There is simplifying and streamlining, and then there is dumbing down. I am afraid that, with this latest “improvement” in iTunes 9, Apple’s engineers have crossed the line: This is what you get on your screen each and every time you create a new empty playlist. As if all iTunes users with a moderate level [...]
Various new iTunes 9 features will be discussed at length by other outlets. But, as someone with a very large music collection (over 300 GB of files), I thought I should mention something that is not mentioned in the release notes and yet has a very significant impact on my daily use of the application: [...]
Phew. Finally someone at Apple has come to his/her senses. In iTunes 7.1 back in March 2007, Apple introduced a new promising feature that enabled you to apply new tags to your music tracks called “Sort Artist,” “Sort Album Artist,” etc. But for some reason they made it incredibly cumbersome to actually edit these fields. [...]
The (optional) internal behaviour of the iTunes Store links is no longer as useful as it used to be.
Is ripping an audio CD really such a CPU-intensive task, or is iTunes just a badly written application?
An interesting side-effect of using the Sort Artist field in iTunes 7.1 or higher.
Software Update appears to download packages in the wrong place.
Not quite the beginning of the end for the MP3 file format, but certainly good news for the unprotected AAC file format.
Weird on-going cosmetic problem with iTunes’ column headings.
The long-standing problem of the modal track information dialog box, and what Apple could do to fix it.
Great new sorting options, but why the awkward UI to edit multiple tracks?
It’s only taken them about a decade to implement it…
Where is the media uproar about such incompetence?
An article that does not tell a quarter of the real (shameful) story.
Smart playlist rules that aren’t that smart.