ITunes playlists in iPhoto????

When I am creating a slideshow in iPhoto and I go to "Music", my playlists from iTunes are not there. HELP!!! Any suggestions??

Thanks for the link to the thread, but it didn't exactly answer my question. I go get songs under iTunes, but my "playlists" are not there. I'm so confused. They'll open in iTunes, but when I'm in iPhoto they are not. aauuuggghh. Any other suggestions?

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How to access iTunes playlist for iPhoto slideshow?

In iPhoto 6 when I am setting up a slideshow and click the "Music" button, I am given the option of accessing my full library from iTunes, but my Playlists don't show up anywhere, just the artists' names and individual songs,so I am able to choose just one song for an entire slideshow. How can I access my playlists in the Music settings for iPhoto slideshows?

I have the same problem, I click the arrows and the list drops but I can only select first tune from , sample, garage band, or library. This happens every time I install an update. In the past deleting iTunes playlist has cured the problem but has not worked this time.

Can't access iTunes playlists in iPhoto

I'm trying to put together a slideshow and the playlists that iPhoto lists are older ones from iTunes, not the current ones I have now. Even if I skip the playlists and try to pick a song from the iTunes library, it defaults to the "You got a friend in me" song. I've thought about trashing the preferences in iPhoto, but I don't want to lose all my iPhoto albums and events.
Any ideas?

That sounds more like an issue with iTunes sharing than iPhoto.
So, in the iTunes Folder you'll find a file called iTunes Music Library.xml
This is the file other apps read when they integrate with iTunes. Try move that to the desktop, launch iTunes and it will re-create the file. Quit and restart iPhoto. Is that better?
If not, can other apps see the full iTunes Library? iMovie for instance?
I've thought about trashing the preferences in iPhoto, but I don't want to lose all my iPhoto albums and events.
You wouldn't.
This only records your User options for the app. These include minor settings like the window colour and so on. Note: If you've moved your library you'll need to point iPhoto at it again.
*What's the plist file?*
For new users: Every application on your Mac has an accompanying plist file. It records certain User choices. For instance, in your favourite Word Processor it remembers your choice of Default Font, on your Web Browser is remembers things like your choice of Home Page. It even recalls what windows you had open last if your app allows you to pick up from where you left off last. The iPhoto plist file remembers things like the location of the Library, your choice of background colour, whether you are running a Referenced or Managed Library, what preferences you have for autosplitting events and so on. Trashing the plist file forces the app to generate a new one on the next launch, and this restores things to the Factory Defaults. Hence, if you've changed any of these things you'll need to reset them. If you haven't, then no bother. Trashing the plist file is Mac troubleshooting 101.
Regards
TD

Cannot access iTunes 'playlist' from iPhoto 6.0.6

Hi, 5-29-07
I am using iPhoto 6.0.6 and iTunes 7.1.1 (5). I want to use a playlist with my slideshow, and have read several postings with instructions on how to do this (great forum, by the way).
For some reason, this version of iPhoto does not look like the descriptions the other posts give, and I can only access one iTunes level--probably root library, and select only single songs that repeat incessantly.
Any help would be great. Had a family reunion lately and everyone is bugging me for a slideshow DVD.
Thanks.
MacBookPro, Mac Mini, countless PC's Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Nibby
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
You might be searching for the elusive dimple: have a look at this thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=446667&tstart=0
Lori has a screenshot that might be helpful. Even if your window has just a dropdown menu, there will still be the dimple.
Regards
TD

Trouble with itunes playlist and iphoto slideshow

Hello,
I have created the slideshow in iphoto with background music from a playlist from itunes. It all looks great and plays perfectly in iphoto but after the conversion into a movie using Quicktime only the first song from the playlist accompanies the slideshow. I have done this before with an earlier slideshow and it all worked out great: Slideshow became movie accompanied by the whole playlist. This problem seems to have occurred since I upgraded to itunes 7.6 and Quicktime 7.4 Any ideas or hints would greatly appreciated.

my advice has always been to rebuid any arrays with the new OS.
backup, delete, restore/reload
And invest in SoftRAID for your driver for all drives but esp. for mirror.
TimeMachine - I'd pull your current backup drive and use a new one.
And clone.
Never rely on one backup set, or method.
iTunes has always been.... interesting. Maybe someone in iTunes forums, and Lion community.
I have always had iTunes and my media/data personal account home folder (back to 10.2 days) on separate drive volumes. Often stripped. Vista + itunes + RAID = corrupt data, but that was 2007.
Shift launch iTunes. Told it where Media Library is. There are Apple support articles to cover this.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes

Converting slideshow from iphoto with itune playlist as background music

I have created a slideshow in iphoto with an itune playlist as the background music and when I convert it throught quicktime into a movie it only plays the first song from the playlist. All photos look good in the slide. This problem has started since I upgraded to quicktime 7.4. Does anyone have any suggestions. I have created slideshows with music before and converted them through quicktime with no trouble. I can't figure this one out?? Thank you

