Playlist Assist review: Drag and drop to create playlists, like iTunes of yore
Among the many (somewhat jarring) changes in iTunes 11 is that you can no longer open and display multiple iTunes windows. This feature of iTunes 10 and earlier was useful for a number of tasks, not the least of which was building playlists.
In those older versions of iTunes, you could create a new playlist, open it up as a separate window, and then drag and drop tracks from your iTunes library into that window to build a custom and organized collection of items. iTunes 11 instead offers a new Playlists view, accessible only if you hide iTunes’s sidebar. To add items to a playlist, you find or create that playlist, click the Add To button, and you get playlist-building functionality somewhat similar to what you had before, with the playlist appearing in its own sidebar to the right—you can drag items to it and arrange items within it. This approach works, but if using multiple windows is the way you like to build playlists, you’re out of luck. (There are other ways to make and add to playlists in iTunes, including by dragging and dropping from the main window to a playlist in the sidebar, but none provides the same two-window ease of use as before.)
Playlist Assist lets you drag and drop tracks to create and edit playlists; when you’re done, you send the playlist to iTunes.
If you want the old way back, you could try to find a copy of iTunes 10, although that version won’t work in OS X 10.9 Mavericks. A better solution is to pony up for Doug Adams’s $5 Playlist Assist. (A free demo version, limited to building playlists of 15 or fewer tracks, lets you try before you buy.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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