I usually use table view. After searching for the album tracks, you can select all with command+a and move to trash.
Kristyn On Nov 6, 2011, at 8:13 AM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Hi Esther, > Thanks for your as always thorough and clear response. I have been playing > around with the music browser a few days now and it seems to work for me. I > even cleaned up stuff I didn't even know I still had in my library, and I was > also able to correct a few genres. > > I still have a question though. After I select an artist and then an album in > the music browser, why is it that I cannot select any files in the music > table? I want to delete an album once I found it. How do you delete an album > once you got it displayed? > > Paul. > On Nov 2, 2011, at 9:54 PM, Esther wrote: > >> Hi Paul, Doug, Aser, and Others, >> >> A more useful general way to access your music in iTunes by Artist (or >> Album, or Genre, or other categories) is to use the Column Browser, which >> can be toggled on or off between the "Show" and "Hide" positions with >> Command+B. You can configure this under the "View" menu on your iTunes menu >> bar. Use either VO+M or the general OS X shortcut of Control+F2 to navigate >> to the menu bar, press "V" to go to the View Menu, arrow down, then press >> "C" or use arrow keys to move to the "Column Browser" menu option. Press >> either your right arrow key or VO-Space to move to the "Column Browser" >> submenu. You can arrow down and press "Return" to check or uncheck entries >> you want to be shown once the Column Browser is toggled on. (You need to do >> this for each item you want to check or uncheck.) For example, I have >> Artists, Albums, and Composers checked, and I have my column browser set to >> display on top, with options to "Group Compilations", and "Use Album >> Artists". >> >> Then, when the browser is toggled on, you can navigate to separate column >> listings of Artists, Albums, and Composers (or whatever options you have >> chosen). These work to filter the results in your songs table by >> categories, and I generally keep my library displayed in list view >> (Command+Option+3). For example, you can either go directly to an >> alphabetical list of album titles in the browser (if you checked "Album" as >> one of the items to be displayed), highlight the album you want, and then >> create a playlist of it with the Command+Shift+N "New playlist from >> selection" shortcut. Or, you could first select the "Artist" in the >> alphabetical list of artists in the browser, again assuming that was one of >> the options you checked, then navigate to the "Albums" column of the browser >> to view all albums of works by that artist. Or, you could select a Composer >> in the browser, then select an Artist, and view Albums by an artist >> interpreting a classical composer's works, for example. Using selections by >> categories in the column browser, possibly in combination with inputs into >> the search text field, provides a very fast way to locate and tailor tracks >> listed in the songs table of your iTunes library. (The column browser works >> for other categories than just Music, but the options you can check will be >> different.) >> >> This feature has been around since the first accessible version of iTunes, >> and earlier, and I basically just restore the iTunes options to something >> like the original settings, which were, from memory, "Genre", "Artist", >> "Album", and "Composer", viewed "On Top", and "Group Compilations". This >> last settings shows up albums that cannot be associated with single artists, >> e.g., "Cinema Classics of 2009", under a "Compilations" category, where they >> can be found by album title. I believe the default setting of the browser >> now is to only have "Artist" checked, and to display "On left", but I don't >> recall the specifics. >> >> Paul, in general, iTunes on your Mac can be configured to do a lot more than >> on your iOS device, an pretty easily. >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Nov 2, 2011, at 06:58, Aser Tolentino wrote: >> >>> In iTunes, move one element left of iTunes search, where you should find >>> something called view mode, interact with that and select grid view. When >>> you then scroll passed the source list, you should eventually encounter >>> buttons that allow you to group by artist, album, genre etc. Select which >>> one you want and then keep scrolling until you hear VoiceOver say "grid >>> view, one item selected" or something similar. Interact with that and you >>> should find your music sorted by the criteria you selected above. >>> >>> HTH >>> >>> Aser >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On Nov 2, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Doug Lawlor <doug.law...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I seem to remember a plugin for doing this some ware but can't remember >>>> where I saw it. I would love to know if this is still possible. >>>> >>>> Doug >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On 2011-11-02, at 1:04 PM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> On an iphone, you can sort the itunes library by artist. On my mac, I >>>>> only see tons of songs, and if I want to delete an entire album, or all >>>>> songs from 1 artist, I need to carefully select each of them, and then >>>>> delete them from the itunes library. Is there a better way on the mac, to >>>>> view the itunes library by artist, or by album, without seeing the artist >>>>> and album names 16 times vertically, once for each song in a given album? >>>>> >> >> -- >> 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. > Kristyn Leigh Sent from my mini Mac krist...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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