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Apple Releases iTunes 11 with Simplified Player, Redesigned Store, and More
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Some bugs
- In the album cover mode, some albums don't start playing when double clicking while most of them do.
- The song names can be really hard to see when opening an album cover since it has a custom colour for every song.
- In the iTunes store the sometimes 2 fingers scrolls within scrollable areas and other times it goes back and forth between places you visited.
- When updating apps and you click into the app for more info, the iTunes page has the download/purchase button greyed out so you have to click back to the update app view to update the app.
Overall, I think it's a nice update and makes it more modern although the large rounded corner buttons look a bit large and childish.
- In the album cover mode, some albums don't start playing when double clicking while most of them do.
- The song names can be really hard to see when opening an album cover since it has a custom colour for every song.
- In the iTunes store the sometimes 2 fingers scrolls within scrollable areas and other times it goes back and forth between places you visited.
- When updating apps and you click into the app for more info, the iTunes page has the download/purchase button greyed out so you have to click back to the update app view to update the app.
Overall, I think it's a nice update and makes it more modern although the large rounded corner buttons look a bit large and childish.
Like: Many things. Sidebar icons in color.
Dislike: 1. the new Search function - doesn't automatically filter/update the main list view? 2. Cannot hide iTunes store in left sidebar.
Dislike: 1. the new Search function - doesn't automatically filter/update the main list view? 2. Cannot hide iTunes store in left sidebar.
Like the new Remote 3.0
Like the new 3.0 Remote App:
*Access all the content types
*Ability to make it stay awake/alive in settings for instance access
*Turn visuallizer on and off remotely and it automatically goes full screen. Nice little feature: say you go from a movie to music while hooked up to screen or projector, instead of being stuck looking at the library.
*Up next preview on playlists (before it just showed where the track was on the album)
Like the new 3.0 Remote App:
*Access all the content types
*Ability to make it stay awake/alive in settings for instance access
*Turn visuallizer on and off remotely and it automatically goes full screen. Nice little feature: say you go from a movie to music while hooked up to screen or projector, instead of being stuck looking at the library.
*Up next preview on playlists (before it just showed where the track was on the album)
For me, it feels very smooth and the interface does indeed feel highly polished. As for Linux-like... I'd say more Apple 3.0.
I like how they struck a good balance between old and new design. They retained elements that make iTunes recognizable, like the LCD, but were willing to rethink elements that could be done in a different way, like navigation.
It has always allowed you to do that... Been doing that since years...
I have been playing with it for 30 minutes now... It has a different feel altogether... It feels a lot better in many small ways too...
To add on top of that, I can see how a lot of people will get confused on playing a track right then, rather than queuing it to play next.
I have absolutely zero complaints. This is very well-built and runs much smoother.
I think its a very nicely, and well designed piece of software. However, it doesnt fit with the rest of Apple's software, such as Calender, which is skeumorphograph'd as much as physically (and horribly) possible.
Hopefully we can get some some redesigns like this in the future.
Hopefully we can get some some redesigns like this in the future.
Is it me or does the Text on "now playing" look weird on a Retina MBP? They may have just changed the text style, but it looks squashed.
It's great to see all purchases... FINALLY. I forgot I had most of this content.
The store looks much better. I do miss coverflow though.
It's great to see all purchases... FINALLY. I forgot I had most of this content.
The store looks much better. I do miss coverflow though.
I installed iTunes 11 on my Windows 7 work laptop and it keeps crashing whenever I do anything... 
I'm going to uninstall and delete preferences and such.
I'm going to uninstall and delete preferences and such.
it is available now... it was on the article too. they just need to update the website.
ewww you're right, i got 5 seasons of Friends on my Library and it all simply shows the one of season 1
Yes there is. View->Column Browser - but you have to select the Songs button first
Overall a nice upgrade.
However:
- the new play/pause/back etc. buttons plus volume slider looks like crap now and are overly simplified in styling.
- there's no room above the player LCD anymore, which makes this app inconsistent with every other OSX app out there (old iTunes had 'iTunes' written at the top) which brings me to the next point...
- no double click to minimize??? idiots. Back to iTunes 10.7
However:
- the new play/pause/back etc. buttons plus volume slider looks like crap now and are overly simplified in styling.
- there's no room above the player LCD anymore, which makes this app inconsistent with every other OSX app out there (old iTunes had 'iTunes' written at the top) which brings me to the next point...
- no double click to minimize??? idiots. Back to iTunes 10.7
I installed iTunes 11 on my Windows 7 work laptop and it keeps crashing whenever I do anything...
I'm going to uninstall and delete preferences and such.
Surely it did that before you installed iTunes too?
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Gone.
Really? I just checked for an update on my Windows machine and it tells me that "This version of iTunes (10.7) is the current version."