New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

i want what djp wants! album view with more info.

*smashes fist on desk*

Live "now playing" info for internet radio not available in the new Mini Player. Fuck!

Has anyone here ever ordered from Expercom? (Apple reseller based in Utah.) They can do custom configuring on an iMac and maxing out RAM to 32Gb with their memory would cost $200 as opposed to $600 with Apple memory. Good idea, bad idea?

I'm still convinced iTunes 11 is faster.

it is!

I am afear'd that 16GB may not be enough, but my 32GB iphone 3GS is currently half empty

Running iTunes 11 on my new maxed out MacMini. It's faster but the sheer size of my library combined with the slower connection (USB -- don't ask) means I really need to get a Thunderbolt drive here soon, because searching the library causes the spinning wheel to kick in each time for at least a minute.

slower connection to what?

the world of music

search is not search the mp3 files, it's searching the itunes database. the database is not big even for a big library, and is likely not the problem even if you've managed to set it up so the DB is on an external drive (not sure if this is even possible tbh)

is not searching

i hate how the new search works

Other than missing the song list sorted by artist / subsorted by album with cover art view that I used 90% of the time, I actually really like this update, more than I thought I would.

The "up next" thing is great and I actually prefer the new search to the old one.

is itunes dj/party shuffle gone?

you can definitely have the DB on an external drive - I do (can't remember why...). I do wish itunes was better with "large" libraries, though, it seems to be a real pig once you get past 1tb or so.

The database is on an external drive and is about 2.4 TB.

By DB, caek means the iTunes Library file. If this itself is 2.4TB I shudder to think how big the total size of the library might be.

(My Library file is on my internal drive but all the music files themselves are on the external drive)

This is also what I mean by DB.

Thanks folks -- if you mean the .itl file, it's showing as 85 MB. Therefore, what am I doing wrong/what should I be doing?

(And yes, internal drive.)

New iTunes is really good. No complaints other than column view for the side is gone.

I miss the little cover in the corner. I don't like it up in the bar.

Agree with that too.

New iTunes is really good. No complaints other than column view for the side is gone.

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/11/29/itunes-11-for-old-fogies-goin-back-to-the-way-it-was/

I did that in the first 30 seconds. :)

That's not what I meant tho. Column browser is on only on the top now. No option for the side

My iTunes library file is on an external, in addition to the songs, fwiw

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/11/29/itunes-11-for-old-fogies-goin-back-to-the-way-it-was/

Thanks for this!

i hate how the new search works

You can get the old one back by clicking on the little magnifying glass in the search box and unchecking "search entire library"

Really expected this to be shit, but it feels like a real improvement!

thanks for the search tip!

i really miss the various album cover things, but the little pop-in album art/playlist box is kinda neat, mostly how the background color is matched to the album picture itself

YAY MINIPLAYER -- the only thing I don't like about iTunes is not having an easily visible "what song is playing" in the corner of my screen and now I do!

bought a new 15-inch macbook pro today. retina looked pretty sweet but couldn't swing the $$$ for it.

Miss the volume slider from the old mini player.

JUST checked out new miniplayer. GREAT. Almost. I used to hate old miniplayer because I'd constantly minimize and maximize and move it around.

For a long time I had some extension that put the name of the current song in the menu bar and when you clicked on it you could pause it, skip etc. Really simple text only graphics, nothing fancy. When you have as much random stuff as I do it's great to hear something and be like "what is this?" and just look up and see. This new miniplayer is nice, but I'd still prefer txt of the song title rather than just a picture of the cover. Whoah, I see now when a new song starts the title pops up. It should stay there.

i take it all back. This search/find thing. ugh. Did a search and upon selection, it knocks me out of the normal old school view into the new one, then I click on the song and it adds it to my queue.

holy shit wtf now every time I click on a song instead of playing it it asks me if I want to "clear the song previously added to up next?"

ok I see, you just have to clear it out, then you're not in "up next" mode and you can play songs normally.

You can get the old one back by clicking on the little magnifying glass in the search box and unchecking "search entire library"

― sktsh, Saturday, December 1, 2012 2:25 PM (Yesterday)

thanks

it was driving me nuts too

Reminders is kind of shit.

However, I would like to report that I am thoroughly enjoying my first Mac, though I'm still a little confused. Like, why is Firefox a disk drive? How is that possible? (Not expecting an answer; just giving a for instance.)

in away, ~everything~ is a "disk drive"

haha okay so you've fallen victim to like the hardest thing to understand about macs. You don't want to be running Firefox from that fake disk drive. see this article

don't listen to s1ocki

OK, I did what I was supposed to, which I would never have done without your advice, so thanks, silby.

So strange. Why? I'm annoyed, but I'm also genuinely curious - why is it that way? Why not just install the bastard program (app?) where it's supposed to go?

(I promise not to clutter this thread with a ton of requests for support.)

Legacy reasons really. Even the guy who came up with it admits it's dumb and was supposed to be a temporary solution

Some applications will "install" themselves because they need to put stuff in your library folder, but usually you just drag the 'file' (which is usually a folder akin to a zip file) over to applications. Much prefer this system to be honest, because you can usually run a program temporarily to try it out.

Ok I'm scared to update.

I use playlists and (nesting playlist folders) in the sidebar almost exclusively. Even for albums, I create a new playlist. (This is INSANE, I know, but when listening to only .0003% or whatever of your library in the course of a given week, it seems the best way of keeping what I'm into at the moment

Anyway the one thing that has made me crazy for years is why I can't simply drag-and-drop to rearrange playlists and playlist folders according to my preference. Instead they lock into alphabetical order, so when titling them I have to put some stupid character Ω ≈ †† in front of it....

Can someone explain if they have finally fixed this, or if the sidebar has been obsoleted for the better?