iTunes ?

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.

thanks

Just watched a very funny South Park about the iTunes agreement. Sends up Apple rather grotesquely, which is cool.

JSUS how do I remove missing tracks on this thing? this is insane...

Is there any way of bringing back how many minutes or hours are in a specific selection of tracks? ie not an entire library or playlist.

highlight them and it's listed at the bottom in usual space

click menu button in top left corner and choose 'show menu bar'. go to the View menu and choose 'show status bar'

yess! ta

guh, itunes 11, wtf : /

times a million -

beef with itunes:

itunes suddenly has no internet connection (help, checking for updates, store, etc), and also isn't recognizing my iphone. both problems started happening at the same time. wtf is going on

itunes 11.2.2.3
iphone 5, 7.1.2

I used to use Privatunes to scrub my iTunes store-purchased files of info, but it doesn't seem to work anymore. Anyone know of a utility that will do this?

finally, finally i can view a playlist as a list of albums

(view a playlist, select Albums in the top right, you'll see a bunch of album covers instead of a list of tracks)

hasn't that been in there since 10?

Well, no, because clearly I would have noticed it, QED

Yeah I think that's been a feature for awhile. You could do choose how any grouping of albums displayed, whether playlist or full library.

my old playlists look like this

http://i.imgur.com/JEWfPwJ.png

but when I make a new playlist, it looks like this

http://i.imgur.com/YiiyRFv.png

How do I turn this off?

At the top-right of the iTunes window (just under the search box), switch from "Playlist" to "Songs"

sick, thank you!!!!!

lol, I had to talk my daughter down from a conniption fit about that exact issue last night. It definitely isn't intuitive or particularly easy to find.

i ran into this issue too. it's so stupid. don't like what they've done on the phone side either.

I accidentally made the iTunes window full screen and it took essentially total keyboard button mashing to get it back to normal. I still don't know what key to press. iTunes is amazing in the way it gets worse with every new version.

command + control + f will get you out of full-screen mode on any app. Intuitive, right? Everyone got it?

I eventually had to brute-force that stupid key combo into my head because I kept invoking full-screen. Does anyone use full-screen?

iTunes UI is the worst case of "it was working so we fixed it" software development ever. At least it still supports AppleScript.