iTunes 10.6 - Scrollbars

Check your settings in  > System Preferences > General and be sure "Jump to the spot that's clicked" is checked.

Works for me, as in other windows first you scroll a little for the scroll bar to appear then mouse over it to click and advance one "page" at a time.

Jumping a page and jumping to spot that's clicked are not the same thing.

Selecting "jump to the next page" works in iTunes, but "jump to the spot that's clicked" no longer works in iTunes 10.6. Jumping to a spot that's clicked works in everything else, though.

Annoying, as iTunes is really the only app in which I really need this feature.

Knowing Apple's hatred of scroll bars, I'm assuming this is a bug of omission. Hopefully it will be fixed in a future update.

I also have this issue since upgrading to 10.6. All other applications are fine, system preferences is set correctly. This problem needs to be fixed.

Me, too. System Preferences set to "jump to spot" - works everywhere but iTunes 10.6 (OS Lion).

i have the same problem. i have over 11,000 songs in itunes and that was my prefered way to navigate long distances.

This is annoying because I'm used to jumping with one click at the ends of the vertical scrollbar from iTunes DJ at the top to NPR radio that's at the bottom of hundreds of Playlists.

I can do this in any other application as before.

Tried using Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad instead of the trackpad on my Macbook Pro. Same results. Is it possible to go back a few versions of iTunes without affecting any associated iPhone or iPad?

This is frustrating. It is so much less efficient to drag the scroll bar and heaven forbid use a wheel or trackpad to scroll long lists. The jumping was very precise for large list scrolling. I don't see why apple makes changes like this? It reminds me of the tabs on top they removed from safari. They claimed most people didn't like them. I've never talked to a single person that didn't prefer them, but that's beside the point.

If they want to do everything to please the mass percent of people who want something a certain way then why don't they just add an option, or at least a preference that can be changed via the terminal. Anyone who really wants the change would find a command to set the preference via terminal.

It only seems logical that the code is already in place, because the feature was ALREADY THERE. So why not shift the code to another area for those who want to enable it? I don't believe it would add too much coding or complexity for such a thing. And since when did apple try to do everything everyone wanted? Isn't that why they are who they are now? Steve Jobs said "I'm gonna make something they want even though they don't know they want it." haha. He even said something like that once... O.k. I'm rambling.

Bring back the click to scroll!!!!

I've the same problem! It's very annoying! Update 10.6.1 did NOT fix it either.

I've been dealing with this same issue for a month or two. Today's the first time I've really started looking into this issue specifically.

In my case, my scrollbars in iTunes are refusing to do either of the options. It won't "Jump to the spot that's clicked" OR "jump to the next page" for me! When I click somewhere on the scrollbar like I would to jump to that spot, nothing happens. iTunes basically ignores me. The only way I can scroll (besides mouse wheel and trackpad) is to click and drag the bar itself.

Is anyone having that same problem? I'm determined to figure out what's going on.

This is definately either a glitch or a really dumb design change. Either way, I've seen no fix yet. Have you tried the one thing that works better for me?

Click somehwere you want to jump to and hold the button and drag a little bit on the spot you want to jump to. Pretend like there is a scroll bar to grab, even though you are clicking where you want to jump to. Dragging up or down on that spot makes it jump to the spot for me...

I could be way off, but it almost sounds like a code glitch because of this. Why would it jup to a spot when you drag that spot and not the handle? It's like someone missed an "if" statement or something in there. :-P

Yeah, I just tried your suggestion, and it works like you said. Strange.

After seeing that, I have a similar guess: I'm thinking that during one of the iTunes updates, for whatever reason the mouse-clicking event "forgot" to first check if you're clicking on the active position-indicator bar in the scrollbar or the inactive section. So it assumes that when you click on the scrollbar, you're clicking on the active bar itself. That would explain why absolutely nothing happens when you click and when you click-and-drag, it immediately snaps to the mouse's location on the page and acts like you're dragging the bar.

If that's what it is (or similar to it), I guess we should be grateful that it doesn't get thrown into an infinate loop because of the flawed logic. Based on this, I'm leaning towards thinking that this was a mistake and not just an intentional change/shift in the behavior initiated by one of the programmers.

sdent, thank you thank you thank you for the tip, that totally works, as inexplicable as it is.

As with most other posters here, the fact that the option-click-to-jump-point suddenly stopped was driving me nuts - it's gotta be an "if" glitch in the system!