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In iTunes on OS X, you can search for music in your library by using the CMD+F shortcut. However, as far as I can tell, there exists no shortcut for accessing those items once the search has completed. This isn't a huge problem, but it certainly would make searching faster if such a shortcut existed. Does anyone know if this exists? Thanks.
Edit: I should note that I use the "Songs" tab (as opposed to the Albums, Artists, Genres, etc. tabs).
iTunes will actually let you use multiple libraries if you want, and then can switch between them on launch. So if disk space (and just keeping the files where they were wasn't an issue), you could use a second library.
If you launch iTunes while holding down the Option key on your keyboard, you will get this dialog.
You could choose 'Create Library' here, and make a second library.
Unfortunately, the storage location of your music is a iTunes general setting versus per library. But, there is the options in Preferences -> Advanced to not copy files into the iTunes Media folder. Changing this though would affect your main library too though.
I dissected the XML file a bit and it turned out to be a XML property list (sort of a XML-based JSON equlivant), so it becomes easier to handle. If the files affected have the same name not counting its extension, some Objective-C can be laid down to change it. Do you have Xcode installed or should I prepackage it for you?
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Once the results are returned to you, you can use the up and down arrows followed by the Return key in order to select the results. If you mean by exiting out of the search bar entirely, try pressing the Tab key.