iTunes 12.2 restoring column view for playlists and removing cover art

Irked by that either , those updates again came so annoying to me, finding the solve I found this discuss. just APPLE very bad for.

I spent over an hour on the phone with Apple tech support this morning to come up with this same solution, however, choosing that option is specific to EACH PLAYLIST . . is there any way to change the playlist view back to the old style list view as the default view, so the ALL show that way? I'm going to otherwise have to go through and change perhaps 30-40 play lists one at a time! Thanks

Hi Neil,

This seems like it would be a helpful option for many of us -- but at present, I don't think it's possible.

Oh my gosh did this thread save my skin. Yes, as a musician who (unfortunately) depends on friggen iTunes for a living, it is INFURIATING when apple changes things around with little or no explanation as to how to get things back to normal. INFURIATING!!! Every major revision of iTunes comes with HOURS of figuring out what the **** happened. I'm am now getting to the point that I need to use another program and cloud service to manage my music and playlists because iTunes it too unpredictable!

Anyway, thanks to you posters who solved this little stupid problem. I spent hours trying to figure out what the **** happened to the check boxes! effing INFURIATING. ON top of having to rebuild my library about once a year becasue iCloud screws something up and looses my custom tracks! I quit trying to keep the album art organized years ago. That's a lost cause!

Yes folks, just venting.

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brother i am totally agree with you.. and more on this part (Your cutesy c*** is really effing with people's ability to efficiently make a living.)..

hope u recover for those silly ideas made by APPLE TEAM.

just ***** ,SIMPLICITY is the point as well as not many changes.

good vibes.

Please leave a feedback note for Apple here: https://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

I'm trying to get them to add back in a few old features. Mainly being able to open a playlist in a separate window. Essential for DJs and Pro users with large libraries. -Ezz

Thank you so much - this was driving me crazy!!!

I just spent over an hour trying to find out why my new playlist wasn't in list view, like the others. I kept looking in the Menu Bar options and tried View Options, but I didn't know that I should be choosing "Songs" to get list view. That's not intuitive at all. That option belongs under View in the Menu Bar and clearly stating "List View" or better yet, in Preferences for overall default in iTunes.

This no longer seems to work in 12.4. I have some playlists which have column view, and new ones I can no longer change. If I duplicate one with column view, it turns off. This is so frustrating.

I'm not entirely sure what it is that doesn't work anymore. Since iTunes 12.4 (I'm using 12.4.1) you can change the way the data is displayed for any of your playlists using the iTunes menubar View>View As. Selecting Songs will get the view that I see referred to as List View and Column View in this thread. There is no preference to make this the default view, so it has to be changed for each playlist. I've seen comments that this change doesn't stick, and will eventually revert back to Playlist View, but I haven't experienced that.

Good luck

srb

That was what I needed to know, the View>View As part. It works now for me, thank you!

Very annoying, Apple, I too need to reference BPM in playlist view & you took this feature away, just so your insanely complicated interface might look prettier and about 1% less complicated. Please bring it back.

I too am frustrated.. can i go back t an older version?

i like to have, bit rate , sample, and description, kind bpm etc

one would think..are you listening APPLE!? that under preferences one could select what they want and it will carry on for everything...

but view options are individual..

If you change the view options on a play list, then go to another play list, the views you want/ selected are gone and the stupid squares with the musical notes are on the left. I used iTunes for my recording as well as my music collections . i do not need art work and genre when i am using it to organize my personal band recordings..

i had thought that if i changed the view options for the FOLDER it would carry on to all the play lists in that folder but NOOOOOOOOO..stupid.. then i tried it for the library..nope..

i want my column to be in one order for every play list now and after years and years...like since 1998...i have so much and i just can't go and keep fixing what the software updates keep breaking...

what I did was turn off the iTunes store! I never buy music from it and maybe it will help...

This was what I needed! I'm on 12.5 and it was driving me flipping mental to not have list view with comments column. I've used iTunes semi professionally too for theatre sound, and these changes are a serious problem with zero added value. Please smarten up and simplify, Apple! We don't need one app that tries to do everything audio and instead does nothing well. I remember when Microsoft products were this user-unfriendly, but the tables have turned...

After looking for months, this finally solved issue. It is now Menu->View->Show View Options...then use "Songs." Thanks for getting me on the right track!!!