Well maybe this is a guide by an idiot so it may suffice. I am a fairly new Mac user but one of the most difficult and unintuitive programs so far is ITunes. Luckily for me all my important needs are met by the much sleeker and intuitive free VLC media player. This has the bonus of inbuilt support for filetypes not native to the mac like wma and wmv files. First off all assemble the mp3 files you want in a playlist in a folder in Finder. If you are doing this from a CD you can use ITunes for this import. I changed the import settings in ITunes so that it imported ripped CDs as mp3 files. ITunes will save the CD in a folder in the ITunes Media library which you can find in Finder under Music and then ITunes. What you next do is open VLC. Select file open with command O and navigate to the folder in which you have the mp3 files stored. Make sure you select the folder and not the individual mp3 file. VLC will start to play all the files in the folder.. If you want to create a playlist file first of all press cmd P to pause playing so you can hear Voiceover. Now press command shift + to automatically add all the files in the folder to a playlist. Now press command S to save this playlist. You can give this a name and select where you want to save the playlist. I tend to put in the same folder as the mp3 files.
You can then simply play this playlist in finder. What I did was associate both mp3 files and playlist files with VLC. I now have a very sleek and powerful media tool on my Mac. As a little refinement I have set a couple of hot spots in VLC so that I can instantly get the track title announced and time played. As I say I am a newbie to the Mac but am extremely relieved to find VLC which is so simple to use. I suppose I may get used to ITunes one day but find it very difficult as I did not use it on the Windows side. I seem to be constantly interacting and uninteractin g. If anybody knows a good guide for use with Voiceover then please let me know. Regards David Griffith 6 Oct 2011, at 15:08, Sarah May wrote: > > Hi Martin, > > I need an idiot’s guide as well. SO you aren’t alone. > > Sarah > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Martin Brown > Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:23 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: An Idiot's guide to creating playlists in iTunes > > Everyone, > > I would like to create playlists so that I might put specific music into them > in order to use my iPod Touch. I have a Mac, but I just cannot get to grips > with how to use iTunes and copy music into it from an external drive in order > to make playlists. > > Please, please, please, could someone give me an idiot's step-by-step guide > on how to do this? > > Many thanks. > > Martin > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1410 / Virus Database: 1520/3940 - Release Date: 10/05/11 > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. -- 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.
