Sorry, in the instructions I gave that's "copy the folder with Command-C and paste it into your Dropbox with Command-V". And maybe Chris Blouch or someone else can give a better answer to this question.
Cheers, Esther On Feb 6, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Kerri, > > I'll try this again, since my earlier reply did not go through. I'm > not sure what you mean by the "entire CD" as opposed to all the music > tracks. If you want to copy a folder with the name of the album, just > add one step to my previous instructions: select a track from the > album, press command-shift-R to show the track in Finder, then (this > is the added step) press Command-Up Arrow to move up a level to the > folder that contains the tracks. This will be have the name of the > album. Copy this folder with Command-V and paste it into your Dropbox > with Command-V. > > If you mean that you want the entire CD contents as a single joined, > imported track, there's also a way to do that in iTunes via the > advanced menu, If you mean that you want an image if the CD that can > be copied and burned with a CD copy on another machine for > distribution to other people, you'll have to ask someone else. The > only such CDs I've done of ISO images has been of public distribution > software releases, and that is done from the command line. I guess I > don't know what you mean by copying the entire CD, not have individual > tracks. The method I outlined will let you copy and paste a single > folder with the name of the album, but it will still contain > individual tracks of music. If you want to import everything as a > joined, single track, after you insert the CD, and focus is on the CD > in the iTunes sidebar, assuming that you have first changed this to > classic view by pressing command-option-s so that the sidebar is > visible when the CD is inserted, press Command-I to get info on the CD > tracks. Select all with Coomand-A. Then move to the Advanced menu of > the ITunes menu bar (Control-F2, press "a.", and arrow down to select > "Join CD Tracks" and return. Then import the CD. This is from memory, > so someone else may be able to help you. > > If this is not what you want, please write back in more detail. it > sounds as though whatever you put over, you do not want there to be > any individual tracks, even within an album folder. > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > On Feb 6, 3:08 pm, Kerri <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, Esther: >> >> I want to copy the entire cd, not have individual tracks. When I pasted the >> cd into drop box, I saw individual tracks, not an album. >> On 2013-02-06, at 4:50 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> Hello Kerri, >> >>> I'm not sure what you want to do here, but if you want to make copies >>> of all your imported CD tracks from iTunes, select one of the tracks, >>> then press Command-Shift-R, which should show the location of that >>> track in a Finder window under the folder for its album. Press Command- >>> A to select all, the Command-C to copy. Then navigate to the folder >>> you want to put your tracks into and paste with Command-V. For >>> example, if I want to put these into a folder on my Desktop named "My >>> Great Music", I could move to the Desktop with Command-Shift-D. Create >>> a new folder there with Command-Shift-N and type in the name "My Great >>> Music". Then I could move into the folder with Command-Down arrow and >>> paste in the tracks I had copied with Command-V. >> >>> You would still need to move aback into iTunes with Command-Tab and >>> delete the tracks there, because iTunes keeps its own database, and >>> simply deleting the tracks using Finder only leaves behind broken >>> links. >> >>> Ray is correct that if you don't want to organize your music in >>> iTunes, and don't care about being able to sync it to an iPhone or >>> other Apple device, you should probably use third party software like >>> Mac by sbooth to rip your CDs. >> >>> HTH. Cheers, >> >>> Esther >> >>> On Feb 6, 2:28 pm, Kerri <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> hi, ray, yes it is a store bought c and is max an app or a regular >>>> program? So do I perform a google search or fetch it from the app store? >>>> On 2013-02-06, at 4:20 PM, Ray Foret Jr <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>>> IS it a store bought CD? Max would be the way I would go about doing >>>>> this. It's free and accessible and easy to set up. >> >>>>> Sent from my mac >>>>> Sincerely, >>>>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray >>>>> Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! >> >>>>> On Feb 6, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Kerri <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>>>> hello, all. I recently import a cd but don't want it in the library. how >>>>>> do I copy the entire cd? When I went to it and did command c, individual >>>>>> tracks were copied, not the whole cd. Thanks and have a great day. >> >>>>>> -- >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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