iTunes 11 - Group Albums?

crazylegsmurphy wrote:

Ok, I'm already a little cranky about Apple removing the "Dark" option, but I can't seem to find the "Group Albums by Artist" setting.

Simply select Artist across the top.

Album are sorted & grouped by Artist.

Artist are on the left. Scroll down to Soundtrack, albums on the right.

The same goes for movies. I have them tagged like, "Action", "Drama", etc...but now, it's just one giant grid.

Select Movies then Genre across the top.

The different genre are down the left side.

Select one and the movies in that genre are on the right side.

Sorry, I don't think you understand

Yes I do.

In the old iTunes, when you displayed by artist, you would could also group them. This would mean you would see something like:

Blink 182

[] [] []

Blues Traveler

[] [] []

Yeah, that's how I see Artists it now though albums are in a column down, not a row across..

And you can select a single artist in the far left column and see only those albums

Now all you see is:

[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []

[] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []

That's what I see when I select Albums, not Artists.

Also, I don't want to organize my movies by Genre. I tagged them with specific "artists" such as "action" so all the movies that fit that type, are organized like that

???

That's what a Genre is. A type of movie.

I select the Action genre and see all (and only) my Action movies.

If you wish to use your tags for other than what they are, you'll have to live with what there is or work around it.

Never, ever upgrade Apple software until you're absolutely sure you've read all the reviews.

Forget the reviews.

Actually check it out and use it before upgrading.

Same here.
Missing the option to show JUST the Albums (Cover, Artistname below) GROUPED and DIVIDED by Artist, just as crazylegsmurphy...

****, I DON'T want to see every song on every Album (that's what "Show Artist" does). Never used the dark theme, but I can understand if someone's missing it - but removing one of the best display-options (IMHO) is just silly...

Just don't let me start my rant about the new "Oh, the user has clicked on an album" Display...

Not only can't you see the CD-number anymore, nope, by squeezing all Titles of all CDs into three columns you cannot separate the tracks anymore. Let's play CD #13 then - okay... counting all #1 titles through until we reach 13... NOT the best of all ideas. 😠

same here do something apple, i have 4000 albums, previously on itunes 10.7 i can group mi music by genre and then by artist in two diferent culums in the same screen now is like talk soup

DO SOMETHING PLEASE, this is just another crude useless software like your maps!!!!!!

I completely agree: navigate in the album view is almost impossible if the albums could not be grouped into categories (I used to do it by genre). I like the new album view, but not at the cost of loosing the hability of grouping.

Please, Apple developers, increasing usability implies to offer possibilities to a software, not remove them.

Definitely agree about the "Group Albums by Artist" issue. That was the only way I ever used to browse my library, and now that they've taken it away it takes much, much longer to navigate.

I also totally agree about the issue regarding boxed sets with multiple CDs. I do NOT want to see hundreds of songs and have to figure out which songs are on which discs. I would ideally like a hierarchy setup, where I select an album and it displays the discs as "sub albums".

I would use this extensively, especially for soundtracks. For instance, I group all six Star Wars soundtracks under the general album title "Star Wars" then have Episode 1 as Disc 1 of 6, and so on. I would love to be able to select that "Star Wars" album, then see a group of sub albums and select one from there, instead of seeing all 120 odd songs from all six discs at once.

Jean, that would be awesome! Some kind of sub albuns.