Although it has been around since iTunes 8, Grid View is still probably the most eye-catching way to see your media library. It's like laying out all your albums on the living room floor - great for seeing everything you have without the hassle of having to pick it all back up. More picturesque than List View and not quite as moving as Cover Flow, Grid View is the middle road to discovering what's in your iTunes library.
iTunes groups your music collection into four categories: album, artist, genre, and composer. Click each named tab to see the music sorted by that category. Here's working the Grid:
Hover your mouse over any tile on the grid to get a clickable Play icon that enables you to start listening to the music.
Double-click a cover in Albums view to show both the cover and song titles in List View.
If you have mutliple albums under the Artists, Genres, or Composers tabs, hover your mouse over each tile to rotate through the album covers. If you wish to represent the group using a particular album cover or piece of art, right-click it and choose Set Default Grid Artwork.
You can do the alternative for art you won't want to see: right-click it and choose Clear Deafult Grid Artwork.
Adjust how big the covers and art by dragging the slider towards the top of the window. One thing about Grid View, though: It's pretty darn depressing unless you have artwork on almost everything in your collection. And if you hate Grid View, don't use it - iTunes just defaults to whatever view you had been using the last time you quit the program.
You can call up a list of all the songs with a specific word in their title, album name, or artist attribution simply by clicking the Source pane's Music icon and typing a few letters into the Search box in iTunes' upper-right corner. With each letter you type, iTunes shortens the list of songs it displays, showing you simply tracks that match what you type.
Typing train brings up a list of everything in your music collection that has the word "train" somewhere in the song's information - maybe the song's title, the band name, or the Steve Earle album. Click another Library icons, like Movies or Audiobooks, to comb those collections for titles that match a search term.
You can also search for specific titles using the iTunes Browser. If you can't see the browser pane, press Ctrl+B to summon it. Based on how you configured it in View, then Column Browser, the browser reveals your music collection grouped by genre, artist, and album. Hit the same keys again to shut the browser.
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