Comments on: iTunes 11 review: Hands-on with Apple’s refined jukebox

By: TheHeadmare

TheHeadmare — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:59:33 +0000

First I couldn’t print up the song list properly for a cd I burned using the new iTunes. Now I can’t connect properly to the store. Every time I click on “see all”, the damn thing just freezes. I need to use the task manager to close it. I suppose I’ll need to reinstall.

By: bummed

bummed — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:22:04 +0000

they blew it by removing many of the views. They were great when hosting a party. Disappointed!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:46:31 +0000

Terrible review. The iTunes 11 update is a historic failure for Apple, creating millions of disappointed and even angry customers. The removal of Cover Flow is a huge blow, and the user interface is now much more confusing. Lesson for Apple: sometimes less is less.

By: Pissed off

Pissed off — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:55:15 +0000

After 36 macs, 2 ipods and an iphone 5 this is the worst piece of crap apple ever put out !!! Maybe it’s pretty but if you are dealing with 64 GB of data, it sucks! The iTunes apps { Music, ITunes U, etc. ) on the iphone do not I said DO NOT correspond to those in itunes 11. It keeps changing videos to Music with a still picture. Videos play normal on computer? But there is no video on the iPhone!!!

By: mark

mark — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:29:15 +0000

iTunes 11 is a seriously misguided backward step re album art. If you listen to classical music most, when you select ‘album’ you get thumbnails ordered by album artists, so instead of seeing Malcolm ARNOLD as the first album and William WALTON as one of the last, you get an album played by the Aardvark Symphony Orchestra first or the Zagreb Phil last! (ie. there’s little difference between the ‘album’ view of art thumbnails and the ‘artist’ view of the same. What classical buffs would ever organise a shelf of Lps or CDs like that? The worst thing is that there is no drop down menu as in previous iTunes to enable you to select ‘Album’, ‘Album Year’ or ‘Album artist’.

Another headache is that once you select a thumbnail, the outer edges of the enlarge artwork, run soft-focus into the colour-coordinated background, meaning that the look is blurred rather than clean-cut CD booklet or Lp art squares. The result is that some of the information on the sleeve is missed.

By: morrisholmes

morrisholmes — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:26:23 +0000

Switch to Mac three years ago. A few issues but overall Mac better suits my needs and is more intuitive. Before, every time I went to my PC I had a sense of foreboding and dread. Never had that with my MacBook… until now. Die-hards will no doubt defend iTunes11; extolling its hidden virtues and offering up a plethora of work arounds on forums. So much for intuitiveness.

By: alethinosp

alethinosp — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:38:54 +0000

Aesthetics Fail!!!

In this era where home computers and entertainment centers are becoming one – the jukebox view is now gone and I am reduced to either using that visualizes that is a leftover form 1990 something or sow the itunes interface on the screen – WTH!!!

- View modes are gone in iTunes 11. Instead, albums are displayed in what Apple is calling “Expanded View”. This works like a folder on iOS: You click on an album’s artwork, and the interface splits and expands into a subview with a song list and an “in the store” section, which shows top songs and albums for that artist. – SERIOUSLY?

Being A company as focused on aesthetics I expected some awesome new, high def view with loads of bells and whistles for home entertainment centers and while playing music on your Ipad or Ipod not this stupid looking expanded view (even if it was an optional add-on or something). Seriously; we’re talking about Apple here, not the Windows Media Player for Ipods.

Its kind just less stuff with prettier buttons and a few minor fixes.

Epic Aesthetics Fail

By: gollytas

gollytas — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:03:17 +0000

Whenever I search library the first letter that I type appears then it freezes and I have to restart itunes, it works fine until I search for something. Anyone else having this problem??

By: gollytas

gollytas — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:01:13 +0000

Whenever I type something in search library the first letter I type appears then it freezes and I have to restart itunes, anyone else having this issue??

By: t

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:51:55 +0000

i agree with parts of a few comments, mostly what Michael Williams said though-some of you people sound so bloody spoiled——get over it already…