AppleInsider Staff
Apple on Thursday released a new version of its iTunes media suite, with a new MiniPlayer featuring artwork and a progress bar, along with an improved Songs View.
iTunes 11.0.3 is now available to download direct from Apple or through an OS X software update. The application is a 196.6-megabyte download for Mac. An update is also available for Windows users.
Release notes for the software state that users can now see their album artwork while in Songs View with iTunes 11.0.3. The updated software also adds support for multi-disc albums, which are now shown as a single album.
According to Apple, the update also provides performance improvements when searching and sorting large iTunes libraries.
The latest relatively minor update to iTunes arrived in February in the form of version 11.0.2,adding a new "Composers" view for music along with providing speed and reliability upgrades.
The last major update to the software was released as iTunes 11 last November. It featured a complete overhaul of the application's design, along with a new storefront and tighter integration with Apple's iCloud suite of services.
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Hopefully it also fixes the bug where iTunes forgets that I marked 'show purchases in the cloud' and whatever they did to screw up compilations
One thing I wish you could do in iTunes is the ability to tie two songs together so even if on shuffle they'll always be played back to back
What about not showing playlists made from iTunes Radio stations in the Songs listing along with my actual albums?
That started in… iTunes 10, I think? I want to see them in the playlist only, not under songs, since they're not.
POST-INSTALL EDIT: Still can't change the size of artwork… Thanks for removing that, Apple¡
I wish they'd correct an annoying problem I'm having with iTunes defaulting to album view. Basically, if I'm in song view (where I normally have it), insert a CD, rip it and then eject it, the damned thing always defaults to album view. Under normal circumstances, this wouldn't be an issue as I wouldn't be constantly inserting discs, but I'm in the process of re-ripping my collection one more time (in ALAC this time) and it is getting really friggin' annoying to have to constantly switch back to song view.
The new iTunes 11 interface makes me rage so hard at it's awfulness that I've switched to J River Media Center. I don't know who thought they were making an improvement in design, but they failed miserably.