Any way to copy text from playlists in iTunes 11?

This may not meet your needs exactly, but one thing you can do is:

• Select the playlist and then File > Print (or just type Command-P).
• In the box that appears, you probably want to select Song List, though there's a way to do this with the CD Jewel case setting.
• Select the list format you want from the Theme menu with the up-down arrows.
• Click on Print...
• In the new box that opens, click on PDF in the lower left. Now you can choose to view the PDF to get a detailed look at how the list will appear, and/or save it to your computer (or actually print it, if you into that).
• You can produce a more compact list by choosing CD jewel case insert and, from the Theme menu, Large Playlist (Black & White). This will display nothing but Song and Artist, which may be exactly what you want.

Cheers

I've been struggling to find a solution to this also. All I want is a simple list of songs with corresponding artists and I haven't been able to do it since back when I had a PC. I'm guessing it's no longer possible on Windows now either. I used to posts these lists in various groups and blogs. Luckily, back in the day, I saved several playlists as Word Pad documents which I was able to open with Text Edit. Those documents I can still edit manually. But I'm still unable to export a New Playlist in a similar fashion. Please change this Apple.

I just tried to export a Playlist to a text file and it does look like a mess in there when you look at it with text edit.

However when you open with Numbers ( I am sure Excel could do it as well) you get the playlist with 25 columns displayed in a neat grid.

So I would guess the answer to your issue is to open in numbers and delete the columns you don't want.

Yeah I know but if the nuggets of information you are after are in the standard file delete the columns you do not want and File save as to save the rest. In numbers you can also drag the columns to what order you want.

Probably better than not at all.

I need to do this almost every day. I have to email lists of songs with certain colums of metadata incuded. I used to past directly into email but now I just have to paste the playlist text first into a text document and then copy and paste that into an email. It works to do this with excel too, but it is more cumbersome and yields some different results.

Check out Doug's iTunes Scripts which will provide you with various options on how to sort and format playlists as text files. The provided link will list various Apple Scripts you can use to get the results you want. There are some older scripts further down that still work with the latest iTunes 11 and will give you lots of sorting options. Doug is the Apple Script Guru and if you find his scripts useful he will appreciate a donation. If you haven't used Apple Scripts in iTunes, the scripts come with a Readme and clear instructions on how to use them.

What worked for me was to go to Text Edit and use Edit > Paste & Match Style (Cmd - Option - Shift - V). Then I could copy this text and paste it into Numbers (or Excel I'm assuming) to delete which columns I didn't care about. Hope this helps!

Thanks, and going further: you can copy from Text Edit and paste in Numbers, which separate it by collums.