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TH55

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Nov 5, 2011
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Is there any way to get back the old version?

I like the native side menus. I also really hate the new search for searching through your library, now it has this ugly annoying pop-up display. It used to work similar to Google Instant where it immediately displayed results letter by letter. Why did they change that?
 
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albertxp06

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Oct 11, 2011
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I don't like it as well. Miss the side bar that they used to have. Found it much easier to use.

Wish we could go back.
Like adam said, you can turn it back on.
On Windows, hit Alt on the keyboard, View -> Show Sidebar.

Not exactly sure about the steps for OSX, but they should be similar.
 

adnbek

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Oct 22, 2011
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And for search, click on the magnifying glass and remove the checkmark on "Search entire library". Voilà! Back to old iTunes.
 

Prime85

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Mar 1, 2012
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Thanks for that :)

Did not know you could do that! iTunes is much better now

I love the new iTunes especially the new miniplayer. But without those tweaks to the side bar and search it was pretty crappy though.
 

bonskovsky

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Dec 31, 2012
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Is there any way to get back the old version?

I like the native side menus. I also really hate the new search for searching through your library, now it has this ugly annoying pop-up display. It used to work similar to Google Instant where it immediately displayed results letter by letter. Why did they change that?


I love the new iTunes. The old one was way too complicated and the new one is simple, as it should be.

Apple finally answered my prayers. They really are gods.:apple:
 

quasinormal

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Oct 26, 2007
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You know, it took me all of 2 minutes after installing it to get it back to how it looked before. It's not that hard...

I don't believe album artwork in the bottom left hand box is available in song view like in pre iTunes 11 versions so you can't download the artwork from Apple and embed it in the file like before, but need to do a separate google image search. Oh and you can't get a browser view in the devices music list.
 

macMD

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Nov 25, 2005
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Now that I just tweaked the preferences and found that I could turn on the side bar like I used to have and a few other settings its not so bad. What I still hate about iTunes is the bloated size of the app, that you MUST update it to get support for newer devices when maybe you don't want to, but Apple forces you to.
 
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