Tim,
I may do this, it may be just right. I did combine some genres and
reduced the list a bit too. Appreciate the suggestions.
From The Believer. . .
By way of the Chariots of the
Gods cameth the Aliens who
dwelt amongst the humans,
and bringeth much knowledge.
On 3/17/2015 12:36 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
You can streamline the playlists table by creating a Movies Playlist folder.
So, while in iTunes,
• go up to the File menu, down to New, over and down to New Playlist Folder.
• Enter a name for it like “Movie Playlists”
• Navigate back to the Playlists table and make sure focus is on the new “Movie
Playlists” folder.
• Go up to the File menu again, down to New, over to New Playlist.
• Give it a name like Action & Adventure or whatever Genre you wish to put
together.
• Now, go back to Movies then press on My Movies.
• Interact with the table of movies and select all the ones you wish in the Action
& Adventure playlist.
• Press VO-shift-m to bring up the Contextual menu.
• Down to Add to Playlist, over and down to the Action & Adventure item, then
press return.
• repeat these steps for other genre related movie playlists.
A couple of things to note.
1. All the existing genre related movie playlists that you already created can
be removed to shorten your playlist table.
• the keyboard shortcuts for New Playlist etc, don’t like to work in this
situation, so you’ll need to use the menubar items.
• as long as the “Movie Playlists” folder is selected or expanded, any new
playlists will be created within it.
• a sighted user would simply be able to drag and drop the playlists you’ve
already created into this folder, but it is less forgiving in VO. Doable, but
often frustrating.
HTH.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Mar 17, 2015, at 12:17, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Yes, the sorting does that and I have selected what I want to be shown in
that view. But while the movies are sorted that way, they are all in one list.
If I select Home Videos from the popup button, I get grid view. If I select
Video List, I get the list view and I see all the selected options across the
top.
I tried playlists. That appears to work and I can select a specific genre
and see only those titles grouped by genre.
The playlist table is pretty long now but I could not find another way to do
this.
From The Believer. . .
By way of the Chariots of the
Gods cameth the Aliens who
dwelt amongst the humans,
and bringeth much knowledge.
On 3/17/2015 8:29 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
You could do that if you wish but it’s unnecessary. You should be able to,
when the Movies are viewed in List view, sort by whatever column you wish. If,
when navigating across the columns, Genre is not one of them, then you can
press on the “movies List” menu then add that column from within the pop-over.
There is another menu to the right of the initial table for changing the view,
that allows you to check which columns you want shown in the table. Add the
Genre to that and you’d then be able to sort by that when in the Movies table.
HTH.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Mar 16, 2015, at 22:05, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
That will help. I have been trying to figure out how to view movies by genre
as one can do with music. Seems not to work the same. So perhaps creating a
playlist for each genre? In tesating this, I cannot select multiple items to
add to the new playlist.
I must be going at it all wrong.
From The Believer. . .
By way of the Chariots of the
Gods cameth the Aliens who
dwelt amongst the humans,
and bringeth much knowledge.
On 3/16/2015 9:02 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
When in the movies view, to the left of the grid, it probably says “Movies
Menu”. VO-space on that, then Interact with the table and VO-space on the
Movies List option. This should put the movies into a more VO friendly table
where you can hopefully edit anything that requires editing.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Mar 16, 2015, at 16:31, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Tim,
That brought them back. I set sort vby first to genres then title. But from
there I am not seeing how to select the genre I want to display. All of the
titles are in one grid view.
I noticed some titles, probably quite a few, that got mangled, so I want to
be sure I can sort things before I put more time into this. I thoght I ahd it
all done but perhaps I only worked over my music, which is still intact.
Then the question is, how to prevent this from happening again. Thanks.
From The Believer. . .
By way of the Chariots of the
Gods cameth the Aliens who
dwelt amongst the humans,
and bringeth much knowledge.
On 3/16/2015 1:35 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
Check under the Advanced pane of iTunes Preferences and make sure that iTunes
is pointing to your Library on the external HD. If it is, then do the
following:
1. When in iTunes, press cmd-o to Add to Library
2. Press cmd-shift-c to focus on all connected media.
3. Navigate to the external and expand it.
4. Find your movies folder but don’t expand it.
5. Once it is selected, just press return and iTunes should bring the titles
back into your Library.
It shouldn’t do any copying since the movies are already in the right location
but it will take a bit to properly add them to the database.
HTH.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Mar 16, 2015, at 14:11, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Tim,
That is what is missing, the Home Videos button. Finder shows all the ripped
movies in the Home Videos folder. In iTunes, when the My Movies button is
selected, there is no Home Videos button to the right. And no Movies popup
button.
It was all there before. iTunes has lost track I guess.
From The Believer. . .
By way of the Chariots of the
Gods cameth the Aliens who
dwelt amongst the humans,
and bringeth much knowledge.
On 3/16/2015 9:27 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
If they are ripped movies, they are likely filed under the “Home Videos”
section. So, when you go to “My Movies”, if you VO-right twice after the “My
Movies” button, there should be a “Home Videos” button which should reveal all
those ripped movies. By default, iTunes only puts purchased movies into the
regular Movies list. You can go into the info for the movie, under the Options
tab and change it from a “Home Move” to a plain old “Movie” if you wish and
they will show up in the regular list instead. You can also do this in a bulk
fashion by selecting all the movies in the “Home Videos” list, pressing cmd-i
to Get Info, selecting the Options tab, then changing the pop-up from “Home
Movies” to “Movies”.
HTH.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Mar 16, 2015, at 10:10, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Tim,
All are ripped movies and placed in the automatically add folder. After all
that was done, I had gone into iTunes and edited media information, mostly the
genres and cleaned up titles. All seemed well then.
From The Believer. . .
By way of the Chariots of the
Gods cameth the Aliens who
dwelt amongst the humans,
and bringeth much knowledge.
On 3/16/2015 9:06 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
A couple of things. What process did you use to move the iTunes media to the
external drive? Are these movies purchased or ripped from your own collection?
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Mar 16, 2015, at 09:56, The Believer <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote:
Running Mavericks and latest iTunes 12.
I have my media stored on an external drive. iTunes sees the music but not
the movies. Cmd-2 then press the My Movies button and there are no movies and
the Movies pop up button is not there. Using Finder, all the movie files are
present. What do I need to do to fix this? Thanks.
From The Believer. . .
By way of the Chariots of the
Gods cameth the Aliens who
dwelt amongst the humans,
and bringeth much knowledge.
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