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I got all excited when I saw "advanced sort options" but there doesn't appear to be anything useful. I sent a bug report to Apple a while ago begging to be able to sort by multiple fields. Primarily, so you can sort by artist then get albums in order of release rather than useless alphabetical order. Ah well.
 
You know that as of iTunes 7, iTunes will download artwork for you, right?

Yea but it sucks at doing it...I have all the info in and it's correct...same as the info on the itunes store yet when I go to download the artwork it won't find it
 
Has anyone noticed the "Skip while shuffling" option? I don't remember that one.

And yeah the new sorting thing has me stumped as well. :eek:

Check the "Get Info" window. It's also in the view options.

By default it omits "the". This way "The Beatles" appear with the 'b's rather than the 't's. You can specify a string

I got all excited when I saw "advanced sort options" but there doesn't appear to be anything useful. I sent a bug report to Apple a while ago begging to be able to sort by multiple fields. Primarily, so you can sort by artist then get albums in order of release rather than useless alphabetical order. Ah well.

Click the 'Album' header a few times.
 
I got all excited when I saw "advanced sort options" but there doesn't appear to be anything useful. I sent a bug report to Apple a while ago begging to be able to sort by multiple fields. Primarily, so you can sort by artist then get albums in order of release rather than useless alphabetical order. Ah well.

Can't you do this by clicking on the Album button 3 times? "Album by Year."
 
every itunes update i hope the "protools needs to be open before i can open itunes" problem gets sorted out. although i assume this is a protools issue.

fyi. it's protools 6.4 on OS 10.3.9

P.s. not that i have frontrow myself but wouldn't some kind of coverflow thing look nice in there?
 
Primarily, so you can sort by artist then get albums in order of release rather than useless alphabetical order. Ah well.

Sort Album by Year. It works for me. Make sure the ID3 fields are identical within each album and that you have the year entered as well.
 
You know that as of iTunes 7, iTunes will download artwork for you, right?

But only if both

1) The album is available on the iTunes music store and,
2) you have an account on the iTune store

I have many albums that are not available on iTunes store. For those I've found many on Amazon or some other on-line retailer of physical CDs. Worst case is that I had to scan the CD insert.
 
I am loving the full screen coverflow, makes all that time I spend on getting HQ artwork worthwhile!

I can feel 10.4.9 coming!!! Woop! Tomorrow hopefully!

Hurrah for no more -48 error! (By the way, I saw an iPod in the Regents Street, London Apple Store with the -48 error on saturday! So it happens to the best of us!)
 
*Sigh* Still waiting for auto-transcoding options so I can get rid of all my AAC files and maintain a SINGLE library of ALE files that sync automatically to a specified AAC bitrate to my iPod. This simple feature would be very nice for those of us that maintain lossless libraries... *sigh*
 
Still no movie organizing option?????

All my movies I've copied into iTunes from my DVD's are placed in alphabetical order, but I'd like to create them catagories, why can't this feature be added now that people are going to be be adding a lot of movies to watch on apple TV.
 
Has anyone noticed the "Skip while shuffling" option? I don't remember that one.

And yeah the new sorting thing has me stumped as well. :eek:

Yes, I do. "skip while shuffling" has been around for awhile. It's useful for skipping videos and digital booklets.

I wish sort would allow provide us with secondary sorts. So that we could sort by artist and year.
 
I think the Skip When Shuffling needs to be a viewable column check box. Who wants to get info every song they want to skip
 
STILL...no TV shows or films for UK citizens...what are people gonna do with :apple: tvs?
 
All my movies I've copied into iTunes from my DVD's are placed in alphabetical order, but I'd like to create them catagories, why can't this feature be added now that people are going to be be adding a lot of movies to watch on apple TV.

I have all my HB'd movies on my external in a movies folder separated by subfolder by Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Suspense, etc. I have aliases to those Genre folders in my Movies folder in my user directory so that when I use Front Row I get the Genre folders to browse through. That works great, I just don't know how that will work with :apple:tv since I won't be syncing but rather streaming my movies and they aren't loaded into iTunes. Also the downside of this system is that I don't get Artwork, Data, etc. as demo'ed in :apple:tv, I just get a black pic that as I scroll over each name starts playing the beginning on the movie, i.e. the Paramount, TriStar, Universal, etc. intro.
 
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