Playlist Total Time in iTunes 11??

Come on Apple. FIX it! The new iTunes is not better. It doesn't seem nearly as intuitive. Pretend for a moment to care. Some people *do* depend on total time in minutes and seconds for playlists. 1.2 hours? Really???

This doesn't seem petty at all—I'm very irritated as well. I liked to make playlists that would be about the length to match certain tasks I was doing while I listened on a portable device.

Why remove this?? Why has Apple made a hobby of removing useful features that people depend on?

It's actually a simple fix, if you know where to look. Just go View > Show Status Bar and the bottom bar will appear again.

Although, agreed, I was pulling my hair out until I figured it out.

Ahhh...thanks! Guess I should have looked around a little more. 😊

This bothers me to no end as well. I'm actually not that dumb, but in Itunes 11.0.1 I don't see an option for "show status bar" in my "view" dropdown. Can anyone help with that?

I can see it under the view menu in mine. Command-slash seems to be the keyboard shortcut for toggling show/hide.

Yeah, it's just not there for me. Not sure what else I can say. It was so easy just to toggle on the bottom staus bar. Why'd they have to screw that up. I'm looking into a script that might fix it.

Does the command-slash keyboard command work?

It does not. Reading a little more about this issue, it seems I'm out of luck because I run 10.6.8. Itunes 11 doesn't play as nicely with my older OS it seems. I'm going back to Itunes 10.7 until I hear this is worked out. And it likely won't be.

I'm on 10.6.8 too and I think I found how you can have the precise duration of a playlist in iTunes 11: you have to be in "List" view, not in "Grid" or in "Artist list" view (you can change that in the top right of iTunes, just below the search field.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Vincent

PS: yes, the fact that it works only in List view is ridiculous, but it's consistent with many other ridiculous things 😉

maybe, i'm missing something - as soon as i installed itunes 11 i turned the status bar back on, because i really like having it. but as the original commentor said, in the past you could click on the info in the status bar and it would flip from "x songs, x hours, x mb" to "x minutes" or "x days" or whatever else (i forget how many variations there were). now it shows up with "x songs, x hours, x mb" and - like the original poster - i can find no way to change that view. as they also said, this is very annoying when you are trying to determine if a playlist can be burned onto a single cd or not. or any other time you are trying to plan something that is over an hour long but needs to be an exact number of minutes. "1.3 hours" or "1.4 hours" is pretty worthless when minutes count. i google searched for awhile and have so far found no answer. if it were the early 80's and i was making a mix tape by hand it wouldn't seem too odd to have to add up all the song lengths by hand (or on a calculator). these days it's kind of ludicrous - especially since the functionality used to be there. (maybe apple figures no one should want to burn cds these days...they have been removing cd/dvd devices from their hardware. but there are other legit reasons for wanting to know the exact length of a playlist.)

I agree, it is inconvenient to have lost this functionality. Sometimes I can get around it by selecting a smaller group of tracks so that the information shows only the items selected. And sometimes this doesn't help, depending on what the length is.

Another thing that occurs to me: I'm not sure what good "days" is in this context, anyway. Why is there a reason for the user to be able to think of musical or video content in terms of day lengths?

i always assumed the "x days" format was more for bragging rights than any legit technical reason. (or for a personal warm fuzzy feeling if one is averse to bragging.) "i have x days worth of music!" or "i can listen to my music for x days without a repeat!" or "i have 2.7 days worth of music by bob wills and his Texas playboys. i rock."

Fixed in version 11.0.2! Praise the Lord!