There's a flurry of iTunes threads right now with the (awesome!) new version out. I have a question that's been bugging me for a while, though.
I have a pretty massive music collection - mostly full albums, but a lot of single tracks from here and there too. I've always wanted to make a smart playlist to automatically pool only the full albums together, but I've never been able to figure out how. Is this possible? Or do I just have to throw the playlist together manually if I want one?
Second, and somewhat related, I love the new views in iTunes 7, and I've been using the "show items in a list, grouped with artwork..." view and loving it. The full albums really stand out as I scroll through. My complaint is that if I have one solitary track without even having the album, it will take up like three inches of vertical space and show a big musical note symbol where the album cover should be. Is there a way to set iTunes to only allot that big space for album art if you actually have the album art? It's really obnoxious to scroll through and have all these isolated tracks taking up as much room as a whole album. I'd prefer to have them more discrete without the big empty box.
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I have a pretty massive music collection - mostly full albums, but a lot of single tracks from here and there too. I've always wanted to make a smart playlist to automatically pool only the full albums together, but I've never been able to figure out how. Is this possible? Or do I just have to throw the playlist together manually if I want one?
Second, and somewhat related, I love the new views in iTunes 7, and I've been using the "show items in a list, grouped with artwork..." view and loving it. The full albums really stand out as I scroll through. My complaint is that if I have one solitary track without even having the album, it will take up like three inches of vertical space and show a big musical note symbol where the album cover should be. Is there a way to set iTunes to only allot that big space for album art if you actually have the album art? It's really obnoxious to scroll through and have all these isolated tracks taking up as much room as a whole album. I'd prefer to have them more discrete without the big empty box.
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