Open multiple playlist windows?

A CNET article: 7 features Apple killed off in iTunes 11

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57556548-37/7-features-apple-killed-off-in-itu nes-11/

Well, it is what it is, but it's hugely frustrating. How long has this been a feature in iTunes? I can't remember a time when you couldn't do this, and it's a just a normal part of the way I use iTunes. I'm not a DJ or anything, but my iTunes library is about ten times as large as my iPod's capacity, so I am always changing what things get synced; I have three big playlists, "Current," "Current Classical," and "Radio programs" (FM captures with Griffin AudioShark) whose contents I keep changing. Those three windows are always open, and iTunes re-opens with all of them open.

How hard would it have been for Apple to have retained this, even if they'd made it a feature that was off by default?

I don't see any real alternative to upgrading, you can only stall for so long, but darn it all.

Make sure you go give them that feedback. I use it all the time too.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Thanks. This seems to be the way... for now :-/

Thank you so much for pointing out the option of disabling the Search box's "Full Library" search feature... It was driving me NUTS!!

Totally agree - it is horrible!

Another really irritating thing is when you type search criteria into the search field, once it does the search, it it clears what you typed. There's no little "x" clear button in the search field any more. Now they think they know when I want it cleared. What if I was searching albums, and I wanted to go back and search songs? Now I have to type the search criteria in all over again. How stupid!

pgoodwin - I'm at work so might be misremembering things, but I'm pretty sure my search box does not get cleared. I have turned off the annoying search full library option so that I don't get the dropdown list of matches, which could explain a difference.

You're remembering correctly.

Click the magnifying glass icon to access the search settings. If you uncheck the "entire library" option, it behaves exactly as it did before.

I'll give that a try. I assume that when you uncheck that, it'll only search is the window (playlist or the full library) that you've selected. Hopefully that'll make it like it was before. Strange that it clears at all under any circumstances except when a user wants it cleared.

It's got A.D.D. Absolute ******* Default.

The 1st D was dumb**s. haha, they filtered my bad word.

This does solve my immediate need of adding to playlists...nice find. Although it certainly does seem like this is limited functionality in an "upgrade"...bizarre, if it ain't broke--

Joseph, I am unable to figure out what you mean by "playlist view." Click around as I might, I cannot find this! I am tired this morning, so probably a bit slow. But can you elaborate please? I am on Mac, which I assume is not an issue. I can click on a playlist and see it to the right, but I have not been able to find this split-window view you describe. Thanks in advance for any further explanation!

OK, I see what I was doing "wrong," simply using iTunes in its old mode, which eliminates many buttons and options. Boy, did Apple really mess around with this, and for what possible reason? They've done this repeatedly, just shuffling functions around for no apparent reason. What used to be a drop-down menu becomes a button somewhere else. I really wonder what's up with that.