Hi Martin Like Ricardo, I actually like using iTunes. When you get the hang of it you will find it is very useful and gives you a combination of flexibility and convenience.
I will assume at this point that you have been able to add all the music you wish into your iTunes library. Ass stated by Ricardo, you need to stop interacting with the sources list before VOing ac ross to your actual device settings. You can also simply press the tab key to do this. You will hear a series of radio buttons like summary, info, music, podcasts etc. Exactly which options you have will depend on which device you have. You need to select the music tab. Now continue to VO right arrow and you will come to a check box asking if you want to sync music. This needs to be checked. You can then choose to either sync your entire music collection or just selected items. Lets say you choose to just sync selected items, so VO spacebar on this option and you will then find a series of tables. One will contain all the playlist you have, one has all the different artists and the other has all the albums you have. You can interact on any of these and check or uncheck any thing you like. So for example I might choose to sync two of my playlist that have faster songs by interacting on the playlist table plus all songs by the killers by going into the artist table and checking the killers in there and then interacting with albums table to select a couple of U2 albums. All of these will then be synced to the device. You can tell iTunes to perform the sync by going to the file menu. One feature of iTunes that i love is the smart playlists. I won't go through complete instructions at this point but you can achieve a lot with these. The default recently added is one of these. You can get an idea of how they work by bringing up the context menu VO Shift M on it in the sources list and choosing to edit it. You will find yourself in a dialog. VO around in this and explore. I have changed mine a bit so current remember the defaults settings but I think it is set to include items added within 2 weeks where they media type is not a podcast. A smart playlist lets you choose songs or books or any iTunes media via a series of logical arguments. For example I set one to include all songs where the play count equal to 0 so that I could listen to all those songs that I have in my library that I had never got around to listening. to. The options available in smart playlists to create the set of rules are extensive. The playlists can also be set to automatically update themselves. So with the above example, whenever I synced my iPhone it removed all the songs that I had listened to in that particular playlist. Hope this helps a bit and please give iTunes long enough to grow on you a bit. As I said earlier I think it is flexible and convenient as once you set up a few things, everything just takes care of itself. Garth .. On 11/10/2011, at 9:54 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > This is because you are interacting with the sources table. Stop interacting > and you will be able to VO right arrow over to the options for your iPod. > The first button you should encounter should be Summary. Its really not that > hard once you get the hang of it. I actually like iTunes. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Oct 11, 2011, at 7:43 AM, Martin Brown wrote: > >> Thanks very much for that Teresa. >> Perhaps you could help me a little more. In your response you said to find >> my iPod in the sources table and then vo right arrow once and I should be in >> a table. When I do that, I simply move down one row to the next item in the >> sources table. >> I have noted that when focused on my iPod in the sources table, voiceover >> informs me that the device is charging and the state of charge. Voiceover >> also informs me that the device is collapsed. Am I to assume that this means >> that I have no direct access to the device. If so, how do I change this. >> Many thanks to all those who have responded to my request for help. >> May I just add that ITunes has to be one of the most unintuitive programmes >> that I have ever had the misfortune to come across. Why Apple do not allow >> users to simply use their devices as external drives remains a mystery to >> me. >> Martin >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran >> Sent: 07 October 2011 16:45 >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: An Idiot's guide to creating playlists in iTunes >> >> Hello, Martin, >> >> First of all, once you connect your drive, go to Itunes and press command-o >> to add items to your library. You can browse in that dialog for your drive. >> Import your files. Then, in the sources list, go to "recently added". Your >> files should be there. Turn cursor tracking off with VO-shift-f3. This will >> allow you to move the VO cursor around without moving the system cursor, so >> you can select the files you want. Go to a file and press >> command-option-control space to tell VO to select it. Keep doing this for >> each file you want to copy. Hit command-c to copy, then turn cursor tracking >> back on with VO-shift-f3. Once you have your IPod connected, find it in your >> sources area. Once you have it, VO right once and there you should find a >> table. Press command-v to paste the files you have copied there. >> >> You might have noticed that your Ipod area has some settings available. The >> setings here will depend on your Ipod model. These will allow you to sync >> your music in various ways. Once you have done the manual method I've >> outlined, you might want to try setting these up, so that your Ipod will >> sync your music for you. Personally, I do everything manually, but that is >> just my own preference. >> >> Hope this helps, >> Teresa >> On Oct 6, 2011, at 5:22 AM, Martin Brown wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> > > -- > 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. 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