taylo234 Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Anyone out there who uses iTunes upgrade to 11? What do you think? Personally, the fact they got rid of the artist grid view makes me hate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelmanfredi Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I think the album view is a lot cleaner looking. As a whole, it's going to take some getting used to for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylo234 Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 Yeah especially the song's in an album view being like: 1 5 2 6 3 7 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyacrash Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I don't hate it...surprisingly it kinda reminds me of the old Zune software Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 does it randomly delete albums from your library? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzersonKillwell Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 does it randomly delete albums from your library? Now that would make me hate it. I haven't downloaded it yet, I typically wait for a month or two as they work through the kinks. Or in the case of iOS 6, maybe never. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 whatever verision of iTunes that is currently out did this to my library when I installed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipsterasfolk Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Just installed it, liking the whole spotify rip off GUI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylo234 Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 Yeah it's like a mixture of Spotify and Windows Media Player (yikes). Also if anyone plans on upgrading, make sure you back up your library folder/files because when you try to downgrade, it says your iTunes files require a new version of iTunes and won't open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
circuit bored records Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 So I'm looking at screenshots and it looks different. Is there only album view now and no way to switch to the column browser? the one that looks like this: In iTunes past there's always been a way to turn it on under the "view options" by enabling the "column browser," but If they got rid of it I don't believe I will upgrade anytime soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylo234 Posted November 30, 2012 Author Share Posted November 30, 2012 I'm not sure how but I found this picture. Is this what you mean? http://cdn0.mos.techradar.futurecdn.net///classifications/computing/software/graphics-and-media/images/0-intro-580-75.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daegor Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 So I'm looking at screenshots and it looks different. Is there only album view now and no way to switch to the column browser? the one that looks like this: In iTunes past there's always been a way to turn it on under the "view options" by enabling the "column browser," but If they got rid of it I don't believe I will upgrade anytime soon It's still available, up in the top left there is that little white/gray square with a down arrow beside it? hit that, hit "Show Menu Bar", then when you're in Music > Songs view goto the View menu and turn on the column browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidamnesiac Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 You can still access the column browser by clicking "songs." Only thing I haven't figured out is how to get it to show album art in that view like it does in iTunes 10. Personally I kind of like the new album grid view. Very clean and quick to load as opposed to the previous grid view. My main gripe is that when tagging albums with artwork, there's no way to prevent iTunes from converting my .jpg artwork to .png during the embed process anymore. The old workaround was to drag the .jpg in to the little artwork window in the column browser view. But since the artwork window isn't present that I can find in iTunes 11, I'm out of luck. Another thing that peeves me a little is that they've removed the ability to tag albums as "gapless." A little research told me that this tag was only useful to the crossfade functionality, which I don't use. But now I have my entire library tagged with a "gapless" tag that iTunes will not allow me to unset. I rolled back to 10.7 to unset the tag, but am not happy that I had to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylo234 Posted December 1, 2012 Author Share Posted December 1, 2012 My main gripe is that when tagging albums with artwork, there's no way to prevent iTunes from converting my .jpg artwork to .png during the embed process anymore. The old workaround was to drag the .jpg in to the little artwork window in the column browser view. But since the artwork window isn't present that I can find in iTunes 11, I'm out of luck. I was so mad they got rid of that! That's how I added my artwork. Now I have to right click all the songs in an album, go to get info, and copy & paste it to the little artwork window in the bottom right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidamnesiac Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Another complaint: date sorting is screwed up on albums that have reissue bonus tracks, for example Nirvana's Bleach. The main album is dated 1989, but the bonus tracks 2009. iTunes used to sort this correctly, so that the album showed up chronologically. Now it's sorting it by the later 2009 tracks for some reason. Same for all albums of this nature. Angerrrrrrrr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emo Revival Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 To view the album art again you have to click view side menu and then that whole thing is back. As for sorting by year if you click get info you can change the sorting and I believe year is one of the options in there. daegor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidamnesiac Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 What you've described brings the side bar back but it doesn't bring back the selected/now playing album art box for me on OS X. I was talking ABOUT the sort-by-year function. It now sorts albums by the newest year in an album instead of the oldest like it used to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stopthisnoise Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 does it randomly delete albums from your library? do you have that itunes cloud subscription? I used to, and it deleted music from mine. I got rid of it and got rid of the problem. luckily i back up my music. Itunes has yet ot address this issue. I thought I was the only one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emo Revival Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Weird cause when I did it on OSX the album art came back, maybe theres an area in view you need to check to get it back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hipsterasfolk Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 You guys obvi totes don't have the Ke$ha fix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almightyseancore Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 installing now. hope i don't hate it. edit: so far it aint bad, but i can't seem to figure out how to make that big scrolly view like when i turn my iphone sideways. i've always preferred my itunes like that, but if it's gone now no biggy. i like how everything fills to the color of the album art when you open up an album. thats neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylo234 Posted December 1, 2012 Author Share Posted December 1, 2012 You guys obvi totes don't have the Ke$ha fix HEY YOU JUST MADE THE ITUNES BOX SHORTER IN WIDTH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 just got it tonight. i love it. 98% of this love is in regards to the grid view.. just because the album art-based color schemes made my heart melt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 OH MY GOD YOU CAN CONVENIENTLY QUEUE SONGS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 You guys obvi totes don't have the Ke$ha fix [url= ][media] [/url[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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