All:
Okay...this is weird. I did an upgrade from iTunes 10 to 11 on my Snow Leopard MacBook Air. Under the "View" menu, it has the "Show Sidebar" option. However, it does NOT have the "Show Status Bar" or "Hide Status Bar" options at all (screen shot below). What gives???
- Billish
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 13"; 4GB RAM 128GB SSD
You have the status bar already displayed. :-) so not to worry.
It is the one with number of songs.
You have the status bar already displayed. :-) so not to worry.
It is the one with number of songs.
Apart, you don't have Show Music in the Cloud, so it's maybe because of your OS version
Ok, but why doesn't it show "Hide Status Bar" then???
It is strange
can you check if CMD / works which is shortcut for show / hide status bar?
Nope...just gives a "beep"....
As Mende says it must be OS related.
Our two Macs also lack the "Show/Hide Status Bar" View menu item. This is a giant fail on Apple's part— I am being inundated with support calls about this. I have found a link to iTunes 10.7 and am advising all upset clients to dump iTunes 11 and download and re-install iTunes 10.7 until the issues are fixed.
Among other issues: iTunes 11 no longer automatically imports mp3 optical disks into its library as it did in iTunes 10.7.
Now, when we want to import mp3s from an optical disk, we have to do it manually:
1) insert optical disk
2) select File>Add to Library (or Command-O)
3) click on the optical disk in in the Devices sidebar of the dialog box that opens
4) select the tracks to install
5) click "Okay" or hit the Return key
5 steps to accomplish what once happened upon just inserting the disk!
If my clients are any indication, this is a pretty big deal. Apple would be well-advised to fix this fast.
Our Macs:
2006 Core Duo Mini, 1.66 gHz, 2Gb RAM, 256 Gb Sandisk SSD, OS X 10.6.8
2008 MBP OS X 10.6.8
2002 iBook OS X 10.5.x
@keethie: It looks like you're using OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) like me...so the total lack of a "Show/Hide Status Bar" in iTunes 11.0 appears to be an OS-dependent bug...let's see if anyone else chimes in.
I agree that the issue is related to the OS version; and I would take it a step further— I think iTunes 11 is written more as a transition to iOS and "The Cloud" more than for functionality on the Mac OS or functionality with local files. Moreover, after its delayed release in October, I believe that corporate pressure to get it out the door resulted in insufficient beta testing.
Another issue (and this exists also on Lion and Mountain Lion) is that there is no consolidated "Library" view. Users no longer can view the size of their entire library without adding up the various component parts of the library: Music, Video, Podcasts, etc.
This is a giant step backward for iTunes on the Mac. I can only imagine what Windows users are saying about it (although perhaps v. 11 works well on Windows 8, I dunno).
My Windows XP computer does this exact same thing too, but it shows up on my Windows Vista comp... so yeah, most likely it is OS related.. Hope this helps, good luck!
Okay, so a week or so ago Apple pushed out an update to iTunes 11, bringing it to 11.0.1 (12). This fixed the View menu issue at least. Haven't had any chance to check out whether the optical disk issue is resolved, but the library view issue is still the same.
Both Mac and Windows users should update to the latest version to see the fixes.
No, it didn't change the View menu issue. No change to my problem. Are you referring to *MY* View menu issue or to some other one??? Again...no change to my problem....I updated.
Yeah same here, my Windows XP machine is fully up to date with the latest version as well and it still doesn't show the status bar option under View for me either.
I'm running windows 7 and have the same problem.
The status bar is showing, but doesn't contain the file size of the playlist, so I can't see if it fits onto my MP3 player. I have tried the keyboard shortcut, but that doesn't seem to do anything
My iTunes 11 Mac Install is Missing "View->Show/Hide Status Bar" Options
