As Apple continues to betray more laptops than desktops , the issue of people working with iTunes on modest displays increases . While I have a 27 - inch iMac on my screen background , which allows me to apply iTunes efficiently and see plenty of information about my library , working on my 13 - inch MacBook Air is a spot more hard . If you only have a laptop , there are way you could optimize the way of life iTunes exhibit its capacity to make it well-fixed to manage on a minor presentation .
1. Choose the right view
iTunes offers four dissimilar views , or ways the program displays your message in windows or playlist . ( See “ Pick the perfect opinion options in iTunes ” for more on the unlike view . Note that the clause was written before Album List vista , the second choice on the view clitoris , was added to iTunes . ) While you may require to utilise List view or Album List view on a heavy display , you might witness that Grid scene or Cover Flow horizon work out better on a small showing . If your laptop computer is your only Mac , you may want to throw back and forward between one of these view and List or Album List scene when you need to see entropy about your content or make changes to tag .
In the View Options windowpane , you’re able to turn on and off the columns you want .
If you do use List aspect or Album List aspect , you may adjust the bit of columns exhibit in your window and playlists to save space . To do so , military press Command - J to bring up the View Options window , and match the column you desire to see ( and uncheck those you do n’t want to see ) . After you sink in OK to displace the window , you’re able to click and drag the pillar header in the main iTunes user interface to change their position , which can avail make certain the information you really need to see if always in front of you without having to scroll sideways . you could put the column you only consult occasionally all the way to the right , so they ’re there when you need them .
In the View Options window, you can turn on and off the columns you want.
2. Adjust the column browser
If you apply iTunes ’ newspaper column web browser ( see “ Making the most of the iTunes Column web browser ” for more on how it works ) , you might want to change your habit . Not that you should n’t use it — I get it a groovy means to speedily drill down into my program library — but the means you set it up has a big impact on its usefulness on a smaller screen door . If you have the pillar web internet browser on the left , it eats away at your horizontal distance , which is more limited on a small video display . Putting it on top shows less depicted object below it , but give you the full width of the covert . ( you may alter its placement by pick out On Top or On Left from View - > Column web browser . ) If you really want to keep it on the left , think about displaying fewer columns , and change their widths . To do the latter , levitate your cursor over the line assort two columns , then drag that line . Another option is to make the sidebar as narrow as potential ; to do so , puff the communication channel separating it from the repose of the window .
3. Use multiple windows
You may not know it , but you may make iTunes use more than one windowpane . To do so for a playlist , for model , just double - press the play list ’s ikon in the iTunes sidebar , or right - dawn and choose Open In New Window . The fresh windowpane opens with the same content , and in the same panorama , as the play list , but without the sidebar . you could resize or otherwise alter that windowpane , then switch back to the main window , and choose any other windowpane from the Windows menu .
iTunes can have multiple window open at once , such as the iTunes Store , a playlist , and the TV show subroutine library .
Using multiple window is practical if you have a playlist in which you want to see more information temporarily , say . you could make disjoined window for anything but the Music program library at the top of the sidebar . So you’re able to have a separate window for the iTunes Store if you visit it a lot ; for the Downloads listing if you download a lot of content with iTunes ; for iTunes DJ if you use that to dally music during the day ; or for your favourite playlist . If you learn a lot of telecasting display , put that library in a freestanding windowpane as well . While it may be confusing at first , it can be much easy to puzzle out with multiple window because you do n’t your their place in the independent window , and do n’t have to make several mouse click to get back to where you were .
iTunes can have multiple windows open at once, such as the iTunes Store, a playlist, and the TV Shows library.
The principal advantage to multiple windows are that the Modern windows you open wo n’t have a sidebar , they will have more horizontal space , and they can rest open all the time .
[ Senior contributor Kirk McElhearn writes about more than just Macs on his blogKirkville . Twitter:@mcelhearnKirk is the writer ofTake Control of iTunes 10 : The FAQ . ]
