I never thought I'd be this impressed with an update to a music player. I especially like the interface changes. Less skeuomorphism!
So basically the update is purely fluff. Nothing of substance to speak of.
You people actually liked coverflow? What the hell is wrong with you?
No Coverflow? No thanks, I'll stick with iTunes 10 then.
The expanded view is wonderful in theory. But you can't change the columns, so you can't see the iTunes Match status of the songs and you can't get the checkbox column so no way to uncheck that annoying video that you don't want added to Up Next when you add the album.
Listening to a multi-CD audiobook is now a sanity test, as it jumps from "Disc 1, Chapter 1" to "Disc 2, Chapter 1" to "Disc 3, Chapter 1", etc. In short, it's sorting track number before considering disc number.
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Everything shown here has proper metadata and worked fine in iTunes 10. This only happens in the new-and-improved album view - list view works just fine.
I just played with it, and found if you right-click on a track in the expanded view, the uncheck/check selection option is there and works... but there is absolutely no UI element for this feature, so you have no idea if a track is selected or not just by looking at it.
I could say the same about you. You don't like Coverflow? What are you smoking?
I actually like the scroll through the album designs to pick music. Didn't do it all the time, but it was a great feature.