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iTunes 12.2
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I think it is exactly by default that it attempts to look for the best way to present the playlist? Though I don't understand the logic and basis for selection.
I have a bunch of playlists as well but before I updated it to 12.2 I tweaked every playlist's presentation and after I updated they were not overridden.
All my playlists looked the same before – song lists. I didn't even know you could change that. Now they're random. Glad that there is an option to change it at least, for five minutes my iTunes OCD was absolutely livid.
These issues with the new ITunes were published in various places. I read them and decided there was no way I'm upgrading. Problems like this are becoming common with Apple SW releases, it appears Cook is more than willing to push crap out the door and let the users sort it out...and this trend is worrisome.
Having the issue of trying to "Buy" a song, album etc, or even just trying to view my personal information in the account through the iTunes Store, and I am prompted about 5 times to enter my password(which is correct) but it will never let me "Buy" the song or view my account information. Just keeps asking for my password. I've tried to uninstall and reinstall, change settings in the iTunes Preferences, Force stop, etc. Nothing. Still asks for a password. I guess if Apple and iTunes don't want to allow me to buy a song and give them money, then screw it. lol Hope they fix this crap version of iTunes.
If you have upgraded to iOS 9 you may have to use your verification code to login as part of the new two-factor authentication.
This is with my Macbook Pro. I haven't tried it on my iPhone. I should have clarified that. My apologies
I meant if you have upgraded your iPhone to iOS 9 you may have to get a verification code from your iPhone and append the code to your password when you login to iTunes on your Mac.
Reading all iTunes 12.2 update horrors, I not only will update for now. Tried several to update via MAS but no iTunes 12.2 shows in About iTunes. The silly thing is that the update 12.2 is listed twice in my "Updates Installed In The Last 30 Days":
But still available as an update in MAS:
All is messed up in the MAS under 10.10.4? I'll stick to iTunes 12.1.2.27 untill a new update will come available.
Cheers
But still available as an update in MAS:
All is messed up in the MAS under 10.10.4? I'll stick to iTunes 12.1.2.27 untill a new update will come available.
Cheers
Well, I'm done. I've got 4 mac minis in the house, from OS 10.10.4 to 10.5.8, all running iTunes 10.4.1. They've all got their own Library. Managed to preserve playcounts, ratings and enabled state (AppleScripts) on 20000+ tracks. Didn't bother with last played etc. Saving/restoring Playlists is easy.
The iTunes store appears to still be working.
Haven't tried syncing iPods/iPads yet. All my new tablets are Android anyway. I expect the iPods'll still sync.
Of course, I'm not using cloud services and the like.
It's nice to have multiple windows back, and cover flow, and easily findable repeat and shuffle buttons, and a search box that doesn't turn into a pop down menu if you look at it sideways, and not so much of that "This neat stuff is on the Apple Store, would you like to go to the Apple store now?", to say nothing of pushing me to let other people or algorithms decide which music I most want to hear.
Control is good. If I want to put Dark Side of the Moon in my Easy Listening genre, and give it a Buckethead cover, then I'm now free to do so.
If el Capitan makes this strategy untenable, I may make the more difficult move to Clementine, or similar.
The iTunes store appears to still be working.
Haven't tried syncing iPods/iPads yet. All my new tablets are Android anyway. I expect the iPods'll still sync.
Of course, I'm not using cloud services and the like.
It's nice to have multiple windows back, and cover flow, and easily findable repeat and shuffle buttons, and a search box that doesn't turn into a pop down menu if you look at it sideways, and not so much of that "This neat stuff is on the Apple Store, would you like to go to the Apple store now?", to say nothing of pushing me to let other people or algorithms decide which music I most want to hear.
Control is good. If I want to put Dark Side of the Moon in my Easy Listening genre, and give it a Buckethead cover, then I'm now free to do so.
If el Capitan makes this strategy untenable, I may make the more difficult move to Clementine, or similar.
Yes. It all turned out a bit complicated, so I'll need a couple days to get things neatened up to the point where it's worth posting. Will do so then.
Turns out downdating messes with App store. Likely iTunes Store and App store share some code modules.
With iTunes 10.4.1 running, App store downloads reliably fail. If I also install iTunes 12.1, reboot, I can finally download that promo-coded copy of Civilization V.
Of course to have two copies of iTunes in the App folder at the same time, one of them needs to be renamed "myTunes" or similar. They'll still share the same prefs file, which points to the music lib, so things get complicated.
For those who'd like to try:
Old iTunes Version installers are here.
Basic downdate protocol is here.
Scripts I wrote to save and restore play count, rating etc, to older versions of iTunes are here.
