I see that there's a function to export a playlist as text, but when I do that, I get all kinds of other irrelevant info. I have iTunes configured so that the play lists only display the Title and play time of the track. I want my export to only show THAT . . . is there anyway to make that happen?
MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
copying and pasting from the play list and creating a text list that way USED to work… apparently in this new version of iTunes, it no longer functions that way. It pasted the actual mp3 files into the text editor! Anyway, I found out how to do it , got help from Apple. There's an option to print the play list, so I printed it to a PDF and got what I needed. Thank you for your replies!
copying and pasting from the play list and creating a text list that way USED to work… apparently in this new version of iTunes, it no longer functions that way. It pasted the actual mp3 files into the text editor! Anyway, I found out how to do it , got help from Apple. There's an option to print the play list, so I printed it to a PDF and got what I needed. Thank you for your replies!
Another option is File > Print > Song Listing / Custom, and direct the output to a PDF.
More info can be found here: Any way to copy text from playlists in iTunes 11?
Neil Kaplan1 wrote:
copying and pasting from the play list and creating a text list that way USED to work… apparently in this new version of iTunes, it no longer functions that way. It pasted the actual mp3 files into the text editor!
Hi Neil, Actuallyit has worked that way as long as I can remember. When you copy from the iTunes window and paste into a text editor, it defaults to pasting as files. But you can easily override it by using Paste Special > As Text to get the behavior that you want.
Anyway, I found out how to do it , got help from Apple. There's an option to print the play list, so I printed it to a PDF and got what I needed. Thank you for your replies!
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It probably also depends upon the sophistication of the text editor. I paste to Textwrangler and TextEdit 1.4 and it pastes only text because that's all they can handle. Probably if I pasted to Word it might do more.
Select desired tracks, Edit > Copy, Edit > Paste in your text editor.
export iTunes playlist as text
