Apple Releases iTunes 9: New Media Syncing Options, Genius Mixes, iPhone App Organization [Archive] - Page 3

TimothyB

Sep 10, 2009, 04:42 AM

Ugh, does the new App Organizaition screen have a ton of apps checked that were not before?

If I were to sync, it would try to install 46 apps that were not set to install before updating to 9 and 3.1. So much for easy organization, now I have to find all those app and uncheck them.

Anyone have this issue. The apps already installed are in their old spot in the app organization, except for the extra 46 apps filling any gaps and new pages.

eTip

Sep 10, 2009, 04:51 AM

This looks like a bug to me. Can someone else check it out and see if they can duplicate this? In iTunes, when I click on the "TV Shows" tab under iPhone (under "Devices"), then choose a TV show that has more than (about?) 14 episodes, I can't see all of them (yes, they are in my library). There is a scroll bar on the right for the episodes, but scrolling all the way down still does not show all of the episodes. I have duplicated this with a couple different shows.

The only way I was able to get around this was to change the name or season number for some of the shows so that there wouldn't be more than 14 episodes for any show/season.

zacman

Sep 10, 2009, 04:58 AM

How to fix that annoying rating width issue?

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1007/ratingwidth.tif

Jodlesx

Sep 10, 2009, 05:06 AM

Sorry if this has been mentioned already, but it just occurred to me that the new glossy look of iTunes 9 match the new glossy look of the iPod nanos, right?...

Btw, how do you know whether an album has iTunes LP or not? You don't know till you buy it?

bergmef

Sep 10, 2009, 05:10 AM

Got it up and running. Talked to an Apple genius at a nearby store. He suggested that I simply turn everything off and let iTunes run a LONG LONG time. It took 2.5 hours, but it finally finished going through the library and now seems to be working fine.

If you are having hangups and spinning beach balls, try shutting everything else off and just let it run over night....

Hope that helps.

Did my two computers yesterday. The notebook took about 15 minutes (just music and audiobooks) and the mini took about an hour and a half. The mini has the same music, no audiobooks and about a terabyte of movies and tv shows. I thought it had locked up, but it was just chugging away. I think mine was slow also because my itunes for the mini is on a NAS in another room.

As a side note, the syncing worked well. I checked the box to keep all the music synced, I figure I want to do the movies/tv shows/audiobooks myself. I bought a song on the notebook, and about a minute later, I saw it transferring to the Mini. Kinda feel sorry for Supersync (the program I was using to do this). Now if they will do iphoto syncing (time to start emailing again :-) )

VulchR

Sep 10, 2009, 05:15 AM

I had a hard time navigating the new GUI on iTunes 9, but I'll give another week or so to see if I get used to it.

More importantly, the installation did not go smoothly. I downloaded, restarted and then all hell broke loose as various startup programs could not find their libraries. For instance, BOINC told me to reinstall. I tried that, but the installation package indicated my mirror backup disk was the start-up disk even though my primary disk was correctly listed as the start-up disk in system preferences. I restarted again in single user mode and used fsck, but there were no issues. I rebooted and everything was fine. Weird. :confused:

Simon Young

Sep 10, 2009, 05:17 AM

teme

Sep 10, 2009, 05:37 AM

I think this looked much better than the new iTMS: http://maxvoltar.com/files/83.png

The new iTMS is too white, and the different areas (new and noteworthy, what's hot, what we're listening to etc) are so similar that the overall look is very crowded - there should be some stronger visual elements to separate them from each other.

zedsdead

Sep 10, 2009, 05:44 AM

+ iPhone app organisation
+ Coverflow for Applications
+ Improved media organisation
+ Info window shows download progress

- Yet another new UI
- White background in icon view
- 2-disc albums don't sort properly
- iTunes Store uglier, more confusing

Overall it's a mixed bag. Crucially, it's still the same iTunes. Other than the wonky sorting with 2-disc albums, I've had no problems whatsoever playing my music. The new UI isn't fantastic but it doesn't distract either. The store still works perfectly, despite being hard on the eyes. I don't sync my videos with iTunes so am not aware of any problems there. Coverflow + Apps = :)

I AM NOT HAPPY:mad: I did not notice the 2-Disc nonsense last night. The sorting is ridiculous. I think I am going to have to now retag all of my music by track now. WHY would they change this?

