Apple on Wednesday released iTunes 11.0.4 which delivers several new features and improvements, including:
• New MiniPlayer. MiniPlayer now includes a beautiful new view that showcases your album artwork. In addition, a progress bar is now built right into MiniPlayer.
• Improved Songs View. You can now enjoy your album artwork while in Songs view.
• Multi-Disc Albums. Albums with multiple discs now appear as a single album.
This update fixes a problem that may cause iTunes to quit if you switch between wired and wireless syncing and addresses an issue that may require you to log into the iTunes Store repeatedly.
For information on the security content of this update, visit: support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
How about they fix the UI issue where it resets to the top every time you navigate away from a playlist or song listing? Terrible UX design.
. . . and make the scroll-bar handle wider so I can actually grab it. If you have much music it gets really small and disappears too quickly!
How about letting me (and all others who want to) reinstall iTunes 10.7 instead of this POS? Do you hear me Apple? Obviously not.
Can’t you do that with your TimeMachine set up?
“Multi-Disc Albums. Albums with multiple discs now appear as a single album.”
No they don’t.
Not in ‘Songs’, ‘Album’ or ‘Artist’ view.
It DOES work. You need to do a Get Info on the songs, and makes sure album name is exactly the same for ALL the songs, and you fill in the Disc Number fields appropriately.
That sounds reasonable. I have had to manually correct metadata in the past in order to get an album to behave properly.
How about the display duplicates ability? I still don’t understand why that was removed…
go to:
music/songs/view/show duplicate items
Remember when Apple was far ahead of Microsoft on user friendliness? Now features are buried 4 layers deep. Apple: get back on track!!!
Update, then bitch and moan. It’s becoming a sad assed ritual. Spoiled bitches.
iTunes is a twitchy mess. It’s time the fix the scrolling so it stops feeling like a freakin’ ported application!
Songbird:
http://www.getsongbird.com
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/songbird.me/id561535312?mt=8
Why can’t Apple send me five bucks…C’mon you got billions, just five bucks is all I need right now… Apple sucks!
I just want to chime in with all the bitching around here with iTunes… lol
I think iTunes is excellent. I’ve been using iTunes since it was a Mac OS 9 app (no Mac OS X or Windows version), before the iTunes Store, and before there were iPods.
I was worried that the “new look” iTunes 11 would be less functional for long-time users like me. But after using the Show Sidebar command from the menu bar (under View), it mostly works like previous versions when the sidebar is visible.
I was desperately hoping multiple windows would be brought back, but, sadly, this really useful feature has been left out again. Who do I speak to to get this feature brought back?
For anyone who has various devices that only hold small amounts of music, when dropping new tracks onto them it really helps to have a separate window of that devices music list open to avoid selecting and dropping in duplicate tracks.
This is such a fundamentally useful, but simple feature that I’m astonished that anyone was dumb enough to remove it.
I use iTunes Match to free up all my iPhone – iPad – ATV – and various Macs we use.
“and addresses an issue that may require you to log into the iTunes Store repeatedly.”
Thought my iTunes was broken. Had to buy the Apps on my iPhone instead.
I would like to see itunes/ATV let us group movies/TV shows in groups so that they are easier to navigate.