Viewing album artwork itunes 11
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In its expanded view, iTunes 11 focuses on a single album, showing its tracks in columns and its artwork to the right, and using dominant colors from the album art for the background and text. (To turn off the expanded view’s colors and album art display in the General preferences, uncheck Use custom colors for open albums, movies, etc.) The background and text take on colors from the album art. The expanded view shows the tracks in several columns (if there are enough tracks), with the album artwork to the right. When you’re in Albums view, you can click a graphic to see what’s behind it. This design choice is surprising, as younger music fans tend to focus on individual songs rather than on albums. The only way to determine how many tracks are collected there is to click the graphic. In Albums view-the new default view-everything is an album that is, whether the actual content is a single song, a few songs from an album, or an entire album, a single graphic represents it. Although I regret the loss of Album List view, I’m quite happy with some of the new options. In each view mode-Songs, Albums, Artists, or Genres-you have sort options, but if you click Playlists, and then select a playlist, the View button near the top right of the iTunes window gives you even more options. (Videos, Books, and other types of content offer similar options.) You can sort items in these views as you like: Press Command-J to display a tiny View Options window, where you can sort by Title, Artist, Year, or Rating, for example, when in Genres view.Īpple removed some views from iTunes, but it increased the number of view options. The new options to view music by Genres or by Artists display sidebars showing icons for genres or for artists, with icons from your album art. The gray icons are gone, and increased contrast makes viewing playlists easier. The program also uses a Helvetica font with reduced spacing between letters, enabling iTunes to display longer texts in short spaces (such as in the Playlists column). In addition, when you display playlists, their text will be larger and bolder, and the background of the Playlists column will be lighter, providing much better contrast. In my review “ First look: iTunes 10,” written in September 2010, I lamented the absence of color, saying, “iTunes 10 has a somewhat Soviet utilitarian look which, to my eyes, makes it less interesting to work with.” Well, color is back, both in the sidebar and in the Library pop-up menu at the top left of the iTunes window. The most obvious change is the reintroduction of color to the program.