Nevermind, easily fixed by clicking on the album tab. Got worked up for nothing...lol.

Still prefer the black background though. I don't get Apple lately, with many products moving to a black interface why go white. All the iWork apps and now parts of snow leopard and quicktime has the black look while iTunes has the white look. Apple's new boxes for software moved toward white. Most of the computers are black and silver, yet all the peripherals are white. I don't get it...dammit just pick one.

war eagle

Sep 10, 2009, 06:19 AM

Do you need to be updated to 3.1 to arrange apps?

Lesser Evets

Sep 10, 2009, 07:50 AM

I noticed two things immediately:

The window can't minimize like the old version. WTF, Apple?

They STILL can't full screen just ONE monitor and blank productivity on both. WTH, Apple? Some small group of French guys can do it with VLC but you can't do it with a huge corporation making billions??

Overall, not bad, but so much crap finishing. Apple products are getting sloppy around the edges these days.

milo

Sep 10, 2009, 07:51 AM

I'm glad they finally fixed the green button, it never worked consistently with other apps, and there's still a key command for it.

The new option for side artist/genre is nice, especially with so many people on widescreen monitors.

The new smart playlist and sync options are awesome and way overdue.

Overall doesn't seem faster although it finally ejects my Nano MUCH quicker than before, I never could understand why it was always so extremely slow.

i don't give a damn about 64-bit or cocoa, but i am very annoyed that my library STILL takes 5 minutes to load, with 99% cpu during that time.

Sounds like you DO care about 64 bit and cocoa. I don't get why they haven't switched that over, this is an app that has always run on the slow side and could really use it. There are plenty of people out there with thousands of files in iTunes.

So has anyone checked to see if 9 makes better use of multiple cores? Sorry if that has been covered already in this thread.

Cordeiro

Sep 10, 2009, 08:10 AM

In iTunes 9 does anyone knows a way to find the songs that still have DRM on your library?
The option upgrade your library to iTunes Plus disappeared...

apt

Sep 10, 2009, 08:16 AM

Is it me or does home sharing ONLY automatically copy iTunes purchases and NOT other content added other ways such as CD rips or music added from other sources (Amazon etc). Import from Home Sharing works fine.

Sky Blue

Sep 10, 2009, 08:21 AM

copies other stuff fine for me.

apt

Sep 10, 2009, 08:22 AM

copies other stuff fine for me.

Using the automatic function?

bergmef

Sep 10, 2009, 08:38 AM

Using the automatic function?

I'd like to know also. I only tested last night with purchased content.

AdeFowler

Sep 10, 2009, 08:58 AM

Using the automatic function?

I think it only transfers purchased stuff automatically, whilst other stuff is drag and drop. There is an option to "Show only songs not on this computer" which should help.

apt

Sep 10, 2009, 09:03 AM

Yeah that was my finding too. Why make it so its only purchased content that syncs automatically and not ALL content after all iTunes were the first mainstream company to promote ripping from CD's. I was looking forward to abandoning Mojo for syncing content between multiple Macs.

Joe M

Sep 10, 2009, 09:24 AM

With the iTunes Extras, will this include commentary tracks? This is something, among a few other things, which has driven me more to DVDs than online movie purchases. Commentaries by directors, writers and stars on some of the biggest films in the iTunes 9 library certainly wouldn't go amiss.

Well I read the info on the iTunes Extra page in the iTunes Store and it acted like film commentaries would be included (if the DVD equivilent has them available) plus its not like it would be that hard for them to have them included since alternate audio tracks in iTunes has been available for some time since the last couple versions of Handbrake allowed multiple audio tracks. What I find cool is the fact that the iTunes Extras movies will have more special features than a single disc version of a DVD which is a comparable price point. I was going to buy the single disc version of Star Trek this November but I may get the iTunes version since no doubt it will have all the special features included in the single disc version and some from the two disc version plus if its available in HD that would give me as good picture quality compared to the DVD.

Does anyone know how (or if) you can get iTunes LP or Movie Extras for albums you already own? I already got Wall-e from iTunes and was hoping to get the extras.

