Ester, I missed Ricardo's instructions as I had to do a mass delete of email. (would never stay caught up otherwise) if you have those, could you send them to me off list? Thanks, Stacey mailto:stacey...@bellsouth.net On May 16, 2012, at 12:28 AM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Paul, Ricardo, Jane, Mark, and Others, > Just a few quick comments to add to these instructions. For Jane's question, > the "Recently Added" smart playlist by default matches two rules: > 1) Date added in the last 2 weeks > 2) Kind is not podcast > > In addition, as Ricardo noted, once you navigate to the "Recently Added" > smart playlist and use the context menu to "edit smart playlist" you can > check the box to limit the number of items in the smart playlist and fill in > a number. > > The items appear in the order they were added. Jane's idea of creating a > regular playlist of these items is also a good one. You can either do this > as Ricardo suggested, by checking the box and specifying number of items in > the smart playlist, then move to songs table for the playlist (e.g., with > VO-J) doing a Command-A to select all, then do a Command-Shift-N to create a > new playlist from your selection and assign a name to the playlist. Now you > can work with these items separately within their own playlist and reorder > them, if necessary, without disturbing the "Recently Added" smart playlist > when you make editing changes. > > I'll just add that for almost anything you want to do in iTunes, there's > likely to be an AppleScript at Doug Adams' "AppleScripts for iTunes" web > site. So if you want to turn your playlist into an "Album" with the tracks > numbered in the order they appear in your playlist, there's an "Albumize > Selection" AppleScript: > http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=albumizeselection > Bring up Links in your web rotor and type in "download" to locate the "Click > to download this script" link. You can also find the PDF description link > just beside it (either as the next entry in the Links chooser menu, or if you > navigated to the "Click to download this script" link, just flick, right > arrow (in QuickNav mode), or VO-Right arrow to it.) > > This AppleScript re-numbers the tracks in the album into playlist order, and > optionally enters a new Album name for each track. The zip file downloads > with instructions about how to use the AppleScript. (Place it in your > account's Library/Scripts folder. Use Command-Shift-H in Finder to go to > your home folder, then use Command-Shift-G to "Go to folder" and type into > the text field, "Library", without quotation marks, and press return. Then > create a "Scripts" folder (without quotation marks) from the file menu or > with Command-Shift-N if this is the first time you are using AppleScripts. > Navigate to the Scripts folder, and copy the AppleScript here. This will > show up as an option in a new Scripts menu on your iTunes menu bar. Select > your playlist, and choose this option from the Scripts menu on the iTunes > menu bar to run the AppleScript.) > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > -- > 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.
