{"id":129,"date":"2012-11-29T18:48:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T23:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nccomputertech.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T23:48:36","slug":"hands-on-with-itunes-11-macworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2012\/11\/29\/hands-on-with-itunes-11-macworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands on with iTunes 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2017416\/hands-on-with-itunes-11.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/nccomputertech.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/itunes11-full-100015219-large.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake: When you first launch iTunes 11, it\u2019s going to feel awfully different from the iTunes you\u2019ve grown accustomed to. That\u2019s because it is awfully different, from many of the user interface choices right down to the brand new icon, which now even more strongly resembles that of the Mac App Store.<br \/>\nEdge-to-edge design<br \/>\nYou can, if you desire, get the iTunes sidebar back. And it&#8217;s back in color like the pre-iTunes 10 days, too.<br \/>\nThe first thing you\u2019ll notice upon opening the new iTunes is that the sidebar\u2014the one with links to your playlists, the iTunes Store, Books, Movies, Podcasts, and such\u2014is gone. Apple describes the new look as an \u201cedge-to-edge\u201d design. Instead of using the sidebar, you rely on a dropdown for navigating between sections of the app, and a button at the upper right of the window takes you to the iTunes Store. But here\u2019s a quick spoiler: If you can\u2019t stand the dropdown approach, you can get the sidebar of old back. Go to the View menu and choose Show Sidebar. Bonus: The icons in the sidebar, which went to a faded grayscale in iTunes 10, regain their saturation in iTunes 11.<br \/>\nAnother casualty of the \u201cedge-to-edge\u201d design is the status bar\u2014you know, the one at the bottom that lists the number of songs in your library, or the current playlist, or what have you, along with how long it would take to play those songs and how much disk space they use. You can restore that as well with a trip to the View menu, by choosing Show Status Bar.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s a host of new user interface conceits in iTunes 11, making it seem almost like a testbed for Apple\u2019s design. For example, the pop-up menus that appear when you click the black arrow button next to a song that you\u2019ve selected feels more like something out of iOS than OS X. Clicking on a sub-menu item\u2014Genius Suggestions, for example\u2014doesn\u2019t pop-open a sub-menu, but rather slides into a separate screen. Likewise, clicking on an album in the Album view slides open a list of songs in that album that resembles the iTunes Store (and includes a button that lets you quickly toggle over to that album in the store, as well).<br \/>\nYou\u2019ll see those pop-up menus all over, too. They don\u2019t just show up when you click on the caret that appears when you mouse over songs in iTunes; they show up when you use new features like the Up Next option (see below), or when you hold the mouse over the currently playing song in the Now Playing header.<br \/>\nFull Story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2017416\/hands-on-with-itunes-11.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hands on with iTunes 11 | Macworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make no mistake: When you first launch iTunes 11, it\u2019s going to feel awfully different from the iTunes you\u2019ve grown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[500,576,577,578],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-software","tag-icloud","tag-itunes","tag-itunes-match","tag-itunes-store"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/papNkV-25","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7085,"url":"https:\/\/nccomputertech.com\/techtalk\/2014\/12\/12\/apple-ios-8-1-2-fixes-an-issue-with-disappearing-ringtones\/","url_meta":{"origin":129,"position":0},"title":"Apple iOS 8.1.2 fixes an issue with disappearing ringtones","author":"NCCT","date":"December 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Apple\u2019s fifth patch for iOS 8 is now live. iOS 8.1.2 is said to address an issue in which ringtones purchased through iTunes were unexpectedly disappearing from devices. 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