I'm not sure but I would go into the support chat to find out if you could.

farleysmaster

Sep 10, 2009, 09:24 AM

Oooh, I found a feature. If you select tracks in a playlist, it tells you how many tracks you have selected, and how many MB they are, in the status bar. That's new, right?

apt

Sep 10, 2009, 09:41 AM

Oooh, I found a feature. If you select tracks in a playlist, it tells you how many tracks you have selected, and how many MB they are, in the status bar. That's new, right?

Seems to be. Only gave you total tracks in the playlist before not selection.

goodwilldrums

Sep 10, 2009, 10:03 AM

The switch to mini-player has changed! If you press the green plus button it changes window size now, and doesn't switch to mini-player. The keyboard shortcut has also changed; from CMD+CONT+Z, to SHFT+CMD+M.

This will take me a while to get used to since I use mini-player alot!

jmcguckin

Sep 10, 2009, 10:09 AM

ugh, I hate to gripe about nearly everything that was announced/released yesterday, but considering the first thing I noticed right off the bat was the redesigned interface (which looks awful, IMHO, at least from the standpoint of being a long-time iTunes user), my initial impression of iTunes 9 wasn't a good one... they really seem to have taken a step backward as far as the appearance of the UI is concerned. plus, what's with their using a variety of fonts now? (for the title/artist below album artwork in List View, it looks like either Arial or Helvetica, but considering the entire remainder of the UI is Lucida Grande, it just looks tacky)

as for functionality, I'm at least glad to see that they have included being able to jump to chapter markers while watching video content, and the indicators next to content that I haven't finished watching/listening to are a nice added touch... plus with HE-AAC support, I can finally use iTunes for listening to HE-AAC-based online radio stations.

overall, it's a worthwhile update, I just wish there was some way I could've kept the old UI while still having access to the new features.

Simplicated

Sep 10, 2009, 10:25 AM

Love the interface. So clear and so bright.

TripHop

Sep 10, 2009, 10:32 AM

:mad: Trust me. This is a DOWNGRADE not an upgrade. You don't want it. It destroys the iTunes Store Shopping Experience. No longer can you highlight a track and hit return to play it followed by the down arrow to highlight the next track so that when the one that's playing 30 seconds ends you can hit return to play the next one and so forth. No. :mad: Now you can only play PARTIALLY VISIBLE playlist songs with a double click of the mouse. :mad:

:mad: Plus they took away the Shopping Cart and replaced it with a LAME Wish List that you can't make into a separate window and which only displays PART of your list at a time. I mean this is the most UN-Engineered Human Interface I have ever seen Apple do. It's like the designers NEVER USE the Store. INSANE would be a kind description of what's been done here. :mad:

:mad: Thankfully I was abel to revert to 8.1.2 this morning thanks to the Previous Library and my SAVED install packages from the past in my Downloads folder. Unless Apple puts back what they took away I will NEVER be advancing my iTunes version again. :mad:

iZac

Sep 10, 2009, 10:42 AM

I really don't like the new buttons...

Agreed. A solid update, but i dont like the new glossy look. Matte is much more vogue!

TripHop

Sep 10, 2009, 10:43 AM

Updated from Software Update. When I started iTunes 9, it said that is adusting the music for gapless play, and every time, somewhere between 500 and the 4700 songs I have, I got a spinning ball that never goes away no matter how long I wait.

Let it run for over an hour once and the spinning ball never went away. I cannot even force quit!!! I have to to a hard restart. I have tried this five times now and I cannot seem to avoid the spinning beach ball...

Anyone else having a similar problem?

I am running OS10.5.8 on a 24" iMac.I think when an update like this comes along the best practice is to download the disk image from Apple.com and run that installer NOT running anything from Software Updater. However I recommend against this - what amounts to a - DOWNGRADE. Recover your Previous Library from the Previous Library folder in your iTunes folder and reinstall 8.2.1 from your previous packages installer in your downloads folder if you were wise enough to always download and KEEP all your installers from the past.

