#ITUNES 12.5.1 ARTIST THUMBNAILS MAC#
If you aren't growing accustomed to the new layout of the Get Info window, just hold down the Option key on your Mac when choosing File > Get Info. And if you select the Artwork tab, you can drag album art to the blank space in the window for albums in your library that lack art. Though it's not obvious, the new Get Info window still lets you edit the same fields. Gone are the easily identified editable fields and small Artwork box where you could drag and drop album art. The Get Info window of iTunes 12 is entirely different. It's also useful to import album art via drag and drop. If you are a careful curator of your music library, then you use the Get Info window constantly to adjust the data as you import music, tweaking the genre, song titles, track info, and so on. When you are in the Songs view in either the My Music of Playlists tab, go to the View menu at the top of your screen and choose Column Browser > Show Column Browser (or hit Command-B). I use it constantly because I like to filter by genre, and lord knows I love a genre shuffle. To swap out the album art for the text-based library view that lists the song in your music library, click on the Albums drop-down menu in the upper-right corner and select Songs.Īnd as a bonus, you can add back the Column Browser above your list of songs that lets you quickly browse by genre, artist or album. To resurrect the sidebar, select the Playlists tab at the top, which opens your playlists in the sidebar while giving you the same Albums view in the right panel. The default view of iTunes 12 is the My Music tab sorted by Albums. If you leaned heavily on the sidebar in the left panel of iTunes 11, however, then you may feel lost. If you like to flip through your vinyl collection, you may enjoy perusing your music library by album cover. ITunes 12 boasts a clean design that places an emphasis on album art.
If you use iTunes for its original pursuit of listening to music, then perhaps you have bemoaned the flattened, simplified design that has removed or obscured a few of your favorite features, namely the sidebar and library view, the old Get Info window, and the old method of activating the iTunes miniplayer.
OS X 10.10 Yosemite introduced iTunes 12 and an entirely new look and feel of Apple's sprawling hub for managing a variety of media along with your iOS devices.