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Like or dislike iTunes 9?
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I couldn't stand the new look, the overall theme makes it look exactly like an unselected window. That and some stupid inconsistent sorting bugs has made it horrible to me. I'm back on iTunes 8. Maybe I'll give it another go when I upgrade to SL.
Hmm..Yeah I wish I could get the whole public's view on it..this is just Macrumors.
I'm getting nothing but beachballs with iTunes9... Is there a way to switch back to previous version?
the one thing I do not like so far is no sub genre in the games section of the app store. before I could go into games and it would have an area on the left where you could just view puzzles,card, action etc etc. now It's just games (unless I'm missing it somewhere) so It's kind of a pain.
One thing that I find really annoying is how slow the itunes store is for me now. I find it harder to navigate to.
In my original response to this post I totally agreed (and then some) with the sentiment, but today I stumbled upon a not very dressed-up but completely functional way to get previews to playlists the same as before. Go to the home page of the iTunes store, scroll all the way to the bottom and look under Features, click on Browse, it brings up the store in a horizontally split panel like the original itunes browser, then you can click on genre, subgenre, it loads the artists, you can pick one and it brings the albums and tracks into the lower pane of the window in list format so you can preview -- and buy-- songs from there or drag them into a playlist in your own library if you want that.
Minor hitches: there seems no way to back up from clicking on a genre (no All at top of the store list), and if you try to use the search from this browsed view of the store, it does the search but reverts to the new itunes format for presentation of the results. Well, it's better than nothing. I am happier now than when I thought I could not drag previews into a playlist. My playlists are my new "shopping cart" I guess. I'll just move the buy button column all the way to the right so I don't click on any buttons prematurely.
Another thing I am not too happy about: it doesn't seem like there's anyway to throw a track into a wishlist from the new format in the store. You can only wish-list albums? Of course once you go back to the wish-list, you can preview and buy tracks from it but the wish "list" isn't really a list, just a place to stash references to albums, so it doesn't let you store (or for that matter delete) single tracks. Well this is another reason to use browser format in the store and drag such single tracks into a playlist, which becomes your own version of a wishlist the same as before.
UPDATE: well using the store's browser (under features at bottom of store page) and its old list format is a little tricky since there's no All in the main genre column, and you can't use search without the results presentation reverting to the new itunes store format. To stay in the browser mode, you need to know the genre of the earliest release of that artist that the itunes store offers. That's the genre you click on for the "genre" column. Then click on All in the subgenre column. Then let it load the artists and then when you type a few letters of the artist's name in the artist column, or scroll to it, the store's browser will bring up all the albums available and you can click on the one(s) you want to load into the lower pane, so you can drag preview tracks into a playlist on your own drive from there (and buy everything later from that playlist after you're done shopping around).
Man. The album I wanted to get preview tracks for was in "dance" genre but the stupid browser wouldn't load anything for that artist because their first release into iTunes store was categorized as "rock" genre. Finally I stumbled onto this by going back to the artist page in the new format and looking at the genres of all their albums and trying them separately in the browser until "rock" worked and then I realized I had to use the genre of the earliest release in order to get the browser to spring for showing me any works by that artist. Duh, who knew, who cared what genre some other album was back in 2000.
Wow. I really hope iTunes will refine the current options for the new formats in the store. It's not that I hate them. It's that they are not as useful as they could and should be. We should be able to choose between the current format (pops up that box with tracklist and lets you one-click to buy) and some button that flips into list mode so you can preview tracks and drag them to playlists on your drive if you want. Especially since the new format doesn't give you a way to wish-list just certain tracks.
Why must the artist column take precedence? Fine if you've only a few toons in the same genre, but useless in a large collection, or a collection of compilations.
The previous versions of iTunes -- IMHO -- weren't particularly good, but they at least had a decent sorting and displaying system. Now this has gone, it's like going back to WinAmp. Sure, some of the new features are nice, but now the screen's taken up with the useless artist column, it's just not as polished.
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I need to find out how to go back to iTunes 8.
