Finding playlists

[french frank]

Yes, I use Shift + Cmd + 3 (not 4), then you don't have to move the mouse from where it's hovering. It automatically generates a whole screen image. I've never known it any different: Sierra, El Capitan, Mavericks, I think back to Snow Leopard. I don't know what 'activate Grab' means

Looks like you managed it. I'm on a machine running Mountain Lion, and every time I move the mouse away from the browser the pop up disappears.

I suppose if I had key strokes to grab the screen your approach would work, but I have to activate Grab, and then select one of the Screen, the Window or a Selected area. I have gone back to this, but it still doesn't work.

Well done that you managed it. I am assuming for the moment that it's the differences in our systems which mean that I can't, but if there's something else I could do I would welcome someone telling me.

[Anastasius]

Very true. But why do you need it? You only have to highlight the title eg Praetorius: Dances From Terpsichore. Naxos. 11, drag and drop it into your search box and it takes you (via your search engine) straight to the site where there are all the details. Now, given that 99% of the listeners will not wish to buy it at all, nor wish to know what the CD number is, it seems reasonable for those who do to carry out the minimal search to find the details they (presumably) need.

And the playlist looks a vast improvement on five years ago. Admittedly, I don't listen to Breakfast, but I don't fancy a stream of diverse tracks lasting 5-6 mins on average. Twenty to thirty minutes might suit me - but I don't expect the programme to change to please me And if you aren't listening, you won't need the CD numbers either.

Why do I need it? Because I will occasionally dip in to see what is playing and might stumble across something that is new to me or is a work that I know and I like the performance. So to take your suggestion I put this into Google and got absolutely nowhere.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Das Musikalische Opfer, BWV 1079: II. Ricercar a 3 voci
Performer: Lorenzo Ghielmi.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: MUSICAL OFFERING, BWV1079. PASSACAILLE. 2.

[Anastasius]

Yes, very odd. But not a huge inconvenience? Though it may be that the CD number has to be entered manually, and the rest is automated (like the playlist)?

Think you have hit the nail on the head. It must be because they are using the 'one size fits all' and it's designed for pop music.

[Dave2002]

Yes, I use Shift + Cmd + 3 (not 4), then you don't have to move the mouse from where it's hovering. It automatically generates a whole screen image. I've never known it any different: Sierra, El Capitan, Mavericks, I think back to Snow Leopard. I don't know what 'activate Grab' means

Very interesting. I didn't know that, or if I did, I'd forgotten it. Thanks a lot for educating me.

Grab is a useful tool in Utilities, which is within Applications.

I've used your method here ... and done the crop wihin Grab - then Preview to change file type and resize, then upload to Imgur.

The screen grab your way seems silent, but drops a file onto my desktop which can then be edited.

[Anastasius]

Yes, I use Shift + Cmd + 3 (not 4), then you don't have to move the mouse from where it's hovering. It automatically generates a whole screen image. I've never known it any different: Sierra, El Capitan, Mavericks, I think back to Snow Leopard. I don't know what 'activate Grab' means

Where does it save the screenshots?

[Anastasius]

Grab has gone in Mavericks. I use Preview but the wee windows do disappear hence trying out FF's trick.

[french frank]

Where does it save the screenshots?

Saves mine as a png on my desktop.

[french frank]

The screen grab your way seems silent, but drops a file onto my desktop which can then be edited.

If the volume is turned up, it should make a click like a camera. My image was a bit unclear because I reduced the size too much after uploading to photobucket. This is one of the handiest tools, as far as I'm concerned, that the Mac offers - and, yes, once on the desktop the image can be edited by whatever method you use (I just drag and drop it on to the GIMP icon in my dock.

[french frank]

So to take your suggestion I put this into Google and got absolutely nowhere.

That one doesn't even have a label, though. Most of the others seemed to.

[Zucchini]

So to take your suggestion I put this into Google and got absolutely nowhere.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Das Musikalische Opfer, BWV 1079: II. Ricercar a 3 voci
Performer: Lorenzo Ghielmi.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: MUSICAL OFFERING, BWV1079. PASSACAILLE. 2.

For what it's worth, highlighting the R3 text / rt click / 'Ask Cortana' (Windos10) gives Amazon, Spotify & other 99p download sources ... in 5 secs? Maybe 10 ...

[Anastasius]

Saves mine as a png on my desktop.

Ta muchly.

[Anastasius]

For what it's worth, copying the R3 text / rt click / 'Ask Cortana' (Windos10) gives Amazon, Spotify & other 99p download sources ... in 5 secs? Maybe 10 ...

Ask Cortana ? Never heard of it, I'm afraid. What's the equivalent in Mac-world? I usually use Google and although I got some hits, including Presto Classical...my Goto source for CDs...that still didn't help as the Presto result gave many CDs.

Basically a waste of time when all they need to is provide the damn CD number. It's not rocket-science.

[Anastasius]

That one doesn't even have a label, though. Most of the others seemed to.

But why should we be forced to jump through hoops ? What's wrong with putting the damn CD number down?

[Dave2002]

... once on the desktop the image can be edited by whatever method you use (I just drag and drop it on to the GIMP icon in my dock.

Agree about the click and the volume control. I'm surprised you're using GIMP - though it's fine. I had to fiddle about and reinstall that recently to recover a the ability to process RAW images using the RAW plugin - ufraw. For many simple and some not so simple things Preview is good enough - certainly good enough for cropping, though you have to watch out that it does not edit your original file. Always use duplicates if you don't want to lose the exact original.

Also in my last example, though I did use Grab to select the crop from the screen image, it could have been simpler to use Preview directly, particularly as I wasn't too bothered about keeping the original.

For anastasius I think Siri, which I don't use, is the Mac equivalent of Cortana. You just speak what you want and the answer is returned quickly, or so I'm told. I think both systems require an internet connection and the voice processing and lookup is done remotely on some very fast computers.

[Dave2002]

Grab has gone in Mavericks. I use Preview but the wee windows do disappear hence trying out FF's trick.

Odd that you say that. I used a machine with Mavericks yesterday and it was still there. It's still there in El Capitan too. It's in Utilities - a folder under Applications.