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		<title>TidBITS: Comments on Redesigned iTunes 11 Brings iCloud Streaming and New MiniPlayer</title>
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		<description>Apple’s smorgasbord of media management gets a spare, iOS-like visual overhaul while enabling you to stream previous music and video purchases from iCloud. It also adds the Up Next song queuing feature and a unified search across all media types.</description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Jeff Holtzman]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:57:17 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Jeff Holtzman)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[I agree. There is no benefit for me to upgrade. I have gone back to v.10.7. The article is informative but glosses over a particularly bad design change. The mini-player has been rendered useless for listening to streaming radio. The song titles do not update and when you do get the title, the window is too small to show long titles. It requires tabbing through to even get the display up. Very, very frustrating and not user friendly. A big misstep for Apple.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Ralph B]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:36:54 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Ralph B)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[I have my music organized into Genres and in the past have used album covers from the genre as the genre icon. I can't seem to change the icon artwork anymore and am stuck with whatever iTunes generates. Am I missing something?]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Helen of Trout]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:52:48 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Helen of Trout)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Oh, and what you said about in theory what you've synced with your ipod should be in the library.  Well true, but when I want to know if I've put a song already on my ipod, or to see if I've already deleted a book I rented from the library and put onto my ipod, I can't do that...frustrating, especially cause I used to use this feature constantly to edit what's on my ipdo. Oh, and another thing, I don't synch my ipod with my library cause I have found that to be devastating to my playlists.  So I do everything manually and I don't have to worry about songs being deleted. I have a tendency to remove stuff from my library and put it on an external drive so my computer isn't so bogged down with media files.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Helen of Trout]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:46:19 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Helen of Trout)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[sorry, my question probably wasn't very clear...I'm trying to search for items ON my ipod but am having no luck.  I make sure my ipod is highlighted (so the search is done with the ipod in mind) and so I search for a song and nothing comes up!  Weird!  I then search for a book and nothing comes up.  But when I go to my ipod and manually search it, I can find it.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Agen Schmitz]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:54:24 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Agen Schmitz)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Be sure you have the Status Bar shown at the bottom of iTunes. Turn this on by selecting Show Status Bar from the View menu (or pressing Command-/). Then, go to the Songs view in Music and see the number of items and total size at the bottom of iTunes. (You can also see these stats from the Albums view, but make sure you don't have any album or song selected to see the stats for your whole library.)]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Sarah C]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:18:57 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Sarah C)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Is it possible to see what the total size of the library is?  I only have an 8gb ipod and am almost at the limit - was watching the size carefully, but now can't see where to find it...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Adam Engst]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:32:50 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Adam Engst)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Hmm... I'm not able to do this either, but I'm not quite sure why I'm doing it - what are you trying to achieve by searching an iPod? In theory, what is on the iPod matches what's being synced, so you'd want to search the library and make sure the found items are being synced.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Adam Engst]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:29:36 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Adam Engst)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[I think I saw this for a while, but then it stopped happening and now I can't reproduce it. The Column Browser isn't available in some of the views (like Albums), though, which adds to the confusion.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Adam Engst]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:23:03 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Adam Engst)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Good catch - I made sure to cover that in the full article about what's missing.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Adam Engst]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:22:42 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Adam Engst)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[ Do check my full article on what has actually been removed. Most of the things people are thinking are gone are really just relocated.<br><br><a href="http://tidbits.com/article/13432">http://tidbits.com/article/13432</a>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Helen of Trout]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:15:13 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Helen of Trout)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[I can't seem to be able to search my ipod anymore in the search bar...I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong but I've tried clicking on my ipod then typing in the search bar, clicking on the playlists then typing in the search bar.  Everything comes up zilch and I'm sitting here looking at a title I just typed in to search for and it still wont bring it up! Help anyone??]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Adam Engst]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:30:43 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Adam Engst)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[That feature is gone - see my article about missing features. Luckily, there are lots of utilities that will help.<br><br><a href="http://tidbits.com/article/13432">http://tidbits.com/article/13432</a>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Jan Tews]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:32:23 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Jan Tews)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[I can't seem to find a way to find duplicate song without scrolling through my entire list of songs alphabetically. It used to highlight them for me. am I missing something?]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from hjtromp]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 04:47:52 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (hjtromp)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[The Column browser commands in the View menu are grayed out as long as the sidebar shows. I don't see the rationale behind this, since the Column browser stays after bringing the sidebar up again.