Printing Catalogues

[lenskaraoke]

Is there a way to print catalogues without the duplicated named tracks without having to select each track individually, for example i have lots of different versions of "My Way" and I only want one in my list. I obviously wont be printing the number for the tracks.

[dave]

there will be very very soon.
the library will soon show each song only once, with a popup to choose the album from

you will be able to create "album playlists" a new kind of playlist that will do the same thing, if you drop two songs that are the same except for album name, then they'll "merge" and get an album popup

but sorry there's no way right now without manually deleting the dupes

i could easily make a "new preset playlist" that does this however? would that be good?

[lenskaraoke]

Thanks for that Dave, I'm happy to wait for the update if it's not to long away, after all I've always done my listing on excel and I procrastinate like hell, so this is an excuse to leave it till your done.
If it does look like it may take more than a couple of months then maybe the preset playlist will be OK, but I don't want you to do unnecessary work when you have the perfect solution planned.

[dave]

it's might actually be a couple months. i'm not sure what i was thinking when i said "very very"

but preset playlist i could do for you any time, would only take a few hours

[lenskaraoke]

Oh OK I'll stop procrastinating if you work on the preset playlist, but I do feel guilty having you do this when you've planned on solving my problem.
Thanks for all your hard work.

[dave]

If i don't tell the truth, what will you do with my horse?

[lenskaraoke]

As in the godfather you may find the head in yer bed

[dave]

one preset playlist coming up!!

[lenskaraoke]

Thanks for doing that Dave.

Now I'll have to get on with the job of printing, oh yawn, what a bore.

Incidentally kjams is running extremely well just lately.

[dave]

YAY!

[ChurchCat]

It is well documented that I am thicker than a construction workers sandwich, but I can't work out how to do this.

I want to print a list that contains just the songs and artist once.

i.e.

Say I have Tina Turner's version of "The Best" on seven discs, I want it to appear in the list once. (obviously without the disc numbers)

Reading the above thread I should be able to do this but I just can't see how.




Would some kind soul tell me what I should be clicking?

CC

[lenskaraoke]

Highlight the tracks you want

Go to Edit and click Copy

Open numbers/Blank page and place your curser in cell A2

Go to Edit and click Paste and Match Style

Delete the columns you don't want

And Print

You may have to do this in several blocks at a time because of the limitations of Numbers

If you use Excel I think (if my memory serves me well) you paste special

[dave]

* select your library
* file->new preset playlist->unique songs
this makes a play list with ONE copy of each song in it (no duplicates)
* go to that playlist
* context click (that's a right click, or a control-click if you're stuck in the 80's and don't have a 2 button mouse) on the sort column headers (where you click to sort by name, artist album etc) and un-check the columns you don't want to see
* select all, copy, paste into excel

and yes excel will handle an arbitrarily large library

[lenskaraoke]

Sorry I forgot about that lot

When I'd sorted the tracks I highlighted the tracks in numbers copied them and then pasted them into pages. think it is better for printing

[dave]