What are your thoughts on the New iTunes 11?

I'm diggin' the new iTunes. I haven't had the problems people are alluding to here like counts updating. Cover flow was not a biggie for me, but I'm readin' people who lived by it n additional graphics. As for finding items, search is doin' everything I ask of it. Up Next & Previously Played are fun and functional. So, no demonizing Apple from me.

It's easy to make it as complicated or simple as you wish.

Fabe, are your search results reflecting what's on your iPod? I don't sync my iPod to iTunes, I have it set to manual because I do not store tens of thousands of songs on my machine. When I type something in the search, it does not bring up anything that is on my iPod. The previous version didn't have this deficiency.

same here. iTunes 11 is a nightmare...

I have an iPad & I do not sync between my computer & it. Way too much music. No need to carry it around. So, no, I haven't had the problem you describe.

I usually love the all the apple products when they come out, but this one has made my life harder. Very un-apple like. This download from the cloud stuff is really annoying. (and it makes $#(#*& suggestions.) I consider myself, at worst, having average computer skills. This is harder to use. I agree wih Bloodwing. I can't see Steve Jobs designing this. It reminds me of a Mircosoft product. If I have to invest time in figuring it out, it *****. That's why I bought apple products inthe firstplace. I wish I could uninstal it.

You can, https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4560565?tstart=0

Fabe wrote:

So, no demonizing Apple from me.

Far be it from me to demonize Apple—and usually, I've enjoyed their updates; nor is iTunes 11 unusable to me. But I also can't go so far as to say, "Right or wrong, my Apple" just on principle. The mark of a solid friendship is after all the ability to criticize when something's not right for you. 😉

I don't like that I can't scroll through the artists by tiles, instead I have a sidebar that has artists in it. I used to be able to set album cover art to display on the artist link, now I can't select any cover art that I want as my main art for each artist.

I think the Up Next feature is real cool.

I have problems streaming from iTunes 11 to ATV 3 with the updates to both of them. I have to leave my hard drive on and never let it sleep if I want to stream. Didn't have to do that with iTunes 10.

I'm going to try to adjust, but I'm missing features that I really liked with iTunes 10. I never used Cover Flow, but I can see where people enjoyed it and now they can't use it.

All in All, I hope that some of these issues are addressed with the first update that shouldn't be but a week or two away.

The iTunes 11 search function is essentially unusable for me--it hangs my iTunes for any text string starting with anything but 'q' or 'z.'

I do have a large library (59K 'songs'--a lot of classical), but the prev. version's search function was fast & immediately responsive.

I was OK with being 'barred' from iCloud due to the size of my library, but without a working search function, I can't even use the application on my computer.

Redesign has also made it more difficult to do metadata maintenance, not less.

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oh, you got it already!

With you 100%

Good lord, I hate the new iTunes. I used to be a SoundJam MP user prior to Apple buying it to turn it into iTunes. I can't imagine anything worse that they could have done to iTunes. Thank goodness I only installed it on my new iMac. Won't happen again.