7 Features Apple Killed Off in iTunes 11 [cnet.com]. I was originally annoyed by removing the ability to edit the 'gapless' state of files (removing that one just seems stupid), but as no other player I use on any other platform supports the feature, I gave up caring.
Winamp has supported gapless playback for a decade now. I honestly can't understand how gapless playback isn't a default feature/setting in any music playing software.
I hadn't really noticed the distinctions in winamp, but winamp is usually what I'm playing at work so I'm only barely paying attention.
The lack of gapless more sticks out on the music players of my tablet, and the cd-rom player in my car, which are the two times I'm more likely to listen to classical. If the CD broke the tracks up (a-la most recordings of Rite of Spring and Firebird) the gaps are very frustrating and I'm going to slowly re-rip most of them to be single-track (at least iTunes hasn't gotten r
Tried this on my test machine, and it appears to be true. What The Hell. This completely wrecks my workflow for creating playlists (which was to have library open in one window, playlist in another, and to drag files from the library into the right place on the playlist).
For fnord's sake. It seems that these days every update from Apple ends up just frustrating me. Not installing this one either, just like Safari 6 (no RSS, again WTF?)
My biggest issue is doing away with iTunes DJ. I use tons of playlists, but the DJ was and still is the best way to listen to them. It played a playlist but allowed me to easily change the order of songs coming up without clicking the shuffle button a bunch of times. I could manually change my order without affecting the playlist. And, perhaps most importantly, if I wanted to listen to one or two songs NOT in that playlist, just find them and add them to the queue. It's essentially a way to make quick,
That part of DJ is still there (from what I read). What is missing now is the way in which anybody (if you opened up your iTunes folders) could request tracks from the outside. Either they got rid of that for lack of use, or more likely because it opened up security holes that they didn't want to keep playing catch-up on closing.
I do like the fact that you can have it generally shuffle, but prioritize (weighted shuffle) those with higher ratings.
The gapless field was removed because it is for the most part needlessly redundant. For some time now, the iTunes application and Apple's iDevices playback as gapless by default already [apple.com], regardless of whether the gapless field is checked.
In fact, for some time it's been difficult or impossible to disable gapless playback. But this is an entirely different complaint.
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CNET overviews the removed features (Score:4, Informative)
7 Features Apple Killed Off in iTunes 11 [cnet.com]. I was originally annoyed by removing the ability to edit the 'gapless' state of files (removing that one just seems stupid), but as no other player I use on any other platform supports the feature, I gave up caring.
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I hadn't really noticed the distinctions in winamp, but winamp is usually what I'm playing at work so I'm only barely paying attention.
The lack of gapless more sticks out on the music players of my tablet, and the cd-rom player in my car, which are the two times I'm more likely to listen to classical. If the CD broke the tracks up (a-la most recordings of Rite of Spring and Firebird) the gaps are very frustrating and I'm going to slowly re-rip most of them to be single-track (at least iTunes hasn't gotten r
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"5. Multiple windows"
Tried this on my test machine, and it appears to be true. What The Hell. This completely wrecks my workflow for creating playlists (which was to have library open in one window, playlist in another, and to drag files from the library into the right place on the playlist).
For fnord's sake. It seems that these days every update from Apple ends up just frustrating me. Not installing this one either, just like Safari 6 (no RSS, again WTF?)
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My biggest issue is doing away with iTunes DJ. I use tons of playlists, but the DJ was and still is the best way to listen to them. It played a playlist but allowed me to easily change the order of songs coming up without clicking the shuffle button a bunch of times. I could manually change my order without affecting the playlist. And, perhaps most importantly, if I wanted to listen to one or two songs NOT in that playlist, just find them and add them to the queue. It's essentially a way to make quick,
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That part of DJ is still there (from what I read). What is missing now is the way in which anybody (if you opened up your iTunes folders) could request tracks from the outside. Either they got rid of that for lack of use, or more likely because it opened up security holes that they didn't want to keep playing catch-up on closing.
I do like the fact that you can have it generally shuffle, but prioritize (weighted shuffle) those with higher ratings.
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The gapless field was removed because it is for the most part needlessly redundant. For some time now, the iTunes application and Apple's iDevices playback as gapless by default already [apple.com], regardless of whether the gapless field is checked.
In fact, for some time it's been difficult or impossible to disable gapless playback. But this is an entirely different complaint.