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 Posted:   Jan 27, 2013 - 12:03 PM   
 By:   bondo321   (Member)

There are no doubt many annoyances with the new version of iTunes 11, but one really sticks out. When I'm clicking on an album, it drops down to display the entire tracklist. My question is this - when you're dealing with an album with multiple composers, why do SOME albums show you the individual composer but some albums don't? I've gone through and labelled each one, but it seems random.

Example: For Pirates of the Caribbean 1, I labelled the Album Composer as "Klaus Badelt" and then went through track by track labeling each composer; it shows up this way when I click the album. But for another album that I did the exact same process for, it only shows track names and not individual composers.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 
 Posted:   Jan 27, 2013 - 12:14 PM   
 By:   mastadge   (Member)

Just a guess, but maybe some of them are labelled "compilation albums" and some aren't. I know in older versions of iTunes I occasionally had trouble with an album not showing up, and that was often the cause.

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 27, 2013 - 12:17 PM   
 By:   bondo321   (Member)

Hmmm I checked that under "Info > Options > Part of a Compilation: No" and they're all labelled No....

 
 Posted:   Jan 27, 2013 - 12:40 PM   
 By:   Penelope Pineapple   (Member)

There are no doubt many annoyances with the new version of iTunes 11, but one really sticks out. When I'm clicking on an album, it drops down to display the entire tracklist. My question is this - when you're dealing with an album with multiple composers, why do SOME albums show you the individual composer but some albums don't? I've gone through and labelled each one, but it seems random.

Example: For Pirates of the Caribbean 1, I labelled the Album Composer as "Klaus Badelt" and then went through track by track labeling each composer; it shows up this way when I click the album. But for another album that I did the exact same process for, it only shows track names and not individual composers.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Try changing the "compilation" setting (even if it's already how you want it). For example, if iTunes has it marked as a compilation, change it so that it isn't, then change it back to a compilation--that's worked in the past for me.

Also, if something is marked as a compilation, the ALBUM ARTIST field should be empty and only the ARTIST field should have data in it. (This keeps the album together as "one" album in iTunes while still displaying each individual artist/composer when you click on it.)

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 27, 2013 - 1:38 PM   
 By:   bondo321   (Member)

Changing it TO a compilation and then back to NOT a compilation worked!! Thank you sir, you just relieved my headache big grin

 
 Posted:   Jan 27, 2013 - 6:30 PM   
 By:   DeputyRiley   (Member)

iTunes 11 is the absolute worst upgrade/change ever made to any software or computer program, ever, in my personal experience. I've literally lost count of how many problems I now have with iTunes 11 that I didn't have with iTunes 10.

One example: you can no longer shuffle a playlist and retain that shuffled order for your iPod or device. You can shuffle songs and hear them in a different order both with iTunes and on the iPod, but you cannot shuffle organized songs into a random list to display in front of you. I used to make shuffled playlists all the time, so this was particularly disappointing. The best I can do now is arrange the songs alphabetically instead of the album, so you get songs in order of "Angel," "Asteroid," "Autumn," etc. It's as random as you can get. Grrrr...this is just one example.

Ok, another example. If you are looking at your main music library by album and are looking at the score for "Gothika," then you click on a playlist on the side menu to see if you have any "Gothika" cues on that playlist and discover you don't, when you return to the main music library by album it starts over at the top (with "A-Team"). So then I have to scroll all the way back down to Gothika. If I check another playlist, or check songs on a CD I have in my player, when I return back to the main music library...it's right back at "A-Team."

Horrible, horrible, horrible. A colossal blunder!

Oh well life goes on. smile

 
 Posted:   Jan 27, 2013 - 6:46 PM   
 By:   Mr Greg   (Member)

I have often encountered similar problems with almost every version of iTunes...my first step in trying to solve it is to shut iTunes down and restart it again - this, for some reason, cures many of these niggling errors. Ridiculous...

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 27, 2013 - 7:19 PM   
 By:   Brad Wills   (Member)

iTunes 11 is a complete failure. Export your library, uninstall iTunes, then download and install iTunes 10. Now import your library. You'll still have your playlists, etc. Any image/artwork that you may have manually embedded will be retained, but you will lose any automatically downloaded artwork. Still, that's a minor annoyance when compared to just about ANY facet of version 11. Bleah.

