Where is iTunes DJ in iTunes 11?

Thanks for the pic, tymmac, but that shuffle button dosn't give me the option to shuffle by song. I finally found it in one the old fashioned menus.

mobi007 wrote:

ok. I was just wondering how you got back to itunes 10. Did you use time machine?

Yes, since I just upgraded to iTunes 11 this morning, I went back to yesterday and grabbed 10. Didn't even put a wrinkle in my suit!!

I tried Time Machine and it told me that iTunes 11 was an integral part of the system and couldn't be moved or replaced.

Luigino il Pazzo wrote:

I tried Time Machine and it told me that iTunes 11 was an integral part of the system and couldn't be moved or replaced.

Sorry Luigino, I guess you can't go back. Our best hope is that Apple brings back the DJ. Seems a LOT of people really miss it.

no itunes dj is not in itunes 11. but if you still have the last model of itunes you can still use it.

I didn't have the kinds of party that you're describing, but my wife did like adding songs to the iTunes DJ playlist via her remote.

And I counted on the 'Play Higher Rated Songs More Often' option to provide an aproximation for the multivariate weighted shuffle option I've been waiting for for years....

http://akma.disseminary.org/?p=2517

What about creating a smart playlist that selects songs from random…

IshBish wrote:

What about creating a smart playlist that selects songs from random…

Technically that will work, but it still doesn't have the same functions as DJ had, like allowing guests to vote up songs using their phones or playing higher rated songs more often. But I'll guess this is what we got!

Either with an Ipad and the new remote version, if you have lot of songs remote crash and you can't have the list of the songs in remote.

Did you consider updating your remote app before freaking out? Update the app, start music playing, select now playing and in the top left is a button that says ADD, works just like before, only you no longer need your itunes libriary to be running from DJ

spocius, it's not the same thing. I understand Up Next allows you to add music to the queue from the remote app.

iTunes DJ allowed GUESTS to use the Remote on their own iOS devices to connect to your library, without giving them full control over the playlist, volume, etc.

They were able to "vote" for upcoming songs, and based on how many votes they received, they were moved higher up in the playlist. Guests could also "request" a song to be added to the playlist.

The new Remote 3.0 app still supports these features IF you are connected to iTunes 10, but not if you connect to iTunes 11. (I currently have one Mac running 10, one running 11.)

This video gives a very nice overview of how iTunes DJ worked in this "party" environment:

http://youtu.be/JGb0h_yiDxQ

(The "guest" stuff starts at about 8:09 in the video, if you want to skip past the "host" iTunes DJ features.)

iTunes DJ allowed GUESTS to use the Remote on their own iOS devices to connect to your library, without giving them full control over the playlist, volume, etc.

They were able to "vote" for upcoming songs, and based on how many votes they received, they were moved higher up in the playlist. Guests could also "request" a song to be added to the playlist.

Exactly. So many people are turning up saying “but the up next feature does everything iTunes DJ did and simply replaced it” or offering silly workarounds.

They have no idea how brilliant and important iTunes DJ was.

Note to Apple: I won't upgrade iTunes until iTunes DJ comes back. I use it every day.

One additional function I regularly used with iTunes DJ was to shift "Genius Mix" to this list .... not possible anymore, therefore NO simplicity,

and what really is bad, that there is no (simple) way to reinstall the pre-version

I was also a big fan of iTunes DJ, and disappointed when it looked like it was missing. I have found the functionality is still there, more or less as simple as it always was but in a different form.

Let me say right up front that I never used the "voting" option, so I can't talk about that at all.

But I was able to more or less replicate iTDJ from what's already here. I had already created a SmartPlaylist in a previous version so that I could omit anything from the genres like "Christmas" or "Spoken Word". It's just my music library with a few obvious exclusions.

I started that playlist playing with Shuffle turned on.

I then switched to the miniplayer - which really is a big improvement on the previous miniplayer. Click the second icon from the right to reveal the list of tunes about to be played. It's basically iTunes DJ right there.

Like many of you, I liked to fine-tune that list by deleting songs that from the list that I didn't want to hear at the time. At first I was clicking on the X icon on the left of the song, which was slow and tedious to do more than a couple of times. Turns out you can click/shift-click/command-click songs in the list and hit the delete key - boom, gone. The list updates with a new bunch of songs.

You can change the order of the songs by dragging them around. The "Add to Up Next" contextual menu in the library will insert the song into the play order, just like "Play Next in iTunesDJ."

It's true that you can't choose how many songs to see in the list, but 20 isn't a bad number. Yeah, if you want to get all ***** about NEEDING to see 100 songs, please be my guest. Knock yourself out.

The "Go To.." options under the arrow to the right of the song are a nice addition.

I'm not going to tell anyone that they should shut up and put up - I recognise that it's frustrating that software developers can't leave well enough alone - but it's also worth noting that as long as you aren't married to one of the specific features that got removed, there is a pretty decent and iTunesDJ function in there.