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Apple Releases iTunes 12.1 With New Yosemite Notification Center Widget
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212MB. Ouch!
Hopefully it fixes the borked sync with iOS 8 for libraries containing iTunes tracks purchased pre-2009.
Hopefully it fixes the borked sync with iOS 8 for libraries containing iTunes tracks purchased pre-2009.
People still post about people using iTunes on Apple centric websites?
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I use Notification Center regularly for the widgets mostly. I love having the calculator there for example. And I have Notification Center set to a hot key on F5 so it's super accessible. I'm happy to see iTunes get a NC widget now to bring it more in line with the iOS control center.
I also made a replacement icon some time ago that fits Yosemite pretty well, in my opinion. Unfortunately my 'skills' weren't nearly advanced enough to prevent the icon from looking rather crummy at large sizes. I still like this icon conceptually and would actually love it if someone would have another go at it... http://cl.ly/0N031l3i0S1e... anyone?
Something like this?
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I'd love to change the icon, too. I once knew, but have forgotten how to paste in a new image. Would you mind giving a brief explanation, and maybe posting your edited blue icon? I'd be very grateful!
I still use iTunes.. but usually mostly for just syncing my iPhone. If they'd move all that stuff directly to the iCloud so I'd never need to open iTunes I'd buy iTunes Match to put all my non-iTMS music in the cloud (More than half of my music is not on the store, and a lot of my real music is not purchased from iTunes) and never even launch it. I don't know if I'll use the widget much at all, but I'll enable it IF it's smart like Reminders and disappears when iTunes is not running or playing anything. If it appears at all times then I'll just keep using my custom animated Bowtie bowlet that slides an iTunes controller onto the screen when I open iTunes. Then again I only use Bowtie for display so the widget wouldn't even be super useful.
I actually use Today view a lot on both iOS and OS X. I have it set to a gesture instead having to slide my two fingers. I use four fingers and click and it opens and closes so it's quick and easy. But I like to keep my OS X sidebar clean and without scrolling. So just Today/Tomorrow, World Clock (Wish there was a digital option), Reminders and Weather for me right now. If it scrolls (My display is 1200 high) I don't want it. Right now I have plenty of room for at least two more widgets.
I actually use Today view a lot on both iOS and OS X. I have it set to a gesture instead having to slide my two fingers. I use four fingers and click and it opens and closes so it's quick and easy. But I like to keep my OS X sidebar clean and without scrolling. So just Today/Tomorrow, World Clock (Wish there was a digital option), Reminders and Weather for me right now. If it scrolls (My display is 1200 high) I don't want it. Right now I have plenty of room for at least two more widgets.
On OS X, iTunes is the only viable option for queueing/playlisting/syncing.
On IOS, Lagu is hands down the best I've ever used. Highly recommended.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lagu-formerly-music+/id462782680?mt=8
And Notification Center? The only thing I wish for is an option to completely disable it!
On IOS, Lagu is hands down the best I've ever used. Highly recommended.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lagu-formerly-music+/id462782680?mt=8
And Notification Center? The only thing I wish for is an option to completely disable it!
What do you use to manage your songs and playlists and to play your music.
I use iTunes 90% of the day as I play music from all my various smart playlists.
Alternatives for when you play your own music rather than stream music?
Ineed. Syncing is broken since... ever... or at least since they brought wifi-syncing. I never even use that, but even with the cable I always have to reboot both mac and iPhone to even have a chance to sync. As soon as you have some apps and some pics to sync, it gets harsh.
Bugs
I hope they fix the several bugs in the previous releases of iTunes 12.0.x which have interfered with iTunes recognizing iOS devices even though other programs like ImageCapture and iPhoto recognize the same devices just fine. There are also syncing problems that came with Yosemite iTunes. It would be lovely to have fixes.
I hope they fix the several bugs in the previous releases of iTunes 12.0.x which have interfered with iTunes recognizing iOS devices even though other programs like ImageCapture and iPhoto recognize the same devices just fine. There are also syncing problems that came with Yosemite iTunes. It would be lovely to have fixes.
I use it all the time. Every OS X user I know also uses it.
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What does that mean? Works fine for me.
It's very cool. And I love the icon.
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Just got it at 8MB/sec. Took only a few seconds. You have a problem with your provider.
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I love iTunes. Works perfectly for me. Works beautifully with my iPhone. Sorry it is so disappointing for you.
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iTunes works perfectly as a music player on my Mac and my iPhone. Have you thought about switching to Windows? You might be happier with that.
You probably aren't aware of this, but a great feature of the Notification Center is that you can chose the contents. Let me know if you need any help with this.
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Yosemite is great. You should try it.
# They also changed the spacing for the Up Next list's header. And the vibrancy of the sidebar was fixed so that pictures appearing in it do not themselves become translucent. In previous versions, the album art appearing in the sidebar for each artist looked really muddy
Looks lovely in CoverFlow as well (for the odd album without cover art)!Something like this?
wow, that's rather nice thanks a lot!
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This update appears to have fixed the Graphite bug.
This is what it did before: https://imgur.com/a/7fV4A
This is what it did before: https://imgur.com/a/7fV4A
