Itunes playlist help

May 12, 2007 5:41 AM

Is there a quick way to create a playlist for every album in my itunes, in one fell swoop?
posted by corpse to technology (14 comments total)

What do you mean "album"? Do you want a playlist for only complete albums, or one playlist named after all the names in the albums list -- because I'm presuming lots of them only have one or two tracks.
posted by bonaldi at 5:50 AM on May 12, 2007

Yeah, I don't understand the question, either. There's already a "playlist" for every album. It's the album listing under artist.
posted by dobbs at 5:57 AM on May 12, 2007

iTunes does this automatically. Click the Browse icon, which is an eye. In iTunes 7 it's in the lower-right corner; in earlier versions it's in the upper-right corner.
posted by kirkaracha at 7:09 AM on May 12, 2007

I bet it's possible with Applescript, but the nature of your question makes me think you might be an iTunes for Windows user, if not a recent OS X convert. Apologies if I've mischaracterized you. Personally, I find it easier to select a certain album to play by typing the name into the search field. With hundreds of albums in my iTunes library, scrolling through the playlist list until I found the album I wanted to play would take me more time.
posted by emelenjr at 7:16 AM on May 12, 2007

There appears to be freeware to do just this. It's for OS X.
posted by L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg at 8:27 AM on May 12, 2007

Sorry, I was hungover when I asked this.

A playlist for each album, so I can go to the playlists section of my ipod and have a listing of all Artist-Album. So making a seperate playlist for each album, is for the sole purpose of navigation in the ipod.

I've seen stuff for doing it on Mac, but I am a windows user. I've been manally selecting all the songs in each album and then create playlist from selection.
posted by corpse at 8:31 AM on May 12, 2007

And there's also freeware for Windows that will purportedly do the same thing.
posted by L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg at 8:31 AM on May 12, 2007

How will that improve navigation on the iPod over just going to Music-Artist-Album? It saves one click, but probably makes the scrolling considerably more.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:41 AM on May 12, 2007

Well, you could highlight all the songs in an album, then hit Control+Shift+N, or go to File - New Playlist from selection.
Upside: It will automatically name it an Artist - Album format, and you can pick and choose which albums you wish to include.
Downside: You have to do it manually (Even though one click and three buttons isn't very strenuous).
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 10:34 AM on May 12, 2007

It's just a personal preference Jacquilynne. I like a flat file list rather than having to go through the tree structure.
posted by corpse at 11:26 AM on May 12, 2007

Seriously, there's a much easier way to do it. Set "Albums" to appear in the main menu of your iPod.

From the top-level iPod menu, choose Settings, Main Menu, and set "Albums" to "On".
posted by xil at 12:29 PM on May 12, 2007

That still doesn't give me Artist - Album, just Album.

I've resigned myself to doing it manually. I'm through the B's so far.
posted by corpse at 2:31 PM on May 12, 2007

Seconding the mass confusion here. How is this any easier than the methods described above in the thread?
posted by Mikey-San at 5:41 PM on May 12, 2007

Jesus, people, the guy is asking a question and looking for a specific answer. Can we stop challenging his question????
posted by ORthey at 1:44 AM on May 13, 2007