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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 18, 2014 8:59 AM in response to Zanaelf

There is also a work around using the winamp app... but you don't have access to the iTunes store through it, but its easier to manage songs, play them , and syncs with iTunes library , though internet radio is still best played with the new iTunes. So when you update your iTunes library by importing or buying new songs, the list of songs for playback or organisation of tracks can be done in winamp for mac

I like how they adopted a similar GUI of old iTunes.

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Another alternative playback for music, playlist editing and saving is VOX which also can sync with your iTunes library also, which also plays your old windows music .wma files without converting them further reducing their quality by re encoding them.


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Oct 18, 2014 11:39 AM in response to PeterVL57

"It just different. You'll get used to it."


I've been working with 12 on my test machine and it really doesn't take long to get used to it. I'm OK with the overall changes, except the lack of font size control - which has been an issue in Apple applications for a very long time. You can't change the font sizes in iTunes, but you can in iTunes Help - go figure. lol This same problem exists in Calendar and other apps. "Zoom" just maximizes the window, but in many other apps, Zoom increases the font size. These interface issues drive me crazy and Apple is the worst offender in violating their own interface guidelines. Hahaha.


And anyone who would bail on the Mac for a Windows machine? Go ahead, we'll see you a six months from now, back on the Mac. lol

Oct 18, 2014 3:34 PM in response to lynnfrombend

i hope people stop saying that, it drives me nuts! you mayh try to be helpful but you have no clue what you're talking about.

playlist is playlist, not sidebar. as a matter of fact, if you never created any playlist, then your method will show nothing. when we complain about the removal of sidebar, be assured we are not bunch of stupid sheeps.

lynnfrombend wrote:


Go to songs and then to click the playlists button at the top and your side bar will come into view.

Oct 18, 2014 5:26 PM in response to PeterVL57

It is pretty clear from the other postings that a significant amount of functionality has been lost with the removal of Sidebar. The fact that everything could be listed in the sidebar saved a significant number of steps in the GUI with a pointer world. It may not be so good in the less precise world of touch screens. I hate to see Apple make the same mistakes as Microsoft as they transition into what they see as a future where the touch screen replaces the pointing device.

Oct 18, 2014 6:31 PM in response to sryland

"after inserting a CD I was able to select tracks on the CD and drag them to a playlist in the sidebar so that those tracks would be imported and added to that playlist. How do I go about accomplishing the same thing in iTunes 12?"


What's a CD? Hahaha


Sorry. I hear you. It ****** me off that Apple blatantly changed iTunes again without regard to what users want. And that's nothing new. So for me, I'm learning to accept the things I can't change. Apple doesn't care. They just don't. And all the angst in the world won't change that. Only Wall Street matters, and stock holders. It's the way things are. I mean, you don't actually think that Apple cares what 20 customers on their support board think, do you? Or even 20,000 customers?


Send Apple feedback and then chill. They'll do something, or they won't. Either way, you get what you get. In the whole scheme of life, I won't let the loss of a side bar in iTunes ruin my life. 😀

Oct 18, 2014 7:00 PM in response to sryland

This is exactly the issue I have, and it's currently keeping me from upgrading. Apparently the answer is going to be something convoluted involving deselecting the tracks you don't want to import (instead of selecting the ones you want), importing them into the Library, then dragging them from a Recently Added playlist to the one where you want them. As I said, though, I'm not going to worry about it right now; I'll just keep on acknowledging the Update notification every day without installing iTunes 12.


srb

Oct 19, 2014 12:31 AM in response to Zanaelf

Installed Yosemite and iTunes 12. In iTunes, I hit the full screen option and can't figure out how to back out of that. Also, how do you sync your devices if you can't see them listed in the side bar (which Apple apparently does not like any more.) I followed the earlier instructions in this thread of how to bring back the sidebar showing music. But, where is the rest of my list? (Apps, etc., and my iPad, iPhones (2), and iPod?

Where is option to have side bar in iTunes 12 ?

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