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Apple Releases iTunes 12.6.1 With Minor App and Performance Improvements
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It can but in iTunes 12.6 I cannot save the changes. While iTunes 12.5 can.
I don't really understand the outcry over iTunes. I do not use it to manage a large media library so I may not be feeling how "bloated" it is.
Years ago, at a conference (Usenix or LISA, I forget which), I was hanging out with a small group that was asking questions of Jordan Hubbard (JKH, head(?) of the FreeBSD project, who worked for Apple at the time), and I asked about better release notes, lamenting that Apple's never matched what we used to get from BSD (the original Berkeley project as well as Free/Open/NetBSD), which were meticulously prepared, detailed, and a joy to read. He commiserated, and, hmm, I forget his exact words but the implication was that the problem wasn't the developers but rather the legal and liability folk - I think being concerned that if they detailed every technical change, they'd inevitibly get sued by somebody for something not working precisely the way they stated. I thought it was an interesting insight, but I still want BSD-style release notes.
Some time ago, somebody posted a screenshot of a very old iTunes version, possibly 4, commenting they wish we could go back to that. I know there needed to be many changes under the hood, but that post was so right. I looked at the old versions and it was incredibly simple to use, not cluttered and worked well. I opened up the previous version not so long ago and struggled trying to even find the iTunes Store as it wasn't immediately obvious.
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I think that is the issue; there probably isn't anything that does it better so we are all stuck with it.
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I think that is the issue; there probably isn't anything that does it better so we are all stuck with it.
But it was broken in iTunes 12.6.
I won't update to any newer version unless this bug is fixed.
Uh oh. Is anyone else experiencing slow, timeout or errors with AppleScripts? Many of my needed dougscripts seem broken.
As far as desktop iTunes is concerned, things started going south with iTunes11 and its heavy iOS integration.
Still happily running iTunes 10 (7) on an older iMac, as a dedicated music server.
I refuse to go beyond 12.5.0. This is the last version displaying the Artist Icons properly rather than showing them as pink microphones.
Until Apple fixes the bug that preventing me from editing and saving multiple items metadata, I won't even upgrade to new version of Mac OS X.
What blasphemy to question the high rule of the whitespace!
The more bland stuff looks the more of a fake modern look Apple can show off...
Not in the slightest at all.
It's a multimedia manager.
If you want a player use the filesystem and VLC or something like that.
If you want a media manager without far-reaching functionality you'll be pleased to hear that judging by Apple's recent track record of rewrites they are probably already thinking about it or maybe even working on it.
If I was you I'd stay relaxed and just wait, no way in hell does today's iTunes fit into the Apple ecosystem of removing user control to achieve "simplicity".
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Has anyone noticed the iCloud Download column on Playlist under Song view..? It seems after the 12.6.1 update, all my playlist has that column enabled. I have to go through each and every playlist to manually hide it from view. Is there a universal settings to hide it from all playlists...?
