Re: iTunes: no keyboard navigation?

In article <zzzzzz-318523.17193603102008@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, RiKN
<zzzzzz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Surely there must be a way of scrolling with the keyboard through
playlists! By scrolling I don't mean just up and down - you have to be
able to expand and collapse folders to be useful at all. I can go up
and down but can't collapse or expand folders. Which means keyboard
navigation in iTunes is non-existant. At first I thought that it must
be because the focus was somewhere else. But no...Apple has, for
whatever bizarre, unfathomable reason, elected to banish useful keyboard
navigation in playlists. Does anyone have any idea how this absurd
decision was reached? What possible advantage could there be by forcing
the hapless user to have to ponderously use the mouse for playlist
navigation? Its like making a basketball that isn't round, skis that
aren't straight, or a leaking scuba regulator. Where are their brains?

Keyboard navigation exists for everything I've seen in the Source pane
and the content pane with one exception. Tab to move the focus from the
source pane to the search box to the content area (Shift-tab moves in
the opposite direction). Up and down arrow keys move within the pane.
The only thing that doesn't seem to work is expanding and collapsing
folders.

If I have a playlist selected in the source pane, shift-tab moves the
focus to the playlist's contents and the up and down arrows navigate
quite nicely.

Your rant states that navigation is non-existent (note the correct
spelling). You further open the rant by asserting that you can't use
the keyboard to scroll through a playlist and, as I've described, that
just isn't so.

Your only valid complaint is that there isn't a keyboard shortcut for
expanding/collapsing folders. That might be a consequence of
user-created folders for organization being a relatively recent
addition to the iTunes interface (I think it came in with iTunes 6, but
it might have been iTunes 5) and Apple either not adding a shortcut or
they added one and there's a bug. My guess is that cmd-rt-arrow should
expand and it's broken.

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Spenser
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