The problem with this new Recently Added view is that you can’t change it. (The missing sidebar, by the way, has returned as the main control for viewing your content within a library.) This replaces Recently Added sections at the top of the various views, such as Artists, Albums, and Genres, for music, and the different views for Movies, TV Shows, and Podcasts. The Unchangeable Recently Added ViewĪlso new in iTunes 12.4 is a Recently Added entry in the sidebar. To go to your Music library, press Command-1 (Control-1 on Windows). With these shortcuts, any media library is just a keypress away and for most people, it’s even quicker to press a keyboard shortcut than click a button.

These aren’t new they’ve been in iTunes for a long time, but most people don’t use them. If you check the View > Media Kind library, you’ll see that there are keyboard shortcuts to quickly access the different media kinds.

If that extra click really bothers you, I offer an even better solution: use keyboard shortcuts. Now, there’s a single menu at the left, and view options are in the sidebar.īut some people have complained that what was before a single click to switch libraries now takes two clicks. You had to click on the left to choose a media library, then click in the center to choose a sub-library, then click the menu at the right to adjust how you viewed the content (by album, artist, genre, etc.). One problem I found with iTunes 12 was that there were just too many buttons. Personally, I find the new approach an improvement. Here’s what the previous version of iTunes offered to select a media library: This menu at the top left of the iTunes window replaces a customizable row of icons that allows you to switch from one media library (Music, Movies, TV Shows, etc.) to another. The most visible change to iTunes 12.4 is what Apple calls the Media Picker.

Here’s a look at some of the annoyances in iTunes 12.4, and how to get around them. Some iTunes users have found that a feature they depended on is missing, or has been moved others find that the new “simplified” navigation isn’t as simple as they would like. Overall, the update is a step in the right direction (see my Macworld review of iTunes 12.4), but not everyone is happy with all the changes. ITunes 12.4 has been out for a few of weeks now, with a subsequent update to iTunes 12.4.1 to restore the option to Reset Plays, and users are settling into its new way of navigating. Apple + How To iTunes 12.4 Annoyances and How to Get Around Them

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