Hi All, Just to follow up on Tim's remark about accessing categories in the iTunes search field, that you can quickly navigate to with the shortcut Command-Option-F: this feature is available for both Snow Leopard and Lion. I think it arrived for VoiceOver users in iTunes 10.5 (which debuted around October 2011). Remember to have Quick Nav turned off, or you won't find this feature by pressing down arrow, even though VoiceOver will still let you type text into the text field and do the search (without specialized category selection.) For earlier versions of iTunes up through the present ones, including on computers running older versions of Mac OS X Leopard and TIger, you can do these category searches by toggling on your column browser (Command-B). This allows even more combinations of searches (e.g. finding albums by an artist you're searching for in a particular genre, etc.) But Tim's tip does let you speed up searches from the search field, without having to use the browser.
Another iTunes related comment: in order to use an iPhone with iCloud services, you know that you have to be running Lion and the latest version of iTunes. And using the most recent iPad requires iTunes 10.6. However, if you want to use an iPhone 4 and the latest iPod Shuffle, even just using iTunes to sync, and not relying on iCloud services, you must at least be running the latest version of Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.8). And that means that older PowerPC and Intel Macs must be upgraded to at least Leopard. The Leopard upgrade discs seem to be going for way above their original list prices (around $129, I think). You can supposed still order this from Apple if you need to upgrade your system, but it will cost the list price and shipping charges. However, informally, if you purchase an iPhone 4 from an Apple Store, and have an older machine that is upgradable to Leopard, I've seen that my local Apple Store will just upgrade your system for you so that you can download a later version of iTunes and use your new iPhone. Just FYI and not official. Otherwise, I think you're stuck at iTunes version 9.2.1 (July 2010 release). HTH. Cheers, Esther On Apr 13, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: > Hi, > > Just figured this out by accident. In Lion using the latest iTunes, when on > the Search field, press your Down arrow, and you can specialize your search > so that it only searches through Albums, Artists etc. The normal behaviour > is for it to search through many of the fields so it returns numerous results > that may not be important to you. This is especially useful for those of us > with rather large Libraries. > > Later... > -- 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.
