I'd like your feedback please.

Or nobody noticed your thread...

Feedback goes to: http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

There may be some way to achive the order you desire by modifying the sort fields of the Movies in question, e.g. set Sort Name and Sort Album to:

Jeff Dunham 1

Jeff Dunham 2

Jeff Dunham 3

Jeff Dunham 4

Set Album name to the movie Name if it isn't already. Add leading zeros in the numeric part for large series, e.g. James Bond.

Rename Artist to Songs, and then get rid of Songs? 😕 I've no idea what you mean by that. You are entirely free to ignore a view of your library that you have no personal use for, but why should anyone else lose it?

tt2

Nobody that felt like contributing noticed. Is that better? This is a user-to-user forum. Apple aren't reading the forums for feedback, and you're not supposed to post anything that looks a poll or petition. It was your title that made me look in case the thread needed reporting.

As before, feedback goes to: http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Why would you want to sort films by title and then year? Does the library consist of nothing but remakes?

You can use playlists to filter out stuff you don't want to see, e.g. a list of songs that excludes music vidoes.

Explore what customizations there are a little further. Ctrl+B will get you a menu bar. Edit > Preferences > General tab will give you control over the checkboxes.

You remain free not to click on the Albums, Artists or Genres buttons, but you're missing out on a rich visual index to your library, assuming you make the effort to add artwork.

tt2

Don't worry, perhaps my dry humour didn't come over without the smiley. Hopefully you've managed to turn those checkboxes off now. If the forum software dumped a post you were composing then that is the fault of Jive. It can be quite frustrating at times. Or did I miss something that got moderated out of existence?

tt2

What are you using the checkboxes to do for you? You can hide the checkboxes altogether via Edit > Preferences > General tab which is what I assumed you meant when you complained about them. They have a number of effects, one of which is to make unchecked tracks skip through normal track-to-track playback. The idea is that any tracks you want to skip in your main libary, e.g. bonus interview tracks or holiday music out of season, probably don't need to be synced to your device either. However the check marks in themselves should not be used as the main sync selection mechanism for your device which is best achieved through the use of playlists. Presumably you actually want to listen to freshly imported tracks, why would you import media you don't like, so checked by default after import makes most sense to me.

tt2

Since each movie title is assumed to be unique then logically once you've sorted a list by title there are no other fields that it will be relevant to sub-sort on. You can sort by Year and then by Artist or Title, or by Artist and then Title or Year.

I know what you're saying regarding music videos, you'd like to have them excluded from the say Songs or Albums, Artist etc. views. I'm happy that they are included. For example here is one of my albums that includes a bonus video track, which I have unchecked (hence the lighter shade of text) so that it doesn't play by default if I play the album.

You could use feedback to request a feature to, for example, extend the View Options control such that it has an Include Music Videos check box in each of the views Songs, Albums, Artists, Composers and Genres. Then you'd be able to hide them where you want to.

Still not sure why you think it necessary to suggest removing (rather than perhaps optionally hiding) features that you don't personally have a use for. The tab bar in TV shows lets those who use it switch between Unwatched (episodes), (all) Shows and Genres. I also enable the List view as I find this the most efficient when I want to make tag corrections.

tt2

Datalyss wrote:

You're not understanding me. I don't use the checkboxes at all. I don't like having one song auto-play after another, like in a playlist. I prefer to manually choose which song I play after another one finishes. I'm oldschool that way.

Also, simply hiding the checkboxes is not the same as turning them off. Songs will still play one after the other.

Ah, again not the way that most people use the software so isn't really a surprise if your approach is the one less catered for. From recollection WMP and MediaMonkey will both continue to play the rest of an album if you start playing one track from it.

In iTunes there a couple of approaches. If you click the small magnifying glass in the search box you can turn off the option to Search Entire Library. This restores the pre-iTunes 11 search behavior which filters the current display to your search term. Type in some text to display a single song and play it. When it finishes nothing else will play. Alternatively, once you've started playing a song, click on the Up Next control at right of the time line area. Click Clear Songs to clear anything that has been automatically added to the list.

Again, you could make a feature request to support a single track playback mode. My suspicion is that you won't be the first to request that (indeed I might even have suggested it once).

tt2