What’s New in iTunes 12.2

[kirkmc]

What’s New in iTunes 12.2

[Michael Lach]

Here's a few things I've found that are new in iTunes 12.2.

• There is now the option to add a playlist to "Add To Up Next". Previously, one could only play or shuffle a playlist, and a dialog would pop up asking if you wanted to clear the current Up Next list. This is a much-needed addition.
  
• When viewing the contents of an album in Album view, Command-A no longer selects all the tracks on that album. (Bummer!)
  
• When viewing the contents of an album in Album view, songs that are not checked no longer are displayed as grayed out. (Bummer!)
  
• There is now a "playlist" view filter in the upper right corner, alongside songs, albums, artists, composers, and genres. I'm not very clear how it's different from the Songs view, however
  

[Michael Lach]

Installed the 12.2.1 updated. The following omissions have yet to be fixed:

• When viewing the contents of an album in Album view, Command-A no longer selects all the tracks on that album. (Bummer!)
  
• When viewing the contents of an album in Album view, songs that are not checked no longer are displayed as grayed out. (Bummer!)
  

[kirkmc]

Yes, both of those are major bummers, but I think the unchecked tracks being dimmed is the most annoying.

[someToast]

When viewing the contents of an album in Album view, Command-A no longer selects all the tracks on that album. (Bummer!)

Command-A selects all tracks in all views for me, as long as the listing pane has focus.

[Michael Lach]

Odd, it does. Specifically, command-A seems to work when the Library is selected under the playlist tab, per the following screen shot.

 

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[someToast]

Ah ha… for playlists in Album view Command-A does not work (I had only looked at views for My Music).

 

As an aside, I usually manage playlists in Playlist or Songs view. The uselessness of Artists view really takes your breath away.

 

[Michael Lach]

Yup, thanks. I've got a bunch of playlists that consists of my favorite albums of a particular year, so I like to be able to view some of them by album.