[access-uk] Re: Finding out the size of my library in Itunes
- From: "Kevin Lloyd" <kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:55:54 -0000
Hi Andy.
Here's how you backup the playlist:
1. In File menu, arrow down to the Library submenu and press right arrow to
open it.
2. Arrow up to Export Playlist and press enter.
3. Choose your location and file name and be sure to choose M3U from the file
type options if that's how you want to save the playlist.
If you need to restore the playlist in the future:
1. In File menu, arrow down to the Library submenu and right arrow to open.
2. Arrow up to Import Playlist and press enter.
3. Browse to the location of your M3U playlist and press enter.
4. Your playlist is now back in ITunes.
With regards to creating your playlist, assuming that currently your ITunes
library holds everything you want in the playlist:
1. Use control + A to select the whole library.
2. In the File menu, arrow down to New Playlist from Selection and press enter.
3. Choose a name and tab to OK and you're done.
Regards.
Kevin
E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: ANDY COLLINS
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 9:32 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Finding out the size of my library in Itunes
Hi kevin -
I'd be very interested to hear how you get on if you get the time. I've just
had a quick look at creating a playlist, and managed to cut and paste a track
in to it, but didn't quite see where to back it up -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Lloyd
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 8:32 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Finding out the size of my library in Itunes
Hi Andy.
Right, understand what you mean now. I know that you can back up a
playlist so what you'd do is select your whole library and create a playlist in
ITunes. This assumes that so far, you've only loaded the 55GB worth of hand
picked stuff into ITunes. You can then backup the playlist. In the event of
having to restore ITunes and, in particular, the library, you would restore the
saved playlist.
I haven't done this personally but it's certainly doable. If I get chance
I'll have a play with it and let you know unless someone else on the list has
experience of saving and restoring playlists built in ITunes and can chip in
here.
Regards.
Kevin Lloyd
E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: ANDY COLLINS
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 8:19 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Finding out the size of my library in Itunes
Hi Kevin -
Thanks for the syncing info.
Regarding backing up the Itunes library...I already have much more music
than my 64GB Touch will hold, on this laptop, and have selected about 55 gigs
of it for the Itunes library, all that works fine. What I'm unclear about at
the moment, is this back up business in case of an Itunes failure of some kind.
Barbara suggested checking the box under the advanced tab to put a copy
of the library's files in to the Itunes folder. I don't want to put a physical
copy in to yet another folder on my HD, I just want a kind of playlist in that
folder, that will point to where the music tracks are on the HD. Does this make
sense?
I've already got all my music backed up to an external drive, but my
concern is that the Itunes library only contains some of it, hand picked, and I
want to avoid having to hand pick it all again, if Itunes crashes or something.
-
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Lloyd
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 7:41 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Finding out the size of my library in Itunes
Hi Andy.
With regards to syncing, I think it took a couple of hours to sync my
Touch for the first time with around 57GB of music. I'm using JAWS 11 and
ITunes 10 and the feedback during syncing is pretty good. Firstly, your Touch
will make a whistling kind of sound and it will announce that sync is in
progress. If you have Itunes set to start when your Touch is connected, it'll
do just that and tabbing around in ITunes will announce the sync progress.
When the sync is complete, the Touch will announce it and tabbing around in
Itunes will now announce that the sync is complete and that it is ok to
disconnect the Touch.
Not quite sure about your backup question. I keep a copy of my ITunes
music library on an external hard drive in the event that I have a hard drive
crash. Any tags you change through ITunes will have updated the music file so
that will be saved if you backup regularly. In the event of a problem, I'd
copy my music back into the Itunes folder and then add the folder to the ITunes
library which is very straightforward and doesn't take very long to do at all.
Regards.
Kevin Lloyd
E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: ANDY COLLINS
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 4:50 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Finding out the size of my library in Itunes
Hi Kevin -
I had tried that, but was doing it in the wrong window, and was just
getting album size, I discovered I needed to be in the Source window for it to
work, so thanks for the reminder. While I'm here, Can I try you with a couple
of other questions?
I'm a bit concerned what might happen to my library if I need to
reinstall Itunes for any reason, having created much of it's content manually,
I'd hate to have to do it again.
Do you think if I created a playlist for the whole library and saved
it, I could then keep a copy of that playlist on my hard drive as back-up?
I've not explored all aspects of Itunes yet, so not certain what can
be achieved, what I really want is something like an m3u file that programmes
like Winamp recognise as playlists, that I can keep, just in case...
The other thing is about syncing an iPod Touch for the first time
[waiting for mine to arrive] does it take long for say something like 50gb to
make it on to the iPod? And when I connect, does a message pop up on the Touch
asking if I want to sync with the Itunes programme?
Thanks for any help -
Andy
---- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Lloyd
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 3:54 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Finding out the size of my library in
Itunes
Hi Andy.
If you're using JAWS, simply use the insert + page down keystroke
to read the status line at the bottom of the screen which will tell you the
number of tracks, playing time and size in GB.
Regards.
Kevin Lloyd
E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: ANDY COLLINS
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 9:33 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Finding out the size of my library in Itunes
Hi all -
I'm trying to create my library for Itunes, and want to limit it
to a certain GB capacity. I got loads of music in there, but can't see how to
find out what the total GB is. Any help? -
Andy
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