100% agreement with both posts.
As for iTunes - fix the bloat/bugs and then worry about new features.
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Apple Releases iTunes 12.1 With New Yosemite Notification Center Widget
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100% agreement with both posts.
As for iTunes - fix the bloat/bugs and then worry about new features.
Check to see if you've got any iTunes purchased content from say pre-2009. iTunes and my iPhone 6 were apparently getting confused by duplicates as Apple appear to have updated some tracks. Nuking all music on the phone, then deleting all the pre-2009 iTunes store content and re-downloading it mostly fixed my sync issues.
While the iPhone 6 refused to sync, my work iPhone 4S running iOS7 and an iPod 3rd Gen would still sync successfully to the "borked" library.
Trolling today is weak
The earlly '90s trolling in the fledgling Internet was far more creative. The arrogance of the few tired hacks, in every single thread, sure pales in skill to the days back when DOS vs MAC flame wars spawned movements in CS departments.
When you pretend to speak for hundreds of millions of iTunes users, about how you never use it anymore in a post [name your streaming service over the past 15 years push/pull option start up] early global digital era, really makes one wonder if these people ever stop to evaluate if they have done something worthy in life for people to discuss at their graves.
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Which is an absolute pile of junk as a UI and multi-functional application, even on Linux.
The playlist view UI in VLC is embarrasingly bad. Then again when you select preferences and get bombarded with a gawd awful combo box look you know these folks love the world of Qt and KDE.
Both products are free, yet people bemoan on and on about minutae in iTunes and then brag about VLC, especially in the Linux camp.
The earlly '90s trolling in the fledgling Internet was far more creative. The arrogance of the few tired hacks, in every single thread, sure pales in skill to the days back when DOS vs MAC flame wars spawned movements in CS departments.
When you pretend to speak for hundreds of millions of iTunes users, about how you never use it anymore in a post [name your streaming service over the past 15 years push/pull option start up] early global digital era, really makes one wonder if these people ever stop to evaluate if they have done something worthy in life for people to discuss at their graves.
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Which is an absolute pile of junk as a UI and multi-functional application, even on Linux.
The playlist view UI in VLC is embarrasingly bad. Then again when you select preferences and get bombarded with a gawd awful combo box look you know these folks love the world of Qt and KDE.
Both products are free, yet people bemoan on and on about minutae in iTunes and then brag about VLC, especially in the Linux camp.
I agree. The new info panel is rearranged and includes all fields, even those currently unused. The fields are re-ordered and the most used ones (at least the ones I use the most) are now at or towards the top.
So....
Windows 8.1 user. Downloaded the new iTunes.
The app is definitely faster now that it's fully 64bit but I am having a problem that the audio skips... I imagine it has to do with RAM management but, although the use of RAM in my system is high, it still has a big portion available. Anyone else having this problem?
Also, what's up with the hideousness that is Get Info. Who arranged the boxes that way and what's the logic behind that?? Truly baffled.
PS. "yay" for the repeat and album art bugs
Windows 8.1 user. Downloaded the new iTunes.
The app is definitely faster now that it's fully 64bit but I am having a problem that the audio skips... I imagine it has to do with RAM management but, although the use of RAM in my system is high, it still has a big portion available. Anyone else having this problem?
Also, what's up with the hideousness that is Get Info. Who arranged the boxes that way and what's the logic behind that?? Truly baffled.
PS. "yay" for the repeat and album art bugs
When will they bring back the option to view the audio info of movies and tv shows that was taken away in iTunes 12
It used to list
Stereo, 5.1 etc etc
No I have to play it on my Apple TV to See what type of audio the file has.
Very annoying when trying to update older files to 5.1+
It used to list
Stereo, 5.1 etc etc
No I have to play it on my Apple TV to See what type of audio the file has.
Very annoying when trying to update older files to 5.1+
The sidebar they meant is only shown under Music > Playlists. This is how iTunes used to look before iTunes 11. It was very Finder-like.
