How can I replace iTunes 12.2.2.25? It is full of wasted space, wrong album covers, and nothing but frustration for any serious music collector. Or is it only sheep who ask questions here?

I think I probably responded to at least one earlier post with links to articles discussing how to do the things you seemingly cannot. Yes, you can write things to fields. Yes, you can change views without album covers.

I suspect I also mentioned that if you (and I will let you do the footwork) do a web search you will find many pages with instructions on how to downgrade iTunes. Unless you made a clone backup of your computer just prior to upgrading (which as a serious music collector who cares about their collection of course you did) you will have to do a painstaking process to downgrade.

Having a tantrum here will likely not get you much help.

Perhaps if you were polite and provided information, then someone would help.

Starting off by insulting those of whom you ask for help, may not prove fruitful.

You probably need to take a step back and start from the beginning, without being abusive to the people who volunteer their time here.

You are running iTunes 12.x.x.x, correct? Do you have iTunes Match? Did you elect to participate in the Apple Music free subscription? We would all like to help, but you are not giving us anything to go on here.

Not sure why you are not seeing this under iTunes>Preferences>General:

I tuned mine off because I do not use the iTunes Library on this Mac, and I am really not interested in Apple Music. Also, it was giving me issues when I tried to redeem a Gift Card, so I unchecked "Show Apple Music".

So, if you can verify what you have opted in or out of regarding the first two questions, then that would be helpful.

Also, it does not require a geek to do a simple Google search. I typed in "Downgrade iTunes to 11.x" in the Google search bar, and the first result was:

http://www.macworld.com/article/2839797/unhappy-with-itunes-12-heres-how-to-reve rt-to-itunes-11.html

Your age does not get you a bye here in terms of general civility. If you take a moment to look at your title and your posts, you will see that they are unnecessarily abusive and basically discourteous. You may be frustrated and upset that you are running into issues, I get that. But the people here are fellow users who spend their own time on these forums with the intention of helping other users. There is no more reason to take out your frustration on the people volunteering here than there is to yell at a ticket-counter agent when a plane is delayed. It's just bad manners and boorish....

GB

This helped me, My album covers were all mixed up, and after unchecking "show apple music", and restarting it, they were all fixed!

I guess one thing I find puzzling is why people always automatically upgrade just because something newer comes out? Now to me that is "sheep" behavior. After iTunes 7.5 I never saw any improvements to iTunes that I needed (and many I definitely did not want) so I still use iTunes 7.5. I realize it probably won't run on a newer computer, though I did just get a year 2008 computer with Mavericks on it and once I set it up one of my experiments will be to see if I can downgrade iTunes 12 to 7.5. Still with any software I first review changes in documentation and reviews. Then I back up my computer as a clone so I can restore it 100% as it was before. Install one new software package at a time and test until I decide it is time to overwrite the previous backup.

By the way, I suspect many of the helpers on this site also experienced the transition from using a slide rule to electronics. Unfortunately participation in learning about technology in the modern world is mandatory unless you truly live unconnected, off the grid, and have a box of identical computers to last you the rest of your life (and even then they may not last that long as electronic components degrade with time).

If you have backed your library up, then you do not need to be concerned with losing it since you have the backup. Keep in mind that the app and the library are two separate things. Changing the app may cause the links to that library to become corrupted, but the library and the contents of the library are in no way affected by anything you do with the app. Again, the navigation links may get out of whack, but that is a matter of re-establishing that navigation path. The contents of the library are separate from the iTunes app. Just make sure your backup is accessible.

Back to the civility part. Apple is not here, so if you are mad at Apple tell them about it. And I am far from sensitive. I just think that people believe they can behave any way they wish when they have the anonymity of the internet. That just doesn't work with me. If you are 75 years old, then you would have been brought up in a period of time when manners and civility were de rigueur. I have no doubt that your Mother must have said to you "If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all", or "keep a civil tongue in your mouth". That is certainly something my Mother used to say. So, that's what I was getting at. We all have our moments, and I am no exception. But it is just a good rule of thumb to refrain from abusing people just because you can't see them....

Best of luck,

GB