Hi Esther, Thanks for the help. I had tried the context menu last night, but it didn't work b/c I wasn't interacting with the songs table. I tried interacting after I saw your message and it worked great.. So, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Best, Donna On Feb 8, 2010, at 12:23 AM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Donna, > > There are two ways to add tracks to regular playlist in iTunes: > 1) Use the contextual menu (VO-Shift-M) after you select your track(s). One > of the menu options will be "Add to Playlist". So I can select a number of > tracks in the songs table, press VO-Shift-M to bring up the context menu, > press "A" to navigate to the "Add to Playlist" menu option, press Right arrow > to navigate to the submenu list of playlists, and then either use my arrow > keys or type the first letters of the playlist I want to select the playlist. > 2) Use copy and paste. In this case, after you select your track(s) in the > songs table you can copy them with Command-C. Then you can navigate to the > playlist in the sources table and paste with Command-V. The track(s) you > copied will be pasted into the playlist. > > Method 2 was added in iTunes 8. Some people find this more intuitive. > However, you have to navigate out of the songs table to the playlist you want > to paste tracks into in the sources table. If you really like this method > better, you could get one of the AppleScripts from the AppleScripts for > iTunes site called "Jump to Playlist". I used this before the "Add to > Playlist" was a context menu option for iTunes. > > Let me know if you're interested in this and I'll give you the instructions > for setting this up. You can bind the AppleScript to a keyboard shortcut (I > think I used Command-Shift-J). When you type the first letters of the > playlist name, you're moved to the first playlist that matches what you've > typed. Focus automatically goes to the playlist in the sources table. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Esther > > Donna Goodin wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Sorry to ask this again, I know Mary just asked it a few days ago. But I've >> been trying to figure out how to add a track to a playlist for half the >> night. I can't find the answer in help, and I see no option for it in the >> menus. Can someone please explain again how to do this? Thank you in >> advance!!! >> Donna >> >> -- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
