Hi Tim. Yes, I am delighted that I can play my music via apple tv. Only reason I burn a few CD's is to have good music for working out on my treadmill, which is nowhere near my apple tv.
I will try your directions for changing my views in iTunes. I really appreciate all the help. Marlaina On Dec 4, 2010, at 9:55 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: Marlaina, You can do a number of things so that you don't have to scroll through all your songs. 1. use the Search field. • Select the Music item from the Sources List. • Stop Interacting With it. • Navigate once left to the Search field. • Enter the album name. • It should only show you songs in that album in the Songs Table. • You can then simply make a playlist and burn it. or... 2. Use a different view. • Navigate right through your iTunes window. • Select Grid view. • Continue navigating right past the Sources List and select "Group by Albums". • You should be able to create playlists from any album you've imported so that you could burn a CD. I'd also like to note though that since you have an Apple TV, you can simply play your music through the Apple TV on your sound system and thus there isn't really an urgent need to burn everything to CD. HTH. Later... On 2010-12-04, at 8:25 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > Hurrah I did it! I tried Tim's steps below and they worked; I am now going > to try Colin's steps in a previous message. > > One thing though: I see all my songs, I don't get a list of albums; so I > have to scroll through all my songs to find the album I want to burn. Surely > that can't be right? > > Marlaina > > OOOO my Huskies were ahead of the Koogers and now they are tied at 28! > Wonder if I can pay attention to learning more iTunes stuff and watching this > darned game! Go Huskies go! > On Dec 4, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > > Hi Marlaina, > > To burn an album to CD, I would first create a playlist with the songs I wish > on the CD: > > 1. Search for the album name. > 2. Check the songs it found, if OK then go to #3. > 3. Press cmd-a for Select All. > 4. Press cmd-shift-n to Create Playlist from Selection (also under the File > menu). > 5. Name your playlist. > 6. Go under the File menu and choose Burn Playlist to CD. > > A dialog will apear where you can say whether you want it to be an audio CD, > mp3 CD or Data CD, how much gap to have between songs and whether to use > SoundCheck or not. Once all those choices have been made, press the Burn > button. It will then ask you to insert the proper kind of CD and the process > will begin. > > If you wish your NetGear server to house your iTunes media then do the > following: > > 1. Make sure that your computer is always connected to the NetGear server. > 2. Make sure that the media is in a single folder on that server. > 3. Open iTunes. > 4. Press cmd-comma to bring up the iTunes Preferences. > 5. Select the Advanced tab in the ToolBar. > 6. Press the Change button just after the iTunes Media location. > 7. Press cmd-shift-c to bring up the list of attached devices. > 8. Select the NetGear server and expand it using VO-backslash. > 9. Locate the folder with all the music/media, select it then Stop > Interacting with the Table. > 10. Press Choose and wait for iTunes to build the Library file. > > That should do it. iTunes may re-organize the folder structure within the > media folder in the process but that shouldn't hurt anything. Now, as long > as you have access to the NetGear server and as long as you are connected to > it when you open iTunes, life should be good. As well, you should have your > Apple TV paired to your iTunes Library and then it can just stream all your > media from the computer to the TV. It will stream movies, TV shows, music > and will even use your iPhoto pictures as the screensaver while playing music > if you wish. This is a really nice feature for sighted people as it does a > fantastic job of flipping through the photos on your TV screen while > listening to your favourite music through the stereo. > > HTH. > > Later... > > > On 2010-12-04, at 4:10 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: > >> Ok, how do I do it then? Sorry, I am really really struggling with iTunes >> and we just bought the apple tv and now I can't figure out how to tell >> iTunes to use my netgear file server as the base for my library, and I can't >> figure out how to burn albums to cd. I'm glad to know the latter can be >> done, but how do I do it? When I'm in iTunes, I see individual song names >> and I see a checkbox next to each which is checked. Any help with getting >> albums burned to CD and getting iTunes to know that all my music resides on >> an in-home external file server will be worth its weight in gold and a note >> to Santa from me on your behalf, :) >> >> Marlaina >> On Dec 4, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >> >> Hi Marlaina, >> >> Your husband is incorrect. Not that I like to contribute to the cause of >> husbands being so often incorrect, but, he is in this case. When you burn >> purchased audio to an audio CD, it will play just fine in any home or >> automobile player. The only restriction is if you try to burn >> purchased/protected content to an mp3 CD, that won't work. >> >> Later... >> >> On 2010-12-04, at 3:14 PM, Marlaina Lieberg wrote: >> >>> Ok, that might sound like a stupid question, but as I was about to buy >>> Susan Boyle's The Gift, my husband Gary warned me that he did not think I >>> could burn an audio cd to play on a conventional cd player from an iTunes >>> store music purchase. He said he thinks it is protected music. 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