iTunes realises you probably don’t own them all, and the view is designed to make you feel good about that. Click on a release, and the window expands to shows you the track numbers and details of every track you own from that release. I personally think – maybe because I remember “real” record covers – that covers are a powerful way to memorise, sort and choose music for sets and listening. It’s a beautiful way of browsing your tracks, and will send you scurrying to obtain pictures for stuff that’s not got its own art. This view is all the cover art of your music. Building a playlist from within the album view in iTunes 11. Sure some songs come from SoundCloud, or are given to you, or whatever, but most I’d wager in your collection are from formal releases. If you think of “album” as actually meaning “release”, it makes more sense. But there’s more to Album view than that. “But I’m a DJ, I don’t buy or use albums!” You can “Auto size all columns” which is a nice option. It’s basically business as usual here and the closest to iTunes 10 of the lot, especially if you’re a coward and slink off to urn the sidebar on again (as I did at first!). However, you can still sort by artist, BPM, whatever, so really it could be thought of as just a “list view” mode. This lists each file individually, and is closest to looking at the contents of a folder in your Finder or Explorer on your OS. It’s very much like Spotlight in OS X, but much prettier. It autosuggests as you type, searching across everything and gives you categorised results, but they’re in a dropdown window so your search doesn’t affect the view you’re currently using in the program. You can also jump to the artist or the album from here, use Genius, or go and find the artist in the iTunes Store. Whichever of these views you’re in, though, clicking on a tune plays it, but hovering over any individual tune brings up a little arrow click on this, and you get several other options. One of these is “Up Next” which is the queue of upcoming tunes (more later). Nonetheless if you do use iTunes for other things too, you can choose which library you’re viewing from the drop-down menu top-left of the main window.Īcross the top of the main window section are five choices – songs, albums, artists, genres and playlists. It’s a bit scary at first, but after an hour, I liked it. I don’t use iTunes for anything but to organise my DJ music collection, so I quickly hit “Preferences” and turned off podcasts, videos and so on leaving just my music. From the new logo, to the lack of a sidebar (want it back? Just go to View > Show Sidebar) to the new music player, everything seems simpler and more visual.
#Install itunes 11 without bloatware software#
How good is the software for DJs? And what changes are in iTunes 11 that will help or hinder DJs in preparing and playing better sets? In this new iTunes 11 review for DJs, we’ll find out. Today we’ll cover all the new views and features, and I’ll give some thoughts on whether it’s still a good option for DJs to use as a library management solution. ITunes 11 is a radical redesign of Apple’s music library software. ITunes 11 boasts a radical redesign, but the changes are firmly for the better as far as using it as a DJ set planning and even a music discovery program go.
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