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[Dreams-Visions]

Explain that please.

I personally don't have time for that right now but you can google it and read up.

While you're at it, read up on Fidelia, Audirvana, and some of the others that provide far superior audio processing in either OSX or Windows. Of course, none of this matters if you're not using/buying quality (mid-fi) speakers/headphones, amps and dacs. If you're using low-fi cans or speakers, it'll all sound the same anyway. More or less.

Find out more about the alternatives and what they do better sonically at places like head-fi.org.

 

[Ken Masters]

Love everything about iTunes right now, worth the wait

 

[BGBW]

Oh come on, that color is only a hint on the cover!

Trying to work out how it chooses the colour. Had one album where the whole background is solid red. iTunes chose white.

No iTunes DJ still annoys me.

 

[Kammie]

I have to say that I love the new iTunes, only thing I don't like is that there seems to be no song list.

Also, any way to make the miniplayer stay on top always?

There's a script that I use called Always On Top where you hit Ctrl+Space and it'll make whatever window you want stay on top.

http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/keep-window-always-on-top/5213/

The mini player is stupid if it doesn't have that feature by default. I think it should have an option to hide on the side or bottom of the screen, and come up when you hover around those pixels. It's too large for it to be comfortable anywhere, even the task bar.

 

[Quick]

iTunes was the only place I used it... for looks. I hate that shit in the Finder. I hate that shit on my iPhone. I never liked it when it was third-party. The only place I would enable it was iTunes for looks. But even then I could do without it. Now, get rid of it completely everywhere, Apple, and I'll be a happy happy man. Especially on iOS where it keeps coming up when I turn my phone sideways accidentally. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu--

I keep it off for everything, especially iTunes.

 

[Majine]

Trying to work out how it chooses the colour. Had one album where the whole background is solid red. iTunes chose white.

I'm guessing it's the most outward row of pixels.

 

[CRS]

I know there was an option in the previous iTunes versions that had the keep mini-player on top option.

Check somewhere in the view options

 

[victreeb3l]

whoah does expanded view on albums automatically pick colors from the album cover? that is awesome.

 

[nan0]

Also, any way to make the miniplayer stay on top always?

Preferences -> Advanced

 

[U2NUMB]

So I assume you have to be on Lion to get this update?

 

[Fleet_of_Foot]

One of the most thoughtful things I see is that when you're browsing albums and click one, and it pulls down the album details, it uses one of the colors from the album cover as a background color. Pretty nice.

 

[Marco1]

My update just came through in the UK.

 

[Uno Venova]

So you can't show the album art in the bottom left anymore?

 

[Tedesco!]

It's a shame you still can't edit movie information. iTunes can't organize movies for shit.

 

[Bgamer90]

whoah does expanded view on albums automatically pick colors from the album cover? that is awesome.

Yeah it's a really nice touch.

 

[Kareha]

I know there was an option in the previous iTunes versions that had the keep mini-player on top option.

Check somewhere in the view options

Preferences > Advanced> Keep Mini Player on top of all other windows

 

[RDreamer]

Loving the look of this. The expanded view thing is awesome. Now I've got to find a ton of artwork! Luckily I just found a good program for that.

 

[Sobriquet]

OoOooOo, new icon! Opening it up now.

 

[CRS]

Preferences > Advanced> Keep Mini Player on top of all other windows

There it is.

 

[BGBW]

So I assume you have to be on Lion to get this update?

I'm on Snow Leopard and had no problems getting it.

Loving the look of this. The expanded view thing is awesome. Now I've got to find a ton of artwork! Luckily I just found a good program for that.

While it is slower you're better off doing album art manually. Lots of auto fetch programs never find the best quality art.

 

[Enco]

Preferences > Advanced> Keep Mini Player on top of all other windows

This is pretty sweet.

Makes it actually useful.

 

[Majine]

whoah does expanded view on albums automatically pick colors from the album cover? that is awesome.

It's the best part of the new iTunes I think. That example I gave on last page was a wierd one, but 99% of the cases the backgrounds do the covers justice.

 

[ckohler]

So I assume you have to be on Lion to get this update?

Can you not upgrade to Mountain Lion? Unless your computer is too old, it's a no brainer upgrade at only $20.

 

[caramac]

The sound quality is still so flat and lifeless, has no depth.. Sonora is way ahead for playback sound quality.

 

[mollipen]

On the positive side, the ability to queue songs is awesome... love it.

