I love how Apple avoids the fact that FLAC support has been requested for so long, and continues to ignore their users on this front. crApple is a despicable company.

I'm not fond of Album view, so this new interface looks terrible to me. I looks like iOS folders, which I'm not fond of at all.

I hope I can still use Column Browser, which is still the best damn thing to ever happen to iTunes.

agreed, I own over 1500 albums, they can't possibly expect me to browse through them with the silly album art mode thingie as the only option. iPhone 5 sounds great, new iTunes sounds terrible.

Album view makes perfect sense! Well, if it were the 1970s!! Back when we actually had albums. And covers. And actually looked at them (heck, even in the 80s/90s, with CDs).

But now, you generally listen to your music without ever seeing the album cover. So who even knows what the cover looks like? (It's like 'cover view' in Books. Useless if you have a lot of books, for the only ones you would know the cover of are the ones you already read!)

The funny/stupid thing about 'album view' is how Apple pushed for so long the greatness of buying individual songs. I have over a 1000 albums in my collection, but they aren't all complete! A good hunk are just one or two songs from an artist.

So does "Album view" limit your view to just the albums you own? Or do I get to see the cover of 1000 albums, half of which are incomplete?

Um, everyone complaining about Album view knows that viewing by Song is still available, as it always has been. Right?

I watched the keynote. iTunes still has Column Browser, thankfully.

I'm not sure how removing the Source Pane is supposed to make iTunes easier to use. For instance, playing a playlist takes two clicks: click on Playlist at the top, then click on your playlist. If you're currently in the iTunes Store, it takes three clicks: click on Library, then Playlists, then the playlist you want.

And I wonder if iTunes features like Cover Flow are still there?

And during the keynote, they didn't show how configuring your iOS devices works, which I thought was a curious omission. Did they change anything? I know lots of people, especially Windows users, are still confounded by that today.

Originally Posted by testudo

Album view makes perfect sense! Well, if it were the 1970s!! Back when we actually had albums. And covers. And actually looked at them (heck, even in the 80s/90s, with CDs).

But now, you generally listen to your music without ever seeing the album cover. So who even knows what the cover looks like? (It's like 'cover view' in Books. Useless if you have a lot of books, for the only ones you would know the cover of are the ones you already read!)

Hm.

I have only albums, almost no individual songs, and cover art is meticulously curated in my collection.

Then again, I also have a vinyl collection, and I'm over twenty-five, so you might as we… HEY! GET OFF MY LAWN.

AND YOU! DON'T ****ING TOUCH THE TURNTABLE WITH THOSE GRUBBY HANDS!

Sheesh. Kids.

Originally Posted by testudo

Album view makes perfect sense! Well, if it were the 1970s!! Back when we actually had albums. And covers. And actually looked at them

Totally. Haven't bought a physical CD in a couple of years now. In an itunes/ipod world, I just have a big bin of music that I listen to. I classify some of it via playlists, but by and large the concept of an album is long gone. A wall of cover art is useless for me. (but I'm happy you can still see a list of your music).

Face it - itunes is just a large database. With a click I often search by date added, date played, genre, star rating. If I want to see an artist, I do a search. I don't think I've ever searched by album. And here we are by default showing a search by album. Really?

SongBird folks... You can find local concerts all your music in your library. Download it, get your preferred extensions, your all set. I personally like the guitar tabs and the lyrics extensions... iTunes licks donkey B. Had to.

Originally Posted by blahblahbber

SongBird folks... You can find local concerts all your music in your library. Download it, get your preferred extensions, your all set. I personally like the guitar tabs and the lyrics extensions... iTunes licks donkey B. Had to.

Actually, I used SongBird on my netbook for some time, but it ran dog slow. I think it has too much overhead with the Moz engine on it. Then they discontinued Linux. My new favorite iTunes-ish alternative is now Miro. Check it out if you haven't already. It's pretty slick.

Originally Posted by Grendelmon


Actually, I used SongBird on my netbook for some time, but it ran dog slow. I think it has too much overhead with the Moz engine on it. Then they discontinued Linux. My new favorite iTunes-ish alternative is now Miro. Check it out if you haven't already. It's pretty slick.

Thanks for the heads up. I will check it out. Sadly, songbird can be resource heavy.... but I bet I can pick it apart to get rid of some of the overhead.

I just jumped into the quad 650M MBP bandwagon myself. Hope this helps quicken songbird overall. Also, if you have your settings to always check your music locations upon startup, you will need to expect a delay. But Miro you say?... I will take a look...