LegendOfGood
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Winner.
Edit: Any way to make the background black when displaying all my albums?
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iTunes 11 |OT| Let me expand on that
- Thread starter Majine
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Winner.
Edit: Any way to make the background black when displaying all my albums?
I have only one type of rating: 5 stars. And I have one song out of 21K that I gave one star, it's probably the only song I've ever actually hated. lol.
For me, music is subjective depending on my mood. Rating something 3 stars won't mean anything if two months down the line I'll wonder why I didn't rate it 4, and change it. I don't want to get into that whole business. Also, I generally listen to a new album around 10 times or so, and during that time there will undoubtedly be some songs that will go above that 10. That's what I'll then usually listen to whenever I get the urge to listen to a specific artist.
Works for me, doesn't have to be anyone else's system.
I like playcount in theory. However, I listen to CDs too much for it to really be accurate. When I do listen on my iPod, I usually skip to the next song during the fadeout. I rarely listen to music on my computer. It would be nice if my old stereo had some sort of input. I could upgrade, but I've grown attached to the thing.
OneEightZero
aka ThreeOneFour
I have only one type of rating: 5 stars. And I have one song out of 21K that I gave one star, it's probably the only song I've ever actually hated. lol.
For me, music is subjective depending on my mood. Rating something 3 stars won't mean anything if two months down the line I'll wonder why I didn't rate it 4, and change it. I don't want to get into that whole business. Also, I generally listen to a new album around 10 times or so, and during that time there will undoubtedly be some songs that will go above that 10. That's what I'll then usually listen to whenever I get the urge to listen to a specific artist.
Works for me, doesn't have to be anyone else's system.
But if it's subjective, why do you still use the counts? It's an arbitrary set of numbers that don't mean anything until you sort them. And even then, while perhaps they are a sort of representation of what you listen to the most, they don't accurately represent the music you like overall.
Hell, keep it simple. Rate songs you want to listen to at a 5 and songs you tire of at a 1. Even that is a better sampling than what you're doing now.
But yeah. I guess if that works for you, stick with it. ^_^
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Looks good, but I'm going to hold off upgrading for a bit. Lack of Cover Flow is kind of a deal breaker for me.
lunarworks
Member
Ah, they put a feedback link in the iTunes menu. Just sent some feedback. While I was at it, I sent some complaints about my iPhone and OS X too.
Feedback, people. Use it.
Feedback, people. Use it.
krypt0nian
Banned
For me the actually useful bells and whistles here more than make up for the strictly visual Cover Flow. But different strokes I guess.
Maybe it's doing some background indexing. Around here it has gone down from 600MB to 180MB.
ThanksVision
Member
Only gripe is that I haven't found a way to show extra song details in expanded view. Things like bitrate and playcount should be there!
How can the counts not represent the music I like? If the songs I like most are the ones that eventually rack up the counts!
Rating a song a 1 is a senseless endeavor for me. I don't dislike music I own, and I don't tire of it. Besides, I have 56 days' worth of music. Say I rate 200 songs 1 star if I tire of them. And I decide to do the rest of my library. That means it will take me about 2 years to be able to listen to everything else and rate it, if I don't listen to anything twice, and with my average number of daily plays. By the end of that, those 1 stars won't mean squat.
It can work, but just not in my case.
krypt0nian
Banned
Crazy person on FB said "Thinks iTunes 11 is Apple's version of Windows 8."
He was in short order ridiculed by an ever-growing percentage of his friends. I guess an attention seeking post gets attention.
He was in short order ridiculed by an ever-growing percentage of his friends. I guess an attention seeking post gets attention.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
I'm not sure what you're talking about. The miniplayer is smaller than it used to be.
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Thanks - it's odd because that icon wasn't there for quite some time. Then I walk away from the computer and now it's there. Would have recognized it had it been there from the beginning.
Treefingers
Member
2 hours now.. why is Apple so bad at this.
outunderthestars
Banned
I was wondering about that as well. I also wish that they would create a "on tour" link on the local artist/album screen instead of making you load the entire store to find out. I'd much rather have that information than some random photos...
Other than that I love the new version. it runs great on my system, and is much more pleasant to use...
Treefingers
Member
Right Click > Get Info, paste the album art in there
Reagan's BR
Banned
Is there any way to get the album art to show up in the songs tab?
