Sigh. I don't know why I bothered downloading this -- I should have known by now that every new iTunes update consists of useless eye candy, a few nice but nonessential (for me) improvements, an uglier interface, and a whole lot of new hassles. I thought I was safe by saving iTunes 6 apart so I'd have it to go back to if necessary, but now it sounds like even that might be a hassle because of library changes?
The video playback is totally screwed for me. First of all, I have no actual movie-movies in iTunes and never will. I have maybe a dozen TV shows, most of which are freebies, and I never watch any of them more than once. The videos that I do watch are video podcasts and music videos. None of the latter have been downloaded from iTunes -- most are WMVs converted to MOVs, and still mislabeled because iTunes automatically assigns them as movies and I haven't yet manually relabeled them all as music videos.
So, in iTunes 6, I could listen to my morning playlist, which alternates news podcasts with songs. Some of these are videos, some aren't. A track would come on and go to full screen, so I can watch it while still wandering about the house getting ready for the day. If I needed to do something on the computer, all I had to do was click anywhere on the screen, the video would shrink into the artwork pane but keep playing, I could do whatever, then click on the button to make it go back to full screen.
Now, when a video goes to full screen, it has that ugly slider plastered over it, a slider that I'm not going to use for anything under half an hour, which is most of my videos. To get my screen back, I have to click once to get back the slider if it's already faded (which it doesn't do quickly enough), then click again specifically in the little box on the slider. Once the video has shrunk, it DOESN'T KEEP PLAYING. Only the audio does, the video doesn't. Maybe it's too hard for the Apple guys, but I for one am perfectly capable of watching a video and fiddling with my to-do list at the same time when they're two inches apart on my screen -- there is no reason to lose the video feed. And when I'm done, it now takes two clicks instead of one to get back to full screen.
Please, please someone tell me there's a way around these annoyances.
