Hi Denise, Sorry about that, you're going to need to select the tracks from the ripped information that is in your iTunes Music Library in order to create a playlist for your Library. After you've ripped your CD, you can find the tracks you just ripped if you select the "Recently Added" smart playlist in your sources table. This playlist contains all tracks you've added to your iTunes library in the last two weeks (not including podcast subscription episodes), and is listed in time order. So you can just select the tracks from your album in that playlist and create a regular playlist. If you need to distinguish your current album from previously imported tracks in the "Recently Added" smart playlist songs table, just filter the displayed results by pressing Command+Option+f to go to the search text field textbox in iTunes, and type in part of the album name (it can even be part of a word). Then navigate back to the "recently added table", interact, and do a Command+a to select all (where "all" has now been filtered to only match the contents of your recent album). Then do a Command+Shift+N to generate a new playlist from your selection. You'll get a dialog box and VoiceOver will say "New playlist from selection. Enter a name for your playlist". There will be a default name that is the Artist and Album, e.g. "Vangelis - Chariots of Fire". You can accept the default or type a name of your choosing for the playlist.
Using the "Recently Added" smart playlist always works to find recently imported items -- even when they are not properly tagged. However, the usual way that I generate playlists for albums is to use the iTunes Browser (toggled on and off with Command+B) in my Music Library playlist. This lets me select tracks by any combination of composer, artist, or album. After selecting the Music Library playlist in my sources table, and toggling on the browser with Command+B, I navigate to the browser (VoiceOver says "playlist browser" and interact. Then, in the browser, I navigate to "albums" and select the name of my album. I can do the Command+Shift+N new playlist from selection shortcut here to create the playlist, but if you want to check that these are the tracks listed in the songs table, you can stop interacting with the browser and navigate to the songs table. The browser is a more flexible way to find and create playlists for tracks, because I could decide to select multiple albums by a single artist and create a playlist for them using the browser. All the methods of doing non-contiguous selection will work in the browser lists, too, so I can select an artist, then navigate to the albums column (which now only lists albums by that artist), and select albums that I want and use Command+Shift+N to create the playlist. Toggle the browser off with another Command+B when you're done. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jul 9, 2011, at 08:56, Denise Avant wrote: > hi, > when i press command-shift-n, is there to be some sort of dialog box. i did > select all my songs, and pressed the next keystroke and nothing happened. > > On Jul 9, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Denise, >> >> When you insert a CD (e.g., for ripping) and this automatically gets >> selected in the sources list of iTunes, the songs table shows you the >> contents. To save this as a playlist in your iTunes library, the fastest >> way is to navigate to the songs table while the CD is inserted and select >> all with Command+A, and then press Command+Shift+N (keyboard shortcut for >> "New Playlist from Selection"). Those two keyboard shortcuts executed in >> succession will generate a playlist in your library. You can accept the >> default name (which has artist and album) or type in a new one. (I usually >> just want the album name without the artist as a prefix). >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Jul 9, 2011, at 06:27, Denise Avant wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> when you rip a cd in itunes, i notice that there is a playlist as long as >>> the cd stays in the drive. is there any way to somehow make this playlist >>> permanent so it is still there after the cd is removed? >>> thanks. >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@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.
