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Apple Releases iTunes 12.4.1 With Bug Fixes

I use iTunes to run playlists at the dance studio I work for, for our Friday night parties. It was pretty awkward last party when none of the crossfades were working.

Glad to know it was a bug =D
 
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ncc1701d said:
This new interface is terrible imo. It takes more clicks to navigate around. Who thought that was a good idea??
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While I don't think this is a totally need-to-be-trashed design, new design does bring some confusions.
Overall, not a really bad design, methinks.
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Eorlas said:
I use iTunes to run playlists at the dance studio I work for, for our Friday night parties. It was pretty awkward last party when none of the crossfades were working.

Glad to know it was a bug =D
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But because of this bug, a party was potentially ruined. So this is bad.
 
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I am very happy that crossfade is back, and hopefully it crossfades also within an album. I was ready to move on to Spotify so I could use crossfade and finally Pacemaker/Djay again (both not working with Apple Music).

Edit: Crossfade is not working within an album 🙁 Some iTunes-versions ago you could also crossfade songs within an album if you wanted so
 
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ErikGrim said:
I know. But that's far more inconvenient than right clicking the song you want to convert and then click Convert. Like I've been able to do for decades and is integral to my work as a DJ and producer.
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I agree. This is a frustrating change.
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gtkriz said:
I am very happy that crossfade is back, and hopefully it crossfades also within an album. I was ready to move on to Spotify so I could use crossfade and finally Pacemaker/Djay again (both not working with Apple Music).

Edit: Crossfade is not working within an album 🙁 Some iTunes-versions ago you could also crossfade songs within an album if you wanted so
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Now iTunes is gradually walking away as a beautiful music player. But now it becomes the portal of all iOS devices, as well as App Store, iTunes Store.
I still update to latest version, but I believe one day I will lose interest and stop updating, if it evolves into the way I hate.
 
If by "easier to use" they mean a new way of organizing the **** layout of iTunes 12. Sidebar from iTunes 10 and under is probably the "easiest," but iTunes 11 will always be special to me for it's UI layout and organization. Seriously, how do they continue to make it worse when there's this much feedback about it?

JosephAW said:
I'm still happily using iTunes 11.4 with my iPhone 6!
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Yay iTunes 11. I'm on 11.3.1 - just for local data sync, or I would be using 11.0.5.
 
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larrylaffer said:
Is there a way to restore the old column list view? I no longer had that in 12.4 🙁
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Music in dropdown menu
My Music tab
Songs in "Library" column

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ErikGrim said:
But that's far more inconvenient than right clicking the song you want to convert and then click Convert. Like I've been able to do for decades and is integral to my work as a DJ and producer.
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You may want to consider creating a keyboard shortcut for this function in System Preferences.
Personally, I actually use the "Convert to" function only if the source is AAC, for the rest I prefer the XLD.app.


I'm still hating the new dropdown section selection process that came with 12.4 (it takes 2 clicks to go from Music to Podcasts, for example) but at least there is still the cmd+1, cmd+2 shortcut to the rescue. I do get the compromise though, as I am sure most people could not associate plain icon buttons to their corresponding sections.
 
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larrylaffer said:
Is there a way to restore the old column list view? I no longer had that in 12.4 🙁
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If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, it's an option on the view menu: View > View As > List (instead of Classic List).

But don't worry, it will revert back to Classic List by itself, and it will never remember your preference, so you'll have to fix it 30 times a day and in a couple of days you'll have memorized what you have to do.
 
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Convert to [MP3/ALAC/AIFF/...] missing from the context menu is quite disconcerting. Hope that's a bug too.
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There is a new menu "Song" when you show music, "Audiobook" when you show audio books, and it's there. With lots of other things.
[doublepost=1464978894][/doublepost]So in 12.4.0, the "Reset Plays" feature disappeared. There's the possibility that some developer deleted it just by incompetence, and all the testers didn't catch out, also out of incompetence. There have been bugs in the past that the most superficial testing would have found, still this is a bit much to believe.

The other possibility is that some UX designer decided that iTunes needs to be thinner. And since a feature like "Reset Plays" is something that people take for granted, and they don't write emails to Apple how great it is, that person believed nobody wanted it and it could be removed.

I suppose some people sent bug reports to Apple. I did. Mine said as a comment "what a ****ing idiot makes decisions like that". Literally. I suppose there are people who are not as polite as I am. I hope so. And I have the secret hope that someone read those bug reports and emails from many very angry customers. And asked themselves how come customers are so angry. And ripped some UX designer a new *******.

Well, it was a quick reaction. It's actually not just a feature restored, there is now a new menu that combines many useful features. I was dreading the 12.4 release. I think I posted here before the release "I wonder what they mess up this time". And I was not disappointed :-( This 12.4.1 upgrade is at last a positive change in iTunes.
 
Col4bin said:
Never realized it went missing at one point?

I'd be much happier if Apple finally added crossfade functionality to their native iOS music app. It's been sorely missing since 2007, and for no apparent reason either.
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Crossfade broke with 12.4. The option was there, but it wouldn't actually crossfade any songs. I thought I was going mad but I saw other people on the internet with the same problem.
 
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randomgeeza said:
Out of curiosity, has the drop down been improved or is it still a moving target?
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So, I bit the bait to see if things had improved. The menu still sucks ass big time... and is still a moving target. And as for RESET PLAYS... where have they hidden it? It wasn't in the right click menu, or any others, as far as I could see????

Rolled back again. Thank God for clones.
 
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