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

flux73 said:
Not a fan of iHub, but iMedia could work. iPlay? iCenter? iCore? iWorld? iUniverse (AT&T wouldn't like that)? Or maybe even use a symbol: i:apple:

Also, do they have to keep the "i"? It seems like most of their "i" products are hardware. iTunes is the only one that's software. iOS doesn't count. I realize most people are just used to the name now and I know it's a very minor thing, but the "Tunes" moniker and icon just doesn't seem to fit anymore.
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iPhoto
iMovie
iChat
iMessage
 
chorner said:
I agree in general, you can see the direction and some improvements. However there are a few UI elements which are less usable than the previous.

1) Having the traditional sidebar open along with the new design is much more user-friendly and faster to access everything.

2) The lack of speaker icons which imply "volume low/off" and "volume high/max" beside the volume slider is a stupid usability blunder and the spacing between the volume rocker and buttons is horrible. The Airplay button should be to the right of the 'display LCD'

3) The window design is inconsistent from just about every other OSX application where you have a small area that is both a 'Title Bar' and holds the window control buttons on the far left and right. iTunes does away with this and breaks consistency by bumping physically active parts of the program up to where there would traditionally be a Title (iTunes).

I do like the new gradient on the player, and I do like the brighter more modern look of the player window itself however. The use of lightly patterned backgrounds is nice too.
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You can still activate the sidebar in the view settings.
 
chorner said:
Except the "entire bar" is not dedicated to just playlists... it has the following:

Music
Movies
TV Shows

iTunes Store
Purchased

Home Sharing

Genius

Playlists....

but yeah, we can agree to disagree :)
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(music, movies, tv shows), and (itunes store) are all managed with their own buttons now, so they're not needed in the bar. Purchases and Genius Mix are both in Playlists now.

That leaves the entire purpose of the bar really useless.

BUT, you can always activate it, so what's the problem? They came up with an optimized solution and a 'classic' view for the best of both. I forgot why we were arguing lol

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ssamimacify said:
How do i select or unselect tracks? :confused:
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what do you mean? the check boxes?
 
Sorry, but I don't have time to read through all 30 pages of posts here because I am on a time crunch. What is the general consensus? Is the new iTunes a hit or miss? Should I download it or wait?
Thanks!
 
Mixed Album Genre Bug?

I haven't seen this mentioned, and I've read a lot today...

I use Genre extensively. After I uploaded my PC to iTunes 11 I immediately noticed that Genre view was tweaked incorrectly.

As near as I can tell, this is the problem:

For Albums with mixed Genres, whatever the Genre is for Track 1, then while selecting THAT Genre the Album is sorted correctly. But, if you select the other Genre from that Album, the Album sorts itself out of Alphanumeric sequence either at the top or the bottom of the Genre.

Can this be verifiied?

After a couple minutes with iTunes 11 I even screwed up some of my Album's Track's Genres by selecting (awkwardly, I might add) the whole album while in a particular Genre and tyring to reselect the Genre and actually rewriting the Genre for some of the Album's other tracks.

I might even suggest that as you select an Album thinking you were selecting All Tracks from that Album, you're acutally selecting the first/top album in whatever view you're in. This has happened more than once. This new way to view Albums makes it difficult to select the Album for Multiple Selection changes.

Thoughts?
 
MythicFrost said:
Hmm, I see. I saw that, but it said they would be deleted from iCloud which worried me.
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The pop-up I'm getting has "deleted from iCloud" with the second line of "These will be hidden from your iCloud purchases." And I can unhide them through my account page in the store.

I'm only doing this with things I have previously purchased through the store...not sure if that makes a difference.
 
Aeryn said:
The pop-up I'm getting has "deleted from iCloud" with the second line of "These will be hidden from your iCloud purchases." And I can unhide them through my account page in the store.

I'm only doing this with things I have previously purchased through the store...not sure if that makes a difference.
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Oh, I see. You're hiding them from iCloud, which in turn hides them in the list. That's not so desirable for me, as my dad has some content which he wants to see but that I don't.
 
mdriftmeyer said:
People are actually complaining about album art in the lower left hand corner?

Sad.
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What's sad is the completely unnecessary removal of this feature; which I used extensively. Some of us like being able to look at the artwork while the song is playing; and yes I know that you can click the artwork at the top and another window will open. This is a piss-poor substitute as the window does not stay on top. The artwork also will not change when you click on a song that is not currently playing, as the preview did. I love everything else about the new iTunes, but scrapping the preview window does not sit well with many of us.
 
Shokyu said:
OK this is horrible!!

While playing an album with the new iTunes on my 15" MBPR and in parallel scrolling in this thread sometimes the song lags in playing!

Wtf?!
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Did anyone encounter the same issue, that songs seem to lag or hang while playing? It's less than a second, but noticeable.

Totally annoying. Beside this essential issue, i like the new iTunes... ;-)


Oh, well...
 
iTunes 11 didn't fix a bug I have for quite some time. I have a few albums I imported without cover art. Logically I imported the covers in iTunes and they display fine, except when I stream my music to my Pioneer system. All covers work except the ones I added in iTunes, really annoying and I don't really want to re-add all albums.

Another thing: the little cloud icon has moving stripes in it, what is that supposed to mean? Is it updating something?
 
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MaskedPhantom said:
What's sad is the completely unnecessary removal of this feature; which I used extensively. Some of us like being able to look at the artwork while the song is playing; and yes I know that you can click the artwork at the top and another window will open. This is a piss-poor substitute as the window does not stay on top. The artwork also will not change when you click on a song that is not currently playing, as the preview did. I love everything else about the new iTunes, but scrapping the preview window does not sit well with many of us.
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Totally agree with you. It was nice to click and see the artwork.
I must learn to reuses itunes now :-(
 
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