Resizing my columns for all play lists imported

chris_elevate 2:21 AM - 30 December, 2008

Hi Guys,

Konix suggest something for this problem but it didn't work.

To be honest it make my version of SSL totally useless unless I can see all the track information I want. So yeah I'm pretty desperate for a solution to this problem before kick SSL into touch - which I don't want to do!

Konix suggested the turn the 'import itunes' button off in the setup, resize the columns/add colums for 'all' and then import the itunes library. Sounds like a good theory but it hasn't worked for me.

Here's my original post:

I'm using SSL on my G4 PB and am using the playlists from iTunes.

I've got about 40 playlists loaded in and I'm trying to adjust the columns on the right hand side to show Song, Artist, Album, Length, Comment and make them the same widths for all 40 playlists.

Is there a way to adjust them all at the same time? Each time I adjust one playlist it only takes effect on that single one and not all 40.

Thanks

Brigid 2:30 AM - 30 December, 2008

Hey Chris,
There is no way to resize all those columns at the same time at the moment, although it is a feature suggestion we've been hearing a lot. Scratch Live should recognise your changes to column width, though, and remember them for the next time you open the program.

chris_elevate 2:33 AM - 30 December, 2008

Will it remember the settings if I use it on my desktop PC and then on my laptop?

I mean does the column size information travel with the external HD or is it on the computers SSL files?

Thanks

Brigid 2:36 AM - 30 December, 2008

Do you have your Scratch Live Folder (crates, etc) stored on your desktop/laptop computer or your hard drive?

chris_elevate 2:39 AM - 30 December, 2008

I have 2 folders on my external HD:

_ScratchLIVE_
and
_ScratchLIVE_Backup

Although I installed my SSL on my pc pretty recently.

Brigid 2:42 AM - 30 December, 2008

That information is stored on your computer's Scratch Live folders, not your external. So if you resize them once on both your laptop and your desktop, it should remember.

chris_elevate 2:44 AM - 30 December, 2008

So is there a way that I can resize on my desktop so when I take my HD to my laptop out on the road for a gig it'll work?

Also is there a way to copy all my playlists into a crates just incase iTunes throws a wobbly on of these days? Or would I have to build my 50 playlists as crates one by one?

Thanks

Brigid 2:49 AM - 30 December, 2008

Nah, you'll need to resize them again on your laptop unfortunately. But not everytime, just once.

There is a way to make those crates you want. All you need to do is drag the tracks from your iTunes playlists and drop them into a new crate and then name the crate. You don't have to build them from scratch.

chris_elevate 2:53 AM - 30 December, 2008

How can I make sure that iTunes doesn't start playing funny beggers and moves the mp3's around? It's caught me out a few times when I've answered a question that iTunes throws up and it's made it impossible for SSL to find the tracks. When that happens it takes me about 2-5 hours having to locate the lost files and show iTunes where they are. That then fixes the problem in SSL too.

chris_elevate 2:56 AM - 30 December, 2008

Also is there a quicker was to duplicate all my tracks as crates rather having to enter the name of all 50 and fill them up by dragging and dropping them?

Can it be done in a file manager or running it through an application or can it copy the names of the crate/playlists rather than having to enter them all by hand?

Is there a way to subcrate and/or a way to sub playlist from itunes in SSL? Handling a list of 50 playlists at a gig is pretty hard to juggle.

Thanks

Brigid 3:03 AM - 30 December, 2008

Do you have iTunes organize your music for you? If you do, you need to go into iTunes Preferences, Advanced and uncheck the box "Keep iTunes Music Organized."

You can just drag the playlist on the plus bottom in Scratch Live to make a crate of that playlist, but there is no mass converter for something like that. We've talked about it here before.

And yes, you can have subcrates. To make one, you just drag a crate into another crate and it will automatically become a subcrate.

chris_elevate 3:09 AM - 30 December, 2008

So is there then a way to adjust all the colums of the crates/subcrates in one go?

And is there a way to sub playlist using iTunes?

Is there a way to turn off the crates in SSL? i.e. if I have an iTunes playlist loaded and a SSL crate is there a way to hide the SSL crate like there is a way to disable the iTunes reading function?

Thanks

Brigid 3:18 AM - 30 December, 2008

There is no way to adjust columns in different crates/subcrates/playlists at the same time.

I'm not sure about making sub-playlists in iTunes - I don't think it's possible. And there is no way to turn off the Crate system. The iTunes playlists are stored above crates, so they'll always be at the top which might suit the way you organize your music.

Zach S 5:31 PM - 30 December, 2008

Quote:

So is there then a way to adjust all the colums of the crates/subcrates in one go?

Any new crate created will have the same column structure as the all section.
Get your all section the way you want to see your crates and then drag your playlists onto the + sign in the lower left corner.

If you don't want to see the crates you created you can rename the _ScratchLIVE_ folder on your external to something like _ScratchLIVE1_.
If you rename it, SSL won't read it and your crates will not show up.
A new _ScratchLIVE_ folder will get created after you shut down SSL.
From there, if you want to get your crates back, delete the new _ScratchLIVE_ folder and name the _ScratchLIVE1_ back to its original _ScratchLIVE_ name.

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