Edit Although, it's nice you can now queue songs for "Up Next". A feature I've actually missed since the old days of WinAmp.

You people are driving me as crazy as this crappy new iTunes is, because this feature has been in iTunes for years—they've just changed how it's presented.

 

[fireside]

So I assume you have to be on Lion to get this update?

Doesn’t look like it:

Macintosh System Requirements
Mac computer with an Intel Core processor
OS X version 10.6.8 or later
400MB of available disk space
Broadband Internet connection to use the iTunes Store
​

 

[Kammie]

I see they changed the Mini Player keyboard shortcut just for the hell of it.

It's still the same. It's just that now you have the option to have it open along with the main iTunes window, or by itself like before. So two shortcuts.

 

[Uno Venova]

whoah does expanded view on albums automatically pick colors from the album cover? that is awesome.

it looks really nice for this cover.

 

[Macho Madness]

The interface is very much like the iPad one. I approve.

 

[Kammie]

You people are driving me as crazy as this crappy new iTunes is, because this feature has been in iTunes for years—they've just changed how it's presented.

If you're talking about iTunes DJ, I don't want to use that crap!

Anyway, it's nicely presented, and you can drag and reorder stuff on the list. Thumbs up from me.

 

[Quick]

A music queue...oh man, oh god, oh man.

Maybe it's a placebo effect, but it feels more responsive on Windows.

 

[Majine]

:')

 

[victreeb3l]

it looks really nice for this cover.

haha krit was the first album when i noticed this! live from the underground looks perfect.

 

[iNvid02]

very slick, will take a few days to get use to but its an improvement

only thing i dont like is the lack of artwork on song view, and your library stats gone from the bottom

the pop up blending colours with each album art - beautiful touch

 

[Killthee]

very slick, will take a few days to get use to but its an improvement

only thing i dont like is the lack of artwork on song view, and your library stats gone from the bottom

You can enable the status bar. View -> Show Status Bar

 

[RDreamer]

While it is slower you're better off doing album art manually. Lots of auto fetch programs never find the best quality art.

Not using an auto fetch program. I'm using album artwork assistant. You select an album in itunes, then go to it and hit get album, and it automatically searches google for the name of the album. Then you right click on whatever you want to use and it immediately uses it. It's still the same as manually finding album artwork, just a lot better than having to right click and get info and then typing in the name and dragging the artwork.

 

[XANDER CAGE]

How is expanded view going to deal with The Black Album or anything of that ilk?

 

[CRS]

it looks really nice for this cover.

Woah. It also changes the text and buttons?! Awesome!

Also, Big K.R.I.T.

<3

 

[iNvid02]

You can enable the status bar. View -> Show Status Bar

i cant see view option anywhere, on pc

nvm i got it, thanks!

 

[CrunchinJelly]

it looks really nice for this cover.

It's nice how it changes the text colours, as well. Looks really good.

 

[Macho Madness]

Ignore the album I used, but this is pretty neat.

 

[Majine]

Ignore the album I used, but this is pretty neat.

I just want to lick that.

 

[Uno Venova]

Ignore the album I used, but this is pretty neat.

goddamn.

will rap for food by cunninlynguists looks great too.

 

[Kareha]

New version of iOS Remote has added the Up Next feature, it's so damn awesome.

 

[Killthee]

i cant see view option anywhere, on pc

The Status Bar shortcut in OSX is &#8984;+/, try using Ctrl+/

 

[BGBW]

While the expanded view is pretty nice, the mix of soft edges and a reflected edge looks a bit odd.

Also they've seem to have removed the Stop button. So switching from a iTunes Store preview back to your library requires you to skip forward to stop playback.

 

[Jomjom]

Does this one finally fix the problem with foreign language characters? With 10 it's a crap shoot whether my Japanese and Chinese song titles show up as square boxes or the actual characters.

iOS on the iPhone or the iPad never has any problems with showing foreign language characters, but for some reason iTunes on Windows has always had this problem.

 

[Honey Bunny]

So you can't show the album art in the bottom left anymore?

Aww that's not good

 

[Quick]

I ran into two issues on the iTunes Store: clearing preview history and movies re-downloading, even though it already did previously.

I previewed a couple of songs, and I pressed "clear" on the preview history menu, and nothing happened. I redeemed my Lord of the Rings Extended Edition digital copies, and it was already finished downloading, yet it's still telling me there's 3 still on queue to download.

 

[The Real Abed]

Ignore the album I used, but this is pretty neat.

Oh my. I can't wait to see what it does for my music.