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coolfactor

macrumors 604
Jul 29, 2002
7,062
9,730
Vancouver, BC
Trying to add a video to my Home Movies section, its just a .mpg, iTunes freezes up and then the add fails. Very weird.

Anyone else having issues adding files to their library?

iTunes 11 now has a porn filter. You need to let iCloud enjoy the video first, hence the freeze. Normal programming will resume shortly. :p
 

joelovesapple

macrumors 6502a
Sep 25, 2006
773
56
UK
Mixed impressions so far... I'm finding a lot of stuff that I knew has been moved to different places... however I'm not too averse to change especially if it means progression.

One query: How on earth do you make it so that the lines in the now playing are in time with the music? That is one feature I used extensively and am missing it at the moment.

Thanks in advance.
 

TallManNY

macrumors 601
Nov 5, 2007
4,742
1,594
Sounds good. Apple likes 10am Pacific time for some reason.

Makes sense. They wake up, they go to work, everyone looks at each other and says, "Are we ready to go live?" People say yes. They go live. Then they have all day to trouble shoot issues and hopefully don't have to pull an all-nighter for for a crisis.
 

mentaluproar

macrumors 68000
May 25, 2010
1,762
209
Ohio, USA
Album view is pretty clever in determining dominant colors. Lets assume you have music acquired from somewhere other than the iTunes music store. It creates a theme based on the album art.

This is the best example I could find right away, so pardon the nerdiness.
 

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gnasher729

Suspended
Nov 25, 2005
17,980
5,565
Search is broken

I'd ask everyone to "Provide iTunes Feedback" about how they made "Search" quite useless, and the fact that the "Feedback" page hasn't been updated for 11.0 yet.
 

Eithanius

macrumors 68000
Nov 19, 2005
1,541
412
I'm loving it, but I'm surprised there's no Facebook integration given Mountain Lion's new found Facebook support. Would be nice to see what your other friends are listening to on iTunes (similar to how Spotify works).

No Facebook please...! I hate to see Facebook ending up like Ping when the former goes out the ways of Friendster... :p

By the way, Facebook was broken on my Mountain Lion partition and Apple is still researching the damn issue... That's one less bug to worry about on iTunes, let's not make it bloat further...
 

ActionJax

macrumors member
Feb 15, 2008
67
15
Up Next does not work 'the right way' when browsing Songs with the Column Browser. Songs added to your Up Next Queue get removed as soon as you browse elsewhere in your collection. This is very annoying already...it could have been a great feature, one that I was really looking forward to, but it only works correctly when browsing your music in Genre or Album or Artist views, none of which I like.

If anyone knows a way to get around this limitation, please post!
 

bushido

Suspended
Mar 26, 2008
8,070
2,755
Germany
Somebody may have beat me to it, but go to VIEW>View Options and there is a slider for album size.

not for me? :confused: theres only the option "sort by"

edit: u can only change it for "artist" view etc but not "album view"

and u cant change the size of tv show and movies covers at all, such a pity
 

Jperkinski

macrumors newbie
Oct 11, 2008
18
0
After playing around with some AirPlay settings and windows etc....the AirPlay icon now appears in the upper left of the main window just to the right of the master volume control.

Strange but glad to see it, I was hoping I wouldn't have to go to the mini player every time I wanted to change the playback settings.
 

BigJohno

macrumors 65816
Jan 1, 2007
1,454
540
San Francisco
I am wondering the same thing. Looks like music, movies, and tv shows are but podcasts aren't. Kinda makes the iOS app useless if it doesn't sync with iCloud too.

The guys at Apple need to talk to each other with these apps. It drives me crazy! Even the Apple TV app doesn't show whats on my phone but iPad and iPhone talk to each other. What gives!!!
 

avanpelt

macrumors 68030
Jun 2, 2010
2,956
3,877
Dedicated "Back up" and "Sync" buttons?

