What are your thoughts on the New iTunes 11?

I absolutely HATE, H A T E, H A T E this new iTunes! Are Apple **** bent on us eventually losing our album art all together? Every incarnation of iTunes seems to offer smaller and smaller album artwork!! WHY!!? I want some nice colourful albums to look at, not a list with a postage stamp sized thumbnail next to it or a thumbnail in grid view (which I also detest anyway).

I have posted about this before but it seems now Apple is such a monolithic corporate giant it just doesn't listen to customers any more. Shame. Maybe next time I'll have a look and see what the competition are offering.

PLEASE GIVE US SOME DECENT ARTWORK VIEW APPLE!!! Something tells me Apple just ain't listening! 😟

Yes, well if your only need is for a phone, we'll leave that decision up to you. I'm not interested in phones but I would like my desktop not to be debased by Apple seeking to lower the playing field to only what is possible on a phone or tablet which is where it seems recent changes are going.

I actually tried to send an email to Tim Cook about this, but both and bounced back.

In general, Apple was always more of a hardware and OS company. Their apps are usually dumbed-down versions of what other software companies bring to the table. But to screw up the most important app in their eco-system really makes you wonder what's going on.

Maybe some smart database programmers will be able to hack iTunes and provide a layer on top of it that allows us to better handle and view our libraries. After all, it's just a database that people want to slice and dice according to their and not Apple's preferences. CDPedia shows that this could be done, but the programm is not sophisticated enough yet: http://www.bruji.com/cdpedia/

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G'day, I don't know any relevant email addresses, but there are other ways to get the message across. I've created a poll for everyone to cast their vote, the more it is spread around the better, the address is: http://digitalthoughts-web101.blogspot.com

YAY! Congratulations Apple! Worst iTunes ever!!

Can this really be considered an upgrade when many previously useful features have also been eliminated? MIA: Cover Flow, DJ, Covert to MP3, Preview... iTunes Lite would seem to be a more appropriate title.

While you're at it... why not abandon cover art altogether to make it an even simpler and faster interface to use. Easy fix... just re-release iTunes 1.0 and you're good to go!

Next up... hire Steve Balmer to really run the Apple into the ground.

We miss you Steve Jobs....

Convert to MP3 is not gone and DJ has been replaced by Play Next.

Really? Where would 'Convert to MP3" be then?

Either right-click (control-click) on a file and select it from a contextual menu or choose it from FILE >> CREATE NEW VERSION (third down from the bottom).

Great!! Appreciate the help Michael. Couple down... few more to go. Thanks!

How can I activate the voting system for the remote app in itunes 11, like iTunes DJ used to do? That's the feature that I miss the most!!!

I absoulutely HATE iTunes 11...and I never thought I would be able to say that about an Apple product. Everything people are saying about how horible the new user interface and GUI are I agree with whole-heartedly.

And I'm particularly angry at what they did to the Mini Player...vanishing buttons, violations of thier own interface standards, no more "radio window"...I spent one evening with it on two of my machines and then spent every instant of time at my disposal getting rid of it and back to iTunes 10.7. Tonight I've gone back and invoked "Ignore Update" for iTunes 11 on all of my Macs. This has to be the worst ever from Apple, IMO. Shame!

It is a big old pill of steaming dog poo...thoughtless, childish, no real vision or direction, poor engineering, horrible layout, etc. etc. It almost has the feeling that whoever created it had no real understanding of how people used it.

Shame indeed....I am starting to lose my faith in the post Jobs era : (

It seems like everyone at Apple just gets to do what THEY feel like.

Seems like a Microsoft thread up in here...LOL...Whole lot of Apple hating going on. I want to see Apple keep ignoring its customers all they way to $100 a share..you BETTER wake up Apple...customers paying $1000s of dollars for machines don't want to eat white bread

Command L does highlight the playing song on iTunes 11 in every view including list view on my MacBook Air.

OSX 10.8.