A Bit of Convenience Missing

[stickmaker]

Why the *BLEEP!* does iTunes not allow at least pasting in data fields?! At least in the Store search!! Have you tried typing "Felix Mendelssohn" in correctly by hand?!

(Okay, I'm dyslexic and thus have trouble with things like Mendelssohn. Even for most people, it would be a lot more convenient.)

Comments

[spazzkat.livejournal.com]

You should try pasting again. There's nothing in the OS keeping you from pasting into the search field in iTunes. It even works on iPads.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

No menu appears when I click in the field. Even if I open the Edit window, cut, copy and paste are ghosted.

[spazzkat.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you copied the text correctly and it's actually in the clipboard? Because it _really_ is possible to paste into the search window in iTunes.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

This has happened with all three of my Apple computers, through several iterations of OS X. I have never been able to - as one example - copy and paste information when editing things in Get Info. Or anywhere else in iTunes. I thought this was true for everyone. When I've mentioned it before (other places; this is the first time in LJ) there hasn't been any particular reaction. As if this were an accepted "feature."

Actually, I started using iTunes on Windows machines, and couldn't paste there, either. (I think; it's been several years since I used iTunes on a Windows machine, but my impression is I've never been able to do this.)

Hmmmm... This is the same account that I started in Windows. (I actually need to figure out how to deauthorize those two Windows machines, neither of which I now have access to.) Could there be some fluke involved from that?

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Okay, thanks to spazzkat I now have a new way to search iTunes Store and a solution for the previous problem, using the Edit menu. I still don't know why you can't use the mouse menus in the search fields in iTunes Store Power Search page.