iTunes 9 Tips and Tricks - Solve the Mysteries of the New iTunes
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The latest update to iTunes is such a drastic change that many users are scratching their heads trying to figure out where everything is and how to work it.
Sure, if you just want to hit Play, you're good to go, but if you're looking for the alleged ringtones Steve was talking about, or how to share your music via Twitter and Facebook, it's not that cut and dry.
We jumped right into iTunes and hopefully, this list of tips will help you get back to enjoying your music while basking comfortably in the new features of iTunes 9.
Arrange Your iPhone Apps
You can now arrange your iPhone apps from within iTunes. Woo-hoo! Not so fast there, buddy, It's still a bit of a pain. You can't drag apps from, lets say, Screen 2 to Screen 10. The navigation doesn't scroll automatically as you attempt to drag and drop. The best method to move items from Screen 2 to Screen 10 is to click on Screen 2. Then scroll to Screen 10. Drag and drop your app from Screen 2 to Screen 10. You'll have to navigate back to Screen 2 in order to grab other apps, unless you Command-click to select more than one in the first place.
UPDATE: Move more than one app at a time. Command-Click on a second, or third, app and you can move them all at once to a new screen.
UPDATE: Commenter woolyninja points out that you can indeed drag apps to screens and have the screen list scroll as your drag. My two test machines with iTunes 9 wouldn't allow this, no matter how hard I tried. I just tried it on a third machine and it works like a charm. Thanks catching this Mr. woolyninja, may all your throwing stars hit their mark.
Navigate the iTunes Store
All categories now have a menubar item at the top of the store window, and those menubar items have contextual menus. To move forward and back, you use the arrows in the upper-left corner. This may seem like "duh!" but a few folks have missed the drop-down menus entirely while navigating the new store layout.
Hold Me Closer, Tiny Player
Clicking the green radio button no longer shrinks your iTunes window to the Mini Player we've come to know and love. To do that, press Command-Shift-M, or choose View > Show Mini Player. Once the Mini Player is on your screen, you can click its green radio button to go back to a regular-sized window.
UPDATE: Option-Clicking on the green button will minimize the iTunes window to the Mini Player. Thanks Ryan Schaaf via Twitter!
Where are Genius Mixes?
To get the Genius Mixes feature to appear, you have to update Genius.
Navigate to Store > Update Genius. Genius Mixes will appear under the regular Genius playlist option.
On the iPhone and iPod touch, you need to have Genius Mixes turned on within iTunes. Plug your iPhone or iPod touch into your computer. Select your iPhone in the left panel and then navigate to the Music tab. There you can check the Genius Mixes under playlists. Those mixes will be synced to your iPhone. Careful, since you can't tell how many songs are in the Genius Mixes, the mix could be more than your device can handle if you have a large music library.
Once you've found the Genius Mixes, it can be a let-down. Genius Mixes doesn't allow you to see what songs are in the mix. You just have to trust it.
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