Hello Again Ronni Yes I am using iPhoto 9.2.1 (iLife’11). Your explanation, as ever, is wonderfully clear. I have only imported one batch of photos and I shall now organise them properly and hopefully get it right next time.!
Yes I am using iTunes 10.5.3. After dinner I shall work through your instructions and re-import my CDs properly. I shall report my progress tomorrow. Thanks again and best wishes from Diana On 21/02/2012, at 1:49 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hello Diana, > > Where do I start… I think perhaps in parts. You first need to understand a > bit about iPhoto and iTunes. > > PART ONE: iPhoto: Are you using iPhoto 9.2.1 (iLife’11)? > First you need to understand how iPhoto works. > > iPhoto '11 presents two ways to view your library: by Thumbnails of every > photo or by ‘Events'. > > What you have mentioned below is “Events”, so I will explain ‘How to use > iPhoto Events to Organise Photos’: > > An event groups photos taken during a certain time period. Each event is > viewed as a thumbnail, and when you mouse over that thumbnail, you can skim > through the photos it contains. > > Viewing by events in iPhoto makes it easier to scroll through your photos, > particularly when your library contains thousands upon thousands of photos. > > iPhoto creates events as you import photos, and you can set parameters on how > it goes about doing so. > > You have four choices on how iPhoto creates events: > > Via iPhoto > Preferences > General, you you'll find a menu item labeled, > Autosplit into Events. > The choices are: One Event per day; One Event per week; Two-hour gaps, and > Eight-hour gaps. > The last two options are for serious photographers who take hundreds of shots > in a given day. > For most, creating an event per day or per week will suffice. > > You can merge and split events, should you, for example, import a week's > worth of vacation photos and find you created seven separate events. > Simply highlight the event or events you want to merge into another and then > drag and drop them on top of the event with which you'd like to merge them. > (To highlight multiple events that are next to each other, use the shift key. > For events that are not next to each other, use the command key.) > > To split an event, open an event and highlight the first photo that will be > the first photo in the new event. > Then under the Events menu option on the menu bar, choose Split Event. > > You can also move a photo or photos from one event to another. > To do so, highlight two events and then double-click on one of them, which > will open both events. > You can then drag and drop photos between the two open events. > > Lastly, you can choose the photo in an event to be the image to appear in the > thumbnail. > Apple calls it, the key photo. Drag your cursor over an event thumbnail to > skim through the photos. > Find one you like and hit the spacebar to assign it as the key photo. > ========= > > PART TWO: iTunes: Are you using iTunes 10.5.3? > How to Import a Music CD: > > You first need to setup your Import Format preference or leave it at default > which is AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) Format). • It is part of the MP4 > standard and can be used by any hardware or software. iOS devices understand > this format, but some MP3 players don’t support it. Probably the default > setting will suit you. > > (* I prefer to import using the same quality as the CD which is AIFF Encoder: > Both AIFF and WAV files encapsulate raw sound data from a music CD in file > headers so the data can be used on computers. This format is uncompressed, > and it takes up a lot of space, around 600–700 MB per disc, or about 10 MB > per minute of audio.) > I won’t go into Bit Rates at this time. > > 1. iTunes > Preferences - General: When you insert a CD: Show CD > 2. Click on Import Settings: this is where you can change the default AAC > Encoder if you wish. > 3. Select “Automatically retrieve CD track names from the Internet” > Select “Automatically download missing Album Artwork > Select Check for new software updates automatically > 4. Click OK > 5. Quit iTunes > > 6. Insert you your Music CD into your optical drive, after it spins up iTunes > should open (If not, Open iTunes and the CD will display in the Sidebar, > under Devices, then check the Gracenote CD Database for tag information. If > it finds this information, you’ll see the names of your album, artist, and > tracks > > 7. To Import the whole CD: > A) Select it in the Sidebar > B) Click ‘Import CD’ button > > Your Music CD will be imported into the iTunes Library. > > To View by Album: Select Music (under Library), Click the "Album by > Artist/Year” Column (at the top menu) > To View by Artist (which is probably what you have done), Click the “Artist” > Column > > You choose a view by clicking a view button at the top of the iTunes window. > From left to right, the buttons are for 'List View', 'Album List View', 'Grid > View', and 'Cover Flow View'. > > To Choose which Columns to Display: > Choose View > View Options to open the View Options dialogue window. > Then, check a checkbox for a column name to display it, or uncheck one to > hide it. > > After adding columns, you may want to reposition them by dragging them to the > left or right, and resize them to show all the information they contain, or > to make sure they fit in your iTunes window. > > One way to resize columns is to Control-click on a column header, then choose > Auto Size Column or Auto Size All Columns. iTunes will fit the size of one or > all visible columns to hold the longest text that they contain. > You can also resize a column by dragging the divider between any two column > headers. > > That’s enough for the now, Ronni needs a coffee ;-) > I’ll look through my huge documents folder and also my Bookmarks in Safari > anything that might be of help to you. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.7.3 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > On 21/02/2012, at 12:15 PM, Diana & Graham Stevens wrote: > >> I have avoided iPhoto & iTunes up until now as I thought they were >> unnecessarily complicated. >> >> I hate the way iPhoto puts one camera download in multiple folders if the >> pics were not all taken on the same day. I previously used the Canon >> software but my camera is so old there is no OSX version. Now I have a >> MacBookPro it is iPhoto or a card reader. >> >> I only used iTunes to put Pod Casts on my iPod but now I find I like some >> music on my iPad. I imported a Peggy Lee / George Shearing Album from CD and >> it filed the two instrumentals under George and the vocals under Peggy. Same >> nasty busy-body behaviour! >> >> But I need to learn to cope with this and manage my files. Please someone >> point me towards a tutorial for the simple-minded. >> >> And maybe someone can advise me about the iTunes Store. I wanted to buy a >> few tracks from the Kate Bush Album 'The Kick Inside', it is $8.99 and >> contains 13 tracks, 12 at $2.19 each plus one at $1.69, doesn't add up. >> Buying the album is the best option but can I be sure I shall get all the >> tracks? If I don't get them all they may not include the ones I want. >> >> Best wishes to all from Diana > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
