Itunes 11 will not search in my Ipod

Absolutely ridiculous! Search function only searches main Library, not the attached device... It should search whatever you have selected at the time. How are you supposed to find and delete/manage certain tracks on your iPod? Do they expect you to delete all and re-sync? Or hunt-and-peck for each track? Let's hope this is a miss or bug and not an intentional "feature"....

Why do companies become more and more like Microsoft when they become large?

i am seriously shopping for Samsung Galaxy phones now after this debacle... this is the last straw, I am sick of not being able to fully utilize the potential of my awesome Apple devices due to restrictive software/constant updates that neuter useful features while adding worthless ones, and oppressive end user agreements.

Is there any workaround for this? I'm in the same boat. I can't search for songs on my ipod. What's the rational for this? Is the workaround to use another software? winamp? I'm open for suggestions, but if I can't search for a song, this software is completely useless for me.

It seems once you've installed the latetest Itunes, you can't decide to return to an older version. So now I'm stuck with an Ipod with thousands of unsearchable tracks. What genius was responsible for this innovation?

I was able to uninstall and reinstall iTunes 10.7. At first it said the library was incompatible but I found the directory the "itunes library.itl" file is in and it contained a folder of backups of the library file. I copied over the previous copy from before I installed iTunes 11 and it worked.

Sorry, I'm not very sophisticated tech wise. Could you please repeat your solution in steps a fifth grader could understand?

Sure. Are you on OSX or Windows? Basically, there's a file called "Itunes Library.itl" and you can find it on either OS by searching *.itl. I'm using Windows 7 at work right now, and the folder is located at C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\Music\iTunes and in that folder you might see a folder called something like "ITunes Library Backups" or "Old Itunes Library". In there, I found a bunch of older "Itunes Library.itl" files, which had a date in thei file name to let me know when they were made. I copied that to my \Music\iTunes folder and renamed the copy in there to something else just in case and restarted iTunes and it was back to normal. I'm not sure if you will have that backup folder though.

I can believe it... These guys should be ashamed. Instead of simplify things, they make it complicated! I think they are trying their best to waste the potential of the devices. I own an iPod Classic 120GB and i wish there were another player in the market with this capacity and the ability to play .wav files. I would buy it without hesitate!

Totally inexcusable. Steve Jobs might have been a control freak, but stuff like this never happened under his watch.

agreed. this totally *****. i'm reverting to an older version of itunes. and i encourage all of you to call apple support and ask/complain about this.

i'll be seeking an alternative app for managing my ipod library

howardab234 - thank you sooooo much, your instructions totally worked for me...i'm back to 10.7.

we may be a niche group to apple, but having 160 GB ipod classic makes "Search" absolutely essential.

thanks again

Glad it helped! I did a restore recently and forgot about the .itl files and such, and ended up hosing all my library info. I had my music, but all my ratings and play counts got messed up and had to use an older one to retain what info I could. Learned my lesson though. The Classic is the consummate MP3 player, and it's another bad move to discontinue it. Sure, the Touches are nice, but some of us just want as many GB on the go as possible. Plus, higher bit rates.

For us who own an 160 gb Ipod, search via Itunes is absolutely necessary... also we need the art!!! what happen with this two items??? pleas fix it....

mausan32 wrote:

For us who own an 160 gb Ipod, search via Itunes is absolutely necessary... also we need the art!!! what happen with this two items??? pleas fix it....

i hear you mausan32, i only own an 8 gb ipod and right now, have over 1400 songs on it, and search is greatly missed. i can't imagine trying to manage a 160gb music library without search. has anyone called apple to ask about this?

if you click on a track while viewing your iPod and start typing the name of an artist or a track, it'll sort of show up like you would if you started typing a file's name in the Finder. i still don't like it and i hope they restore the use of the Search Library field, but it works in the meantime...

correction: it only works with whatever category you have your library sorted by on the top (for me, it's Artists)