Thankfully, Apple Support keeps older iTunes versions online (or at least, they’re there now). The first problem was locating the most recent version of iTunes 10. Well, I finally made the decision to revert back to iTunes 10. All we get is whole lot of learning curve, fighting through bugs, dealing with stupidity in UI design all without any substantial ease of use improvements. There just isn’t any reward for dealing with this massive of a change. Seriously, what was the benefit to changing the interface that radically for no end-user payoff? I mean, at least give us users some kind of a bone to endure that kind of radical change. I’ve heard some people seem to like some of the changes. Rewriting that much of an app is really a gamble and this is one gamble didn’t pay off.

I’ve had it with iTunes 11 and all of its stupid new quirks. That’s just some of the underwhelming, but major changes in iTunes 11. So, now checkboxes are global settings across the whole of iTunes. Meaning, if you uncheck a song in one playlist and it exists in other playlists, it unchecks the song there too. Worse, playlist metadata is now stupidly globally linked. I’ve never had this issue with iTunes 10. On startup, it proceeded to lock up Windows and prevent me from working with the desktop. When I put a second CD into my second drive, the whole app locked up. When I attempted to restart the import, iTunes 11 would only begin at the next track and refused to replace the existing, something that iTunes 10 does quite nicely. It imported fine until I stopped it because I realized the import settings were wrong. Well, the last straw came today when I tried importing a CD. With its missing menus, unnecessary drop down menus, haphazard interface, missing Radio link (well, not missing, but moved to a hard-to-find area), huge graphical album listings and no easy way to set art on music any more, the whole iTunes 11 release is one big botch.

It is very obvious that Tim Cook (and crew) are systematically undoing every ideal that Jobs held for Apple. So, I’ve decided to roll back to iTunes 10. After giving iTunes 11 a fair shake, I have come to the conclusion that this version is so hopelessly broken that I just can’t deal with it any longer. If you’re looking for the Mac OS X downgrade steps, please check out this Randosity article. New Article: How to make iTunes 12 look and act more like iTunes 10

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