Disable iTunes 11 type ahead search?

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Disable iTunes 11 type ahead search?

Can this "feature" be disabled with a (hidden) preference? With a large library it makes searching impossible. It simply locks up iTunes on the first letter typed.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), iPhone 4 (5.0.1)

Posted on Nov 30, 2012 5:39 PM

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Loren Ryter Author

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Dec 1, 2012 5:09 AM in response to Loren Ryter

Apparently you can and it's obvious but not intuitive. Just pull down the submenu in the search field and disable "Seach Entire Library". It then changes to "Search Music". This then works in most of the views (I tried Albums and Artits). If you're in Playlists view it searches the selected playlist. I created a smart playlist called "Music" which has the sole criterion of Media Kind = Music and is live updating. Then you can search that in the old fashion.

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bonce

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Dec 1, 2012 5:39 AM in response to Loren Ryter

Hi Loren,

This works for me if I'm searching playlists in itunes but it won't search playlists on my ipod

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Dec 1, 2012 5:46 AM in response to Loren Ryter

I'm experiencing freezes when I try to search within my collection, even when I search only within my music...

I have to use force quit everythime... That's too bad

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Dec 3, 2012 11:55 AM in response to Loren Ryter

Yes this works for me too, and creating a giant new playlist for everthing allows me to seach for a song then move it to a playlist that already exists - can't do that otherwise. Thanks!! But not impressed with the way iTunes 11 is behaving so far...not sure I know why Apple would want to change what works fine already - and make it worse.

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Dec 4, 2012 8:59 AM in response to Loren Ryter

Thanks for the tip on disabling the oddly-named "Search All Results" checkbox. It solved another problem I had:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4567100?answerId=20487103022#20487103022

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