can I downgrade to itunes 10 from 11?

If you want to go back to iTunes 10 I am happy to show you the way.

I am happy to regard myself an expert now on how to downgrade iTunes 11 back to 10. Having found a straight forward and logical way of doing so I thought it my duty to share with others. I can't express what a relief it is to have version 10 back again. See the method below. Let me know how you got on.

You can jump to the method below but I feel I need to express my view on the experience I have had of using iTunes 11.

I have been a mac obsessed devoted fan all my life (I'm 46), never used a PC and got my first mac back in 1988. Until just the past few months I wouldn't hear anyone say anything derogatory about anything apple. However a few things are rocking my 'religious like' devotion. Most of all I have been dumfunded about issues of the recent iTunes evolution in version 11.

I am also obsessed with music, movies and music videos. It's not just a hobby - I am a DJ and Video DJ by proffesion. iTunes, since the very first release, has been the backbone to the way I organise and store all my digital media. I never had any need to seek an alterantive and have also enjoyed the intergration it provides with my iPhone and other things etc etc.

My libary is huge. I don't mean to brag but aside from my digital music collection of 40,000 + tracks, either purchassed from the iTunes store or imported from my CD colection, my music video collection is over 10,000. I am a proffeciant iTunes user and I often have reason to need to retag my files within iTunes or sometimes I use MetaX.

Until now I have never resisted installing any available apple updates and even feel some excitement in anticipation of improved features etc. iTunes version 11 has changed all that now. It is, without question, an inferior version to 10. Anyone who feels otherwize is probaly only using itunes in a basic way and for this reason I have always thought there was a market for a pro version of iTunes for people like me.

iTunes 11 simply doesn't work. I click to play a track, click again cos it hasn't started and click another time and only then do I get to hear the track play for the start three times. It takes ages to build links to external files, just as long as it takes to actually import them to the media folder. Tagging takes rediculous long the point yu would need to leave the job to be done over night. I could go on but you are probably reading this because you have aleady experienced your own issues concerning version 11.

Befoe following the method below, I tried to seek alternatives to iTunes all together. I briefly tried Double Twist and Song Bird amougst many other but it truth iTunes is better for my personal purposes.

The most dispointing thing about version 11 is the silence from Apple about the obvious problems. It is this specific fact that has agrivated me so much. Maybe I am romanticising, bt I can't help imagine that SJ would have never let version 11 go as far as actually being released.

Here are the Stages and Steps: For OS X only. (have no idea for PC users). Thank you to Bogoss on MacForums, whoever you are.

Stage 1.

Note: Any changes you have made to your music files since you used last used version 10 will be lost but any purchasses you have made in the time since can be downloaded again if you can't find those purchasses in your media folder. If recently made playlists are of particular importance you could export the lists to somewhere for later.

1. Back up your iTunes Folder(s) just incase

2. Download these apps 1. AppZapper from http://appzapper.com (the free version will do). 2. Pacifist fromhttp://www.charlessoft.com.

3. Download iTunes 10.7 (last version before 11). Check your download folder, it might still be there. You can also get it from : http://appldnld.apple.com/iTunes10/0...iTunes10.7.dmg

4. Using AppZapper simply uninstall itunes 11. Before you drag the iTunes icon from the Application folder to the window you will need to open the preferences of AppZapper and deselect the tick next to "Keep Apple applications safe"

5. Open the 10.7 dmg file, you will see the pkg file(usally you would double click it to install), but now, this time drag it out somewhere, eg desktop.

6. Open Pacifist

7 drag the pkg iTunes 10.7 file to pacifist and then click install from the menu bar

8, during installation, click replace everytime a window pops up.

9. installation finished, iTunes 10.7 is back!

10. Don't open it yet!!!!

Stage 2.

See this video that explains the pocess here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXKZ2IBNsIA

1. In FINDER - go to your iTunes Folder in the iTunes Folder.

2. Within it, open the folder called Previous iTunes Libraries.

3. Identify the most recent backup. It has the date at the end.

4. Duplicate it. Move it to the desktop.

5. Rename it as iTunes Library.itl. Basically remove the date from the file name.

6. Go back to your iTunes Folder and rename the file there which is already named iTunes Library.itl to iTunes Library.itl.old.