Is this new in iTunes 11? It seems like it, but I can't remember. I like being able to explicitly do a full backup vs. just syncing apps.
 

macjram

macrumors 6502a
Dec 20, 2008
574
3
Album view is pretty clever in determining dominant colors. Lets assume you have music acquired from somewhere other than the iTunes music store. It creates a theme based on the album art.

This is the best example I could find right away, so pardon the nerdiness.

That's actually pretty cool.

I wish I had more Album Art on my music with this new iTunes lol..
 

joelovesapple

macrumors 6502a
Sep 25, 2006
773
56
UK
Mixed impressions so far... I'm finding a lot of stuff that I knew has been moved to different places... however I'm not too averse to change especially if it means progression.

One query: How on earth do you make it so that the lines in the now playing are in time with the music? That is one feature I used extensively and am missing it at the moment.

Thanks in advance.

*Ahem* anyone able to help me please?
 

50548

Guest
Apr 17, 2005
5,039
2
Currently in Switzerland
Yeesh.

Not an enormous fan of this update.

Like:
+ "Up next". Hold alt and click the "+" next to song to add it to the 'up next' queue.
+ Matched colours. It even seems to match the text colours!
+ Quick genius suggestions from the popup menu

Text colours:

View attachment 380465

Don't like:

- No dark background option for the main content section.
- Left/right arrows skip songs. Gets in the way as you navigate. You should have to hold down CMD and left/right to skip, IMO.
- It's slow. At first scrolling was really slow, but that was probably because it was downloading artwork from iTunes match. However, there are other parts of the UI that always lag unacceptably - one such example is when trying to add songs to a playlist.
- No ability to select multiple artists from the left column in artist view.
- Columns in the album view should try to match disks when they can. Right now I'm seeing an album with 3 disks - the first column goes from 1-14 and includes track 1 from the second disk. The second column goes from 2-14 on that disk and includes tracks 1 and 2 from the third disk. It looks wrong.
- Have to click items in the popup menu for songs. Simply hovering over "Genius suggestions" or "Add to" doesn't expand those items, because they appear in-place.
- Have to click buttons to go next/previous for banner items on the store. I'd expect that I could two-finger-drag left/right to scroll through them.
- Double-clicking a song while other songs are playing brings up a popup dialog (really, Apple?!)
- Still no love for books. Why do they even include it?

Poor layout for multiple disks:

View attachment 380466

Oh, I'll add that this is on a RMBP 2.6/16

That sounds terrible - much worse than I had anticipated.
 

mrsir2009

macrumors 604
Sep 17, 2009
7,505
156
Melbourne, Australia
Haha, when the upgrade was complete the iTunes icon stayed the same, then when I clicked on it it took a wee while to flick over to the new one ;)

EDIT: And christ, it is QUICK to boot up!
 

haravikk

macrumors 65816
May 1, 2005
1,499
21
No cover flow! Omg! Never used it much but it was the hottest iTunes thing for such a long time, and now it's gone! I don't mind.
I liked coverflow, a full-screen version of it could have been awesome if they implemented it better; the old mish-mash of a list with coverflow on top was crap, if they'd instead let you coverflow through albums then quickly drill down into that album then it could have been great. Instead they've dropped it? I'm disappointed by that.


Otherwise it seems like a pretty good new update, my only issue is that I can't find the old iTunes DJ option for playing higher-rated songs more often, has that disappeared or am I just lost?


Oh, and does the maximise button work for anyone else? On both the mini-player and normal player it does nothing, where really I would expect it to jump from the mini-play to the full player, or on the full player to maximise it to fill more of the screen. Actually the mini-player one seems to work intermittently, sometimes opening the large player while leaving the mini one open; weird.
 

jonnyb098

macrumors 68040
Nov 16, 2010
3,987
5,442
Michigan
New remote app is out! 3.0 and the iPad version looks just like iTunes 11. And now we know what the new iPad music app will look like in iOS 7.
 

stuaz

macrumors 6502
Jun 16, 2012
446
1
Anyone know how to remove cloud content?

I.e it shows things I brought yonks ago for my brother but I dont want it showing in my library....
 
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