Stay away from iTunes 11.0 -- it is a complete disaster

[bayswater]

The things I use that inherited bugs have acceptable workarounds, and apparently, the loss of the duplicate search was a mistake and it will be back in an update.

This is back in 11.0.1 under "view".

Great. I wish they'd restore the "read anything" feature of V 5.0.0. When that came out I was buying a lot CDs and audio DVDs with heavy copy protection, and some of them wouldn't even play in my super expensive CD player hand made by Hobbits and Elves in Kent. But iTunes 5 ignored the protection and happily extracted uncompressed audio from all of them.

[Prime Mover]

Yikes, I did NOT need to hear that, after spending $450 that I couldn't afford to let go of, a few weeks back, to keep from being forever orphaned as a "new customer" by Adobe due to their draconian new updates policy and their push to force everyone into a subscription model. I was at CS4 and had to "protect my investment" by upgrading to CS6 before the 31 December 2012 deadline, as otherwise my only remaining future option would be to go to $ub$cription model.

Honestly CS4 is fine. Adobe stuff tends to last many many years. CS5 was not a huge update like CS4. CS6 has some great new features in After Effects, a new raytracing engine. Ironically, this comes to me just as I'm learning 3D Studio Max, so I'll have little need of it soon. Premiere, on the other hand, offers NOTHING, is buggy and garish, and they've made their cursors huge and difficult to control. They outsourced their XDCAM codec for both Premiere and AE, and the job was botched. By 6.0.3 they fixed it in Premiere, but they have yet to correct the mistake in AE, which is making it hell for us.

Yeah, I can easily say that CS6 is Adobe's equivalent to DP6. Lots of bad decisions along with a lot of bad bugs. But maybe like DP6, they'll eventually work it out. Unfortunately, Adobe doesn't listen to their users as much as MOTU. So the garish look and large cursors are probably here to stay, even though everyone hates them.

[cuttime]

Well, at least they brought back the Composer view:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57570 ... sers-view/

[mhschmieder]

Thank you thank you thank you!

I just got back from vacation a couple of days ago so haven't done any computer updates yet. I'll update iTunes tonight as sort-by-composer is a time saver and time is money.

[mhschmieder]

Just applied the update. Great that we can sort by composer again. Not so great that iTunes 11.x still only allows one criterium at a time. So it's "either/or" when it comes to "classical genre" vs. "composers list". Still, this is a big improvement over iTunes 11.0.0.

[kgdrum]

I'm still parked in iTunes 10.7 but I saw this & it might be something to try if 11 continues to be a problem for you.

http://www.emacconsulting.com/apple/itu ... unes-10-7/

A few users on GS who hated 11 did this and and reported they were able to move back to 10.7 successfully.

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/moan-zon ... -11-a.html

[mhschmieder]

Thanks -- I'm not that desperate yet, but it may come to that. I figure Apple is listening and iTunes will return to some sort of normalcy by mid-year. I've uploaded far too much music from my CD collection since the iTunes 11 "upgrade" to have much luck with a "downgrade" at this point -- though I could just copy the music folders and re-import, losing all Playlists.

[kgdrum]

I don't think you'd lose content,I don't use playlists so that I'm not too sure about.