7. Now move the iTunes Library.itl file from your desktop to this location.

8. Now open iTunes 10.7. If it can't find your iTunes library, select choose library and navigate the application to the new iTunes Library.itl file you created.

9. Breath sigh of relief, you're done!

10. Copy this and post it to help others. Only come back to me to say Thanks, not for more support.

Danny

I think everybody here feels pretty much the same. If Apple doesn't turn the steering wheel around they are on a pretty steep downward spiral.

I'm using OS 10.6.8 and never used time machine.

I didn't have to use terminal. Just trashed itunes 11.

Reinstalled itunes 10.7.

Had to use censored iphone utility to trash some itunes file on iphone to sync it with itunes again.

I deleted all those framework files listed. After that itunes error message changed to "missing itunes components. reinstall itunes.

which I did.

Now itunes purchases play fine. No error messages. Iphone syncs. Not sure about airplay since I never used that.

Thanks for all teh detective work guys!

Thank you so much, the terminal wasn't working for me, but this did!!

jondc

I had the -42408 error as well. This is a problem when trying to go back from 11 to 10 through TIme Machine or the overwriting of any files. iTunes 11 bakes itself hard core into the system and it's a horrible mess trying to get rid of it. Another key problem is that in some cases trying to downgrade will deuthorize your iPhone/iPod/iPad from iTunes, whichw will demand you format and reload the iOS system and sadly update you to iOS 6. I am avoiding iOS 6 like the plague and it took me a few days to go around this.

This guy seems to have come up with the magic method to downgrade back to 10.7 :

http://www.emacconsulting.com/apple/itunes/downgrade-itunes-11-to-itunes-10-7/

Another happy customer here - I was just miserable with iTunes 11. Now I'm back to v10 and much, much happier. Than you, guys!

I only wish I could revert on my desktop, too, but my Apple TV uses that machine's library and seems to need iTunes 11 in order to work. Although .... does anyone know how to revert my Apple TV to the previous software so I can use it with iTunes 10?

I also found Joe Streno at eMac Consulting! What a save! After days and days of trying to go back to iTunes 10.6, his work-around accomplished a clean reversion in about 20 minutes.

Be sure to read the instructions all the way through before you begin - as he suggests - they are not complicated, but it just helps to know what the next steps are.

He helped for free, but his business in New Jersey suffered because of Hurricane Sandy, so a donation would sure help him out - if you use his help.

THANK YOU! I followed your instructions and it worked perfectly! I have about 600 Gig of music and numerous playlists with manually scanned artwork. I've never seen a worse upgrade than iTunes 11. This is beyond dumbing down software for the masses. This stripping a well-regarded music library management tool of all its uniqueness and valued features and turning it into a lame attempt to push their apps, cloud storage and itunes store. Apple needs tor realize they are Apple, not WalMart.

I have no idea what they are thinking and cannot buy any upgrades or future hardware from them until they fix this major misdirection to its customers. Such a shame.

I HATE iTunes 11!

You get the picture. I do not like it. It works very, very poorly, freezes up constantly, is not easy to navigate, is confusing, never syncs properly now and took away the genius function.

I can't understand why Apple does STUPID things like this.

I'm either going to downgrade or essentially stop using it.

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Hi all,

Did you update your iPhone to IOS7? Now it's not compatible anymore with iTunes 10.x !! So here we go, we're forced to go for version 11.

Good luck all !

Hi Dutch

Easy going..

Just klick in itunes on your iphone and check updates..

Then it says.. blabla itunes 11..

Cancel process..

disconnect iphone from itunes..

Go on Iphone to softwareupdate..

Then it says ios7 update..

simply click "update"... enjoy ios7 and itunes 10 🙂

Same works with ipad2

So no force to update itunes 🙂

The problem is that you can't sync anymore.

If you're missing the old iTunes 10 MiniPlayer, I rewrote it open-source.

http://peter-burk.rhcloud.com/miniplayer/

Nice work, Peter - that's terrific! The new Miniplayer looks especially silly next to your app.