iTunes 11.2 Update Breaks Keyboard Navigation

Apple, this is so sad that this is not a joke. I wish it was, but it isn't.

And it just adds up to other long time standing bugs in iTunes.

Seems everything apple is worried about nowadays is shareholder value. Bugs do not bring profit. But if you do not fix them, they can kill profit very well. Hope apple understands that. But it seems they don't.

I have doubts this would have happened under jobs. He was passionate about his software and hardware.

This one is particularly annoying. The strange thing is that if you try to keyboard navigate in "Albums" view and it takes you to a random place, and then click on "Songs" view it will have jumped to the proper place. Clicking back to "Albums" will then bring you to where you wanted to go... Odd

Same problem. Rather annoying when you have a big library. Hopefully an update gets released soon to fix it.

Just chiming in with the same problem. Large library, no rhyme or reason to the jumps. Hoping this is a bug and not a new feature! 😝 Though the fact that keyboard navigation still works in Songs, Artists, and Genres views is promising. Anyway, thanks for posting!

I have the same issue. Keyboard search is pretty worthless at this point. This is my normal mode of operation. I too have a large library, but I don't know if that is why this happens.

I'd say the larger your iTunes library is, the more likely you are to navigate it using the keyboard and that's why we, people with a large library, are noticing this bug the most.

As I said hopefully it gets sorted soon in an update which should not be far away as there's also the problem of the hidden /User folder and its messed permissions when you install iTunes 11.2 and have "Find my Mac" enabled.

So iTunes 11.2.1 is out to fix the hidden /User folder problem but the keyboard navigation in Album view is still broken. 😟

That's a bummer.

By the way, I know this is pretty obvious and clumsy, but there is a temporary workaround. Go to Songs view, do your keyboard navigation (making sure Artist is selected as the sorting column), then go back to Albums view. You'll be right where you wanted to be - with two extra mouse clicks of course, which is the kind of thing we're trying to avoid in the first place. But still, it's faster than having to scroll up and down in Albums view.

Hope this is helpful. Again, pretty obvious and not a fix at all. Let's hope this bug does get sorted out soon. It's pretty clearly a bug.

Ditto. Hope Apple can fix this keyboard navigation issue for the album view.

what about retina? Does the keyboard navigation work properly on retina displays?

yes, im having the same problem, awful update!

Same problem here. Sad face.

Having the same problem here, It's extremly frustrating. Hope this is fixed very soon.