iTunes ?

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.

I always break things out by disc number in the ID3 tags regardless

I'm with DJP on this one.

Not being able to open playlists in separate windows is a pain.

Has anyone tried iTunes Match? I'm guessing it's to be avoided judging from most online commentary, just wondering if it's improved at all. Seems pretty cheap for what you get.

it's gotten a lot better since launch though there's still an itunes store error every once in a while

my only gripe with it is when you enable itunes match for your iphone, it's all or nothing: you can't manually drag songs to your iphone, you'll have to download them from itunes match

agree about playlists in separate windows. used that a bunch and now it's gone.

So here's a stupid question. I usually don't sync my iPod, and just drag and drop albums to it directly. I can't find any way to do this in iTunes 11- am I overlooking something really obvious?

There is a ritual that will re-enable the left sidebar. First u must purify yourself.

x-post: drag your selection to the right, an extra column will miraculously appear with your iPod at the top

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?
I'm a real re-tagging geek. Not only do I get rid of all multi-disc tags, if it's a compilation I change it to the original album title and artwork, if there was one. I also change the year to the original release date if I can find it (this part's the most time-consuming). In addition, I delete all genre tags because they're pretty useless anyway.

so wait what, search doesnt work for external devices anymore? i can only search my library and not the connected ipod? what possible assclown reasoning can there be for removing that ffs?

No fix for the streaming-content problem in the Miniplayer in 11.0.1 -- still hoping.

Fuck it. Reverted back to 10.7.

A clunky interface, yes, but seeing songs I downloaded in 2003 in the iCloud or whatever is like meeting old friends who borrowed money and never paid me back even after saying hi at the bar.

itunes is like a Microsoft product. Or if yahoo! made a music player.

I was completely happy with it until I suddenly wasn't. First time I've ever uninstalled a piece of software and backed up a full version.

I dunno, works fine for me.

Everything's fine about it except for the miniplayer/streaming thing, but that's a dealbreaker, so there you go. If/when they fix that in 11, I'll reinstall it.

Fair nuff!

Weird, the ratings for 109 songs in my library got wiped out. I hate computers.

Oh, ratings are so fun and they take so much time!!

I'm a control freak about those playlists. When I'm going for a car ride, I need my four and five star tracks. I like taking people for a ride and they go, "this is good driving music" I don't think people riding in my car should be forced to listen to any old crap.

It's embarrassing and hilarious at the same time when you just leave the thing on in a carload of people and some really dated shit from the nineties comes BLARING at you!

Those "music match" programs mostly still suck. I used last.fm a bit to find out which bands sound like other bands, I got better mixes that way.

Also, you're right about itunes looking more and more like a Microsoft product. I thought they would have gotten a face lift by now...prettified. Still great for playlists and fun anal stats stuff like "last played" or "date added".

I'm wondering if there's a way, on the new version of iTunes, to bring back the thing at the bottom that tells you how many hours or days of music/podcasts are in your library? Seems a weird thing to do away with.

If you view it in songs it still tells you.

yeah if you re-enable the sidebar, view in songs mode, and switch the search function, it's basically a better version of v10

President Keyes, you can choose View/Status Bar (i think) and it will bring that bottom bar back.