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Apple Releases iTunes 10.0.1 With Ping Sidebar and Bug Fixes

LeviSnuts said:
kills quicktime controls over album artwork.

bye bye artwork mini-player
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Are you sure about that? I updated my iTunes to 10.0.1, and quicktime controls over album artwork still work for me... If you aren't playing a song currently, it won't show up, but while playing a song, clicking the album art will allow you to control the music via quicktime controls over the album artwork
 
How do I get the Genius Sidebar back?

EDIT: .. Uhh .. tell me they completely scrapped the Genius Sidebar!!!! I can't find the option anywhere ..
 
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Well they did it. They managed to make iTunes even worse!

The Genius Sidebar is completely gone and replaced with an entirely useless feature that doesn't provide any of the same functionality.
 
synagence said:
Lol ... even better... if the song metadata doesn't exactly match something in iTunes it can't find it..

I have Eminem ft. Rhianna - Love the way you Lie in my library bought from an online retailer not iTunes but Ping couldn't find it because iTunes has it as Eminem & Rhianna .... It can't work this way ...
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That is so crap. Half my songs are Feat. X singer as more and more artists collaborate. I am sick of looking through my iPod and seeing the same artist listed 3, 4 or 5 times in a row because of the slightest difference.

If Google knows that a search for the words "Eminen, Rihanna and Love" is the same as "Eminem Feat Rihana Love the way you lie" should lead to the same thing I don't see why Apple can't sort this out.

Yeah I said it. Google does this better.
 
Khryz said:
How do I get the Genius Sidebar back?

EDIT: .. Uhh .. tell me they completely scrapped the Genius Sidebar!!!! I can't find the option anywhere ..
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Sorry mate, but apple's motto is my way or the highway.

I hope iTunes 11 to be user friendly for a change.
 
Is it too early to consider PING a failure and just move on, pretending it never existed? Can we add it to the list with "G4 Cube", "Flower Power iMac", "iPod Mini", and "Shuffle without buttons"?
 
rorschach said:
The Genius Sidebar is completely gone and replaced with an entirely useless feature that doesn't provide any of the same functionality.
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This is getting complicated. I now have a stock 10.0.1 version of iTunes, a 10.0.1 version modified to have coloured icons and a 10.0.0 version with coloured icons and the Genius sidebar. And I am using the later.
 
rorschach said:
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Well they did it. They managed to make iTunes even worse!

The Genius Sidebar is completely gone and replaced with an entirely useless feature that doesn't provide any of the same functionality.
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There is still a Genius icon in the lower right status bar but it is greyed out.
 
Wow, this is *********.

They couldn't have given us the option? Even if we disable Ping we're still stuck with no Genius Sidebar? Lmao.
 
Alternative?

So what can we use instead of iTunes?

Or do I go and find a copy of iTunes 4 or whatever version it was before they added all the useless features?
 
I think i'll stick with 10.0, i did change the icons back to the colour ones but then decided i prefered the grey.
 
There is still a very limited Genius 'sidebar' in the Store. In the Store, click on Genius Recommendations under Quick Links. You'll get about half a dozen recommendations per genre, they are officially based on individual songs in your library but with maybe ten genres and six base songs per genre, you are now limited to about 60 base songs which is only a fraction of what was available before.
 
Ugh. Worst iTunes update.

Steve Jobs: QUIT SHOVING PING DOWN OUR THROATS. It sucks and I don't want it. Please stop embedding my updated iTunes with all this Ping junk that I can't even remove. I thought the whole point of Apple products was streamlined and ease of use? Now I'm spending the last half hour trying to fix was your update ruined. THANKS! 🙁
 
Khryz said:
Wow, this is *********.

They couldn't have given us the option? Even if we disable Ping we're still stuck with no Genius Sidebar? Lmao.
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You can still go back to version 10.0, you can run 10.0 and 10.0.1 with the same library (not at the same time but you can switch back and forth). You only need get a copy of .app package for 10.0 and put it into the Dock. That brings back the Genius sidebar.
 
I heard a lot of people wanting something like ping over the years. Now that you have it you don't want it? Also no one is forcing you to use it.
 
iTunes 10.0.1 changes the the cmd-R "Reveal in Finder" keyboard shortcut to shift-cmd-R, giving cmd-R to "Refresh Page" in the iTunes Store. OK, consistent with Safari, but is there a frequent need to refresh an iTunes store page?

I'll retrain myself after a decade of motor memory, as I use Reveal in Finder frequently.
 
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