Complaints about the new iTunes

sageamagoo · 2012-12-02T11:48:01-05:00

iTunes 11 is a pain in the arse. First off, I hate the new artist view, and you can't sort the songs view by artist/year anymore. Also, the album art is gone for songs view, and in album view, you can't sort by anything you can in songs view. They divided the functionality, and anyone who wants all of it has to swap back and forth for no good reason! For anyone with a large music library, like ALL of us here, the customizability of the sorting function is vital. And the album art is key to remembering albums - when you own over 250 of them (okay, so I don't have too many, but I've only been listening to music for all of 5 years) the visual is more memorable than the name. It's not like you bother to read the name of each album when looking through your cd or vinyl collection - hell, many albums don't even have the title on the cover. And don't get me started on playlists - on them, you don't even have the ability to show the album art at all! But I digress. Getting Apple to change the software is futile. I guess it's time to look into Decibel - better quality sound for audiophiles anyway. But I've always liked iTunes for it's interface, and after changing that, I guess I have to switch. Thoughts?

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pearljammer13 Young Pilgrim Profile
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Well thanks for the offers for help...as of right now I'm using a seemingly free program called "Copytrans", and it seems to be working. I just started but it's in the process of importing my entire ipod to itunes, and it's estimating it will take about 2 hours (My library is about 3600 songs). We'll see if it actually works once I open itunes. I'll be immensely happy if this works. Also I guess I'll be using the new itunes now. I fucking hate this new Windows 8 but I literally just got the computer running so hopefully I'll get accustomed to it and like it.

pearljammer13 Young Pilgrim Profile
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Well I ended up having to spend 20 bucks on it, but it imported everything, even plays and ratings, so I'm extremely relieved and would definitely recommend this if anyone ends up in a similar situation to mine.

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I don't really like it as much as the old version
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pearljammer13 wrote:

Glad everything turned out alright! Now, if only I had known about this before having to listen to and fill out all the tags for my 10000 songs...

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Defago wrote:

Glad everything turned out alright! Now, if only I had known about this before having to listen to and fill out all the tags for my 10000 songs...

haha I know, I can't imagine the amount of time that took... I get frustrated when I have to do that for one album.

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i did one of the updates and it at first it seems it only will let you upload one song at a time but somehow it will upload a whole album. i have only messed with it once though

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Go here. I deleted iTunes after having this for a month.

http://www.jriver.com/mj/
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Romanelli wrote:

Go here. I deleted iTunes after having this for a month.

http://www.jriver.com/mj/

Probably works great, but looks ugly as sin.

Unfortunately iTunes (aside from Zune) is the only remotely decent looking player on the market.

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Probably works great, but looks ugly as sin.

Unfortunately iTunes (aside from Zune) is the only remotely decent looking player on the market.

There are different color schemes, as well as different layouts. To me, it actually looks better than iTunes...maybe because it works better. This thing has a gazillion functions, many that I don't recall ever having seen on iTunes. And it can sync to Apple products.

For me...

Function>Appearance.
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When I got my new computer I was forced to download the new itunes. I must say, once I found the sidebar I quite like it. I especially like being able to go into an album now and have the album cover as a sort of background behind the song titles as it's playing. The little things please me.

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