http://tidbits.com/ The search field at the top right of the iTunes 11.0 window thought different when you searched the whole library. See why you want to get the iTunes 11.0.1 update to save your sanity. en-us Copyright 2012 TidBITS Publishing Inc. Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 EST editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) editors@tidbits.com (TidBITS Editors) http://tidbits.com/images/tb_logo_152x55.png http://tidbits.com/ 55 152 TidBITS badge http://db.tidbits.com/article/13445?rss#comments_17179 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:52:36 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13445#comments_17179 A perfectly good playlist copied, erased and re-copied on my iPod using iTunes 10.0 many many times without any problems. Now, out of 111 numerically ordered songs, iTunes 11.0.1 only copied 104 songs, some how iTunes 11.0.1 missed 7 songs in the playlist. I found this to be extremely annoying because it did not match my numerically ordered published song books which contained the text for each of the songs.
The previous version of iTunes 10.0, I had no trouble transferring all 111 songs in order. What happened!!! iTunes 11.0.1 missed songs number: 2, 37, 62, 64, 76, 90 and 107. Some songs were copied from cassette tapes, others were edited in Garageband and transferred to iTunes and some were perfectly good songs purchased thru the iTunes Store or from Amazon MP3. Many similar songs were copied and others NOT. WHY?????
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It never plays in the order implied by a playlist. Just jumps all over the place based on some invented "Up Next" POS. I clear that "Up" list, but then get no order at all, the playback stops after the first song.

I ran a software shop for 24+ years. I'd never have hired whoever did this abysmal coding.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13445?rss#comments_17031 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:54:03 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13445#comments_17031 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13445?rss#comments_16926 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:39:28 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13445#comments_16926
The old vaudeville joke:
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
"So, don't DO that!"]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13445?rss#comments_16925 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:31:23 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13445#comments_16925
Be warned that right-clicking (or equivalent) it will likely crash iTunes.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13445?rss#comments_16920 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:20:19 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13445#comments_16920
My other problems with iTunes center around audiobooks. Searching for audiobooks from any library other than 'Books' is likely to return nothing. I'm trying to narrow down the problem since it sometimes correctly finds some things. For example, I have an audiobook titled 'Pimsleur Italian' authored (artist) by Dr. Paul Pimsleur. The audiobook consists of 20 tracks with names like 'Lesson 01', 'Lesson 02', etc. When I do a 'Search Entire Library' with filter set to 'All' and search for 'Pimsleur' it returns with two tracks from this book. Why not all of them? Why just those two tracks? (The metadata in these tracks and the book don't provide a clue.)

Also, in some audiobooks the expanded view has the tracks in random order, some in order of track number (track1/disc1 followed by track1/disc2) and some are correctly ordered. (In list view they are all ordered correctly; and again the metadata doesn't provide a clue to this behavior)

Six years ago I gave up on Microsoft because I was getting tired of spending so much time trying to get Windows to do what I wanted, the way I wanted. I switched to Apple's OS X Tiger and was pleased at how intuitive and natural the OS behaved. Now that feeling is increasingly fading.]]> http://db.tidbits.com/article/13445?rss#comments_16903 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:14:00 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13445#comments_16903 http://db.tidbits.com/article/13445?rss#comments_16902 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:07:52 EST http://tidbits.com/article/13445#comments_16902