iTunes ?

hmm re Growl - you mean you have the notifications set to always remain on screen?

i thought that you were meant to be able to redownload stuff you'd already purchased from itunes without being charged again?

it lets me do it with some songs but not others :(

Is it possible you bought the others under a different Apple ID?

Mastered for iTunes

haven't heard any of it yet, kinda interested

well iTunes 11 is out and it's pretty much the slowest application of all time

I have 906GB in my iTunes library and I never get a pinwheel. Switching views is fast, editing metadata is painless. The never version is working great for me. How much RAM do you have?

I've heard conflicting reports, but if slowness is a ram issue I'm not that worried. I'll upgrade sooner or later.

6 GB ram, 300 GB library. I don't get the pinwheel, just click any view and it takes a good 5-6 seconds to switch over.

i don't have nearly that big a library, but it feels like the new one is a bit faster than 10, tbh

It's running considerably faster for me. Used to be super buggy but I haven't had any issues. I am a little peeved at how some view options were unnecessarily cut but oh well.

Interesting. I've just clicked around and everything loads fine except for Artists. I do pinwheel there every time I select it but Songs, Playlists, Albums etc all load quickly. I use Song view almost exclusively though.

345GB Library and cranks right along. Big performance improvement over v10

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/itunes_11_it_s_time_for_apple_s_horrible_bloated_program_to_die.html

Maybe I need to do a reboot or restart the program. For me switching views seems to lock things up briefly. The search bar is also very slow, I type in "R" and it brings up a zillion things which seems to really drain CPU power. v10 was pretty slow for me too but not to this level.

that said looking around in it this morning there do appear to be some neat new features and they seemed to have gotten rid of some of the real useless stuff (like iTunes DJ, what the hell was that)

They've made it more clunky to drag music from Windows explorer to ipod = me even more annoyed Amazon lost my order for an SD card so I never have to use this piece of shit application again

I actually used iTunes DJ! Though to be honest, I'm not sure how it was better than just doing a random shuffle on your Song list.. but it WAS better... somehow.

I played around with that "give me 5 recently played songs and 20 others" or whatever and it never seemed to work at all. It really did just seem like random shuffle though maybe it interacted with something I didn't have ?

What view options did they cut?

So which is it- is 11 faster or slower than 10? That's the deciding factor for me. 10 is painfully slow on my Mac mini.

from a quick glance between this and the other apple thread, i think it's faster for most

iTunes dj was great

yeah I guess I'm the only one saying it's slower

I never update to a new itunes until it's been out at least half a year.

They've made it more clunky to drag music from Windows explorer to ipod

Won't be downloading that then. Am I just getting old, or is software in a decline-of-the-Roman-empire phase where there's a 50% chance that any one app update will be worse than what came before? Although I listen to most of my music on Winamp, so it's probably the first one.

I don't think anything recent has been as bad as the update that introduced gapless playback and havoc it wreaked upon hapless ipods (updating gapless playback information...updating gapless playback information...updating gapless playback information...updating gapless playback information...updating gapless playback information...updating gapless playback information...)

I downloaded it. Definitely seems faster for me. No major downsides, although I'm not so into the look of it.

By the way, anyone out there using BitPerfect or other higher-audio-quality players/plugins/whatever? I've tested a bunch out and am loving BitPerfect. Cheapest of the bunch, easy, great sound.

Uh why aren't all the artists showing up in my artist list on my iPhone any more? I hate iTunes so much

p amazed at how ugly it is for an apple product actually, looks like a homebrew shonky "itunes" skin you'd get for mediamonkey or whatever

faster for me although i dont really ever use it so

also no artwork in the bottom corner SUXXX, why are people gonna bother making it for singles at all now

I hate it. I used to type in the artist and all the songs would appear quickly. Now all the separate albums show up with the artwork, none of which is important to me. Editing and browsing takes forever.

You can change your view back to the way it was. Not in front of it now but it's possible with menu selections.

I've changed most of it back, but I haven't yet figured out how to get that big album artwork option again instead of the teeny, tiny icon in the status window.

189.73 gigs, 2GB RAM, slow as hell but less horrible than iTunes 10 was. I already used a grid view instead of a list (even though that was a major factor in the slowdown), so I'm not too torn up about it being the default now, but I really hate how quickly typing an artist name to skip to them will auto-open the first result.

Very clunky interface now. Annoying to use. And it sounds like they've given the eq a weird boost around in the lower midrange/upper bass. More "body." Sounds fuller, but also sometimes more sluggish, than before.

How do I get the cover flow back?

yeah right now the program itself isn't so bad but the search is still kinda dumb...say I wanted to hear anything Scott Walker/Walker Brothers and I type in "walker", I don't get the list of anything, just a bunch of suggestions that take it into views I don't want. also I type in "w" and everything just freezes. but ymmv

Also making the miniplayer only accessible from a dropdown menu where it then gives you 2 players is dumb.

no volume control on miniplayer either. alot of weird choices.

yeah right now the program itself isn't so bad but the search is still kinda dumb...say I wanted to hear anything Scott Walker/Walker Brothers and I type in "walker", I don't get the list of anything, just a bunch of suggestions that take it into views I don't want. also I type in "w" and everything just freezes. but ymmv

OTM. This is my main gripe. And yes, it's a lot slower for me.

yeah right now the program itself isn't so bad but the search is still kinda dumb...say I wanted to hear anything Scott Walker/Walker Brothers and I type in "walker", I don't get the list of anything, just a bunch of suggestions that take it into views I don't want.

That SUCKS.

well I can deal with that but when you type in "walker" you get to look at the artists/songs/albums for "w", wait five seconds, then "wa", wait five seconds then "wal"...that's the part that's annoying

switch the search back to the old way by changing the parameter from "Search entire library" to "all". works just fine.

That's it! Thank you, thank you, EZ.

That did it. Thanks!!

What is the consensus in tagging multi-disc albums these days? It used be preferred to note it in the album name (i.e. The Beatles (disc one)) but has that switched to using the ID3 tags instead?

there was consensus?

If it's a 2cd album like The Beatles or 666 I never name the discs separately. ID3 indeed.

yeah just use the Disc # fields

What about boxed sets?

If a box set is particularly well-sequenced (like the 2CD Ryko Soft Boys comp or the Richard Thompson Watching The Dark) where each disc is a nice listen, then I do file them as separate discs.