iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition

Edit Menu

Like the Edit menus in almost every Mac program, this menu houses the commands that help you move and manage selected bits of information. In iTunes, it also lets you control how information is displayed.

Undo

The Mac’s Undo feature reverses the last menu command or keyboard action you took. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-Z (Mac); Ctrl+Z (Windows).

Cut, Copy, and Paste

These familiar text-editing functions come in quite handy for moving around misplaced album titles and artist names in the Song Information box and elsewhere in iTunes. Keyboard shortcuts: ⌘-X, -C, and -V (Mac); Ctrl+X, +C, and +V (Windows).

Clear

Selecting a playlist in the Source list, or selecting certain songs on a playlist, and then choosing Edit → Clear removes the item from the iTunes window—without deleting it from your music library. Keyboard shortcut: Delete; or, to bypass the confirmation box, press ⌘-Delete (Mac); Ctrl+Delete (Windows).

Select All

Select All does pretty much what it says it does. For example, if you want to select all the song titles in the window at once, click in the window and choose Edit → Select All. Keyboard shortcut: ⌘-A (Mac); Ctrl+A (Windows).

Select None

Choose Edit → Select None to release any song titles from selection. Keyboard shortcut: Shift-⌘-A (Mac); Ctrl+Shift+A (Windows).

Show/Hide Search Bar

The inner-window Search bar (it appears at the top of the iTunes browser) lets you sort and screen the contents of your iTunes library. Click any of the Search bar’s buttons (Music, ...