If not Here's the link to Apple's download of 8.2.1 which they are calling for G3 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL857) but which includes the same version for all Macs - Universal Binary.Got it up and running. Talked to an Apple genius at a nearby store. He suggested that I simply turn everything off and let iTunes run a LONG LONG time. It took 2.5 hours, but it finally finished going through the library and now seems to be working fine.

If you are having hangups and spinning beach balls, try shutting everything else off and just let it run over night....

Hope that helps.I swear iTunes 9 is a disaster you don't want.

swindmill

Sep 10, 2009, 10:55 AM

TripHop

Sep 10, 2009, 11:05 AM

:mad: I just found out when I went to do my weekly set of free downloads that Apple has now blocked anyone staying on 8.2.1 from downloading any more videos be they SD or HD. Podcast Videos are still allowed. But nothing you have to buy or get for free as part of the free section. I find this to be a bummer. But I have a work around. I'll just install 9 on another Mac that is ONLY FOR DOWNLOADING free videos. Then I'll copy those downloads into my regular library, rename them "whatever.mp4" and play them in QuickTime X. :mad:

Here's the link to the Apple Download Page of the disk image of Universal Binary of 8.2.1 (http://support.apple.com/kb/DL857). They call it for G3 but when you open the image the read me file admits it's for all Macs.

jmcguckin

Sep 10, 2009, 11:06 AM

I'm a little baffled by the white background for videos and apps. It seems to be a huge step backward in aesthetics. I'm still undecided on the new look as a whole, but I'm leaning towards the look of iTunes 8.

my thoughts exactly...

and on a related side-note, I've already found a bug- in the previous version of iTunes, albums could be sorted by year, and while this still works properly for single-disc albums, multi-disc albums (for instance, The Beatles' "White Album") now list the tracks in order of track number, not disc number... and for the sizable number of 2- and 3-disc albums that I own, the majority of them contain tracks which should flow gaplessly from one to the next, and this no longer works properly.

what would be the best way to go about submitting this to Apple?

ricosuave

Sep 10, 2009, 11:32 AM

I don't know if its been covered on this thread. 22 pages!

I'm on a single machine with multiple users. The wife and kids.

When they copy songs and apps after selecting not to "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library". It still does it. I cannot use this feature which I was exited about since it creates duplicates on same disk.

Have any of you found a solution for this?

mjteggy05

Sep 10, 2009, 11:39 AM

my thoughts exactly...

and on a related side-note, I've already found a bug- in the previous version of iTunes, albums could be sorted by year, and while this still works properly for single-disc albums, multi-disc albums (for instance, The Beatles' "White Album") now list the tracks in order of track number, not disc number... and for the sizable number of 2- and 3-disc albums that I own, the majority of them contain tracks which should flow gaplessly from one to the next, and this no longer works properly.

what would be the best way to go about submitting this to Apple?

I noticed this as well. I usually keep my library organized by "Album by Year"

My temporary fix until Apple fixes (I hope they do) is to organize by "Album"

That seems to have taken care of it for now...

redfirebird08

Sep 10, 2009, 12:00 PM

I noticed this as well. I usually keep my library organized by "Album by Year"

My temporary fix until Apple fixes (I hope they do) is to organize by "Album"

That seems to have taken care of it for now...

That's a crappy fix because the "Album" sort pays no attention to artist. "Album by Year" first sorts alphabetically by artist, then sorts each artist's albums by year. What I did was go into the album field and rename each one with a (1), (2), (3), etc. after the album title. Even renaming the "sort album" field doesn't fix the problem, you have to change the actual album name. I have around 28 gigs of music on my computer and quite a few multi-disc albums. But it could have been worse. Some people have a hell of a lot more music than that on their computers to sift through.

Olde Guy

Sep 10, 2009, 12:22 PM

In App store, I can't find the list of categories, ie Business, Entertainment, Lifestyle, etc. Am I missing something?

BRLawyer

Sep 10, 2009, 01:15 PM

You could do that before. I thought that now you could transfer the stuff from one library to another.

Correct, provided you use the same iTunes account.

AAPLaday

Sep 10, 2009, 01:21 PM

In App store, I can't find the list of categories, ie Business, Entertainment, Lifestyle, etc. Am I missing something?