 
 Posted:   Jan 27, 2013 - 7:51 PM   
 By:   The REAL BJBien   (Member)

i apologize in advance...

one of the worst fucking experiences of my life was installing 11 and mind you, i actually like iTunes and use it daily but after 30 mins of not making any sense of it, i had to go online and use tutorials and quick tips to RELEARN a program i've been using for 5+ years.

i dont understand how this was seen as an improvement or simplified or advancement.

as all others have said, uninstall 11 and use 10.

 
 Posted:   Jan 27, 2013 - 7:54 PM   
 By:   mastadge   (Member)

While I think iTunes 11 is a downgrade, I didn't find it sufficiently catastrophic to bother uninstalling it. I am curious what happened, though -- hadn't they been talking for some time about the next major upgrade to iTunes being a simplified, more streamlined, less resource-hungry version?

 
 
 Posted:   Jan 28, 2013 - 5:06 PM   
 By:   bondo321   (Member)

Ok, another example. If you are looking at your main music library by album and are looking at the score for "Gothika," then you click on a playlist on the side menu to see if you have any "Gothika" cues on that playlist and discover you don't, when you return to the main music library by album it starts over at the top (with "A-Team"). So then I have to scroll all the way back down to Gothika. If I check another playlist, or check songs on a CD I have in my player, when I return back to the main music library...it's right back at "A-Team."




This is INCREDIBLY frustrating!!

 
 Posted:   Jan 28, 2013 - 6:09 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

The latest iTunes is total crap. Their latest Mac without an optical drive is crap. Totally disgusted with Apple. Their new products are worthless to me.

 
 Posted:   Jan 29, 2013 - 12:05 PM   
 By:   Dyfrynt   (Member)

I am baffled at what Apple has done to iTunes. Their stated goal was to simplify and streamline the program. Not even sure what that is supposed to mean.

What has happened in actuality is that many optional ways of doing things have been stripped from the program. It is now more of a do it their way or the highway program. Want to compare two playlists side by side? You can't. iTunes 11 will only allow you one open window at a time.

Want to have your sidebar with your playlists back? You actually can do that, but it is not the default.

Want to do away with the idiotic cover flow format. You can do that too. I always listed the music in my main library window by tracks, sorted by score. You can get that back too but again it is not intuitive how to do so.

 
 Posted:   Apr 4, 2014 - 5:05 PM   
 By:   orbital   (Member)

One more iTunes 11 question:

Concerning the year shown behind the artist (when you click on/open up an album) iTunes takes the most recent year of all tracks of that album. Is there a way to change this??? [To, say, the most "dated back" year or the year of a specific track]

Exemplary picture for clarification:

 
 Posted:   Apr 8, 2014 - 11:21 AM   
 By:   orbital   (Member)

I fear there is no way to change this?

Another recent example I came across: The Naxos 2CD set with both the re-recordings from Korngold's THE SEA HAWK and DECEPTION. SEA HAWK 1940, DECEPTION 1946. iTunes picks 1946 but I'd prefer 1940.

 
 Posted:   Apr 8, 2014 - 1:14 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I fear there is no way to change this?

Another recent example I came across: The Naxos 2CD set with both the re-recordings from Korngold's THE SEA HAWK and DECEPTION. SEA HAWK 1940, DECEPTION 1946. iTunes picks 1946 but I'd prefer 1940.


I never view my iTunes albums that way. But I took a look. The year appears to be directly associated with the meta tags for each file/playlist. So if you go into your playlist, select all, right click and select info you can change the information there. I would assume that change would also take place in album view.

 
 Posted:   Apr 8, 2014 - 1:48 PM   
 By:   orbital   (Member)

Thanks for answering, solium. Yes, iTunes takes this info from the meta tags. If one album contains songs/tracks from different years (see my example above: I tagged the SEA HAWK tracks with the year 1940 and the DECEPTION tracks with 1946), iTunes takes the most recent year (here: 1946) for this kind of album view.

My question is if this can be changed somehow. I'd prefer the "most dated back" year (here: 1940). Like you said, I could set the year 1940 for all tracks but that would mean an incorrect year for the DECEPTION tracks.

Ah well, I guess this can't be changed so the only way is to come up with some workaround.

 
 Posted:   Apr 8, 2014 - 2:17 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

I see. That's a tough one. I guess as you surmised there's no way of accomplishing that task within that view.

 
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