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Step by step

If you're a tad obsessive, iTunes new Showing Steps during sync will appease your, "What the hell is iTunes doing right now?" issues. While syncing, iTunes now shows what step it's currently conducting and how steps you have total.

Additional playlists for your iOS Device

You no longer have to create a smart playlist just so the latest LCD Soundsystem album's tracks will end up on your iPhone. Now in addition to genres, playlists and artists, you can just choose an album to always sync to your iOS device. There are additional options for Podcasts, TV Shows, Movies and audio books.

Sort Apps by Kind

Now you can sort apps in iTunes by Kind. Helpful when you're trying to find a game, but you can't quite remember the name of it.

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Fix the traffic light buttons

This is the oddest addition to iTunes 10, instead of following years of UI design, Apple decided to set the buttons up like traffic lights.

Odd to say the least.

To get the buttons back where they belong, along the top of the iTunes media window you'll need to open the Terminal. Navigate to Applications > Utilities >Terminal. Copy and paste the following command.

defaults write com.apple.iTunes full-window -1

Restart iTunes. Tada, it's fixed.

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Photos to share

You may have noticed a new option Advanced menu bar item, Choose photos to share, Advanced > Choose photos to share. It looks promising, but only works with the brand new Apple TV that isn't out yet.

Hide Source items

Instead of arrows to hide Shared, Genius and Playlists, you now use the hidden Hide option. To undercover the Hide option, hover over the the Source item and Hide appears.

Album Art Player

When you enlarge album art, you can now control iTunes from within the art. To do this, click on artwork in the artwork viewer. Once it's all embiggened, hover over it like a QuickTime X player window and you have all your controls there.

Air stream in the lower right hand corner

If you use Air Tunes, you know great it is. Well now it's called AirPlay and the cool new things you can do with it involve the new Apple TV and according to Apple recievers and speakers from third-party vendors like Bowers & Wilkins and Denon. It's still in the lower right hand corner.

Album Artwork List View

Steve showed us the new Album list at the Apple event. the way it works is that when you have five or more songs from the same album, you get that album artwork in your list view.

If you want album artwork for all of your tracks--especially important when you buy singles with more than one track--navigate to the menu bar View > Always Show artwork. Now every track with album art will have that artwork displayed in your iTunes Album Art list view.

Goodbye Checkboxes

If the checkboxes bother you, you can remove them now. This is nice if you haven't unchecked any of the songs in your iTunes library. Why do you need the checkboxes if you're not using them?

To turn off the checkboxes navigate to the menu bar to iTunes > Preferences > General tab. There, you just uncheck the Show list checkboxes, then click OK.

Goodbye Source icons

If the new cool gray color scheme of iTunes is bringing you down, you can remove some of the elements that haven't seen a box of crayons, the Source icons. Instead of icons, you'll just have the names, Library, Store, Shared, etc.

To turn off the Source icons navigate to the Menu Bar to iTunes > Preferences > General tab. Just uncheck the Show source icons checkbox and hit OK.

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