Oh. Why? New version is so much better, but to each their own.
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iTunes 11 |OT| Let me expand on that
- Thread starter Majine
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Oh. Why? New version is so much better, but to each their own.
No, it's just the far right hand side of the program where it says iTunes store and where the scroll bar should be is cut off.
Am I the only one that ever saved a genius playlist????
Mine is at 790MB. Don't think they did much for the memory issue.
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.
I don't personally mind since I have the memory, but it may affect other people.
Oh gotcha that worked. I dunno why album artist would prevent it from being put together.
Wendel Clark
Member
I edited my last post. It's less now for me. Still double what Winamp is but yeah. I have the memory too, but probably not suitable when playing some games. And it's less responsive. Overall, not really impressed. Will still use it for podcasts and my phone (unless I switch it), but not anytime else I think.
XANDER CAGE
Member
New version is way too big and clearly designed with tablets in mind. So much wasted space.
krypt0nian
Banned
New version is amazing. I'm on this fucker!
Sir Abacus
Member
In theory, yes.
And it looks like Artist grid view is gone.
I can see how that would be annoying. I usually used column view but this is breaking me away from it. Up Next is the only thing I missed being able to do switching from Winamp to iTunes all those years ago when I first went with an OS X machine.
criesofthepast
Member
Yup and if you have a mixed artist album for example then you could add the individual artist of each song to the "artist" tag and then select all and change the "album artist" to something like "various artists" or whatever you like and that would get them all lumped together. Works as it should.
This should work for that poster who was having trouble with the Drive soundtrack which has cliff martinez and a bunch of other artists as well.
What? I've been manually adding artwork since 2005 or whenever they introduced it to the iPod
Honey Bunny
Member
I'm panicking because I can't get my old layout back. Fuck.
View > Show Side Bar
View > Show Status Bar
Deep breath > exhale
Unless you mean something else.
Jayayess1190
Member
I like it, but it already crashed on me once (Windows 8 RC).
criesofthepast
Member
Any thoughts on the mini player? I was most excited about that feature but trying it out I don't see me using it all that much.
I also have iTunes in full screen all the time and from what I can tell you can't even launch the mini player from full screen.
I also have iTunes in full screen all the time and from what I can tell you can't even launch the mini player from full screen.
Honey Bunny
Member
Hah, yeh I just did those first two. But it's still not cool.
I want my little album artwork back in the bottom left and my column browser to be vertical rather than horizontal. And when I 'go to' an album from a single song it brings up that fancy view everyone's posting pictures of, rather than a simple track list like it used to. I think I'm gonna go back. And I'm just not digging the new aesthetic, kinda textured like the new (now old) youtube background was.
C-can I go back?
Hope you backed up your iTunes libraries before updating. Otherwise, it's gonna tell you the library is not compatible with the old version. You'll lose playcounts, playlists, etc.
OH MY GODDDDDDDDDD YESSSSS I CAN NOW FREE UP A SHITTON OF HD SPACEEEE
Technosteve
Banned
just trying it out, i like it reminds me of the zune software with it's chromeless ui.
Itunes is now taking up half a gig of memory, improvement?
Itunes is now taking up half a gig of memory, improvement?
Outlaw Torn
Member
Is there a way to add a folder to the library? Right now i only see the option for add a file.
I think it's a missed opportunity. Having search is cool, but say I don't remember a song title, but I know the artist... I type their name, their album shows up, and then what? I have to go into iTunes to see all the songs. I should be able to click on an album there to browse its contents.
Anyway, I can pause and skip tracks from the taskbar or the keyboard... I may try using it, but the real estate still bugs me.
Dreams-Visions
Member
show me the receipts!
107.02GB of music, every album with album art, Windows 7, 337MB of memory used. what do you have that would push it to 500MB?
Sir Abacus
Member
You mean like this?
I don't think you can. It automatically comes up if there's multiple "artists" (i.e. Band feat. Guest Singer) on an album.
Drag and drop the folder into iTunes.
You mean like this?
I don't think you can. It automatically comes up if there's multiple "artists" (i.e. Band feat. Guest Singer) on an album.
Ah okay.
Dreams-Visions
Member
Only for Macs.
Does it only automatically go to the current song in songs/list view or am I missing something? What I mean is:
M1A1 from Laika Come Home just played, but when it switches to "Under My Thumb" (the next one in the queue) the display below doesn't auto-change to the corresponding song. It seems like only in list view it's behaving like it should.
I want to stay in album art mode but it's gonna suck if it's going to stay frozen in a previous album when it's already playing a song from another one in the shuffle unless I manually press cmd+L.
M1A1 from Laika Come Home just played, but when it switches to "Under My Thumb" (the next one in the queue) the display below doesn't auto-change to the corresponding song. It seems like only in list view it's behaving like it should.
I want to stay in album art mode but it's gonna suck if it's going to stay frozen in a previous album when it's already playing a song from another one in the shuffle unless I manually press cmd+L.
Wendel Clark
Member
To anyone having memory issues. Restarting iTunes should fix it. It seems to be different every time, and shoots up if you do certain things (clicking "Done" on a playlist did it for me) but it's much better now.
In the end, it's a million times better than the last one. SO much smoother and responsive, especially the store.
In the end, it's a million times better than the last one. SO much smoother and responsive, especially the store.
Sir Abacus
Member
With this workflow I have no reason to open the main iTunes window ever again. This is absolutely fantastic.
Stabby McSter
Member
Nooooo where'd my iTunes DJ go? 
Technosteve
Banned
it's down to 422 megs of ram now, syncing both iphones and ipad at the same time i think did it. itunes is also installed on my SSD for maximum responsiveness
Dreams-Visions
Member
oh okay. I was worried for a moment. Still 422 is high. idk.
Apparently searching through a home shared library is busted. That's a bit silly.
Also any album that has large text almost filling the background often looks terrible in the mini view since itunes decides to use the colour of the text rather than the actually background colour.
Also any album that has large text almost filling the background often looks terrible in the mini view since itunes decides to use the colour of the text rather than the actually background colour.