Where is iTunes DJ in iTunes 11?

I have been intrigued by Apple products since seeing a demo of the Apple "Lisa" with a device called a mouse back in the late 70s? The Lisa was the first Mac and worth about $10,000 if I remember correctly. I have owned an Apple 11c, Mac Classic, Mac Performa and still own an eMac, MacBook Pro and iMac 27" with quad processor, an iPod photo classic, and an iPhone. I believe they would all still be working if I hadn't decommisioned the first three because they were so slow. I remember feeling like I had just put my dog down when I got rid of them, they all still worked. I can't believe that Apple has become so isolated from their dedicated customer base and in my case and a number of other users, we were loving and supporting Apple when they had only a few products and 5% market share. When customers who have been with Apple since the beginning start feeling rejected and ignored it is not a good thing for a company because a lover who has been mistreated and ignored is gone forever and nearly impossible to win back. It is clear by following the media Apple is going through some kind of trama and has lost it's inovative advantage. In the case of the "first in its class product" like iTunes, ignoring the comments, wishes and opinions of such dedicated supporters when making changes that are not backwards campatible ( iTunes DJ) is a serious if not fatal mistake on their part. Look around at the huge number of products on the market today which are as good as or better than Apple products while at a significatly lower price and wonder what is Apple thinking. It is much cheaper for a company to keep customers happy than to have to go out into the market a find new ones. Apple are you deaf or just dumb! Ignoring us without a comment, excuse or explanation is totally unaceptable and is done at your expenses not ours. If anyone is awake over there get with the program, you have recently been the largest company in the world but that is changing as we speak and I fear the worse it yet to come for you.

Best reply on this thread I have read by far!

I don't know how much more dead on precise you could have gotten on the issue.

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We want iTunes DJ back

Spread it around and maybe we can get noticed by apple if not anything else some good solutions on the missing DJ problem have been and will continue to be posted

I checked out the app and I sent the maker a feedback email with some improvement ideas and right away got a response as well as a big fix the next day this app look promising thanks for the post

While I'm enjoying greatly having DJ back after rolling back to 10.7, I'm now appropriately concerned and cautious about implementing "updates"...

Anyone know of any unintended consequences or removals of functionality with the iOS 6.0.1 > 6.1 jump? I want to make sure it will still sync with my 10.7 iTunes on my XP PC without any bad surprises before I "update" my AT&T iPhone 4S. Anyone know for sure or have feedback?

I want DJ back.. It was a highlight for parties, and added a great dimension for interactive song playing .. Apple made another bad move in assessing their software..

Actually there was a slight mistake in my post about get the playlist to shuffle and being able to save the play order. This is the corrected info:

Here is my random playlist work around:

1) Create a regular playlist of songs you want to randomize, you can use an existing one.

2) Create a new "Smart Playlist"

3) Edit the new Smart Playlist and tell it to match the following rules:

-Playlist- -is- -point this to your playlist you used in step 1-

Check the box to limit the number of songs, if you want them all use a high number. ie 9999

Change "selected by" to Random

Leave "Live Updating" checked.

4) Depending on the source playlist's size it may take a minute to fill in your new randomized Smart Playlist.

5) Whenever you want to randomize the list again, just edit that Smart Playlist's settings and save, then edit the settings back.

Do not delete your original playlists, just use them to add new songs you want in your randomized smart playlist. Live Updating on step 3 will automatically add them into the Smart Playlist.

If you delete the original playlist, the smart playlist will become empty as it is using the original playlist to pull songs from.

I've got a playlist with over 1,000 songs on it and this is much easier than trying to manually shuffle a playlist since randomize doesn't do anything to shuffle a playlist's order.

5) Whenever you want to randomize the list again,

just select all the songs in the playlist and press Delete.

All songs will be removed from the playlist and it will automatically populate again.

Even better thanks! I just tried it out and it works.

If this is iTunes 11, just think what could happen with OS X 10.9...

AGREED! iTunes DJ was my "go to" setting and now it's gone and the "Next Up" feature stinks compared to it. It was so simple and useful, why did you take it away? Please tell me you're not following Microsoft's strategy of destroying everything that is good and replacing it with a bunch of suck...

The problem is NOT with iTunes DJ.

REMOTE no longer works as it should. I think my REMOTE is on permanent shuffle. If my REMOTE could do what iTunes DJ does on my computer I could almost live with it.

I'm using REMOTE v2.3

I just noticed that the DJ mode is gone from iTunes.

This is funny because it was my most important feature of iTunes - without it, it is basically useless now. Funny because: I felt still a bit too limited with the options for the DJ mode so that I thought about just writing my own music player, just around this core feature, an intelligent DJ mode. And I did a few month ago and since then, I am just using my own player - which also has some other nice advantages (for me) over iTunes. And now I just found out that iTunes has removed the DJ mode completely.

If you are interested: http://albertz.github.com/music-player/

I am really bummed about i tunes dj not being on the new version. I just bought a new i mac and am considering taking it back. is there any way to get the random playing capabilities back. i use my computers for work & do not have the time to choose what is next when I have paid well over 80,000$ for my library. I WANT RANDOM choices back!!!

Where is Steve Jobs when we need him?

It is pretty clear by the deafening silence, that Apple has pretty much abandoned its loyal client base and is using big brother (Microsoft) as its business model since becoming the richest company in the world. Backwards compatibility used to be the hallmark of Apple Computer.

I'm thinking quite the opposite. Even though this discussion is now going on for over 30 pages and it is clear that the people on this thread LOVE the old iTunes DJ, the huge majority of iTunes users did not even know what iTunes DJ is/was. I used it every day. So every time I visited friends I expected them to use it as well. But all I ever got was: "What is iTunes DJ? I never use it."

Abandoning iTunes DJ seems to have been a logical step. I was a big part of iTunes and since the majority didn't use it, they got rid of it and replaced it with something different. Up Next is a new feature and they will improve it over the next years. The best sign that Apple cares about their customers and about their software is the fact that iTunes is CHANGING. And change is always difficult - but to never change means to slowly die.

I can replicate every functionality of iTunes DJ with Up Next. Everything but the voting feature. And to be honest, I'm pretty sure that the voting feature has been used by even less people.

For starters: You can still shuffle your whole library or any playlist by just adding it via the shuffle button to Up Next. Alternately you can just add the songs of the playlist to Up Next by holding down the "option" key and then hitting shuffle. That way the playback won't stop when you add them. Also playback won't stop when characteristics of a smart playlist aren't met anymore. For example you have added a smart playlist which is based on stars to Up Next. Usually playback would stop if you change the stars - but not if you added the playlist with "option" + shuffle.

I also love that I can now easily add/removed/rearrange songs in the Remote app via Up Next. I even get a cover thumbnail for each track. How cool! This hasn't been possible before with iTunes DJ.

So just because Apple removed a feature most people didn't use and replaced it with something new doesn't mean they have abandoned it's local customer base. I like change and try to adapt and do my best to learn how to use it.