What are your thoughts on the New iTunes 11?

-Paul wrote:

Very poor beta testing is responsible.

I don't think beta testing is at fault. All the concept is wrong.

Normally it should be like this:

A. Decide what exactly we want to do with the software,

B. Make the software to achieve A as easy as possible.

But now, A is completely missing! They simply copied iPhone version because it works so beautifully. Forgot to think about that what you do on computer may be different.

For example, what if you create AAC version of your library for use on iPhone? Before, at least you could create separate playlists for Lossless and AAC versions, and browse them same way as you do with whole library - grid, album list or song list. Now, only song list is available for playlist, how do you browse anything?

They even have lost a concept of Album Art! It is still present in the grid view, but what gets displayed in large format is in fact a Song Art!

What a fail to design software where you need to embed album art in EACH SONG. If you were a student and made a project like this, you would fail for sure.

Because, professor would not forget to ask you the most important question - "What is that you wanted to do?"

@ Paul, How did you do to get back to version 10?, could you please share cause i wish i could go back as well, thanks...

CaffeineIV wrote:

I want artwork back in list view.

Tell me about it!

Help us get the message out, and chime in here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4554044?answerId=20438607022#20438607022

It's like a new team of developers took a pi$$ on iTunes just to mark their territory.

Horrible! I can't even check, uncheck or delete podcasts. Delete doesn't work, and control-clicking doesn't do anything useful! Didn't anyone test this before throwing it out on us?

I miss the COVER FLOW............😠 Apple why you did that ?? ⚠

And the browser is worst now ............😢

Agree with everything mentioned. They've also b0rked search... I have my whole library tagged with descriptive comments that I use while searching... Kind of helps when DJing. I found search doesn't even scan the comments or the grouping field...

In the end I did manage to fix this by ensuring that comments and groups were visible as columns in the window I'm searching, but WHY should I have to do that?

Plus no album artwork preview is stupid.

Plus no genius sidebar (even as an option). I actually liked it and found it useful.

Apple should fire those idiots just like they fired several other execs recently.

If you mean the side bar - it is available by - option-CMD-S. Or from the View menu.

MJ

I've already sent three seperate feedback forms to them about the issues since I downloaded (list view d*mbf*ckery, bugs, search). I just hope TPB look at them.

I think some people should check it out before compaining that they should fire people. iTunes 11 works great for me, and has far more functionality than previous versions. Ther arer all kinds of views available if you check it out.

But there's no way to satisfy some people who are determined to hate (not referring to you Porf).

iTunes 11 is a BIG MISTAKE! Cover Flow was a main reason for using iTunes - and now it's gone. The old interface was much better and a 100 times faster and more intuitive to use. Can anyone recommend a good alternative to iTunes?

You got that right. I wrote the same thing in a post ....

Actually my problem isn't about new features. But features they took away. Mainly 3: Dj, Cover Flow and dark Grid View. I also liked the old way of searching. I have a 126GB size libaray. I also listen to classical a lot. The current search is almost useless for me.

Now i can get around the new search by using a 3rd party app. But the other 3 are just gone. I'd like to know why.