Click the little arrow next to the app store link and a drop down menu appears

AAPLaday

Sep 10, 2009, 01:26 PM

BRLawyer

Sep 10, 2009, 01:38 PM

That's a crappy fix because the "Album" sort pays no attention to artist. "Album by Year" first sorts alphabetically by artist, then sorts each artist's albums by year. What I did was go into the album field and rename each one with a (1), (2), (3), etc. after the album title. Even renaming the "sort album" field doesn't fix the problem, you have to change the actual album name. I have around 28 gigs of music on my computer and quite a few multi-disc albums. But it could have been worse. Some people have a hell of a lot more music than that on their computers to sift through.

As long as feedback is provided, this is a bug easily fixed in 9.0.1...

baruch

Sep 10, 2009, 02:05 PM

When one creates a playlist, it used to show, at the bottom, the number of minutes in the playlist. Now it shows a decimal, like 1.1 hours instead of saying 66 minutes. For people who use iTunes to create playlists for radio, as I do, this is an unfortunate change. I hope this will be corrected.

baruch

Sep 10, 2009, 02:06 PM

TuffLuffJimmy

Sep 10, 2009, 02:19 PM

jaw04005

Sep 10, 2009, 02:22 PM

Looks like there is a “watch folder” in iTunes 9.

http://lifehacker.com/5356619/itunes-finally-adds-watched-folder-to-automatically-add-new-music

trekkie604

Sep 10, 2009, 02:47 PM

Can iTunes 9 Home Sharing work over the internet? I miss that feature from my Windows 7 machine where I can listen to my WMP library from anywhere over the net...

edit, not sure if anyone posted this before but iTunes 9 now has the media controls built into the 7 taskbar:

http://trekcubed.com/remote/itunes9TaskBar.jpg

pjarvi

Sep 10, 2009, 02:48 PM

In regards to the firewall prompting everytime iTunes is opened, the following was found over on the Apple discussion forums (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2087017&start=15&tstart=0):
An engineer got in touch with me and here's the steps I was to do:

* Open terminal and enter "codesign -v /Applications/iTunes.app"

If the output of this command is anything but "Valid on disk", uninstall iTunes and reinstall it.

jmcguckin

Sep 10, 2009, 02:55 PM

I noticed this as well. I usually keep my library organized by "Album by Year"

My temporary fix until Apple fixes (I hope they do) is to organize by "Album"

That seems to have taken care of it for now...

glad to see I'm not the only one who was having this issue... though I've since managed to "fix" it by reverting back to iTunes v. 8.2.1- and I don't plan on updating from it until either 1) I'm forced to in order to maintain compatibility with future versions of QuickTime or 2) Apple eventually release a version of iTunes with a dramatically less tacky UI. I like uniformity in my apps' user interfaces (colors, shapes, etc.), and call me crazy, but I couldn't deal with the overly glossy, unrefined appearance of iTunes 9, not when every other app I use has the non-distracting flat/matte appearance that I'm used to.

ahem.

AAPLaday

Sep 10, 2009, 02:58 PM

glad to see I'm not the only one who was having this issue... though I've since managed to "fix" it by reverting back to iTunes v. 8.2.1- and I don't plan on updating from it until either 1) I'm forced to in order to maintain compatibility with future versions of QuickTime or 2) Apple eventually release a version of iTunes with a dramatically less tacky UI. I like uniformity in my apps' user interfaces (colors, shapes, etc.), and call me crazy, but I couldn't deal with the overly glossy, unrefined appearance of iTunes 9, not when every other app I use has the non-distracting flat/matte appearance that I'm used to.

ahem.

Hmm i started getting this in 8.2.1 and hoped that once i had updated to 9 it would be resolved but its still here now :mad:

TripHop

Sep 10, 2009, 03:02 PM

Just hover the mouse over the track number and it turns into a play symbol then you just have to click it once

We never had to use the mouse before. Just start with a highlighted track line and press return and down arrow. When that 30 seconds is up hit return and down arrow etc. Easy Peezy. Now the return and down arrow keys don't even do anything in 9. Crazy. :mad:

Chimpy

Sep 10, 2009, 03:16 PM

That's a shame they did that - keyboard shortcut options are always a good thing. :(

AAPLaday

Sep 10, 2009, 03:19 PM

They need a preview all option which amazon music store has had for ages now. :)

primalman

Sep 10, 2009, 03:23 PM

Can iTunes 9 Home Sharing work over the internet? I miss that feature from my Windows 7 machine where I can listen to my WMP library from anywhere over the net...

