iTunes 12.0.1: "Repeat" button disappears or overlaps song titles

Agree. Still on Mavericks 10.9.5, but the "Repeat" function is only available going through Controls. The button will stick while playing that album or playlist, but then disappears if you turn it off. PITA. Please put the button back permanently. STOP HIDING EVERYTHING, or at least give us the option to reconfigure.

I also hate the new look. Dull.

Thanks, Apple.

It was doing the same thing to me and then my iMac (which by the way is only a year old) froze. 😢 I had to pull the power plug and restart it. At least the repeat button is showing up again. 🙂

I just had the loop function a few days ago. No update that I authorized. What the heck Apple? I miss the old days of iTunes where everything was easy to access and with more functions. I tried making a playlist and I can't even loop that. My next complaint was how I can't loop albums on my iPhone. For get that. Doesn't seem like they care about us on any OS. Hey Apple. look up what you guys did in 2006 and take a page. That's when your claims of "It just works" were true.

EDIT:

Contorls > Repeat > All

So apparently it's available and the little loopy graphic will show up. Why do we have to do this? What if I was 70 years old and dumb as shat? I would be slitting my wrists over this. Can't wait till I'm 70 and have a valid excuse to slit my wrists.

Hello,

its very simple all you have to do is right click on the iTunes icon on your dock. then you should find 'repeat' hover above it and it will give you further option to choose to switch off repeat, repeat all songs or repeat the song your listening to. when you return to iTunes you should find the repeat icon once again.

This happens in Windows too...

When you return to iTunes the button it is not there anymore. How could they hide the "repeat" button? What did Apple have in mind this time???? I had to search the Internet to find it. I teach dance, so I use a lot the repeat button, and first time I found that the repeat button disappeard was in the middle of a class I was giving. What a stressful class! Please fix this disaster! We want the Repeat button back, permanently visible and easy to access!

Just now got this bug. it is going to be really irritating so please fix ASAP.... i use the repeat function hourly (while awake) so it "bugs" me 😝

Agreed. After about 15 mins of banging my head against the desk, I thought to search online & found it's under Controls. Which is ridiculous.

They also seem to have taken away the ability to choose the syncing source. (E.g., I want my phone to be the source & transfer all playlists to my new MBA, which I can't do. "Do you want to erase all content from your phone & replace it with your computer?" NO.)

I used to love Apple.

Thanks this resolved the issue for me!

I feel I should elaborate further on exactly how to find the 'control' button in iTunes 12. If you can't see the 'repeat' button, it's because your menu bar is hidden. First thing you have to do is click on the black and white square icon to the left of your 'previous' button:

Then you click on 'Show Menu Bar' to activate it again:

Once you can see the menu bar, you'll see options for 'File', 'Edit', 'View', 'Controls', 'Store' and 'Help'. You need to click on 'Controls' and then 'Repeat':

Now you can see that your 'Repeat' option has been turned off (classic Apple, lol). So you can choose whether you want to repeat all songs (click 'All') or just repeat one song in your library (click 'One').

And voila! You now have a repeat button in iTunes 12 :¬D

Snapplelinz....Your suggestions are very helpful and worked for me. Thanks! I now know how to use the repeat function on ITunes.

YOU ARE A SAINT THANK YOU!!!!!

Thank you so much!!!🙂