Comments on: Get the Classic iTunes Search List Style Back in iTunes 11

By: Rich W.

Rich W. — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:08:08 +0000

“Reduced functionality”? Anticipating variations and providing options is good interface design, so I’d call it “added value”.

Good tip. Toggling “Search entire library” to achieve this wasn’t very intuitive on it’s own.

I’m finding that the dynamic search is slowing iTunes’ search response time. I usually prefer dynamic search, as long as it’s fast (Spotlight) or fast enough given the context (Hulu), but I’d rather not search my entire iTunes library based on entering just the first one or two characters if iTunes is going to be so pokey about it. I imagine this problem gets worse for very large libraries.

To be fair, maybe there is, or will be in a future point release, some behind-the-scenes indexing that will make it faster. Until then, thanks for this tip.

By: Ben Mordecai

Ben Mordecai — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:29:46 +0000

YES! Thank you!

By: Allan Rojas

Allan Rojas — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:23:34 +0000

amazing tip! thx! keep them coming!

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:39:15 +0000

Yup, as others have said. Just press return to get the list of results instead of the popover. Best of both worlds.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:22:27 +0000

Excellent tip – many thanks, makes iTunes more useable again. I love progress, but not at the expense of functionality/quickness.

By: Alberto

Alberto — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:28:23 +0000

*This* is why I like OsXdaily!!!

By: MickM

MickM — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:42:42 +0000

Thank you for the tip – that missing functionality was the biggest thing that was bugging me about the new iTunes.

By: banger

banger — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:53:04 +0000

doh!…. can’t delete my comment but it appears I was w…w… wer… wer…. mistaken…

By: banger

banger — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:46:52 +0000

hmmm….. why can’t I find anything from compilations this way?…. doesn’t work…

By: Skipper E

Skipper E — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:27:11 +0000

Sweet baby FSM, this is what I’ve been wanting ever since the update. Thank you a million times!

By: Ronald Lanham

Ronald Lanham — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:35:12 +0000

Excellent tip!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:50:52 +0000

Good tip from my perspective. Returned the functionality that was irritably missing in my iTunes app.

By: Curt

Curt — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:24:25 +0000

Don’t know what your talking about. This actually reduces functionality as the previous comments point out. If you just hit enter you get to see the results like the ways of old, and if not, you can push the down arrow and select more discreet results right away…

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:40:53 +0000

When I hit enter my song starts playing in Up Next. Why does iTunes 11 UI complicate longstanding UX tradition?

By: David

David — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:25:19 +0000

I’ve been doing what marinomarcoma said (just type and hit Enter) and it does not show the Up Next thing. It filters your current view, be it TV Shows, Music, Movies, whatever, based on your text entered.

I haven’t installed anything screwy, or tweaked any settings or defaults or anything. I’m not sure why it doesn’t work for you, but it works on my Macs (all of them) just fine. Strange.