Not that I see, it is only for the local network.

PearlJam

Sep 10, 2009, 03:28 PM

Anyone else's iTunes Artwork screen saver not working since installing iTunes 9 ?

LoganT

Sep 10, 2009, 03:43 PM

I think there are two kinds of people when it comes to change. One hates it, and the other goes with flow and gets used to the new way.

AAPLaday

Sep 10, 2009, 03:44 PM

Anyone else's iTunes Artwork screen saver not working since installing iTunes 9 ?

Mines working fine but I have had iTunes crash on me today.

Porco

Sep 10, 2009, 04:02 PM

In iTunes 9 does anyone knows a way to find the songs that still have DRM on your library?
The option upgrade your library to iTunes Plus disappeared...

Sort your purchased music playlist by bit-rate (you may need to add this column via the view options menu) - the 128kbps files will typically be the DRM'd ones, whereas the 256Kbps files will be 'iTunes plus' DRM free files.

eliotw

Sep 10, 2009, 05:28 PM

iTunes 9 Genius says it's "Uploading information to Apple" but has been for over an hour now so something seems hosed.

Anyone have success updating Genius after upgrading to iTunes 9 on Mac? I wonder if turning Genius off and back on would help ? Would I loose my existing Genius playlists ?

Thanks,
E

Wouldn't work yesterday, but this afternoon Genius update just as it was supposed to and now I've got my shiny new Genius Mixes...sweet!

Doctor Q

Sep 10, 2009, 05:40 PM

Is there a way to do what control-click -> Copy used to do on a song in the store? That used to be the way to get the artist, song title, etc. into the clipboard. How do I do that now?

eliotw

Sep 10, 2009, 05:51 PM

Is there a way to do what control-click -> Copy used to do on a song in the store? That used to be the way to get the artist, song title, etc. into the clipboard. How do I do that now?

Seems to still work....<ctrl>+CLICK (or right click) on a song in the library shows a pop-up menu and I choose copy. Then pasting into Text Edit I get:

Holo Wa'apa 3:02 A'lea Take Me Home World 10 of 15 AAC audio file 14 1/19/07 11:23 PM 8/14/09 2:49 PM

Doctor Q

Sep 10, 2009, 06:08 PM

Seems to still work....<ctrl>+CLICK (or right click) on a song in the library shows a pop-up menu and I choose copy.
That's still true in the library. But COPY used to work in the iTunes Store and that's what I'm asking about.

I tried control-clicking songs and using the drop-down arrows. I even tried dragging a song to a playlist in my Library, which Apple actually suggested as a way to keep a "wish list", thinking I could COPY the info from the song in the playlist, but you can no longer drag store songs to a playlist either!

Spades

Sep 10, 2009, 07:29 PM

Finally got around to installing it. I wish I hadn't. The player itself hasn't changed all that much, but the store is abysmal. It's so overcrowded that nothing can catch my eye. Overloading the user isn't going to help sales, Apple.

What idiot thought of those miserable horizontal scrollbars? And what happened to the genre list? Why aren't the cut-off artist and album names showing the full name if I hover over them? How am I supposed to know what "The Lendary..." is supposed to be? The artist is "Matthew ..."? And exactly which of the hundreds of musicians named Matthew am I supposed to guess that is? Yikes, I can't even hover over the name because it gets covered up by the magically appearing button that prompts me to buy this mystery song.

If I can't find anything interesting on the front page - and I'm not sure I want to dig through this ridiculous mess - where am I going to find music? How does Apple, of all companies, manage to produce such a mess? I want my shopping cart back, too.

