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My take is that iTunes 11 pivots away from making playlists and focuses on the 99% of users that simply buy and listen to albums. I'm a heavy playlist user and
by radley 14y ago
My take is that iTunes 11 pivots away from making playlists and focuses on the 99% of users that simply buy and listen to albums.
I'm a heavy playlist user and the changes are shockingly bad. For "normal" users there's a dozen different ways to navigate and sort by album. But for playlist users there's now only one view - a text list - and a demoted tool menu on the bottom. Even command keys (i.e. Cmd-N) have been changed. Instead of just making a new playlist it changes the entire app view and the only available action is adding full albums to a playlist.
The only part worse is that I can't restore iTunes 10 via Time Machine without restoring my entire system.
- Alphasite_ 14y agoThere are 2 opinions that i can see. If you have the sidebar enabled, you get what seems (at least superficially) to be close to the old iTunes interface, with CMD + N for new lists, etc. If you have it disabled, then you can use the column browser, which rather curiously wont work with the sidebar. Anyway, its more than likely that I completely missed the entire point of the post. Also, downgrading doesn't need a full timemachine restore, the only bit that may be easier with time machine is restoring the old library file, but its apparently not entirely essential.
- radley 14y agoI missed the difference. The two sidebars were similar enough I just used the new default playlist sidebar. It looks like Cmd-N works differently depending on which sidebar you're using. Old sidebar it works in classic mode (thanks for pointing that out!). New sidebar it opens the newer New Playlist view. You can't restore the iTunes app directly: you'll get an OS warning. Using "Restore to..." the Desktop will result in a corrupted app file on the desktop. Also, iTunes 11 changes the library file system a bit.