Is it possible to...

Martyn. · 22 Sep 2006 at 22:41

So...no one knows

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Martyn. · 23 Sep 2006 at 10:38

marc2003 · 23 Sep 2006 at 10:44

can't you just drag them from windows explorer? (or from a search dialog box)

ots3go · 23 Sep 2006 at 11:26

Martyn. · 23 Sep 2006 at 11:28

marc2003 said:
can't you just drag them from windows explorer? (or from a search dialog box)

For some reason it only let's me add one at a time when I do it that way

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I was just wondering if there was another way.

Craig321 · 23 Sep 2006 at 12:11

I must say, Itunes is a bit rubbish if you can only drag one file in at a time from explorer to make a playlist.

Al Vallario · 23 Sep 2006 at 19:32

Craig321 said:
I must say, Itunes is a bit rubbish if you can only drag one file in at a time from explorer to make a playlist.

You can drag as many audio/video files as you want from Explorer in one go. Apparently the same isn't true of playlists, although to be quite honest I don't blame Apple for failing to forsee the average home user with three hundred playlists. What on Earth does the OP need three hundred playlists for anyway?

Martyn. · 23 Sep 2006 at 19:50

Al Vallario said:
You can drag as many audio/video files as you want from Explorer in one go. Apparently the same isn't true of playlists, although to be quite honest I don't blame Apple for failing to forsee the average home user with three hundred playlists. What on Earth does the OP need three hundred playlists for anyway?

I have one for each album

!

I just find it easier to do that way. I have this program (AudioGrail) that allows me to generate playlists easily.

meghatronic · 23 Sep 2006 at 19:54

wELL...

If it is just a playlist for each album screw it. Itunes will import all the tunes anyway and let you sort by album?

Greenlizard0 · 23 Sep 2006 at 20:09

I bought a pack of cheese today and dropped on the floor. Should I still eat it?

cleanbluesky · 23 Sep 2006 at 20:29

greenlizard0 said:
I bought a pack of cheese today and dropped on the floor. Should I still eat it?

Of course you should, it has extra toppings now that it has kissed the floor...

Martyn. · 24 Sep 2006 at 09:43

jdickerson said:
wELL...

If it is just a playlist for each album screw it. Itunes will import all the tunes anyway and let you sort by album?

That never works properly though.

Anyway, I like it were I can just click the name of the album and all the songs come up.

Martyn. · 25 Sep 2006 at 17:43

Come on

Someone must have made a hack or a workaround for it

.

bledd · 25 Sep 2006 at 17:46

why has everyone spammed this thread, its full of crap :rolleyes:

back on topic -i've never used itunes, so can't help

n3vrmind · 25 Sep 2006 at 19:47

Use the windows find tool for *.m3u wait for it to finish then press ctrl+A and enter

it will either work, or your pc will die horribly, enjoy

Al Vallario · 25 Sep 2006 at 20:27

Martyn. said:
Anyway, I like it were I can just click the name of the album and all the songs come up.

There really is no need for 300+ playlists for that kind of use.

As long as you have the correct ID3 information (which is far more useful in the real world than throwing all the tracks from an album into a playlist), iTunes provides a whole range of ways to navigate based on album. You've got the three-pane browser (View > Show/Hide Browser) which allows you to scroll through a list of genres/artists/albums. You can tap a few letters into the live search field in the top right and it will find all the tracks with those letters in their ID3 tags in as-near-as-possible-to real time. You can use the new 'list' viewing mode, which groups tracks by the album they come from along with the appropriate album art (if present), or the similarly new album cover browser view, which allows you to scroll through your album covers in an oh-so-stylish manner. Then again you can always just go to your library, tap the 'Album' tab to order alphabetically by the album name and scroll down like that.

Creating a playlist for each album just doesn't make sense, and you'll come a cropper if you use iTunes in conjunction with an MP3 player which handles playlists - the iPod, for example. Playlists should only really be used as a last resort to group tracks ("At work", "on the train", "feel-good tunes", "tunes from the wedding" etc.) where they cannot be grouped with standard information.

Martyn. · 26 Sep 2006 at 17:26

Al Vallario said:
There really is no need for 300+ playlists for that kind of use.

As long as you have the correct ID3 information (which is far more useful in the real world than throwing all the tracks from an album into a playlist), iTunes provides a whole range of ways to navigate based on album. You've got the three-pane browser (View > Show/Hide Browser) which allows you to scroll through a list of genres/artists/albums. You can tap a few letters into the live search field in the top right and it will find all the tracks with those letters in their ID3 tags in as-near-as-possible-to real time. You can use the new 'list' viewing mode, which groups tracks by the album they come from along with the appropriate album art (if present), or the similarly new album cover browser view, which allows you to scroll through your album covers in an oh-so-stylish manner. Then again you can always just go to your library, tap the 'Album' tab to order alphabetically by the album name and scroll down like that.

Creating a playlist for each album just doesn't make sense, and you'll come a cropper if you use iTunes in conjunction with an MP3 player which handles playlists - the iPod, for example. Playlists should only really be used as a last resort to group tracks ("At work", "on the train", "feel-good tunes", "tunes from the wedding" etc.) where they cannot be grouped with standard information.

Nah, I just want it the way I said. It works great for me, why should I change just because you say so?

So is there anyway to do what I asked :rolleyes:

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