Comments on: iTunes Name/Album Display Trick

By: godofwar

godofwar — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:07:08 +0000

Cheers, great blog post.

By: Carlo Guillot

Carlo Guillot — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:49:24 +0000

Sometimes you had an album or a song that you identifies with another word, for example Gorillaz’s “Hong Kong” reminds me of the word “Nostalgic”.You can actually link this special word to this tune. Here is how:
- Select the song
- File->Get Info (or command-i)
- Click on “Sorting”
- Then here you can add the word “nostalgic” to the song, album, artist, etc. Next time you write “nostalgic” on iTunes’ search, it will display this selection.

It works for people like me that want to keep the songs tagged correctly, but sometimes need other ways to catalog the music.

By: uh

uh — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:50:17 +0000

Again, this is not a Leopard trick.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:15:59 +0000

actually i found this tip helpful when itunes is collapsed and when listening to shared music.

By: sandy

sandy — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:37:13 +0000

suck a fat one, Clive.

what kind of tip is that though?

It’s like saying, “Did you know if you double-click a song in iTunes, it will play?”

By: mark

mark — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:50:28 +0000

i guess this website is done…. thanks for the tips early on…

By: cmurph

cmurph — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:59:15 +0000

I’m sure most people know these tricks but just for anyone who doesn’t:
to highlight a list of songs: click the top song you want, hold down shift and click the bottom song you want
to highlight just a couple songs that aren’t in order: hold down command and press each song that you want.
to unhighlight a song: press command and that song
a cool widget is albumart which shows the album art even if you don’t have it downloaded onto itunes. you can even download the album art for use in coverflow without having to highlight the songs that you want.
I don’t have an itunes account but if you are in coverflow and don’t have the album art to an album or song, hold control and click on the album, a list will pop up that asks if you want to download the album art.
to edit the information in a song or album just press command and i
to reset an ipod if it is stuck in a menu or something or just won’t turn on: toggle the hold button and then turn the hold button so it is off, then press menu and select(center button) for about 5 to 10 seconds, after that the apple logo should appear and your ipod will work fine
that’s all i can think of right now

By: PDA131

PDA131 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:24:27 +0000

One more thing I forgot about. Double-clicking on the icon of a playlist opens the playlist up in a new window. Granted, this isn’t a ground-breaking tip, but it does provide a cleaner way of showing off a playlist (especially when you put that new window in cover flow mode).

By: PDA131

PDA131 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:21:36 +0000

If you keep clicking on the “Album” column header, as if you were sorting your Library alphabetically by Album, the second click will change the header to “Album by Artist,” and then “Album by Year.”

There’s also a program that I highly recommend called “SizzlingKeys.” If you haven’t heard of it already, the purpose of this program is to give you the ability to assign hot keys that control iTunes (and a few other system functions), regardless of what application you are in. I personally find this very helpful, because if I’m writing a paper and I don’t like the song I’m listening to, I don’t have to open iTunes or leave the MiniPlayer open, I can just press my “next track hot key” and continue typing. And the best part–its free!

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22459&page=7

By: Clive

Clive — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:25:32 +0000

Well I wont be rude and reply with ‘Duh’…

So; Thankyou for posting this!

Remember this is a free forum, no-one is being paid to put these tips on, so why not show some manners eh? If you know it and have nothing better to say than ‘Duh’ I respecfully suggest you dont post’?