I do mean the interface. iTunes looked like some load of bloatware from the early 2000's. It's 2012, not 2001. Tables are a thing of the past. Software is being more organized in a visual way, which I think iTunes 11 has successfully accomplished with it's album view.
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Apple Releases iTunes 11 with Simplified Player, Redesigned Store, and More
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I do mean the interface. iTunes looked like some load of bloatware from the early 2000's. It's 2012, not 2001. Tables are a thing of the past. Software is being more organized in a visual way, which I think iTunes 11 has successfully accomplished with it's album view.
It seems simplified for those who simply want to queue up songs. If you want to DJ like that, you'll have to use a playlist.
iTunes DJ Gone
Is it just me or has iTunes DJ been removed. That was probably the only way I listened to music.
Is it just me or has iTunes DJ been removed. That was probably the only way I listened to music.
Silly me - I expected to have a 'list' option just like the rest of the generes do. Nice UI consistency there.
It also looks like cover view is gone?
In general, it looks like a reskin with no new major functionality at all (multiple genres, multiple itunes/app store accounts, etc).
A nice reskin, but hardly the 'big deal' that they'd hyped it to be. The main views are way way too slow and clunky if you have any volume of albums or tv shows.
Anyone know how to get rid of the cloud icons on the left (I don't use cloud at all - never will)? I figured out how to hide them in the list views.
Hmmm...
I have some annoyances..
- Before, you could quickly jump from your library to a specific playlist. Now you have to click on "Playlists" and then choose the playlist you want. To get back to my library, I have to click "Songs" (which I do, because the Album/Artist tabs are not very useful when having 8k songs)
- Search is crap... What if I have multiple of the same songs, but want to find the right one from a specific album with a specific track length? Now I have to click enter to get to these results.
- It's not very clear that the "iTunes Store" / "Library" button is on the right.
- Why is there a "drag down" cursor below the bar with songs, albums etc. when you can't drag down (to make it... higher??)
- In the iTunes Store, why can't you scroll the albums on the top with two finger swipe? Apple is continuously forcing us to do multitouch gestures - why having two buttons to do that then??
I have some annoyances..
- Before, you could quickly jump from your library to a specific playlist. Now you have to click on "Playlists" and then choose the playlist you want. To get back to my library, I have to click "Songs" (which I do, because the Album/Artist tabs are not very useful when having 8k songs)
- Search is crap... What if I have multiple of the same songs, but want to find the right one from a specific album with a specific track length? Now I have to click enter to get to these results.
- It's not very clear that the "iTunes Store" / "Library" button is on the right.
- Why is there a "drag down" cursor below the bar with songs, albums etc. when you can't drag down (to make it... higher??)
- In the iTunes Store, why can't you scroll the albums on the top with two finger swipe? Apple is continuously forcing us to do multitouch gestures - why having two buttons to do that then??
I am able to drag things up and down in the Up Next queue just fine.
You can even multi-select and do this.
No keyboard shortcuts for this that I know of, though.
Edit: BTW, you can even do this with Remote for iOS. Switch to list view (which now shows the Up Next view instead of the album, hmmm, how do I rate songs now?), then hit Edit and you can move songs up and down.
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I need to finish reading this thread, but how do you export home movies from iPhoto to iTunes?
Thanks!
What is Firefox, Chrome, Safari and others doing with a couple browser windows demanding > 400 mb? It's called processing in a shared resource pool of memory.
Ridiculously unusable search
The search is ridiculously slow now -- I have a very large library (I'm a musician) and the search now takes several seconds to do anything, even if I turn off "Search Entire Library." If I tell it to search a single thing (like only Composer) it is slightly faster, but still much slower than the previous version. Huge step backwards.
The search is ridiculously slow now -- I have a very large library (I'm a musician) and the search now takes several seconds to do anything, even if I turn off "Search Entire Library." If I tell it to search a single thing (like only Composer) it is slightly faster, but still much slower than the previous version. Huge step backwards.
Up next allows you to queue songs. Click the playlist-looking icon in the info window at the top to see the queue. click the arrow next to songs to add them to the queue.