to the "rules section" and interact, then navigate
to the first rule that is "Date added in the last 2 weeks". You can just type
a different number in the text box to make this 4 weeks, or you can VO-space on
the pop up button for "weeks" and change this to "months" or "days". Or you
can do any combination of the above and then press the "OK" button (or just
press the "return" key) to have your new rules take effect.
There's another way to make finding untagged tracks easier, and that's to use
the column browser in combination with your "Recently Added" smart playlist to
find entries that you need to tag. While focused on the "Recently Added" smart
playlist in the sources list, navigate to the iTunes menu bar to the "View"
menu (VO-M or Control-F2 to the menu bar, then press "v"), arrow down, press
"c" to move to the "Column browser" then right arrow to the submenu and arrow
down to any entries you want displayed in the column browser, such as "Artists"
or "Albums". (You'll have to navigate to this sub-menu each time you want to
check or uncheck any of the selections.) I have the options for "Artists",
"Albums", and "Genres" checked, along with view mode "on top", which used to be
the default setup in iTunes before version 8, but this is entirely optional.
Now, when I select the "Recently Added" smart playlist I can also toggle the
column browser between show and hide modes with Command-B. The column browser
adds a set of columns for my checked selections of "Artists" and "Albums" that
appears before the tracks in the songs table. If I navigate to "Albums" and
select "Unknown Album", then only the tracks in my "Recently Added" smart
playlist that don't have album tags will show up in the songs table, and I can
select any of them for tagging. If I only added one album, I can select all
(with Command-A) and then do a Command-I ("get info") to edit their tag fields.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 26, 2012, at 15:07, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Oh yeah, that's true. I had forgotten this because sometimes when i did this
> the items were not recently added. Sorry for making it complicated!
>
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> Cheryl
>
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> and the meditation of my heart
> be acceptable to You, Lord,
> my rock and my Redeemer.
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>
>
>
> On Nov 26, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Phil and Others,
>>
>> You can always find items that you add to iTunes, even with no tag
>> information, by selecting the "Recenly Added" smart playlist in the
>> sources list. Then use VO-J or else navigate with your arrow keys to
>> the list of tracks, which will appear in the chronological order they
>> were added to iTunes. Use VO-J again to jump back to the smart
>> playlist in the sources list. The "Recently Added" smart playlist
>> contains all tracks added to iTunes in the last two weeks that are not
>> flagged as podcasts. You can modify the criteria in the rules section
>> to change this (e.g. to make this tracks added in the last day, or
>> over a specific date range) by using the context menu (VO-Shift-M)
>> when focused on this smart playlist to choose the option to edit the
>> smart playlist. Alternatively, you can create your own smart playlist
>> based on date added and any tag information you may have.
>>
>> You can also identify the untagged tracks by pressing space bar to
>> play/pause tracks in your smart playlist, then arrow down to the next
>> and use space bar to play/pause the next track. Then you can select a
>> bunch of these tracks by holding down your shift key while you arrow
>> down through the group you want, and do a Command-I ("get info") to
>> edit the tag fields for album and artist.
>>
>> HTH. Cheers,
>>
>> Esther
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 26, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Should be in there somewhere. All my random MP3s were in the folder:
>>>
>>> ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album
>>>
>>> CB
>>>
>>> On 11/26/12 4:36 PM, Phil Halton wrote:
>>>
>>> How can I find the mp3 files I just imported into iTunes? They were
>>> untagged mp3's, but I thought I could at least find them by searching for
>>> their file names in the music folder, but no luck. I can't find them
>>> anywhere in my iTunes library.
>>>
>>> This is crazy, can you help? I know that mp3's are by default loaded
>>> into the music library, but I've looked and can't find them.
>>>
>>
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