[osxrules]

My brother has an ipod and he has about 30GB of music. He likes to store each album in its own playlist as it makes it easier to burn to CD. He likes the idea of folders but there doesn't seem to be a way to select more than one playlist at a time so it takes forever to move stuff around.

I recently found an applescript online that lets you move multiple playlists into a folder but it doesn't have a feature to let you move them out to the root directory again. There is also a script to let you delete multiple playlists at a time but why did Apple design it so badly that applescripts are what we have to resort to?

Shift-click and command-click for playlists is one of the most obvious features they should have implemented. How are you supposed to manually update your ipod - drag 200 playlists onto it one by one?

[osxrules]

So are there any ways round it or does itunes just suck and I should live with it? Maybe I should be using some other method of organising playlists? How do people generally sort their music?

[Parky]

It seems you are using playlists for a lot of what iTunes does itself.

Why set up a playlist for each album when you can view the tracks by album, artist in the library anyway.

Have you tried clicking on the 'Browse' button in the top right of the iTunes window when you are on the library?

Here you can click on a Genre, Artist or Album and see the tracks on it.
You can then if you need to make a CD, use the 'create playlist from selection' option in the file menu, then delete the playlist when you are done.

Ian

[osxrules]

Originally Posted by Parky

It seems you are using playlists for a lot of what iTunes does itself.

Why set up a playlist for each album when you can view the tracks by album, artist in the library anyway.

Have you tried clicking on the 'Browse' button in the top right of the iTunes window when you are on the library?

Here you can click on a Genre, Artist or Album and see the tracks on it.
You can then if you need to make a CD, use the 'create playlist from selection' option in the file menu, then delete the playlist when you are done.

Ian

Yeah, that definitely seems like a better way to do it. I will do things that way in future - I never used the browse before. My brother is kind of set in his ways and he has a lot of music so he finds it hard to manage music without multiple playlist select. I think he assumed having multiple playlists was the only way he could organise his tracks the way he wanted on his ipod but it should have a browser the same as itunes. He would just have to make sure his tracks had the right info in them.

Nonetheless, I reckon multiple select of playlists would still be very useful. Otherwise it kind of encourages you to use fewer playlists so they don't get out of hand.

[Parky]

Originally Posted by osxrules

Yeah, that definitely seems like a better way to do it. I will do things that way in future - I never used the browse before. My brother is kind of set in his ways and he has a lot of music so he finds it hard to manage music without multiple playlist select. I think he assumed having multiple playlists was the only way he could organise his tracks the way he wanted on his ipod but it should have a browser the same as itunes. He would just have to make sure his tracks had the right info in them.

Nonetheless, I reckon multiple select of playlists would still be very useful. Otherwise it kind of encourages you to use fewer playlists so they don't get out of hand.

The iPod does have a browser like iTunes, you can view your music on the iPod by Artist, Album, Genre, Composer, etc all you need to do is make sure you have the info in the tracks on iTunes.

Ian