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Apple Releases iTunes 12.1 With New Yosemite Notification Center Widget
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Not a faulty device - I have this problem, I know lots of others who do. It seems if your library contains tracks bought in the early days of the iTunes store, and not upgraded to "iTunes plus" back in the day (removing the DRM) you're stuffed.
Same here. I've been using it from version 8 on windows and mac and bar the odd issue with the database getting corrupted (twice in 8 years of use) and the odd video playback problem (crap that I'd ripped from youtube) it's the centre of my media playback world and I hope it stays that way.
Up next is the perfect way to play music in a house party.
Itunes is hands down the best app for organising my media. Making my (dozens of) playlists, rating my 15000+ songs is easy and seamless.
I've never had a single issue syncing the two ipods I've owned down the years.
The latest v12 redesign is the cleanest, most simplified, stripped back, attractive version there's been since the early versions of the program.
Performance of the app is more than acceptable too, given that it was considerably slower up to version 10. 99% of my use is on an old, basic, cheap windows 7 laptop (with my mac usage being my 27" imac at work which I use to back up my library).
I really don't know what people want out of this app.
Missing the sidebar
I also had the sidebar problem, but after playing around for a while I now understand how to use it.
In the upper left corner you can select MUSIC MOVIES ITUNES-U etc.
In the middle you can select My Music / PLAYLIST / ...
Always select the PLAYLIST, then you have your sidebar.
It took me some time, but I now got used to it.
So far syncing seems to work perfect...
I also had the sidebar problem, but after playing around for a while I now understand how to use it.
In the upper left corner you can select MUSIC MOVIES ITUNES-U etc.
In the middle you can select My Music / PLAYLIST / ...
Always select the PLAYLIST, then you have your sidebar.
It took me some time, but I now got used to it.
So far syncing seems to work perfect...
Seriously why isn't there album art? Apple first got people to care about album art with coverflow now that seems to be an afterthought.
With the sidebar, I could easily see the most-used links for me in iTunes: 2 links to local radio station streams. Now, I don't really know how to find them easily. The least worst way is just to search the library, but that seems ridiculous. Maybe they are stuck somewhere inside podcasts, but I don't know. There is no Favorites that I can see that I would find them. I just want my sidebar back.
Unfortunately Safari is hogging memory even after the update. Running Safari on a 8GB MacBook Pro with the latest updates last night and very quickly all the RAM is used. Quit Safari and I get the RAM back. Open it and after a little while it's gone again. Safari is still a memory sucker which slows down other applications.
I'll update when Apple:
1. goes back to the old layout or has it as an option. The new one stinks.
2. fixes the random crashes that used to never happen in iTunes 10 and earlier. This is more important.
Actually, I'll just downgrade to iTunes 9 if I ever ditch my iPhone. Probably the best version.
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What else is there, VLC?
1. goes back to the old layout or has it as an option. The new one stinks.
2. fixes the random crashes that used to never happen in iTunes 10 and earlier. This is more important.
Actually, I'll just downgrade to iTunes 9 if I ever ditch my iPhone. Probably the best version.
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What else is there, VLC?
If i'm using a full screen app and heavily focused on something like coding I feel like just opening the Notification Center to switch songs provides less of a break in flow when most of the screen remains whatever i'm working on.
I used to feel like that about itunes, but feel every version for like the last five years has been on a steady downhill slope. Even on Mac. It was bad on Windows for longer. I think 12 is the most complicated version ever, just my opinion obviously. I actually find Google's web based application to have a better UI and I use it now instead.
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It is bloatware and has been for quite a while.
And they've broken the artwork thumbnail in the upper-left corner of the Info window.
For probably a decade, that's the method I've used to modify artwork -- several times a day. But now it's gone.
This keeps happening across Apple's line of software products. It's as if the new programming team is unaware of long-standing features in the apps they're updating. There may be 3 ways to accomplish a given task (e.g., a button, a menu command, and a keyboard shortcut). But if the programmers only know one method, when they modify the code, one or more methods get omitted, because they were oblivious to the other methods.
That's speculation of course. But what isn't speculation is that this keeps happening, over and over and over again.
Eff.
For probably a decade, that's the method I've used to modify artwork -- several times a day. But now it's gone.
This keeps happening across Apple's line of software products. It's as if the new programming team is unaware of long-standing features in the apps they're updating. There may be 3 ways to accomplish a given task (e.g., a button, a menu command, and a keyboard shortcut). But if the programmers only know one method, when they modify the code, one or more methods get omitted, because they were oblivious to the other methods.
That's speculation of course. But what isn't speculation is that this keeps happening, over and over and over again.
Eff.
Still no retina album art when you open the album? Hm.
You mean dragging and dropping? It still works for me.
You mean dragging and dropping? It still works for me.
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Then, oddly, it's even more screwed up than I realized. Until 12.1, clicking on that thumbnail selected the image — with a clear indicator of such (a highlight around the image) — allowing you to copy, paste, or delete the image. (I frequently have to copy an image from an existing song or album and paste that image either onto another song, or to open in an image editor.)
But in 12.1, clicking on the thumbnail no longer selects/highlights it. It's like clicking on a brick wall. As a result, it never would have occurred to me to try dragging an image there, because you can't select the image. Talk about "mixed messages."
It's good to know that an image can be dragged there. Thanks. But that's not the only purpose of that thumbnail. There were at least two other purposes — each of which is now broken. So, it's even more baffling that they broke part of the thumbnail's functionality, while leaving another part intact — with no clear indication that it still works. How ridiculous.
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Well I don't know which version of iTunes you're using but the graphic EQ is still there.
As a workaround you can still select it by pressing the Tab key.
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Wow, just synced my phone and it was so much faster then it has been in years.
I also noticed that it seems to have fixed everything I was having problems with in syncing. Nomore greyed out songs and the "Other" on my iPhone has decreased incredibly.
For this alone, it was well worth the update!
I also noticed that it seems to have fixed everything I was having problems with in syncing. Nomore greyed out songs and the "Other" on my iPhone has decreased incredibly.
For this alone, it was well worth the update!
I wouldn't even bother reimporting 96 GB total files, reason is you don't have issues with other iDevices, they
work well, I think it's a waste of time.
Are these outlines a glitch or did they genuinely think this was a good idea?
Nice!
What do you think from the windows version?
It was far worse on the 12.0 version, some things weren't even visible there.
Still crap though
When will they fix iTunes and iCloud purchases. It's crazy that on iOS devices my iCloud media always shows whereas on the Mac iTunes constantly expires your iCloud session and you have to renter your password. Worst is that when this happens most of the time the "show icloud purchases" option dissapears from settings and you have to restart iTunes a few times or sign out/in to make it reappear. This has been going on for years now and it just sucks.
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