iTunes 11

[Skyboat]

Had a bit more of a fiddle with the playback, and the loss of iTunes DJ isn't as bad as it first seemed (unless you like all your iPhone friends to automatically request songs to your computer when DJ'ing for a house party, that functionality appears to be long gone).

Pressing play when shuffle is enabled will begin playing a random song, and will then create a list of 20 upcoming songs automatically.

You can add songs to play next (same as you can in Spotify and the old iTunes DJ), where it will play them, and then go back to the previous list of songs. You can also remove individual songs from this list, and iTunes will automatically append a new random song to the end of the list in its place.

If you press 'clear' it will wipe out all upcoming songs and playback will stop after the currently playing song, however.

 

[memyselfandi]

Haven't use it in any detail yet but the only annoyance so far is that you appear to have to turn on the menu bar in order to change the sort order in album view (I prefer by album instead of by artist).

You can turn it off again afterwards but I'd have though it would be more easily switchable.

Another minor annoyance (for me ... won;t affect most people) is that it seems to have sync'ed down all my previous purchases from the cloud without asking me. That would be fine except I have several iTunes libraries and I don't want the vast majority of those tracks in this one

It would be nice if there was a kind of "archive" function which you could move items over into so they don/t appear in the main displays, cluttering them up, but can still be accessed and move moved back if you do want them.

 

[Logsi]

Hasn't the iTunes DJ thing been changed to the Up Next feature from the drop down box on the header?

The little clock does the same thing. I think I may have read your post wrong though. EDIT - Just realised this is history...DOH! I blame lack of coffee! You can still add to that list though.

Forever live the side bar. Just wish they'd get rid of the cartoonish colours. Yet again, the cohesive nature of the UI is fragmenting...

 

[slinxy]

where is the icloud options or how do you set it up to work with icloud?

 

[fieldy]

Downloaded this on my Mac Mini and MBPr and I'm really enjoying it so far - I really love the new design and how everything feels more fluid - this is also really cool:

http://bit.ly/TwhK31

 

[Barks]

I really like it and finally my iPhone sync is now lightning fast.

They've obviously worked really hard on the coding to make it more efficient.

 

[Fillado]

Another minor annoyance (for me ... won;t affect most people) is that it seems to have sync'ed down all my previous purchases from the cloud without asking me. That would be fine except I have several iTunes libraries and I don't want the vast majority of those tracks in this one

It would be nice if there was a kind of "archive" function which you could move items over into so they don/t appear in the main displays, cluttering them up, but can still be accessed and move moved back if you do want them.

View Menu > Hide Music In The Cloud

The more I use this (without the old sidebar) the more I like it. I think because now it really focuses on what you're after. If you're in Music all you get is your music in front of your face As a consequence though it makes me less likely to have an idle visit to the iTunes Store as the button is all the way on the right. Which isn't like Apple

 

[Barks]

Is there an easy way to have multiple iTunes libraries and switch between them?

I've long wanted to filter out all my Progressive Trance/Dubstep etc from my main library.

 

[Logsi]

Can just change it in the settings.

 

[steveo]

Is there an easy way to have multiple iTunes libraries and switch between them?

I've long wanted to filter out all my Progressive Trance/Dubstep etc from my main library.

i have 2 on my iMac, one the master Library and a secondary with just music for family iPods (didnt fancy having abba and steps mixed with my music) if i need to go to the second one then i just hold option key down while opening iTunes and select the other one not sure if thats any good to you or if someone has a better option

 

[Skyboat]

Hasn't the iTunes DJ thing been changed to the Up Next feature from the drop down box on the header?

The little clock does the same thing. I think I may have read your post wrong though. EDIT - Just realised this is history...DOH! I blame lack of coffee! You can still add to that list though.

Yeah pretty much, it's replaced one half of iTunes DJ where continuous playing and song queuing is concerned (song request and voting via the iOS Remote App is now gone though, aka the party trick )

EDIT: What's with the ".Window" device name in grey?

 

[territt]

Upgraded on my Win7 machine but now i can only access music if i click podcasts or tv shows nothing happens

 

[memyselfandi]

View Menu > Hide Music In The Cloud

The more I use this (without the old sidebar) the more I like it. I think because now it really focuses on what you're after. If you're in Music all you get is your music in front of your face As a consequence though it makes me less likely to have an idle visit to the iTunes Store as the button is all the way on the right. Which isn't like Apple

Perfect, cheers

 

[Logsi]

Yeah pretty much, it's replaced one half of iTunes DJ where continuous playing and song queuing is concerned (song request and voting via the iOS Remote App is now gone though, aka the party trick )

EDIT: What's with the ".Window" device name in grey?

I don't want the Windows disc to be shown on my OS X desktop so putting .Windows means it's hidden and can't be accessed.

Has to be renamed via windows IIRC.

 

[EYEREX]

Wheres DJ mode gone in iTunes 11 ?

 

[Doohickey]

Forever live the side bar. Just wish they'd get rid of the cartoonish colours

I think I saw a setting in preferences to turn off the colours.

 

[Housey]

It seems one hell of a lot quicker than the previous TERRIBLE versions. I never did fancy stuff, so if it allows me to import stuff, play stuff and link to my Apple TV's with all the stuff stored on my NAS happy days.

ALL the other versions gave me swirling coloured balls for weeks and not the good kind.

 

[inogen]

Hmmm. WiFi sync not working with my iPad (Which is JB'd and still on 5.1.1)...

 

[N17]

Another thing i've noticed is that a lot of albums are missing from the store. Things like Aero and Teo 7 Tea by Jean Michel Jarre for instance.

 

[rctneil]

This is a copy of a comment on the iTunes feedback form I sent in last night. 3 small but I think potentially very useful suggestions of where improvements could be made. Do you guys agree with them:

1. When the drop down album view is open. Please add a link from there to view that album in list view. Similar to what you used to see when you opened an album from album view in the previous iTunes version. I realise you can just click songs and see the song list but it shows ALL songs and not just the ones on the album. If you could scope it for just the current album that would be amazing. This feature would be useful as now in the dropdown album slider you get the see less info about each track so a shortcut to view just the current albums songs in list view would resolve this.



2. Add a context menu option to show song in main song list. I have a playlist showing me all songs which have been matched but which have a bitrate of less that 256kbps. I cannot delete the song and tell it to download the upgraded version directly from the playlist. If I could right click and "Show song in library" then I could quickly find the track, delete it and download the upgraded version!



3. On the list/songs view, please re-add the option to show album artwork. It used be be a nice options and showed the artwork intelligently. I remember seeing Steve highlighting this as a new iTunes feature in one of the keynotes. Please bring it back, it was very useful.