XANDER CAGE
Member
I really wish the expanded view wouldn't blur/alpha the album art. I get what they're going for but it just makes the high res album art look really cruddy. It works nicely for some, but sorta ruins others.
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iTunes 11 |OT| Let me expand on that
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criesofthepast
Member
So now when starting a movie/tv show it opens in a quicktime like window on top of iTunes which I then have to full screen myself instead of just opening inside iTunes? Weird.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
I have found the winner!!!
Ken Masters
Banned
Best software by apple in a long time and it seems to run a lot faster then the old version
Well, the lagging and crashing must be very seamless for me then.
My one big problem with the album art view is that it always splits up individual albums by artist. I hate it when one album shows up as 15 different albums just because it includes 15 different artists, and I've never found a way to make it group every song into just one directory.
I was just noticing how shitty it is how it screws with the colors.
They should have done something like how it looked with Cover Flow. I did a quick mockup, and you can compare how unclear their photo looks compared to the original:
This looks a lot more professional to me than that crappy blur they have going around all the borders.
If I sound bitter, it's only because I can't believe Apple put out something with such poor design. This was supposed to be a complete overhaul of iTunes, and I just see a nasty UI with 15 different types and sizes of fonts, missing features that have been here for years, and a billion things that are just badly hidden. For example, we're to assume this is for the common user, right? So why is the visualizer now not only hidden in a menu, but the menu itself is hidden? It's so counter-intuitive.
XANDER CAGE
Member
It completely ruins some of mine. It needs a lil tweakin'.
Yuck. The blur overpowers everything and the colors are super washed out.
It clearly works better with simple art without much going on around the borders. I'm sure they'll fix it in time. It works great with stuff with flat color borders:
Treefingers
Member
Set the Album Artist in the info pane
See above, I had the same problem. Solution:
Highlight every album "duplicate" in your album view, Get Info, enter artist for whoever the album is for. This consolidates the album properly.
Do I have to do this for all 1,000 of my albums? And what if there isn't one "overall" artist for an album?
Treefingers
Member
Yes
If there isn't one, put in Various Artists
How do you expect it to work otherwise? Should it just pick a random artist and file it under that?
It should file it under the goddamn album name.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Also am I the only one who used artist view, not album view? The lack of album-art folders for anything other than album view sucks.
You gotta do a "get info" on all those tracks from that album and then go to the options tab and make it a compilation. it will show up as one album in album view. that's one way. mainly for soundtracks.
Or, for some albums where there's one main artist but lots of collaborators in the artist fields, you can make them all show up as one album by using the "album artist" field. i got a few albums like that.
Isn't compilation for albums without overall artist?
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/music-audio-podcasting/166447-compilations-itunes-explained.html
Anyone know how to make multiple songs a part of a compilation at once? I'm trying to get the Drive Soundtrack together but it's separating the songs by Cliff Martinez and the ones by other people into two different albums and I can't select to make it a part of a compilation when I'm editing more than one song at once.
Edit: N/m I found it. For some reason when editing multiple items it goes under the options menu instead of info. Weird.
Edit: N/m I found it. For some reason when editing multiple items it goes under the options menu instead of info. Weird.
Treefingers
Member
What if you have 2 albums with the same name by different artists? Then it would put them both as one album.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Yeah this version sucks. I want my artist folder view back, not this stupid big scroll bar clearly designed for a tablet screen.
Song View, and then Ctrl-click on both artists.
An easier way, if you just added those songs to iTunes, sort by Date Added. They should all be there right at the top (or bottom).
So install 10.7 then and disable auto updates.
Reagan's BR
Banned
How did you let the iCloud button next to your songs?
Treefingers
Member
Sign into iTunes, all your purchased music that's not downloaded will have the icon. Same w/ iTunes Match
I love that I can just play the music I've purchased without downloading it (this is without iTunes Match).
criesofthepast
Member
Get some hardcore in here. I love this thing.
Reagan's BR
Banned
Ah, all of my iTunes matched songs are on my HDD, I just miss the old status thing that told me if it was matched or uploaded.
Also, I'm looking for the repeat button now. Also, there used to be a little window that had the album art in the bottom left of the side bare. During podcasts this would link you to things. Does anyone know how to get that back?
WickedCobra03
Member
Mac or Windows? Yeah, I think I will just Winamp on Windows. That basically does the same stuff as iTunes, yet uses 1/3 the resources.
Sir Abacus
Member
I use this:
http://itsalltech.com/2012/08/09/ho...in-notification-center-on-os-x-mountain-lion/
Works perfectly for me, no issues on the new version either.
Me too. I love the theater view that pulls in high res artist images off the web: -
iTunes 11 is a bit prettier in some respects, but it ain't giving me any desire to switch to it.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Like this?
That's exactly what I don't want.
Are you highlighting them all and and then changing the settings?
Sir Abacus
Member
Yup
Sir Abacus
Member
I'm not sure what you do want. When I think artist folders that's exactly what I think of from iTunes 10.
If you can be more specific I'll see if I can find it for you.
criesofthepast
Member
Select all songs in the album and get info. Add the same artist to "album artist" and it should lump them all into one album. Obviously this is dependant on all the songs in an album being by the same artist, which is usually the case for most albums.
Like this?
No, that's exactly what he doesn't want. He wants the old artist view which used cover art to display artists instead of the new artist scroll bar.
The Main Event
Member
Took a few minutes to get adjusted, but now I'm loving the new layout!
Well, what I would do is just highlight them all, Get Info, and just change the Artist field to the main composer. :\
XANDER CAGE
Member
lunarworks
Member
I like this iTunes 11, but I still use ye olde column view. Works the best for me.
Wendel Clark
Member
Compared to Winamp and other stuff, both programs playing music. Seems to go up when you add more artwork. 339 now uhhhh... I don't care about the album color thing either probably one of the most unimportant and uninteresting things I've ever seen people talk about. The color selection is bad for more than half of them too.
edit- I reopened it for the third time and the numbers are different. First two times were the same, now it's at 144MB. I don't know..
Dreams-Visions
Member
Yes, of course. They're just pictures. Drag & drop.