Apple Releases iTunes 11 with Simplified Player, Redesigned Store, and More

Good news for people who don't like change, you can essentially customise the interface back to how it was by viewing the side bar and the status bar

Finally colors!

I bring you the most exciting news... Colors are back in the sidebar!

iTunes Match people!! Does it fix the artwork issue.....?

Meh bored of this already...back to Spotify.

Its decent. I wish it stood by the OS X colors, but I bet there will be a hack soon for that.

Sylon said:

Clicking "Watch Tutorials" and "Learn More" on that Welcome screen brings you to webpages that don't exist. Seems like iTunes was pushed before the rest were ready. Either that, or they were not expecting anyone to actually click those.

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Yep. And with the "Learn More" when it asks if you want to share your info with apple.

.... And it won't download updates to apps.

Freaking huge download for Snow Leopard...

Gonna take 10 mins for a slow connection...

Pock said:

Love that you can easily choose to manually back up your iPhone even with iCloud back ups enabled.

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thats been possible since like ever

Nothing yet here. Don't tease me bro.

edit : thanks bro

Color labels?

I'm on my iPhone so I can't see all the new features
Any way to apply color labels?
Thanx

rmwebs said:

Meh bored of this already...back to Spotify.

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That was fast.

Still waiting for more iCloud

I have 102,000 songs in my library. iTunes in the Cloud still limits you to 25,000. Amazon Cloud Player has a limit of 250,000 songs.

When will iTunes move to 250,000?

Eithanius said:

Freaking huge download for Snow Leopard...

Gonna take 10 mins for a slow connection...

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It's the same size on Mountain Lion...

r2shyyou said:

I'd like to see a similar iTunes in the Cloud feature where I could purchase a show or movie on my iPhone without having to download it locally and then later watch it on my Apple TV. I don't have enough space on my phone to download full HD videos, otherwise I'd just download them, delete them, and then go about my day. Not a necessity but it would be nice, I think.

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Oh I agree. That has to be next for iOS 7. It only seems logical.

Eithanius said:

Freaking huge download for Snow Leopard...

Gonna take 10 mins for a slow connection...

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Same size for Mountain Lion.

rmwebs said:

Meh bored of this already...back to Spotify.

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x2. When will the major companies realize this? EVERY one of my main facebook friends use Spotify. This iTunes update was cool, 5 mins later, it's closed and I'm running Spotify. Thx.

Any direct download links? Still showing 10.7 =(

New "Home Video" category (finally) to separate actual films and, well, home videos.

Still doesn't fix the bug I've been complaining about for 2 years now. Each update I contact them to let them know it still hasn't been fixed, they ask for details, I provide them with everything they want, but never a fix.

New interface isn't bad. Don't like the store shortcut buttons on my music. Very Microsoft move that. "This song is yours, but click here to buy more like it!" - no thanks.

Don't like the iCloud column either. It'll take a while to go through all my playlists removing it.

Actually I don't like this interface. It's harder to see if you have any apps that need updating. Genre view doesn't have a list format (if you have lots of genres it's annoying to have to scroll through a huge list).
Can we install the old iTunes?

Any way to reverse the sort ordering?

apmos said:

Windows version? is it also out or not?

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Yes. Go to Apple Software Update in your Start menu and it will detect it. It isn't yet on the site. I'm downloading it now.

Smartie said:

Sometimes we Apple buyers are just too damn narrow minded... The possibility to queue has been there in Spotify and Sonos since years (almost decades). All Apples does is not fantastic and great news, sometimes just getting up to date. More so nowadays than a few years ago.

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Except Spotify or Sonos isn't managing my multi-GB media library that's shared across all the devices on our home network and via the cloud.

I've used Media Monkey, Song Bird, WinAMP, etc., etc., and those apps have had features that iTunes lacked as well, they just didn't provide the seamless integration I wanted.

My point was: it's a great feature, glad to see it on iTunes

JAT said:

Oh, good. In a week or 2, I'll download it.

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Seems flawless for me. No glitches, fast (on a 5.5-year old MPB). No real need to wait unless your work depends on iTunes somehow.

My only request is that Genius works iCloud-hosted music. It doesn't seem to. I don't store my music locally, so that means that I can't use Genius. Too bad.

gmanist1000 said:

That was fast.

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Yeah had a play with it, but to be perfectly honest it just feels like they rehashed the UI, and it's not even followed the OS X UI design, it's got some really odd and inconsistent gradients.

It was going to take more than a code cleanup and a few very minute features to make be go back to iTunes.

Plus iTunes has no real 'shuffle' it's by no means random at all and never has been - this pissed me off to no end when it would loop the same 200 or so songs, ignoring the rest of my library.

Winamp 3 is still the best audio player ever built