Apple has turned my favorite online music store into one that I hate.

fef714

Sep 10, 2009, 08:44 PM

Okay, the look sucks, but I think I can manage ;)

Can anybody out there tell me how to find this much talked about Genius Mix, cuz I can't find it and I can't find this 'update genius' button either :(

Thanks!!! :)

fef714

Sep 10, 2009, 08:56 PM

To me, the new store feels like the PS3's original PlayStation Store... and those who had a PS3 back in the day, know this is no compliment. Although to be honest, I was getting kinda tired of the old store, it did need a refreshed look... just not THIS refreshed look

AND

I thought Apple was going for one theme for all of their apps!?!?

I mean, the unique look of Garage Band/iPhoto are admittedly different, but they work.
This iTunes garbage feels plastic and not very well thought out.

The biggest thing for me is the white background on the grid, because that is how I normally view my music... but that could be changing soon ;)

wait! I got it!!! this whole thing is one big evil plot to get people using cover flow!!!

iTunes is nothing more then an evil plot, complete with evil genius [mixes]

fef714

Sep 10, 2009, 08:59 PM

Where in the world is Carmen SanDiego? I mean the Genius Mixes!!!

TuffLuffJimmy

Sep 10, 2009, 09:08 PM

Where in the world is Carmen SanDiego? I mean the Genius Mixes!!!

The sidebar. Try updating Genius.

fef714

Sep 10, 2009, 09:27 PM

The sidebar. Try updating Genius.

Which sidebar?

The one on the left or the Genius one on the right?

I tried them both and I couldn't find any update button

LoganT

Sep 10, 2009, 09:33 PM

Which sidebar?

The one on the left or the Genius one on the right?

I tried them both and I couldn't find any update button

Store>Update Genius

fef714

Sep 10, 2009, 09:36 PM

Store>Update Genius

call me absolutely retarded, but I can't find this for my life :p

SLR2009

Sep 10, 2009, 09:37 PM

I won't be upgrading to Itunes 9 because of the white background in Grid View. I love the grey background in Itunes 8. Apple needs to add an option to change it back to grey.

TuffLuffJimmy

Sep 10, 2009, 09:40 PM

call me absolutely retarded, but I can't find this for my life :p

the store menu button. then press update genius.

MagnusVonMagnum

Sep 11, 2009, 12:15 AM

Man, I LOVE the Blu-Ray support in iTunes9! It's AWESOME!!! All you guys that insisted that Snow Leopard didn't have Blu-Ray support because they were waiting to release it with iTunes9 (for sure) where SO on target. :rolleyes:

CTU Kyoto

Sep 11, 2009, 04:35 AM

Sort your purchased music playlist by bit-rate (you may need to add this column via the view options menu) - the 128kbps files will typically be the DRM'd ones, whereas the 256Kbps files will be 'iTunes plus' DRM free files.

You can also make a Smart Playlist where Kind contains Protected. This should match with all 'Protected 128kpbs AAC' files purchased from the pre-iTunes Plus store.

As an aside, you can find your iTunes Plus files with Kind contains Purchased, as this is used to separate them from normal CD-imported iTunes Plus-quality files.

NightStorm

Sep 11, 2009, 07:17 AM

In iTunes 9 does anyone knows a way to find the songs that still have DRM on your library?
The option upgrade your library to iTunes Plus disappeared...

EDIT: Post above me says exactly what I said.

Wayfarer

Sep 11, 2009, 08:55 AM

I think there are two kinds of people when it comes to change. One hates it, and the other goes with flow and gets used to the new way.

...You forget the third kind of person. The one who loves change. :)

SLR2009

Sep 11, 2009, 03:51 PM

I won't be upgrading to Itunes 9 because of the white background in Grid View. I love the grey background in Itunes 8. Apple needs to add an option to change it back to grey.

Ok, I decided to take the plunge and upgrade to Itunes 9. I'm glad I did. I like the new look of the store, my only complaint is that some of the thumbnails in the store are a bit too to small to see clearly, I wish they were larger.

I liked the movie section displayed in Cover Flow view in the Old Store but I like the layout of the new store too. Both stores are not necessary worse than the other, just different.

I purchased the Dave Mathews Band LP Album to see what the new feature was like. Itunes LP is pretty neat. It at least gives me a reason to purchase an entire album as opposed to just 1 or 2 songs.

I see what you guys are saying about the white background in grid view. It's a tad too bright for my eyes but I don't really mind it. I've already gotten used to it.

