Hi, the View options are useful for displaying various tags while in different playlists and such but will not allow the addition of custom tags. You use the Get Info option to enter this tag info.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-10-09, at 8:42 AM, Red.Falcon <velocity.focu...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > Hi there! > I do not know if this will suit your needs, But you could add [under > Command+J ] the field Categories and put into that field what Key that track > is in or one of the other fields that you think would work better for field! > In that window you can add or get rid of any fields you wish to show in your > Itunes and it looks like they can be different in different lists! > I.E. in my main album view I have columns that do not appear in my Recently > added window so you can really customise each for what you want to see! > It is just a case of going through the items and checking or unchecking what > you want! > > HTH Colin > > On 9 Oct 2012, at 14:48, Tim Kilburn wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I don't believe that there is facility for Custom fields within the tagging >> mechanism of iTunes. If you wish to put items into multiple Genres, I'd put >> your secondary Genre into the Grouping field. The combo box for Genre works >> in two ways, you can choose from the list of Genres provided or enter one >> yourself. While on the Genre item, just enter whatever you wish to name it, >> it will now become one of the choices within the combo box. I usually just >> enter the first few letters of whatever Genre in there anyway and iTunes >> finishes my typing for me. >> >> HTH. >> >> Later... >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >> On 2012-10-09, at 7:03 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I'm now modifying all those songs in my library that are "unknown", and I >>> have two questions. >>> 1. Can I add a custom metadata field? In addition to album, artist, and all >>> that, I'd like to add a "key" field so I can see what key a song is in. >>> 2. Can I assign multiple genres to a track? If so, how? VO reports the >>> genre field as a combo box, something I've never encountered on osx before. >>> Thanks, and I'm really enjoying iTunes, as much as I hate to admit that. I >>> still don'w like it much for iOS management, but for music it's really >>> proving quite nice, especially with the remote app. >>> >>> >>> Have a great day, >>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >>> mehg...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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.
