[thechat] selecting all the music in a directory with my iPod

[Judah McAuley]

I think that the answer to your dillema is to create a playlist and drag the
songs onto the playlist. There are some "smart" playlist features that I
don't use/understand, but then again, I don't use itunes a great deal. In
fact, I finally bought a good sized external drive to back up my laptop (and
for music storage) and got caught up in that activity that I wiped my laptop
after backup and installed Ubuntu.

Also, don't the Avett Brothers just rock? They quickly became one of my
favorite live shows and are just downright addictive. Really cool guys too.

Judah

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Joel D Canfield <joel at bizba6.com> wrote:

> I'm still trying to learn not to hate my iPod. Well, iTunes, actually.
>
> Two questions:
> 1. Is there a way to select all the songs in a particular
> directory/folder on my computer? The only connection between the songs
> is that I put stuff in folders that make sense to me, but iTunes doesn't
> seem to have a 'synchronize all the contents of this folder' feature
> 2. So, working around that, I search for 'avett' to get all the new
> Avett Brothers stuff. Then, so I don't have to wait five minutes while
> that synchronizes, I search for 'byrne' and grab David Byrne and Brian
> Eno's new song. Except, even holding the CTRL key while I select the
> DBBE song, it ignores the fact that I already had five songs selected.
> Is the only option to select a song, wait while it syncs, select
> another, wait while it syncs, switch to using my iRiver, use Windows
> Explorer to sync, sell the iPod cheap?
>
> I truly love the way Apple stuff looks. To this day, I still can't get
> excited about a single piece of software they've created. Which makes me
> a little frightened of buying a Mac just to get Garage Band and iMovie,
> which I think I really want. Maybe.
>
>
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