How do you display ONLY album and artist (without song title)???

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How do you display ONLY album and artist (without song title)???

I just want to print out a list of what albums I have, but there is no way to turn off the song titles from showing up in the itunes window. As a result, I have to have artist, album and all the songs turned on, which means my list is now enormous because every song is represented. Isn't there some way to override the song title? Or alternately, isn't there some way to generate a list of albums or bands in your itunes library? Thanks...

Posted on Apr 17, 2008 8:08 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 18, 2008 12:32 AM in response to Sam H1

Select your music library in the iTunes source (left) column. Then go to the File menu and select print. In the ensuing dialog box, select the third button "Album listing". In the theme drop-down, select "List of albums".

This will print a list of albums sorted by artist with the number of songs per album and the total playing time per album. It does not print song titles.

If you have a lot of albums, you might want select "Save as PDF" in the print dialog to see if this is what you want before you waste a lot of paper and ink.

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Sam H1 Author

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Apr 18, 2008 1:37 AM in response to Jim VanLeeuwen

I never knew that was there. Pretty amazing... So what if you wanted to modify the list - delete albums, or change the order? It doesn't look like that's possible. The only other way i've found is the export function which creates an excel doc that lists EVERY piece of info about every song, which is incredibly hard to read... Is there a happy medium between the two, i.e., a way to just export albums in excel or a way to edit the pdf function?

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jere7my

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Apr 18, 2008 9:16 AM in response to Sam H1

You can choose which albums to export via that method by printing from within a playlist, though you can't re-order them. If you want a text file, just use the Export command and then use Excel's many features to trim it down to what you want.

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varjak paw

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Apr 18, 2008 9:34 AM in response to Sam H1

Check out the AppleScripts on Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes. There are scripts in the Exporting Info section that might be of use.

Regards.

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Chris CA

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Apr 18, 2008 9:41 AM in response to Sam H1

The only other way i've found is the export function which creates an excel doc that lists EVERY piece of info about every song, which is incredibly hard to read...

Just delete the columns you don't want.

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