Strange mouse response in iTunes 10.4

Having the exact same problem. This is true for iTunes 10.4 in OS Lion as well. Seems like this is a passive aggressive way to get me to use a trackpad.

With the mighty mouse, scrolling in cover flow was WAY too slick/fast, so I think they changed the acceleration - but now people using non-apple mouses (you and me) are experiencing difficulty bc you have to do it at a certain speed to get cover flow to move.

Or, like Manny suggested, we're being strongarmed into trackpads, haha.

Either way, this needs to be legit fixed. I see nothing in itunes prefs nor system prefs that's of any help.

Mark me down as another having the same problem. I posted a new discussion about this before finding this thread.

Standard Logitech USB mouse.

Same problem here, using iTunes 10.4 on Snow Leopard with a Logitech USB Trackball and Apple’s default drivers.

macbook, early 2008, trackpad. The coverflow scrolling in iTunes is so fast, I can't go an album at a time without the most cautious little movements. In the new Finder "all my files", it is impossible to scroll slow enough to be useful. I have played with the trackpad tracking and scrolling settings, but setting them to try to correct this makes ordinary tracking entirely too slow, and still, too fast in coverflow.

It isn't just people with mice with the problem.

@wjtaggart - That's kind of opposite of the problem that we're having. Previously, one 'tick' of my mousewheel moved one album. Now it does nothing, and you have to go kind of at a fast speed to get the albums to slide by (moving a lot to get something to happen at all vs. tiny movements for you). Did your issue just start since updating itunes to 10.4? I'd think your problem would be fixed in this version.

yeah, it would help if I could read. I registered the "not able to do one album at a time" which is in common with my issue, but the symptom otherwise is counter to this discussion, entirely.

Sorry for the interrruption. As to your question, coverflow in iTunes has always been difficult, not new in Lion. Why I posted is the default coverflow setup in Lion of the "all my files" entry, the finder default on open. I can't set anything slow enough to make it usable, so I was looking for discussions re coverflow and found this one.

Again, sorry.

Bill

Other observations - the same behaviour is present when scrolling the iTunes sidebar up and down (it doesn't register single clicks of the wheel), but not when scrolling the column browser (it registers one click no worries).

Apple has applied accelerated scrolling to all their apps in Lion 10.7, including the Finder, Safari 5.1, iTunes 10.4, etc. It also affects those who haven't upgraded to Lion, but have upgraded iTunes and Safari.

Prior to that, all scrolling responses were linear, including iTunes 10.3 and older.

It works fine for the most part in everything else, but for whatever reason, they badly botched the settings in iTunes 10.4, which has crippled scrolling for those who use mice.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, so I doubt that it was intentional. I think it's due more to myopia. In Apple's view, everyone is now using a trackpad or Magic Mouse/Trackpad, right?

I'm curious as to whether the Windows version of iTunes is similarly affected. I'm sure the proportion of mice users on that side is still much higher.

Anyway, I've left feedback, and I encourage others to as well.

Same problem here, using a wireless Logitech trackball.

Scrolling my mousewheel one "notch" at a time doesn't do anything in the latest iTunes (10.4). If I scroll quickly, I can move through lists of songs or albums in coverflow, but not slowly.

Pretty annoying... where should I submit feedback on this directly to Apple? Is there a bug report or something that I can "me too" on?

Note that I'm still on Snow Leopard, and this doesn't seem to affect any other apps. Started when I downloaded the latest iTunes version.

Thanks

The easiest for the average user would be the "Provide iTunes Feedback" menu item under the iTunes menu, which opens the feedback page at Apple's site.

Those who have dev accounts have another avenue.

Good idea, thanks for the suggestion. I've just used said feedback method to report the problem and pointed to this thread in the description. Let's hope it gets addressed.

Confirmed fixed in 10.4.1 for me too.

Fixed for me as well. Well done, Apple.