David,
I am sorry! I thought I was giving a solved to both of you. I was just playing around with fotomagico tonight. I love it...for $49. I know I have alot of posts and should be familiar with the solved thing. But most of my posts involve when I first started with Macs three years ago. I should have been more carefull. Non-the-less you were considerate enough to take your time out to help me. Much appreciated!
Some people on this FCP site are very critical of newbies often criticizing rather than helping. I rarely post here because of that.
I am a old time photographer (still have my darkroon stuff) who wants to get into a bit more of the film thing. Hence FCP. But what a learning curve! Mind you it is easier than Photoshop! (Now that's a learning curve coming from a film/darkroom guy).
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IPhoto will not recognize itunes playlists

I have had this problem for a couple months now where iphoto slideshows and idvd, and imovie cannot find any of the itunes music playlists and the pop-up for slideshows just says "open itunes 6 or higher to populate list" but never does.
I recently upgraded to ilife 08 hoping that that would solve the issue but its still there. After reading some posts online i tried rebuilding my itunes library xml file many times, opened the apps in the correct order, repaired permissions deleted, threw away preference plist files, and even threw away and reinstalled several of the apps. None of them seemed to solve the issue. Anyone have any ideas to get the iapps to see itunes playlists again?? Please help

No, this is a purely diagnostic step. It tells us that both iTunes and iPhoto are okay, there's no need to re-install them and that the issue is somewhere in your main user account.
When the apps interact, iPhoto reads the iTunes xml file, and the problem is in there somewhere, so I would also be posting over there.
All my comments about the iTunes xml file are based on what I've learned about the iPhoto one. They may not necessarily apply.
Where is your iTunes Library? On your start up drive? On an external? If an external, what format is it?
Do you have any non-ascii characters in your mp3 metadata or tags (essentially, anything not a-z or 0-9)
Regards
TD

How do I use only a portion of a song in my iTunes in my iPhoto slideshow?

I already tried making the song shorter in iTunes by using the start and stop options and it does indeed make the song shorter in iTunes, but when I choose the song within iPhoto, the slideshow uses the long version of the song. What do I need to do to just use like a minute of the song in the slideshow?

The settings you use to play in iTunes do not get retained in other apps. What you can do is open Garage Band, drag the song from iTunes into a GB track, then edit the song as you like. You can even adjust the fade in/out exactly to the length and duration you want. When the song is trimmed, Share to iTunes, where it will become a separate song. Select that for your slideshow, or place it in an iTunes playlist and use the playlist for your slideshow.
Regards.

IPhone 5 is recognized by iPhoto but not iTunes (OSX 10.6.8, iTunes 10.7, iPhoto 7.1.5)

I am helping a friend with her new iPhone 5.
Issue is that it is recognized by iPhoto but not iTunes.
iPhone 5 16GB, iOS 6.1.4
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Installed iTunes 10.7 (as we do not like interface and loss of separate Playlist view in iTunes 11).
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Initially iPhone was recognized by both iPhoto and iTunes. Then shortly later, iTunes did not see it anymore, was missing from iTunes Devices list.
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What error message ar eyou getting. Why do you say it will not allow you to download?
Verify you meet all the system requirements:
Mac computer with an Intel Core processor
OS X version 10.6.8 or later
400MB of available disk space
Broadband Internet connection to use the iTunes Store

Lion not saving settings, iTunes not working, iPhoto not repairing

having a ton of issues and not sure if it's upgrading to Lion, updating iTunes or something else causing the problem.
When I'm logged in as the main user getting a ton of problems including;
1) no matter which box I check or uncheck or which windows I close before shutting down, every time I log in as my usual user it opens about 20 windows including about 6 files in Excel which I've already closed, said I wanted to delete (they were recovered), etc. Other windows that open are firefox, settings, a video I started watching about a month ago, etc
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5) most settings are not saved. things like changing the Login Items, 'Restore Windows when quitting...' option do not save but things like file sharing options does save.
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4) reinstalling itunes with iphoto removed
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5) also tried to manually delete the 'saved application states' but can't get to the folder (can find the library folder but it says the saved application states folder does not exist)
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so, anyone have any ideas? if not, is there an easy way to transfer all my files, itunes library (hopefully including playlists!), etc?
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lhaw wrote:
the only thing that works is setting up a new user and logging in there. Most of the problems seem to go away but all my files, itunes library, etc are under my other user.
so, anyone have any ideas? if not, is there an easy way to transfer all my files, itunes library (hopefully including playlists!), etc?
Sounds like something malicious or malfunctioning in your user.
What you can do is use the Grouping or other tag feature to tag all your songs in certain playlists, this will apply to the song file itself.
For instance I have music grouped like this:
Popular 00's Medium Hits
Popular 90's Hard Hits
Classic Rock 80's Very Hard Hits
Blues 70's Medium Hits
So I can create Smart Playlists containing the keywords in the Grouping.
No you don't have to go through all that. Something to think about in the future when you switch machines or need to transfer to another user.
You can simply transfer your entire iTunes folder into the Music folder of the new user via the Users/Shared folder, open a copy of the
iTunes Music Library.xml
In TextEdit or another text program with "find and replace" ability.
Change all instances of your old user name with the new one, save and relaunch iTunes, it will load this file and have the correct pathname/user to locate your files so the playlists remain intact.
Once your up on the new user, delete the infected or corrupted one, as that what it seems to be occuring.

Cannot map iTunes library to iPhoto

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Temtoes:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Check out Lori's post in this thread, http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=446667&tstart=0, with her links to screenshots showing how to get the individual tracks and playlists to display.
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Hi Nick,
check out this thread
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?128@@.68b4dca6

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