The previous versions of iTunes -- IMHO -- weren't particularly good, but they at least had a decent sorting and displaying system. Now this has gone, it's like going back to WinAmp. Sure, some of the new features are nice, but now the screen's taken up with the useless artist column, it's just not as polished.
My 10c
I need to find out how to go back to iTunes 8.
If you backup with time machine, you can get it back that way..Or it might still be on Apple.com if you hunt around.
Just updated iTunes today. I am torn. I like the new functionality, pretty much all improvements there. I have been rocking to Genius Mixes all day.
BUT the UI changes are weird. I just don't understand why. I know I am being picky, but the gradient in the toolbar is waaaayyy too pronounced. Tone it down! I know gratuitous overuse of the gradient when I see it (hell I do it myself in my design work all the time
). I also enjoyed the dark background.
Yeah I wish they would have left the UI alone. It was fine. As someone said before, I'll get used to it, but...I guess that's not want out of my Mac. I can't think of one aspect of the UI that is an improvement over the previous version. Hopefully one of you guys will be able to point something out to me...
Again, really like added functionality.
BUT the UI changes are weird. I just don't understand why. I know I am being picky, but the gradient in the toolbar is waaaayyy too pronounced. Tone it down! I know gratuitous overuse of the gradient when I see it (hell I do it myself in my design work all the time
). I also enjoyed the dark background.Yeah I wish they would have left the UI alone. It was fine. As someone said before, I'll get used to it, but...I guess that's not want out of my Mac. I can't think of one aspect of the UI that is an improvement over the previous version. Hopefully one of you guys will be able to point something out to me...
Again, really like added functionality.
Reading all these comments in this thread about the GUI is hilarious.
Everyone thinks theyre a designer.
Everyone thinks theyre a designer.
Answer: smart playlists that show by genre. That means *I* have to do the work which was done by the UI before.
I wish I had a time-machine backup.
Trouble is TM doesn't work with FileVault and FileVault is *mandatory* if you're using a laptop and you've any concern about security. (TM sees the FV partition as a single file - I don't believe this is fixed in 10.6)
i agree nothing but beach balls with itunes 9 and he safari update, and im using a 2.4 ghz 800mhz mbp
Has anyone else noticed how the artwork viewer adds a black background with non-square images instead of the old white?
To my eyes, the black does not convey nothingness here, rather, it masquerades as a part of the art.
Try looking at the art for a box set(Nirvana, Cure, for eg.) without this bothering you, and let me know what you think.
Why
, why, why??
Meanwhile, at Stately Jobs Manor, Lord Steve is using organic herbal remedies, administered through the lungs, to aid his organ transplant recovery...
"wooaah, we can make the background white and the artwork viewer black! Tee-hee-heeeeeeeeeeee! Yo, Woz, don't Bogart."
To my eyes, the black does not convey nothingness here, rather, it masquerades as a part of the art.
Try looking at the art for a box set(Nirvana, Cure, for eg.) without this bothering you, and let me know what you think.
Why
, why, why??Meanwhile, at Stately Jobs Manor, Lord Steve is using organic herbal remedies, administered through the lungs, to aid his organ transplant recovery...
"wooaah, we can make the background white and the artwork viewer black! Tee-hee-heeeeeeeeeeee! Yo, Woz, don't Bogart."
Has anyone else noticed how the artwork viewer adds a black background with non-square images instead of the old white?
To my eyes, the black does not convey nothingness here, rather, it masquerades as a part of the art.
Try looking at the art for a box set(Nirvana, Cure, for eg.) without this bothering you, and let me know what you think.
Why
Yeah, I just noticed the black today to. It's ok...but I only have one non-square album art.
I don't mind the black fill, I think I prefer it. It's not only for non-square art, it's also for small square ones. Most of the time it looks better than white around square art that's on the small side. Anyway in all cases it's only filler in the artwork viewer. If you click on it to raise the art into a window, you only get the art.
I really like the new UI and features. It's a great update IMO, looks a lot better than iTunes 8