Same here. Hope this gets changed or that artwork returns to the Songs view.
2 hours now.. why is Apple so bad at this.
Match is such an unruly unreliable hunk of crap with this sort of stuff. I really love using the service after the fact, but putting music on it has been a complete crapshoot. I've had so many times where I had to wait a day to put a new album on Match, because it just refused to finish.
Seems to me, much of the cleaning up meant getting rid of cluttering options. Options that I'm sure a lot of people probably used.
As with all updates, since apple often like to make big changes sometimes, you'll get people who hate it and people who like it. I'm generally of the type to just try and find a way to adapt or just enjoy it. Works out much happier
I liked the colourless icons, but it's not a big deal to me really. I like the sidebar too, but I will give it a go without for a while to see if I like it.
As with all updates, since apple often like to make big changes sometimes, you'll get people who hate it and people who like it. I'm generally of the type to just try and find a way to adapt or just enjoy it. Works out much happier
I liked the colourless icons, but it's not a big deal to me really. I like the sidebar too, but I will give it a go without for a while to see if I like it.
No, what I really mean is there no way to actually steal their artwork. Like actually grab the jpeg. You used to be able to copy the artwork in the corner, paste right on top of it to actually embed the artwork into the mp3.
It's right in the Get Info Artwork tab, you can copy the artwork that shows up in there by right-clicking it. (Make sure you get the info for just ONE song, not the whole album.)
You also have this, though they're kind of compressed: http://www.covermytunes.com/
OOOOOOOO. I always get info for the entire album. Without the artwork pane that is a little bit of a hassle, but it isn't too bad. Thanks.
It looks nice but I have some problems with it:
- For some reason, the apps I updated from my iPhone won't transfer to the library, if I need to download them again on the computer, which brings me to the next point :
- Every time a download finished, iTunes feels the needs to jump at the front of the desktop, wtf.
The second isn't that important, but the first is strange and shouldn't be happening. I hope it'll go back to how it used to be.
- For some reason, the apps I updated from my iPhone won't transfer to the library, if I need to download them again on the computer, which brings me to the next point :
- Every time a download finished, iTunes feels the needs to jump at the front of the desktop, wtf.
The second isn't that important, but the first is strange and shouldn't be happening. I hope it'll go back to how it used to be.
YoYo Switch
Banned
i absolutely love what it does with certain albums
this one's real pretty
this one's real pretty
Baconsammy
Banned
It's not bad, not great. The downloading popup window is fucked. Every time a download finishes it pushes focus back to the iTunes window. That's just dumb, and kills any chance you have of arranging/canceling downloads on the fly.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I don't see anything wrong with that "Bad" or "Ugly" choices. What's wrong with them?
CountBlack
Member
Two questions.
1. How do you guys get to see the albums like that? Where it goes with the colors from the artwork.
Nvm its a single click
2. I usually just stay on a recently played playlist, I always had it as an Artist List with it showing the artwork also. I can do it with this update, but the artworks are so big not that many names are on the screen. Can I make the artwork smaller?
3. When on the albums tab, is it possible to make it a list. Instead of being all tiles?
1. How do you guys get to see the albums like that? Where it goes with the colors from the artwork.
Nvm its a single click
2. I usually just stay on a recently played playlist, I always had it as an Artist List with it showing the artwork also. I can do it with this update, but the artworks are so big not that many names are on the screen. Can I make the artwork smaller?
3. When on the albums tab, is it possible to make it a list. Instead of being all tiles?
brianjones
Member
CountBlack
Member
I want to show some off but have no idea how to get it as an image on here lol
If you have the album though enzo its Ab-Soul's Longterm: Mentality
I apologize if this has been asked but is there a way to sort just by album and not album by artist. I've got a group of tracks all with the same album name but different artists but there is no button I can find that will group them together (besides making a playlist). The album isnt showing up in compilations.
edit: found it. "sort album" column allows it to happen the old way
edit: found it. "sort album" column allows it to happen the old way
Yes, that's been there for ages.
The black text is a bit hard on the eyes when it's on a bright background like that.
I ended up changing DSotM and WYWH to the original covers, as Hipgnosis have scans on their website. Much better now.