Hopefully Apple will add a color option in the future. That way you could choose the background color that you prefer. That would make everyone happy.

Cover flow looks pretty much the same to me. Itunes 9 seems to have better performance than Itunes 8 which I'm happy about, I have a pretty large library of songs. Scrolling through my songs seems smoother to me, it used to stutter a bit.

The colors of Itunes 9 seems a bit softer than Itunes 8. Itunes 8 seemed sharper and clearer to me. When I use the large text size in itunes 9, the text seems a bit too soft for my taste, it needs some sharpening.

Conclusion: I like Itunes 9, both Itunes have their positives and negatives but I'm glad that I made the upgrade.

maestrocasa

Sep 11, 2009, 05:26 PM

I'm pretty happy with the move to iTunes 9.

Could do without the white background, but whatever.

Really, Really like genius mixes. It's made some good ones from my 12K+ song library.

HomeSharing is cool. Helps sync my MBP with our home system.

The store is a bit confusing and crowded right now but will surely start to make more sense with time.

looking forward to the LP and movie extras.

BUT EVERY TIME I CLICK THE GREEN BUTTON AND THE WINDOW JUST RESIZES I WANT TO SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!! why in the name of all that is holy would you change the function of a button so drastically after years of it working one way? WTF?!?! Yeah, I know I can 'option+click' but that's a pain in the ass and requires a hand on the mouse and keyboard at the same time. APPLE: Bring back the zoom to mini-player function!

LoganT

Sep 11, 2009, 06:15 PM

...You forget the third kind of person. The one who loves change. :)

That kind of falls in line with number 2.

BRLawyer

Sep 11, 2009, 06:21 PM

Just saw this on Macworld: the introduction of NESTED CONDITIONALS in smart playlists is worth the upgrade alone! Thanks, Apple!

pooryou

Sep 11, 2009, 06:55 PM

In iTunes 9 does anyone knows a way to find the songs that still have DRM on your library?
The option upgrade your library to iTunes Plus disappeared...

Try this link: iTunes Plus (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/iTunesPlusPage)

suss2it

Sep 11, 2009, 09:06 PM

Just saw this on Macworld: the introduction of NESTED CONDITIONALS in smart playlists is worth the upgrade alone! Thanks, Apple!

Exactly. That alone should make everyone want to update.

PNW

Sep 13, 2009, 10:36 AM

View>Column Browser>On Top

done

Thanks for that, I'd been pulling my hair out and trying to figure out how to get the filter back ("column browser" is IMHO a really poor choice of words for that feature) .
The ability to quickly filter my library by genre is by far my favorite part of itunes.

DerKanzler

Sep 13, 2009, 11:31 AM

Thanks for that, I'd been pulling my hair out and trying to figure out how to get the filter back ("column browser" is IMHO a really poor choice of words for that feature) .
The ability to quickly filter my library by genre is by far my favorite part of itunes.
And how can I force iTunes 9 to remember this setting for a shared library? :mad:

chezhoy

Sep 15, 2009, 10:09 PM

When I am downloading podcasts and I want to delete my trash can, it won't let me do it...Finder or any folders won't open. Safari, iCal, etc are fine. This only started happening after downloading iTunes 9...:confused: I also cannot shut down or restart my MacBook...have to Force Quit Finder to restart the computer...ugh.

mags2101

Oct 25, 2009, 12:47 PM

I am trying to transfer from mac to windows, I can see the other library how do I copy to my PC?

zedsdead

Oct 25, 2009, 01:38 PM

I am trying to transfer from mac to windows, I can see the other library how do I copy to my PC?

Just click on the PC from your Mac within iTunes and it should display all the content in your library. Just select what you want and hit the "Import" button in the bottom right corner.

You can also click the show button and select "All Items" or "Items Not In My Library" to see what you already transferred.

mags2101

Oct 26, 2009, 07:36 AM

Just click on the PC from your Mac within iTunes and it should display all the content in your library. Just select what you want and hit the "Import" button in the bottom right corner.

You can also click the show button and select "All Items" or "Items Not In My Library" to see what you already transferred.

I am trying to import to the PC