When I'm on my Windows computer and using iTunes, I can conveniently hit the F2 key when I have a song selected, rename the song using the in-line edit field that appears, and then hit Enter to commit the change. No mouse or Get Info dialog is used in the process.
Is there a keyboard-only method in iTunes on OS X for quickly renaming a song?
On OS X, I can avoid iTunes' Get Info dialog by using the mouse to click twice … not double clicking, but rather: click, wait, click again .. (and getting the timing right is annoying!) Such clicking activates in-line editing functionality (so I know it exists) but it requires the mouse. How can I activate the in-line editing functionality with just the keyboard?
I tried F2 on OS X and that didn't work. I also tried Enter, which can be used to in-line edit file names in Finder, but that didn't work either :-/
I'm interested in renaming files with the keyboard only because I have a ton of songs imported with "Artist Name – Song Name" titles to correct.
Best Answer
There sure is.
When you have a song selected, you can press ⌘ + return and it will allow you to quickly edit the song title.