Where is option to have side bar in iTunes 12 ?

Please ...tell me how you downgraded to iTunes 11 before I throw my Mac out of the window.

I agree with others here that Apple should bring back the sidebar

view as it once was!!!! They tried to get rid of it once before

and brought it back. Did they not get the message then that that

is what people want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree, the all-seeing eye of... sorry, caught myself going into Tolken there. Removal of the all-seeing Library sidebar was a bad UX move for Apple. I've sent feedback on it.

If it was Johnny Ive, he needs to be pulled away from his all-white container, slapped into a Starbucks, and see how users are using his products.

I Too am getting very upset with Apple's latest Bungles. I was thinking of getting an iPad Mini, now not so much. Actually not. Apple is fast moving down-hill in my estimation, perhaps I will just pass on future Apple products for now. However, I'll check back from time to time and if I see they've rectified things, perhaps I'll return................Bye Bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sorry guys, but Apple will not change this back. They just won't, and no amount of complaining about it will change the fact that you are now stuck with the interface in iTunes 12. I don't care for it either.

I've been on these forums plenty of times complaining about something that changed in Snow Leopard and something they removed from iMovie and something that used to work with adding Macs to a corporate network but now doesn't.

Its not about Apple listening to their customers. Apple doesn't do that, and I'm not trying to be rip on Apple by saying that. It's just not part of the way they develop software. They pick a direction and go full speed in that direction and they don't look back.

You may be able to downgrade to the v11 but eventually there will be some iOS update that requires you to upgrade iTunes to install it. My advice is to get used to the new iTunes because we're all stuck with it. Or, speak with your wallet and remember this frustration the next time your iPhone contract is up, and get a different device.

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Thanks for the answer, but this is by far the most idiotic setup I've seen yet. The Playlists tab contains all my music, playlists, and options, while the My Music tab simply shows my music, making it completely pointless. Why don't they just call the Playlists tab "My Music," and get rid of the current My Music tab? They could also throw a little color back into iTunes. The newest version has too much white.

Nope, the icons are horrible window panels, not the list of songs!
How does one avoid Itunes "updates" forever, Permanently? (it has caused me SO MUCH hardhsip, losing months of work (in grading songs -so I will know what to put on an Ipod!)

How on earth does one do that!?

How do you do this???

I find it hard to think they are so undemocratic as to ignore people who may make up 80%+ of their users.
It is so awful, I will not be using it anymore! Only to feed Ipods with, that is all!
It still 'jumps' back to the top of the list when you add a music file or two. I think it is SO bad (I am not a complainer - but they have wasted months of my life in the past, no exaggeration!).

This thread is not monitored by any software engineer at Apple.

They won't read any of these complaints nor will they make any changes to their software. Other than venting your frustration, posting here won't make them "fix' itunes 12.1 or 13 or 14. Apple doesn't do that- they make a change and they stick with it without ever reverting back to anything, no matter who complains or how many threads and replies this topic gets.

You may find a way to roll back to iTunes 11 so you can see the GUI the way you want to, but its only a matter of time before iOS 8.1 or something comes out that REQUIRES you to be on iTunes 12 before you can ever run the upgrade. Then you'll have no choice - accept the iTunes 12 interface, or keep your device without features.

This thread mine as well be closed because it's just people saying "Me Too!" and it will never, ever make any difference to any release of itunes in the future. Apple doesn't work that way. What YOU want is not part of what they develop. Again I'm not trying to be mean to Apple. Years of seeing how they operate tells me without a shadow of a doubt they whatever you complain about, they won't change because they have a singular focus and they obtain that focus regardless of who complains or how loudly. The only exception I can think about was the bumpergate of the iPhone 4 and corporate even told them flat out not to give in and offer bumpers regardless of the millions of people reporting the problem. If you think you can make a forum post about iTunes 12 and some GUI side panel issue that'll change the way they program their software, you're sadly mistaken. I hate it too but it's the way Apple is.

I'm sorry but you're stuck with it. There's no way around it.

They may fix bugs in the GUI behavior but in the end you're still using the same interface. If you don't like it, don't post here and complain.

If you are really dedicated to trying to get Apple to change their policy about not involving the community when they make changes to any of their products, the only way you can make a difference is to NOT buy Apple products in the future. Speak with your wallet. It's the only way Apple will change.

I was under the impression that some guys here were part of Apple; I don't know why.
So I look for another music-player, if not just play music straight from my music folders, that is probably what I'll do (& - keep itunes only to modify ipods)