No, you don’t. But when you use iTunes Radio, it shows a purchase button as well.
You really should cut back on the superlatives, you sound like an Apple keynote speaker. ‘Perfect’, ‘best’, ‘cleanest’, ‘most simplified’. These are words I can’t associate with iTunes. It remains one of the paradigm-breaking applications of OS X, I can't remember when it ever played nice with Apple’s UI design conventions. Before iTunes 11, it had a familiar Finder-like structure, now it’s a hybrid with many different view models. I spend most of my time in the Playlist view, which is still the easier way to manage your stuff, in my opinion.
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So I updated to 12.1 on Windows and now all my music is gone except for iTunes purchases. I'm missing like 4000 songs. What the hell is going on??????? Anyone else?
Sorry, did I forget to add an asterix to my post with the *In my opinion disclaimer at the bottom?
As to me sounding like an Apple keynote speaker - I'm a windows user with a Samsung phone - the only Apple product I own is an 80GB ipod classic, I happen to not be a huge fan of Apples ecosystem, just itunes, which, like you I spend 100% of my time in playlist list view, I couldn't give a toss about album artwork etc.
That being said... since Ive updated to 12.1 it's started crashing on me - several times last night alone, even when it was left playing with no-one touching it, which has never happened to me before...
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Hi,
I'm using ipad 2 since he came out in 2011, however I always had wifi sync problems into the itunes(randomly drops the signal) My mainly system is windows-based and my router is not a airport (just oem wich came with operator,maybe very cheap $25). However, browsing across safari and using remote control app works relatively well.
Last year, I could test this itunes sync problem with 2 macbook pros and 1 macbook air,all worked wonderfully,syncing almost instantly. So, the problem is not living with router...i guess, almost sure about windows. With ios 8.1.3 had been working better with occasional drops but since I updated itunes to 12.1...works bad as before...dont know how to resolve this completely. I'm thinking purchase the airport express/extreme, what do you think? Should be more bug free than the other right? Thank you.
Dashboard is even more customizable and when setup as the old Dashboard (not as a space) it's fantastic. One keyboard press and you can see weather stocks, etc. without having to scroll.
Jup... same problem.
Every few seconds it skips some beats,almost like I downloaded a crap quality mp3...
I have 16GB of RAM soooo.... even after fresh reboot and almost no startup items it's still there
Edit: looked it up on the Apple Forum/Discussion, and there are more people with this problem.
You mean gone from your computer or not visible anymore in iTunes?
Can't you find them with the search option in Windows? Or where you used to place them?
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Fixed!
I think this is fixed now! I've had no syncing issues with devices since the upgrade.
I think this is fixed now! I've had no syncing issues with devices since the upgrade.
I dunno what the heck Apple are playing at with iTunes lately. It's a complete pile of pants. I still use it, but I don't like it one bit. I also don't like the way it now conveniently 'forgets' which soundtrack you selected when watching a film. For example, you have to manually select the AC3 surround track if you have an AV receiver connected which can decode surround sound. Films then revert back to the default setting of playing in Stereo unless you manually select the AC3 track every time. iTunes didn't used to do this, once you selected 'AC3' for a particular film, it would remember that setting for any subsequent viewings, unless you decided to change it. Its a deliberate ploy by Apple to get you to buy an AppleTV, rather than using a Mac Mini / iTunes as a media centre.
I do NOT like the fact that the playback controls are now fixed to the bottom in fullscreen mode. I always dragged mine up to the top-right in the past. It's one of those little touches that I loved about OS X. (I REALLY hope they don't try to make all video windows like this in the next version of the OS!)
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I downloaded the update for the windows version. Anyone still having problems where if they sync their phone to itunes and it updates all the apps the app badge doesn't go away and it acts as if it didn't update them? I was hoping it would fix this, but have had this problems since ios8 was released.