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Where is option to have side bar in iTunes 12 ?

Since, 11 iTunes has been disabling my option of having the sidebar... which is annoying... but now I cant find the option to have it again... since I found this better and easier to use than that ribbon of silly icons... It is a pain in the neck dragging a song to my iPod, in its specific playlist(still don't know how to do it properly in this new version) ... This is why I had the side bar, it was constant to the GUI design of Finder...

Please enable the option to have iTunes sidebar again... the flat GUI is irritating as it is, but getting rid of the option to have the sidebar just made me crazy, mad and insane.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Oct 16, 2014 9:50 PM

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Oct 17, 2014 9:29 PM in response to jjkraw

Hi there


Did you by any chance make a back recently? If so, you can do a rollback and should be cured from this new "bug". Or perhaps you have an installation disc for Mavericks.


Another option will be to create an installation disc from another machine running the previous version. Is a bit time consuming, though still worth it in my view as I dislike the layout of 12.


All the best.

Oct 17, 2014 10:00 PM in response to RedOrion

I am relatively a newish all-time apple user , that is having my own personal mac for at least one year, since previously for 3 years I had been using the studio's macs, and been a windows pc user for much of my life, because macs were too expensive to get, but with a bit of brain storming and using a credit card, growing its credit to accommodate the cost, I was able to get my very own personal mac. I found macs to be reliable , where my time is spent on my work like it should be instead of pc maintenance of cleaning and defragging and security scanning..., and apple does what it does with very little lag. So terminal is rather a mystery to me and looks like the windows command with more functionality... and don't know its syntax, and been browsing for commands which I just copy and paste into it, if I needed to get something done.

I have tried using third party apps such as app zapper to delete the new iTunes and reloading iTunes and library backup from the time machine, it works but every time you open the downgraded iTunes, it pops up an error message and hangs and crashes with beach balls with any function that relies on your apple ID... which includes shopping from the store , home sharing etc... I was thinking that the only full recovery is to back up my recent work on a passport, and do full time machine restore, but I am hesitant on that because i had so many songs that had no album art, and dragged the album art from google picture search into the songs, just to make version 12 easier to use... because of its flat design which makes things "swim" on the screen in my own eyes, since there is not much depth and differentiation between parts of the app , the lists, and the songs and things... the death of skuemorphism in all computing platforms from apple to microsoft to android etc... with my cognitive issues has made things difficult for me to perform... which is why I am stuck with mavericks

Oct 18, 2014 12:41 AM in response to trevc

I agree that something like the original sidebar comes up when you click Playlists. However the original sidebar allowed you to control everything from it. The was SIMPLE and EASY TO USE.


One day designers and programmers will learn to ask people what they want before removing useful features that we have all used for years. Grrrr.

Oct 18, 2014 2:17 AM in response to man290663

Man290663, they have not removed usabilty at all. They made a change in presentation. The sidebar and the top bar right above it combined, deliver the same functionality we had in iTunes 11. You just have to get used to it a little. Give it some time and you won't know any better.


The advantage of this way of presenting functionality is for iTunes users who manage their music-library and playlists in iTunes. You keep a better view on you playlists next to your complete music-library, instead of scrolling down to your playlists as you had to do in iTunes 11.


If you wanted to prevent scrolling in iTunes 11 you had to disable the other category's in the sidebar using preferences. Now you have best of both worlds. You don't have to scroll down and you still have all the category's only one click away in the top bar. I use iTunes 12 for a while now and I like it a lot.

Oct 18, 2014 2:17 AM in response to Zanaelf

I've just left feedback about his dreadful new itunes update. Why is the side bar gone? Why hasn't cover view come back?

Strange thing is, version 12.0.1 isn't listed as an option.

Maybe apple are trying to avoid the backlash of yet another dreadful unnecessary update.


Why they keep on insisting on removing functionality with these 'improvements' is beyond me.

My updates was set for manual, but somehow it happened overnight automatically and now i'm stuck with this c@#p.


I hate to say it, but microsoft gets more appealing with every apple update.

Oct 18, 2014 2:30 AM in response to g.g1

In the post above yours, I explained why changes have been made in the sidebar, and they did not remove functionality, but the've changed the way thing are presented on screen. It doesn't take "loads of clicks" to get anywhere. It just different. You'll get used to it.


iTunes 12 not being listed as an option is logical as well. Almost all Apple apps are connected to icloud and iOS. If you get stuck with different versions you're asking for trouble. So you either stay with Maverick and iOS7 and old versions of Apple software, or you go with the flow and upgrade to Yosemite and update every Apple OS and app all at once.

Oct 18, 2014 8:27 AM in response to PeterVL57

Yep I personally agree with you with that, Microsoft I found more annoying and frustrating than Apple... even though Apple like Microsoft shoved the GUI design of OS's into the 2D universe, Apple retains the dock... Microsoft removed start menu for start screen... The problem really lies is following the trends... From studying Apple's history, they deviated from following the norm... but now all software companies seem to be following the 2D Flatness idea because its "fashionable" (because everyone uses faecesbook which is the pioneer of flatness) more than usable reducing differentiation gradiants between app's tools and the loaded files/documents/stuff. Tell you truth Yosemite looks better than Windows 10... but I am personally staying on Mavericks for mac, Windows 7 for booty camp... until the flat "s" storm passes by.

Where is option to have side bar in iTunes 12 ?

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