Comments on: iTunes 5

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By: Adam Wilde

Adam Wilde — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:47:04 +0000

I much prefer the iTunes 5 HI, in fact I love it. Although... I don't go near PCs, so couldn't comment on the comparisons some have drawn with XP.

My earnest hope is that Apple does something similar with Finder windows to lose the (IMO) hideous screen estate-wasting metal frame.

By: Neil Dickinson

Neil Dickinson — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:48:15 +0000

It's ugly, and I fear this is the direction OSX is going.
Win98 Deluxe?

By: Todd Larason

Todd Larason — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:10:36 +0000

It's still missing an AppleScript interface to smart playlist definitions, alas.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:49:01 +0000

Graham: I don't think that's it. You're right that it only searches displayed columns for the text that you type in, but I wasn't typing in "podcast"; I was using the "Podcasts" button on the new search bar to filter the search results further.

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:40:02 +0000

I think your problem with searching by genre is that iTunes only searches displayed columns. Go to Edit > View Options, and make sure the Genre column is enabled.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:07:31 +0000

Paul: I didn't forget them, I just didn't have anything to say about them. The playlist folders seem like a good idea, and they look and work as expected. As you can see, I don't use playlists. This is partially because I don't have much use for them (except temporary playlists, which can be handy), and partially because I don't want to waste time setting them up when I know that they'll be lost the next time iTunes loses track of the songs in my library (happens about once a year).

Jesper: Thanks for the correction. It looks like Show Duplicate Songs was added in 4.7.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:57:45 +0000

Nitpick: Show Duplicate Songs has been there for several versions now and hasn't been improved in iTunes 5.0. The point of it is just pointing out the most notorious duplicates, since accurate detection is next to impossible - not to mention that you might *want* to keep some duplicates in order to have complete album listings.

By: Paul Bersch

Paul Bersch — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:53:23 +0000

You forgot the best feature, in my opinion: playlist folders. I have far too many playlists to reasonably fit without folders, so I've been waiting forever for this to be added.

Unfortunately, it makes me sad every time I switch back to iTunes and see the new interface.

By: Mark Grimes

Mark Grimes — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:52:28 +0000

Speaking of the "the new black" it seems that Apple has just that -- lots of high-gloss black. Observation from the apple website and the keynote presentation.

Notice the testing of new transitions in the Keynote presentation -- I'd like to see THAT in the keynote product. Looked SHARP!

iTunes 5 is horrible -- I like the new AppleScript functionality (broken down at Doug's AppleScripts)... now there's a slew of shapeshifter themes to change as it looks AWFUL until these themes are updated to support yet another custom window.
I sure hope this isn't a pre-cursor to a new theme in Leopard.

Although with all the negativity comes one positive thing. Metal sucks -- I de-metal anything and everything even if I am left with strange artifacts like Safari's tab bar backing.