<br>In iTunes 10 cmd-B worked all the time.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from hjtromp]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 04:29:17 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (hjtromp)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[In Songs view bring up the column Composer (by crtl-clicking on any column header) and Sort by that column. Just like in iTunes 10.<br>One may also add a Composer column in the Column browser, in the same way.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from hjtromp]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 04:18:41 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (hjtromp)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[What's been taken out of iTunes in 11 is the graphical representation of the left and right channel sound when clicking the progress bar of a track. I used that a lot.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Dennis B. Swaney]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:15:17 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Dennis B. Swaney)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Only one good thing in iTunes 11: color icons are back in the sidebar. Other than that, it is an abortion. Not even Spinal Tap can make it any good.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Gary Coyne]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:31:16 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Gary Coyne)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[As I read through all of the features and removal of features, I see absolutely no benefit of upgrading to 11. It really looks like Apple is channeling Microsoft V. 8 on this one. Dumb dumb dumb.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from eccparis]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:57:02 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (eccparis)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Argh!!!!! I'm a classical musician and have always sorted everything by composer - including all my own recordings. Now that the composer view is gone, iTunes is utterly useless for me and my colleagues. Any workaround or would I have to downgrade?]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Adam Engst]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:29:27 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Adam Engst)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[With regard to your final point, if you choose View &gt; Show Status Bar, it will show the time of an arbitrary selection.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Doug Chalmers]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 06:33:10 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Doug Chalmers)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Things about 11 I do not like:<br>The mimiplayer no longer shows where you are in time in the track<br>The player no longer provides an option to list tracks randomly (only play them randomly as far as I can figure out - I like to select and play from a randomized groups from a playlist.<br>You can no longer select a group of tracks from a playlist and find out how much time they will take.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Nathanael Holt]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 08:20:37 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Nathanael Holt)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Correction - a song bought on my account by my daughter and played from the cloud shows up as played, but none of the other songs. Tried setting up a new Last Played playlist  ( Last Played in the last 2 Days) still not showing songs played.<br>Update: Apple discussions led to solution. Turn off 'Crossfade songs' and Clear UpNext. That seems to have got it counting again.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Nathanael Holt]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 01:36:05 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Nathanael Holt)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[I agree that Up Next is not an improvement on iTunes DJ. Maybe time and updates will help.<br>]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Nathanael Holt]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2012 01:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Nathanael Holt)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Play Count not working for me - amongst other glitches. Makes my 'Never Heard' playlist rather redundant.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Bill]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:30:33 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Bill)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[What about syncing podcasts (and your position in them) wirelessly. I was hoping for this so I could resume one in iTunes that I didn't finish on my iPhone. If this exists, I haven't been able to find it yet. It works between my iPhone and iPad but not in iTunes on my Mac.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from JGP]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:09:20 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (JGP)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[You unfortunately don't say how you would like your albums to be sorted. However iTunes does offer a few choices. While in Album view, in the menu bar choose View -&gt; View Options (⌘J) and a small window will pop-up with some choices of sorting order - Artist, Title, Year, Rating etc. If one of those is what you are looking for you can select it.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Kathy Baxter]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 07:39:14 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Kathy Baxter)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[Sorting by album sorts by artist.  When the major percentage of your albums are original cast, this is a nightmare.  I HATE this.  Please fix this.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Peter Hillman]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:56:13 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Peter Hillman)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[You forgot to mention no CoverFlow.  What were they thinking?  No one wants to look at Album art while they are listening to music?  The new global search is slow as hell unless you can type really fast for what you want.  Sticking with 10.7.  Many are upset about the removal of iTunes DJ, because Up Next is not a satisfactory replacement.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Ted Peters]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:44:25 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Ted Peters)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[In iTunes 11, it seems that it is only possible to view the full-size artwork for the currntly playing album/song.<br><br>In previous versions, you could view full-size artwork for any selected album/song.<br>Now I have to actually play it, then click the thumbnail in the now playing area to bring up the now playing window, and then maximize that window.<br><br>Is there another way?]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Comment from Ted Peters]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:39:56 EST</pubDate>
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			<author><![CDATA[comments@tidbits.com (Ted Peters)]]></author>
			<description><![CDATA[There is also a keyboard shortcut for Switch to MiniPlayer: Opt+Cmd+M]]></description>
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