Interface Confusion

[andrewducker]

Last time I grabbed Quicktime it insisted on brining iTunes with it.  Fair enough, I thought, I'll take a look and see what all the fuss is about.

So I opened it up, told it that it was not, under any circumstances to move the music files around, and let it find all my mp3s.

And then thought I'd grab an album to listen to.

Only to find that there didn't seem to be a way to scroll down to a band, then show the albums that band has made, then play that album.

Well, not without scrolling through a very long list of tracks and then choosing all the tracks on the album.

User-friendly this isn't.

Am I being stupid, or am I missing something in the glories of the iTunes interface?

Comments

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

There is a way to say 'play this album'. Click the browse button while in the library - so that you see the three-paned windows; the one on the right contains all albums. If you, say, select two artists in the middle, then their albums are shown; select those, and lay :P. Sounds more complicated than it is!

And smart playlists are just the generic "Show all tracks whose artist name begins with ...." and so on (you can choose from tons of criteria and they're quite nice.)

Oh, and you may want to have a look at party shuffle too :P.