itunes playlist

Not being able to open Playlists in a new window is why I won't be updating to iTunes 11. Hopefully if enough people request to bring it back, Apple will fix this blunder:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

When updated itunes opens, by default the sidebar is hidden. go to view, and show sidebar, and your playlist should appear

Opening playlists in separate windows is a MUST HAVE FEATURE. Gotta bring this one back NOW, Apple!

The loss of multiple windows may just prevent me from

updating. With 10.7 (or earlier), I could create a playlist,

open in a new window. Then could open my library in another.

I could then drag from the library to the playlist and

put them in the order I want immediately. Now, it seems

you drag them to a playlist, then open the playlist, and then

reorder them. This is fine for just a handful of songs, but if

you are creating a mix of 60-100 songs, it gets very tedious.

The1 wrote:

Hope its just a slip up and corrected quickly and not backward thinking.

Unfortunately, they way things have been going as of late

with Apple software, I think the latter part of your statement

is true.

Sort of think that now that Steve is gone, the upper management

is just there to collect paychecks and are not managing the development

and quality of the products they are responsible for.

Just saw the iTunes Facebook page and out of the first

40 comments only 2 were positive. And those were the

ones that were in English that I could understand.

It really does seem that the whole Apple software world

is beginning to unravel. The dumbing down of pro apps,

Maps, the uselessness of the new App Store in iOS 6 requiring

getting a third party app that is actually useful, etc. and now

iTunes is really shedding a dark cloud over the Apple software

department and their competence.

If I were a major share holder I would be demanding Mr. Cook

get things in order promptly and quickly or find a new job.

Agreed, this is insane. My workaround (as I have a lot of playlists so my list is long and dragging and dropping to the sidebar is a PITA) is to click the circular icon with the arrow in it next to the song, then choose Add To, but then here's the kicker, you have to actually click that menu item, it doesn't show playlists on mouse over which is ridiculous in itself, then choose which playlist to add it to. Not elegant, nor as fast as dragging and dropping, but it makes things a little easier.

I am rapidly falling out of love with Apple for things like this.

Without the option to open a playlist in a new window, it now makes it exceedingly difficult to add tracks to the TOP of a long playlist. The only option appears to be to add the tracks to the bottom, and drag them to the top, which can take forever on a long playlist. Previously I could open the playlist in a new window, scroll to the top, and drag the tracks from the main library window right to the top of the playlist. I was hoping there was at least a terminal command to re-enable separate windows, but so far I haven't been able to find one. This is incredibly frustrating.