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Bloated, needy bastard. Has it lost weight in its new incarnation?

dont understand why they seem to be phasing out cover flow, youd think it would be one of their trademark things, not even on ipads, seems to only exist on iphone/pods now.

You can has it the old way too if you prefer. Just hit 'view' then 'show side bar' and you are set.

The grid view with the background key color matching the album art is A+

And it's failing every time.

Woo.

which has forced me to sync it and that will mean that all the playlists and subtle changes I've made certain track listings on my iPod is no utterly wrecked.

I've gone from being slightly frustrated with this crap to being absolutely fucked off with it now.

I usually skip those but the interface changes were extreme enough that I would have been pretty lost without it.
It does seem to be doing strange things to my iPod Shuffle, but so far I think I'm in favor of the overall upgrade as it puts a lot of features next to each other where I wished they were before. We'll see. I'm sure it's not for everybody.

but then I've been using grid view for months now

Which is not saying much because it was the ugliest interface in the world before.

Seems slow and awkward, especially on a PC.

200MB. Why does every little update for iTunes (admittedly this is a not an incremental release but still) have to be enormous?

Unless this new iTunes is incredibly quick and smooth can't think why i'd bother with it.

It's pretty neat. Like the expanding view in albums and the new wee arrow on songs that you can click. Shortcuts to artists and the Add to playlist bit is pretty special too. Quite impressed.

you can queue up 'next song' in shuffle, and make a list of next songs - since all I seem to do at the moment is listen on shuffle this is a pretty cool update.

much cleaner, and a better interface. Dragging stuff around onto devices and playlists is MUCH easier and doesn't require carefully scrolling off-screen all the time.

THIS IS THE BEST

just stick the indie points onto my account whenever it's convenient for ya, ta.

I normally avoid updating iTunes unless I have to for a new device/service. I'd probably still be using iTunes 4, if it weren't the fact that an iPod update way back when forced me to upgrade to iTunes 6 — and, jesus, wasn't that a fucking mess!

Wish you could take a proper look at new versions without having to install them and risk not being able to uninstall them without fucking up your libraries, preferences, etc.

only grip is they've removed the 'recently added' function. Love how they seem to have really rebuilt and rethought it.

How apple can make so many fucking brilliant things... and iTunes.

and haven't looked back. So simple and quick. Only problem is it doesn't (to my knowledge) have a podcast manager, but I just use one on my phone now instead.

and i love the way you can 'queue' tracks, it seems bizarre it's taken them so long to integrate that idea. the little album art/playlist thing when an album is playing is really nice.

BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM

they've removed grid view for artist view? why? they kept it for the album view and it looks great. is that sidebar supposed to be the replacement? that doesn't work when you've got months of music.

As iTunes is the only Apple product that many Windows users will ever encounter, I'm amazed they don't do a better job of it.

itunes would make my laptop use 99% of it's CPU for some bizarre reason, Winamp uses 2%. I hope this has fixed that. I want itunes back.

hands down

and taking like FIVE FUCKING MINUTES, and then when you tell it to stop it takes ANOTHER FIVE FUCKING MINUTES to stop? i just want to play some fucking songs.

How pls

Can you turn off the live drop-down search thing?

why are the people who do itunes so bad at making it functional?

i ask this in every itunes thread and never get a reply, but does anyone know of any good mac alternatives? never found one.

Great.

Nothing happens when I connect it.
This is pretty annoying.

Slowest piece of muthafucking shit i have ever encountered. Love the fact that it no longer copies new purchases too. In fact, if you want to have your new purchases on itunes, you have to use the sidebar (old version?!!) and then proceed to do it manually. Not only that, but it randomly lost the connection with my iPad and iPhone. Fucking rubbish.