Doug's AppleScript to save all abum art is here.
Pacifist is here. (The Dev seems to have exceeded their bandwidth limit for July)
I didn't use Appzapper as recommended in the "how to downdate" article; simply did a root level file search for "iTunes" with Find Any File and deleted anything that looked like it might be bothersome.
Pacifist install went cleanly for any version 9 point something and up. No warning messages upon iTunes startup.
I think that covers all the important links. If you care to try it yourself, make lots of backups and lots of little testlibs before leaping in whole hog. Things will go wrong that are either annoying, or nontrivial to fix. Still, I'm happy running iTunes 10.4.1 under OS X 10.10.4. It plays my music, and does not try to sell me something every time I turn around.
As I said before, trouble arises when you try to use App Store (haven't checked iTunes store). It really wants a current version of some code or other.
Working on workarounds for that. It looks to be possible, but if I can get it neat enough for general consumption, I'll document that in a fresh thread here.
With iTunes 10.4.1 running, App store downloads reliably fail. If I also install iTunes 12.1, reboot, I can finally download that promo-coded copy of Civilization V.
Of course to have two copies of iTunes in the App folder at the same time, one of them needs to be renamed "myTunes" or similar. They'll still share the same prefs file, which points to the music lib, so things get complicated.
For those who'd like to try:
Old iTunes Version installers are here.
Basic downdate protocol is here.
Scripts I wrote to save and restore play count, rating etc, to older versions of iTunes are here.
Doug's AppleScript to save all abum art is here.
Pacifist is here. (The Dev seems to have exceeded their bandwidth limit for July)
I didn't use Appzapper as recommended in the "how to downdate" article; simply did a root level file search for "iTunes" with Find Any File and deleted anything that looked like it might be bothersome.
Pacifist install went cleanly for any version 9 point something and up. No warning messages upon iTunes startup.
I think that covers all the important links. If you care to try it yourself, make lots of backups and lots of little testlibs before leaping in whole hog. Things will go wrong that are either annoying, or nontrivial to fix. Still, I'm happy running iTunes 10.4.1 under OS X 10.10.4. It plays my music, and does not try to sell me something every time I turn around.
As I said before, trouble arises when you try to use App Store (haven't checked iTunes store). It really wants a current version of some code or other.
Working on workarounds for that. It looks to be possible, but if I can get it neat enough for general consumption, I'll document that in a fresh thread here.
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*doing the daily drop to my knees to thank the Gods my library was too large to enable iCloud*
I can't believe iTunes 12.2.1 still hasn't been updated. Maybe Jim Dalrymple is right when he writes "Nobody I’ve spoken at Apple or outside the company has any idea how to fix it, so the chances of a positive outcome seem slim to none."
I can't believe iTunes 12.2.1 still hasn't been updated. Maybe Jim Dalrymple is right when he writes "Nobody I’ve spoken at Apple or outside the company has any idea how to fix it, so the chances of a positive outcome seem slim to none."
I'm not installing this turd on my Macs. What a mess - how can Cook let crap like this out the door?
The first problem I had with itunes 12.2 was that I could only see my itunes music and not all my imported cds! I fixed that by rebuilding the library, but to my horror I find out that all songs are now 256 kbps! All my lossless files are gone. What the hell!?
I don't use itunes match or Apple Music.
I don't use itunes match or Apple Music.
The plot thickens because I tried to import some AIFF files and suddenly some of my library was lossless again! This version of itunes is a mess! Damn.
If I go to:
Itunes > File > Homesharing > Choose ... to share to Apple TV > choose folder
the option iPhoto library is dimmed, so it cannot be selected and I am not able to view my photos via Apple TV as before.
I use Aperture, with that iPhoto library and all is well with it. Some time ago I tried Photos, that imported the photos from the existing library to a new one that became the "system library", that I could select to view my photos via Apple TV.
Since I gave up using Photos, that is far from being an Aperture substitute, I deleted the Photos library that was set as system photo library.
It seems that the iPhoto library should be now the system photo library, if such thing exist... but how can I do that?
Itunes > File > Homesharing > Choose ... to share to Apple TV > choose folder
the option iPhoto library is dimmed, so it cannot be selected and I am not able to view my photos via Apple TV as before.
I use Aperture, with that iPhoto library and all is well with it. Some time ago I tried Photos, that imported the photos from the existing library to a new one that became the "system library", that I could select to view my photos via Apple TV.
Since I gave up using Photos, that is far from being an Aperture substitute, I deleted the Photos library that was set as system photo library.
It seems that the iPhoto library should be now the system photo library, if such thing exist... but how can I do that?