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iTunes 11 is out

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New iTunes Goes to 11
NOVEMBER 29, 2012 AT 10:06 AM PT

It took a little longer than expected to arrive, but the latest iteration of Apple's iTunes is finally here -- albeit a month after it was promised.

Moments ago Apple released iTunes 11, the biggest update to the company's media software since it debuted more than a decade ago. A complete redesign of what began in 2001 as a simple music jukebox, the latest iteration of iTunes features tighter integration with Apple's iCloud service and iTunes Store and an iOS-inspired user interface that more elegantly incorporates the many elements that have been grafted and patchworked onto it over the years.

Gone is the source list sidebar, the not-really-mini-at-all mini player, Ping -- Apple's ill-starred social network for music, replaced by spartan horizontal source bar, a truly diminutive mini-player, and ... well, no social integration with the user library that I can see -- not with FaceBook, not with Twitter. Social integration in the iTunes Store remains the same as it was in iTunes 10. In other words, if you're looking for the social experience which Ping was intended to provide, you won't find it in iTunes 11. You can only tell people what music you're interested in on the iTunes Store, you can't tell them what you're listening to at the moment. .....

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Cool! Can't wait till I get home to check it out!

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On the front end, I hope the "playlists" are better able to handle non-music related media.

On the backend, I really really hope for better syncing options with iphones/ipads/etc.

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The iPad and iPhone Remote app has been updated too.

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Update failed three times for me using Apple Software Update. Tried downloading and installing manually and I'm now getting...

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reply to haroldo
So if getting rid of the old menu paradigm and getting rid of cover flow (I miss it already!) is an improvement, then this is the best iTunes ever
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No more cover flow! That's one of the main reasons I decided to make iTunes my music player.

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reply to haroldo
Liking it so far. Little weird that there's only a sliver of a bar above the now playing box at the top of the window. The mini player buttons minimize/expand buttons are a little non-obvious.

But so far iTunes Match is working well, the Up Next stuff is very nice, and I think search is much better. Haven't noticed if the backend is improved, but I didn't think 10.7 was slow, so hard to tell.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but I never used Cover Flow and won't miss it one bit.
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reply to haroldo
I honestly don't use iTunes that much anymore. At work, I use the phone to listen to music since I work with my hands and am up and about all the time. (Woohoo iTunes Math) At home, I run iTunes like a server to feed an AppleTV and occasionally an iPad.

When I am using iTunes, it's because I'm adding more media to the library or trying to sync an iOS device. The 'Automatically add to iTunes' folder a few versions ago really helped the former and now the new menu layout makes it much easier to do the latter, and the syncing logic appears to be better and more responsive. No more momentary freezes while it syncs multiple devices, and it will actually tell me what shows it is copying to the device instead of 'waiting for sync to finish' with no progress bar.

Now that they've divided the interface cleanly between Movies/Music/TV Shows/Syncing instead of having one big sidebar that shows everything, the next step is to separate things into different applications that talk to each other. iTunes already talks to iPhone or Aperture for photo syncing. Why can't there be a 'Music' app, a Videos app, etc, like on iOS, plus a device syncing agent that manages all the content together?

Oh wait, that will never happen, because it would mean having 10 different windows applications and that'd be too confusing for Windows users.

iOS has really a much better media management paradigm compared to iTunes.
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The only one I purchased was Paul Simon. WTF

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I never used it either except occasionally to show off the eye candy.

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It's the best iTunes ever! No! Wait! It sucks.

Actually I don't care. I just need a media player to find and play my music and other media. The old iTunes did it just fine and so will this one. Much a-doo-doo about nothing!
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Not bad so far. Memory usage did go up but I don't care about that. Glad to see this still works fine »www.mattberube.com/software/iTunesKeys/

Really wish they can do something to allow us to use multiple profiles (easily).

edit: Come on Apple! Rating a song in a smart playlist doesn't auto play the next song. Fuck. Going to revert to 10.7 for now

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CRAP! Daughter's "cloud" music which she apparently had previously purchased under my account now shows up in my iTunes! Time to restore SD backup from this morning....