How do you show only complete albums in iTunes 11?
iTunes 11 seems to revolve around the screen that shows you all of the different albums that you own. However, the vast majority of the albums iTunes is showing me are albums from which I own only one song, and it is making it difficult to find those albums that are actually complete.
In iTunes 11, how do you filter the albums displayed in the Albums pane?
Make a smart playlist with the following filter - Comments contains Full Album. For each album I want to add, I click on Get Info and add Full Album to the comments field
You can't. Write a suggestion to Apple at: http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
You can create a playlist that contains all full albums in your library using AppleScript. The code below is just a small modification to the script linked in Kirk's answer so that it creates one playlist instead of one per album. It's slow (takes maybe 5 minutes to run through my library) and is very sensitive to any metadata inaccuracies, but it works for me.
-- Creates one playlist of all full albums you have in iTunes
-- Set the playlistPrefix and playlistSuffix as desired before running
-- Original script by duozmo on Ask Different
-- http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130201061128257
-- http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/77626
-- Based on code by Brad Campbell
-- http://www.bradcampbell.com/2009/05/26/make-a-whole-album-playlist-in-itunes/
tell application "iTunes"
set albumPlaylistName to "Full Albums"
-- Create playlist
if user playlist albumPlaylistName exists then
try
delete tracks of user playlist albumPlaylistName
end try
else
make new user playlist with properties {name:albumPlaylistName}
end if
set albumBuckets to {} as list
set allSongs to (every track of library playlist 1 whose enabled is true and podcast is false and kind contains "audio") as list
-- Find all partial albums in iTunes
repeat with currentTrack in allSongs
set albumName to album of currentTrack as text
set artistName to artist of currentTrack as text
-- First check for missing values, then perform integer comparison
-- Zero is on the left to force interger type coercion, just in case
if album of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than length of albumName then
if artist of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than length of artistName then
if track number of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than track number of currentTrack then
if track count of currentTrack is not missing value and 0 is less than track count of currentTrack then
if albumBuckets does not contain album of currentTrack then
copy album of currentTrack to the end of albumBuckets
end if
end if
end if
end if
end if
end repeat
repeat with currentAlbum in albumBuckets
set albumSongs to (every track of library playlist 1 whose album is currentAlbum)
set firstTrack to first item of albumSongs
-- Filter album list to act only on full albums
if (count of albumSongs) is equal to track count of first item of albumSongs and 1 is less than (count of albumSongs) then
-- This is a full album, construct the playlist
-- Sort tracks by track number
set albumSongsSorted to {} as list
repeat with i from 1 to (count of albumSongs)
repeat with trk in albumSongs
if track number of trk is i then
set nextSong to trk
copy nextSong to the end of albumSongsSorted
end if
end repeat
end repeat
try
repeat with trk in albumSongsSorted
duplicate trk to user playlist albumPlaylistName
end repeat
end try
end if
end repeat
display dialog albumPlaylistName & " playlist created!"
end tell
Another option would be to use Doug's Random Full Albums script if you just want iTunes to act like a CD changer on album shuffle mode.