iTunes 11: Artist Grid View?

Hi! 11 is interesting, but I can't seem to find any way to put the artists into grid view. That's how I've always preferred my music, scrolling through the list of artists on the side is a little annoying as it's a pretty long list. If the ARTIST screen could be done the same way the ALBUM screen is, it would be pretty awesome. Am I just missing something, or is that not possible?

Posted on Nov 29, 2012 2:17 PM

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Nov 29, 2012 3:31 PM in response to abbeycarbs

I'm having the same problem. It was nice to find artists with a quick look. I had the revolver artwork set to my beatles folder, viva hate set to morrissey ...ect, ect. Now I GET to read. This is kinda self defeating given that Airplay is all the rage. Let me get this right, apple wants us to read at a distance when using airplay instead of using album artwork as a reference point?! Hope they fix this soon.

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Nov 29, 2012 3:28 PM in response to abbeycarbs

I hate how it is now, espeically having as many artists as I have. I loved the grid view, and I dislike how the track numbers now go left to right.


Like:

1 4

2 5

3


I would love for the Grid View to come back... It's much better with it. I might have to try to downgrade to 10 again.

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Nov 29, 2012 9:14 PM in response to abbeycarbs

Just upgraded to 11, then immediately registered on these support communities to voice my EXTREME DISPLEASURE at the new sorting options. Absolutely ridiculous. Why take such a huge step backwards Apple?? Been using iTunes happily for YEARS, until today. ARTIST GRID VIEW IS NECESSARY. Please do us all a favor and remedy this immediately...

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Nov 30, 2012 7:05 AM in response to abbeycarbs

couldnt agree with you more. this guys are ******* stupid i swear to god. why go backwards and remove functionality, what purpose does it server seriously.

but... theyve kept the sidebar, thank god.... and it has colour? excellent, very happy about that, considering im still on snow leopard, becasue mission control is gash tripe.

APPLE ive been with you for 14 years, stop being idiots

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Dec 1, 2012 12:41 AM in response to abbeycarbs

One more in agreement. This feels like a sort of prank release. You would be hard-pressed to design a less attractive layout, especially coming off the useful simplicity of the resizable grid view for artists. There is nothing good about this new, uncustomizable layout. The album grid view is kind of cute when you select an album; if that same sort of concept was applied to the artist view, then this would have been a nice upgrade. As it is, I'm gonna have to look to reverting back to 10.

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Dec 4, 2012 4:42 AM in response to abbeycarbs

Wish Apple restore that option.


Honestly I did not like the itune software so much before but I could handle it... I liked the way windows displays by folder and then you are free to put whatever in your folder, drag and drop in the player to create a one time playlist.

Now I don't even see the point of using itunes except to manage my apple mobile device... How could they make such a mistake???


Like the ibook apps. Wood background as if it was my grandmothers' shelf??? Seriously? Is Apple so low in creativity to have to create mimicks of existing things????


More and more disappointed by the brand...


Not to mention their lotery system for their new products... Imagine you have to hope/beg that they serve you. This word is a bit up side down...


Sorry for this never ending message but it states many current issues I think Apple is getting into.


Cheers (and please get the artist grid view back...)

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