Anyone else not like the new iTunes?

TH55 · 05:26 PM

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?

hayden1250 · Feb 15, 2013, 05:20 PM

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.

adam044 · Feb 15, 2013, 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by hayden1250

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.

You can turn the sidebar on

albertxp06 · Feb 15, 2013, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by hayden1250

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.

sheppy1 · Feb 15, 2013, 05:46 PM

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Originally Posted by adam044

You can turn the sidebar on

Yep you can and that's what I did

think you go to "view" then click "sidebar" to get I back

adam044 · Feb 15, 2013, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by sheppy1

Yep you can and that's what I did

think you go to "view" then click "sidebar" to get I back

Yes not in front of my Mac so not sure but its nothing difficult

adnbek · Feb 15, 2013, 05:58 PM

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

hayden1250 · Feb 15, 2013, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by albertxp06

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.

Thanks for that

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

Prime85 · Feb 15, 2013, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by hayden1250

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.

TacticalDesire · Feb 15, 2013, 10:23 PM

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...

bonskovsky · Feb 15, 2013, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by TH55

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.

quasinormal · Feb 16, 2013, 04:38 AM

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Originally Posted by TacticalDesire

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 · Feb 16, 2013, 12:35 PM

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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TH55 macrumors 6502a Join Date: Nov 2011	Anyone else not like the new iTunes? 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? Last edited by TH55; Feb 15, 2013 at 05:26 PM.
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Feb 15, 2013, 05:58 PM	#7
adnbek macrumors 6502a Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Montreal, Quebec	And for search, click on the magnifying glass and remove the checkmark on "Search entire library". Voilà! Back to old iTunes.
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Feb 16, 2013, 12:35 PM	#13
macMD macrumors 6502 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New York	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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