How can I view my music in list view in iTunes 12.4?

So there really just is no way to view everything as a list? I go to "songs" and I want to find a particular album so I search it in the top right search bar, but when I click on the album it doesn't just take me to it in my nice little list, it brings me back to the terrible album page, where everything is chunked off and I HATE IT.

'command' on Mac, and thank you, that was driving me crazy. Couldn't get my head around how a list view could possibly be what they expected us to work with now. Is this the default? Crazy. And the option to get out is hidden in a menu or keyboard shortcut... Jeez.

No, it DOES NOT MAKE SENSE OVERALL, apple Wantabe. Leaving interfaces alone so that people using them can continue to use them as they've learned to use them makes sense. Also, the "solution" you provide only works in part. Try clicking on Recently Added to get any meaningful list view of the kind which allows the user to select the way he or she wants to see the list (alphabetically, by date, etc.)

Right.

You can't.

Under "Library" if you select recently added, in music or movies or anything, it will come up as icons. There is no list view.

Annoying.

jsegel wrote:

Under "Library" if you select recently added, in music or movies or anything, it will come up as icons. There is no list view.

Annoying.

@PDXSMB: You can select the media kind either from the drop-down menu just to the right of the back/forward buttons in the toolbar (you can edit it to include only the media you want) or from the menubar View>Media Kind which also shows key shortcuts.

Oh I am sure the same or similar keyboard shortcuts were always there - it is just as you said - when there were simpler ways to point and click we didn't need them. I am one who doesn't mind clicking when the clicks are obvious, and so tend to do that rather than memorize 1,000 shortcut combinations even though keystrokes are generally faster once you know them. On the other hand, make me do more than a couple of clicks to get somewhere and I'll take the time to memorize the keystrokes.

I actually am not bothered as much as apparently some people here are by what has been referred to as "bloat" on iTunes. I'm actually not sure I'd want to see functions "separated" into multiple apps. As long as I'm familiar with where to go and what to do within it, I don't mind iTunes being the one-stop-shopping for all media - in fact I think it's a good thing, in much the same way that it is a good thing that the iPhone contains all the technology that used to require a storage room to hold.

My only gripe is that they keep making it a moving target. I don't like them changing where things go and how they are accessed after I've already gotten familiar with the user interface. Improving is one thing, but "rearranging the chairs on the Titanic" as you put it is quite another. And unless they are adding new features (which they aren't), then that is all they are doing with releases such as this latest one.

As for the inferiority of the more current Pages releases....yes, it's a deal. I won't get you started if you don't get me started. I don't consider the new releases improvements either (to put it mildly) and so it wouldn't take much to GET me started!

Im looking to change the view of my play lists and it completely puzzled by this.

In the old iTunes you could highlight and select this from the tab in the top right as shown in the picture and then they would be listed as tracks.

Now in this second picture i can not get my new lists to look like above and they look a lot bigger now and the tab on the top right has now gone

in the picture below you can see this.

Trophy376 wrote:

Im looking to change the view of my play lists and it completely puzzled by this.

In the old iTunes you could highlight and select this from the tab in the top right as shown in the picture and then they would be listed as tracks.

Now in this second picture i can not get my new lists to look like above and they look a lot bigger now and the tab on the top right has now gone

in the picture below you can see this.

You can still get the view you want, but the button is gone in 12.4. Now select the playlist name, then at the top menu select View > View As > Songs. This setting can be applied to the Recently Added playlist (which someone commented on on page 1).

While the other "helpful" answer gives you a list view of all your songs, I notice it doesn't help in changing to a list view for a single playlist, to which I have found the solution, hold ctrl and press J for view options...

Am I missing something? I don't have a "Library" section in my sidebar or the "Songs" tab anymore. Nor do I have any "view options" in the upper right corner. I want to view all the songs so I can scroll down to the bottom and add the artist info for the song that is shown playing. Maybe the new OS update screwed this up somehow?

I AGREE.

Like others, I just spent an infuriating hour trying to figure out how to view just the songs of my music library with all the meaningful information that I want to see in a list view. I find the "Recently Added" view in the left column just ridiculous, with "view options" (cmd-j) not letting us do squat.

My only workaround was thus:

1) Create a new smart playlist, and set it to show "Name" "is not" and then leave it blank. (Let's assume we don't have any important songs to us in our library that doesn't have a name!)

2) Now when you click on your new playlist, you are able to change view options into a list view that's useful.

Oh Apple, WHY? Why 'fix' simple interfaces when they're not broke?!

Hope this helps someone else.

EMGULS79 wrote:

I haven't checked it myself, but this link seems to imply it can be done. Have you tried this procedure?

iTunes 12 for Mac: Save a copy of a song in a new file format

I can confirm that this works. For whatever reason the option to convert formats was removed from the right-click menu options, but you can still do the conversion if you select the song (or album) and then use File/ Create New Version/ (default import format). Be sure to first set your import default to be the format you want to convert to.

Where for instance is list view for my music?

You can change the view for your library in the sidebar. Under Library, click the view you want to use. If "list view" is the plain list with columns, click Songs.

Where is Playlist view?

If "playlist view" is what you saw before when you clicked the Playlist button (which showed the sidebar), the sidebar is now visible by default. If "playlist view" means something else, please post back with more info.

Where is the Home Movies tab?

Select to show your Movies library. In the sidebar, under Library, click Home Movies.

Overall, this version is different, but it makes more sense overall. I'm glad the sidebar is back as a permanent fixture of the interface.

For Home Videos, select that view under Library. Then, from menu bar, View -> View As -> List.

However, that option does not exist for Recently Added (under Library). However, your Recently Added smart playlist is still there, and you can change its view like with any playlist.

Your question has already been answered but I can't resist chiming in to say I wholeheartedly agree with you - I loathe this new update every bit as much as you do. Even now that I know how it works - I consider it burdensome and onerous. They have forced me to go to hidden drop down options where before I had simple icons to click on. Grrrr. Somebody had too much time on their hands. C'mon, Apple, put your productivity towards developing new technology like the iPad that could actually replace a laptop, or an Apple Watch that could actually function independently of an iPhone during my long morning runs. Don't waste valuable talent making any more of these (non) "improvements" to iTunes - unless it's to bring it back to what it was. http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/16/11684666/apple-itunes-design-update-released-1 2-4