Genettic wrote:
My impression of turning off "Search Entire Library" seems to be that it reverts back to iTunes 10's method of searching (only search in current playlist/view, show results in main panel instead of new fancy dropdown, etc.). So, not any worse off than we were yesterday, I suppose.
I'm in my Louis Armstrong playlist, which contains 1,211 tunes. I deselect Search Entire Library and search "angel." Every tune or album in the Louis Armstrong playlist with the word "angel" quickly appears, but no song from any other playlist. Staying in the same playlist, I reselect Search Entire Library, erase and reenter "angel." (If I don't erase it nothing changes. Bug.) Then iTunes arduously searches the entire library, finds, and displays, in a glitzy panel, a sample of everything that has "angel" in it, including albums, songs, movies, etc. Then I click on one choice -- say, songs -- and it shows a list with artwork icons and a plus to the left of the icon which I have to click if I want to be taken to the song file in the Songs view. It is the effort that goes into finding and displaying that showy list that bogs down iTunes. That is a far cry from the way prior versions of iTunes searched, and it takes much longer and more steps. It is, however, much, much prettier.
If you happen to stop at "a" rather than quickly typing "angel," you will wait for iTunes to locate every item that contains the letter "a," which takes a lot longer than 20 seconds, and there is no way to interrupt that search.
