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You know, more than anything, the monochromatic thing really has me scratching my head. It practically removes a whole subset of visual cues from the app and really doesn't make any sense.

Yeah, I'm really not feeling it - just looks like the whole sidebar isn't selected? It's like the new 360 controller with the greyscale buttons - is this the current trend or something?

I really don't like the new checkboxes either - I wish you could turn them off.

I hated the icon from the preview shots, but it's not so bad in use although KoLs is MUCH nicer!

I like the album art player, although TBH I doubt I'll use it.

Seems about the same to me performance wise, but I've never had any issues with running iTunes on Windows really.

Just noticed you can FINALLY move the artist column so it's first!

Was gonna give this new version a try but uninstalled it. I just cant freaking stand how this program deals with adding your music to the library and album art. I have folder.jpg's in every album, but itunes completely ignores them and would rather download album art for everything itself (and it cant find album art for half my music) and it just takes AGES to add my music to the library compared to any other playing it. It has to add it, dl album art, and then analyze for gapless playback for 12 million hours. And then if you want to use genius you might as well leave your pc on for a few days while it finishes. :rolleyes:

And also even though I unchecked things in the installer like update apple software it installs: apple software update and safari, along with all the other crap it installs. Bonjour, quicktime, apple mobile device support, apple software support ect. Had way more processes running on my system after installing it. I would like itunes if they would cut down on the ridiculous amount of crap it installs and processes it runs and streamline the process of adding stuff to your library, but right now its just so convoluted.

^ I'm glad the min/max/close buttons are in the normal places on Windows - that would drive me mad on OS X!

If they wanted them the same as the miniplayer, why not just changed the miniplayer? There's plenty of room there if they just dropped the play buttons down a bit.

Because it's a mini-player and that's the best place to put them to conserve space :p

I quite like the new look, but the icon is terrible. Looks ugly on my Windows 7 Taskbar. The worst thing about iTunes is the Store - it takes ages to load pages now with all the content on them!

Roll on iOS 4.1!! :)

Was gonna give this new version a try but uninstalled it. I just cant freaking stand how this program deals with adding your music to the library and album art. I have folder.jpg's in every album, but itunes completely ignores them and would rather download album art for everything itself (and it cant find album art for half my music) and it just takes AGES to add my music to the library compared to any other playing it. It has to add it, dl album art, and then analyze for gapless playback for 12 million hours. And then if you want to use genius you might as well leave your pc on for a few days while it finishes. :rolleyes:

And also even though I unchecked things in the installer like update apple software it installs: apple software update and safari, along with all the other crap it installs. Bonjour, quicktime, apple mobile device support, apple software support ect. Had way more processes running on my system after installing it. I would like itunes if they would cut down on the ridiculous amount of crap it installs and processes it runs and streamline the process of adding stuff to your library, but right now its just so convoluted.

stay with foobar, problem solved :whistle:

Who was in charge of iTunes 10???

First of all, hiding the album covers in list view for albums that don't have x number of songs SUCKS! Now it looks like a mess!

The vertical traffic light.. really apple? I hope that's not going to be a new standard because it looks horrid.

Ping... cool idea that many have tried already but why can't I use a nickname instead? I don't want my billing name published all over!

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First of all, hiding the album covers in list view for albums that don't have x number of songs SUCKS! Now it looks like a mess!

View > Always Show Artwork

The vertical traffic light.. really apple? I hope that's not going to be a new standard because it looks horrid.

If you're on OS X (and if you're complaining about the vertical traffic lights, I guess you are :p):

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1

Just plug that into Terminal and restart iTunes. Should be back to normal.

I think I'm happy with this version of the icons. Now to make the smaller sizes. http://cl.ly/8dc057af500bc984d85c

Those are hotness. :woot:

I really don't like the new checkboxes either - I wish you could turn them off.

Just uncheck this (in Preferences) and you're good to go:

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View > Always Show Artwork

If you're on OS X (and if you're complaining about the vertical traffic lights, I guess you are :p):

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1

Just plug that into Terminal and restart iTunes. Should be back to normal.

Those are hotness. :woot:

Just uncheck this (in Preferences) and you're good to go:

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Well now I'm happy again! lol Thank you!

Is anyone having issue with their album covers not showing with the "cover flow" display view?

They were showing after I installed iTunes 10 but then after a while they just disappeared for some reason. And now its just black.

Is this a new bug :(?

I closed and restarted iTunes and still now Album covers in the "cover flow" display view.

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Just want to report it is definately faster, in terms of Startup, loading of App Store ( First Page only, others still seems to take forever ), iPhone related operations are all snappier.

However it is by no means a fast apps. It is still slow when doing Multiple things at once, scrolling is still slow etc...

But at least it is an improvement...

Just want to report it is definately faster, in terms of Startup, loading of App Store ( First Page only, others still seems to take forever ), iPhone related operations are all snappier.

However it is by no means a fast apps. It is still slow when doing Multiple things at once, scrolling is still slow etc...

But at least it is an improvement...

Yes I agree iTunes 10 definately overall seems faster!

Now if Apple can just make Quicktime open faster on Windows I would be very happy!

Because it's a mini-player and that's the best place to put them to conserve space :p

Well it could be even smaller if they had them horizontally and move the play buttons down slightly.

View > Always Show ArtworkIf you're on OS X (and if you're complaining about the vertical traffic lights, I guess you are :p):

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1

Just plug that into Terminal and restart iTunes. Should be back to normal.Those are hotness. :woot:Just uncheck this (in Preferences) and you're good to go:post-17580-12834374711451.png

Ah cheers for that! Is that a new option, never noticed it before... but maybe it's because they didn't bother me much before.

Beautiful icons as always KoL, just one thing - is that mark in the bottom right corner meant to be there? It looks ok on the square icon but seems out of place on the round one. I guess you'd barely notice it normal size though.

If you're on OS X (and if you're complaining about the vertical traffic lights, I guess you are :p):

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1

Just plug that into Terminal and restart iTunes. Should be back to normal.

thank you for that!!! the vertical buttons where driving me nuts

Hey,

Why do we even need quicktime?

This has to get repeated at least once with every new version of iTunes, but here goes: Quicktime forms the back end of iTunes just as the Windows Media Runtime files form the back end of Windows Media Player and the Zune software on Windows. Quicktime Player is only one part (although the most visible part) of Quicktime as a whole.

Yes I agree iTunes 10 definately overall seems faster!

Now if Apple can just make Quicktime open faster on Windows I would be very happy!

Agreed, The Windows version of Quicktime has been neglected, and could do with a large update to the standard that Quicktime X has.

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