[remnett]

Ahh... but you can go back. You can download old versions here (http://support.apple...wnloads/#itunes). Just uninstall iTunes 11 and reinstall iTunes 10.7 and re add your music. If you have a copy of your iTunes Library.itl file from 10.7 you will not lose any of your playlists.

[campkanc]

I have been a long user of apple products and software, and this is the first time I have been so very disappointed with an update from Apple. Itunes 11 is the worst thing I have seen from them in 11 years....... why???? I am deleting my it!!! hate hate hate it. Fortunately we have backed everything up, so will go back to the old itunes.... and never again will a blindly click on any updates from Apple. I hope this gets back to them...... Steve Jobs would be so very disappointed!

[MacworldIJS]

I have just accidentally upgraded my machine to iTunes 11. What a car crash...... What is it with these people that they think that there is a need to change the user interface wholesale for no reason whatsoever? It is like getting in your own car to find the steering wheel has been replaced with a dish of custard and the foot pedals with a goldfish bowl. Utterly useless. I have now spent an hour trying to find out how to add a folder from my WIndows Media imports (suppose that is the clue... importing using iTunes appears to by quite easy.. but I have a reason for this method). Software developers now think everything has to look as if you are using an ipad. I am typing this using the new version of Firefox which itself has gone down that route with no determinable tool bar. It is all total twonk.

[welcometothefuture]

ITunes 11 works great, i have no issues and there was hardly a learning curve. It got a much needed upgraded. ITunes has finally caught up with the times, it seemed be stuck in 2005. I think apple is setting up for the touch screen revolution thats happening all around us. Touch is on the fast track to becoming ubiquitous with general computing. Gone are the days when a multi touch interface was exclusive to a mobile device.

[tyronbyrd]

I noticed that all of the media reviews about iTunes were largely positive, while the consumer reviews were quite ubiquitously negative. That leads me to doubt the integrity of the writers, but that aside iTunes 11 is terrible.

I've been using iTunes since mid-2004, and while it's had minor fluctuations in quality, it has followed a predominantly upward trend until now. iTunes 11 feels heavily stripped down, I generally have no issues adapting to a product with the exception of a minor bump here and there, but I would swear that the dialogue that iTunes 11 coaxed from me mirrored that of my eighty-five year old grandmother figuring out how to work her DVD player.

Nothing is intuitive, several of the popular interfaces have been removed, and when viewing your entire music collection iTunes will no longer display how many songs you have nor the amount of play time your library is equivalent to.

I'm glad that I experienced this all through my friend's computer, I haven't updated myself and am opting to stick to 10.7.

[Gavskii]

I dislike the new Itunes intensely... its on a frustration factor of truly Microsoft proportions... I agree with all the complaints above PLUS where has the waveform graph gone? Grrrrrr!

[Norzemen]

I upgraded to Itunes reluctantly and boy did I make a mistake. I at least should have exported my playlist first.

I don't own any Apple devices anymore, so for the most part I use Itunes to create and manage play lists. The new interface made it less convienient to see what was in my play lists. I cant stand their improvement and looked for ways to revert to the include the old method of viewing. Doesn't exist. So I removed Itunes 11 entirely. I found Itunes 10 on the web and loaded it up but Itunes 11 play lists info is not compatible so I lost my playlists too. Arggg!

Is there any application out there that manages your local music?

[Anjohl]

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I upgraded to Itunes reluctantly and boy did I make a mistake. I at least should have exported my playlist first. I don't own any Apple devices anymore, so for the most part I use Itunes to create and manage play lists. The new interface made it less convienient to see what was in my play lists. I cant stand their improvement and looked for ways to revert to the include the old method of viewing. Doesn't exist. So I removed Itunes 11 entirely. I found Itunes 10 on the web and loaded it up but Itunes 11 play lists info is not compatible so I lost my playlists too. Arggg! Is there any application out there that manages your local music?

Agreed, and well said. I hate that itunes hobbled "Song" view. What made itunes special for me was the ability to view your whole library in that view, and that searches would dynamically adjust, IE, if you typed "Me", you would see all songs by Metallica, Megadeth, Meshuggah, of genre: Metal, etc, and if you kept typing to enter "Meta", now you are reducing the displayed results.

The loss of that feature, and the ability to manage everything in song view makes me hate the new itunes, though I think they meant well.

[KittyGee]

I find iTunes No. 11 an embarrassment.

When I'm in the iTunes Store, I can't find a Search button that would allow me next to key in the artist and/or song I'm wanting to buy. Instead, there is some obstacle course. It includes having to put up with some display of icons for LPs as if it's some advertisement and not really a store.

Navigating the site is now a pain also with the scroll bar. Off to the right side, it has become so thinned downed it's obviously calling into accountability poor design.

There is no excuse for any of this. It actually come across as some concerted effort to destroy iTunes. And I'm considering another source from a competitor with good service and a painless, friendly website.