I hate the search in new iTunes 11 store. I miss the "Power Search" in music, choosing artist or song title, sorting by alphabetical or popularity or genre, etc. Can this be done in version 11?

Hello,

I asked the same question to Apple and to the Community; and in the meantime I found a partial solution.

First, there's no Power Search in iTunes 11. But, you can use the Search place in the upper right hand corner of the ITunes Store and type the artist, song musical piece, compsoser, etc; and you will find most of the information that you need. Then you can buy albums, individual songs, etc.

Power search does exist in iTunes 11. Here is a screenshot. SADLY, I have no idea how I got to it … . I can't recreate it.

So I think I might have just found a workaround for this. This has been driving me effin crazy. I'll just tell you how I got to it and then you can try it out yourself with whatever band you like. First I searched for "Macklemore" in the top right search engine in iTunes Store. After that, normally you would click on "Songs" on the top right and then find out that Apple blows with sorting now...idiots, I know. Instead, go where it says "Artists and More" and under that go ahead and click on "Macklemore >". Then you'll see albums, songs, music videos etc. To the very far right of "Songs" click on "See All". Booyah. Do a happy dance and don't forget to put your chewing gum on the front of Apple's glass door when you walk by for "fixing" what doesn't need to be fixed. Now you can sort by popularity or whatever. Not sure why it's like this buy really freakin stupid.

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Good for you scrubs 1818! I have done the same thing and have written about it elswwhere in these discussions

This looks convincing, but iTunes replied to my inquiry and informed me that this doesn't exist (?).

I have tried to find it but have failed. Perhaps you could search again.

Thank you so much! What a nuisance, but your post was very helpful.

I found power search in iTunes 11.

1. In the home window of the iTunes store, click the Music dropdown in the top toolbar showing the home icon and the various categories of selection.

2. Select Jazz.

3. In the right-hand panel under JAZZ QUICK LINKS is an option "Advanced Jazz Search" – click it.

4. In the next display, change the Power Search dropdown from "All Results" to "Music"

Voila! You can carry out a power search.

Not there on my system:

I've checked every other genre as well; none have a "Advanced Search" option. So this would appear to be an anomaly, available by accident (perhaps a feature they are or were working on but have not rolled out) only on certain of the iTunes Store servers, rather than a true feature.

Regards.

Sounds great, but I don't have the command, "Advance Jazz Search" and my version of iT is up to date.

H'ever,even typing the desired title, artist, topic, etc into the "search" box gives access to albums, title, songs, etc---but not as useful as the old Power Search tool.

Thanks for your interest.

iTunes 11 is the worst upgrade decision ever! I hate not have the option to search for a specfic artist or song title... I guess the good thing about this is that iTunes will be losing my business when it comes down to purchasing of music. What were they thinking! Why would they leave the "Browse" and take away the "Power Search"! At least leave the one that is worth using... Which would be the Power Search option. I really hope that they realize how unhappy iTunes users are with this and they fix it! Although I am scared of what they'll do next. If someone finds the Power Search option for real let us all know. Thanks

Hello Jammerkins,

As I noted above, you can still search via the "Search" box even though it's not as neat as the old "Power Search".

So basically, if I want to make a Christmas playlist... and I have a zillion Christmas tunes... some whole albums and others just isolated... I cant just search 'Christmas', and get a populated list to drag into the playlist?! _Edit.... I sorta figured out how to work with it. Still pretty screwy, though.

Hello dfwpiper1

Last year I made a long playlist, "Christmas Jazz", by entering those words in the search box on the upper right; then chose individual songs from some of the many albums which appeared and dragged each song to my playlist.

It worked well. Good Luck!

This definitely helps as I search constantly for songs people want for their weddings and parties I DJ for. Thank you. Maybe with constant feedback the power search will be back.