Mere words are completely inadequate to describe my utter loathing and disgust for the new UI. And it's not just appearance (which is OK I suppose), it's the lack of functionality I routinely use that's appalling.
So someone thought it was a good idea to just add a bunch of extra crap from your cloud to MY MUSIC COLLECTION? Think again. That's is possibly the most rude application behavior I have ever encountered. I finally found the preference to turn it off. But make no mistake about it, I AM NOT HAPPY.
So now the status bar only tells me the number of songs in my library and not the number of albums? So I have to click around to find that out?
Now the playlist and library views are different sizes. I used to be able to size things to show a precise number of albums in both views, now I can't. It looks sloppy and unorganized.
File > Show Duplicates is gone? Crikey! No No No No No No. Give it back to me!
You've gutted all the features I use to manage my library. No No No No!
BTW, one thing you could have done that would have been exceeding useful is to support more than one conversion format at a time. Having to redefine a single prevailing import format from Preferences is ludicrous. Sometimes I want to creat a wav or MP3 even though I use ALAC most of the time.
On a scale of 1 - 10, this is like a minus 99.
Use experience is too important to guess about. How about some usability testing next time? iTunes feels like dancing-bear-ware now (the remarkable thing about dancing bears is not that they dance well, it's that they dance at all).
Crikey, my day is off to a crappy start. Like I really need this kind of nonsense.
How do I revert? I can't deal this at all.
