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Apple releases iTunes 12.0.1 for Mac OS X Yosemite and Windows

Along with the actual release of the public version of Mac OS X Yosemite, Apple has pushed iTunes 12.0.1. The update, available for users who have upgraded to Mac OS X Yosemite, brings iTunes to version 12. The update is available through the Mac App Store on the Mac, or you can download it directly from Apple’s website.

Additionally, Apple has now released iTunes 12.0.1 for Windows.

The Cupertino corporation has also just pushed Security Update 2014-005 for Mac OS X Mavericks.

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  1. thanks for post

  2. airmanchairman - 9 years ago

    Bright & breezy blog, Bob (!)

    Yosemite is slowly descending into my MacBook Pro, all 5.6Gb of it, and iTunes 12 patiently waits its turn… it’s all good so far.

    • bobbell69 - 9 years ago

      Excellent. All is going well for me :)

    • airmanchairman - 9 years ago

      Up and running in a clean-looking uncluttered Yosemite, Spotlight looks quite snazzy, new iWork and iLife apps downloading merrily, iTunes in the holding pattern waiting its turn to approach and land.

      Smoothest upgrade to date, so far…

  3. AirDJ31 - 9 years ago

    It’s not letting me update. When it opens the App Store, is says “can’t connect to the app store update server.”

  4. mpias3785 - 9 years ago

    I miss the iTunes sidebar… It seems that the programmers always mess with the interface, add cute but unimportant features, but never add the needed features people have wanted for years, whether they addressed the bugs remains to be seen.

    • philboogie - 9 years ago

      The sidebar isn’t gone: at the top select Playlists (from My Music / Playlists / Music Store) and on the right select ‘Songs’ instead of the default ‘Albums’ view

      • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

        The sidebar isn’t completely gone; it comes and goes at the whim of the programmers. I miss its always being there. Rather than fixing the problems that need fixing, the programmers scramble the UI and hope no one notices that nothing has been improved.

        Back to sending comments to apple.com/feedback. Too many people complain on these discussion boards instead of where it counts.

      • Air Burt - 9 years ago

        Too many people here making dumb complaints about things they don’t understand. The Sidebar is there, so pipe down.

    • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

      The permanent sidebar is history. Sidebars do come and go, but none has the full functionality of the original. THAT’S what people are complaining about. It was always an option under view, but that’s gone.

      Check other discussion boards. People are not happy with iTunes 12. I was on the phone with Applecare and people are upset. They wanted to schedule a callback for today and had to schedule it for Monday since Sunday was already full. That’s a first.

      Yosemite is pretty jarring visually, and they did change the years of the computers that will be supporting handoff from 2011 and newer to 2012 and newer, but iTunes is the big distraction right now.

      I’m currently in the middle of a restore due to the old “other” bug being back. I deleted two television shows and three audiobooks and rather than getting free space, the data was moved to “other”. The only way to recover that space is to do a restore from a known good backup.

      • Air Burt - 9 years ago

        People will always complain because they can. This isn’t widespread enough to be even a blip on Apple’s radar. Adjust and move on. Or are you one of those people who’ll run Windows XP because everything after it is “awful”? That’s the vibe I’m getting.

      • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

        I’m actually an early adopter and have been beta testing Yosemite for months. Now that it’s been released I’m free to complain. :-) I’ve actually had XP, Vista and 7 all running under Parallels. Now 8 did scare me off, but I’ve heard good things about 10.

        I’ve been an Apple user for almost 30 years and I mostly sing their praises, but I’m not an iSheep and when they do something stupid I can get quite vocal about it. The external Superdrive. I bought it knowing that it only worked with optical drive free Macs, but did you know it, even on a OD-free Mac, has to be plugged directly into the Mac and won’t work through a hub? Even Applecare didn’t believe me until they tested it.

      • Air Burt - 9 years ago

        (I’ve been running the DP of Yosemite since WWDC)

        You’re free to complain, but not to claim it as widespread because it just isn’t true. As I do, you could just figure out the work around and move on like a grown up instead of bitching about every little change.

      • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

        Some changes are good, some bad and some are there just for the sake of change.

        But when it comes to a core product like iTunes, there shouldn’t have to be work arounds. This is Apple, not Microsoft and I hold them to a higher standard.

        iTunes needs a good going over like OS X received with Snow Leopard. I can do what I need to do in iTunes, but the changes didn’t add ease of use or functionality. They did nothing to enhance the user experience. Did you watch Charlie Rose interview Tim Cook? Does this iteration of iTunes fit in what Tim Cook was saying Apple brings to its customers?

      • Air Burt - 9 years ago

        All I hear is “whine whine whine”. Grow up and move on or Apple will leave you behind.

      • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

        All I’m hearing is the bleating of an iSheep who refuses to acknowledge that Apple isn’t perfect. Apple isn’t. I sent my rMBP in for repair last month, they swapped out the MB but screwed up with the heat sink compound. If I ran Geekbench the processor temp would shoot from 50ºC to 100ºC in 18 seconds and kept rising until it hit 104ºC, at which temperature the clock speed would throttle down. I sent it back and now I can run the whole Geekbench suite without it breaking 95ºC.

        I can tell we both love Apple, I’m just long past the honeymoon phase and I no longer think they fart roses. When they screw up they need to be told. Apple doesn’t have a huge presence in enterprise; it’s we the consumers who keep them making money and it’s our responsibility to tell them when they screw up.

      • Air Burt - 9 years ago

        You sure are great at extrapolation. When you come back to reality, you’ll realize why you’re wrong. Apple might not be perfect, but you’re creating an issue that most people don’t actually care about, nor think is a problem.

  5. rmfpdx - 9 years ago

    How is this different from 12.0.0 that was released earlier today? I presume it’s a fast fix for some bugs (such as being unable to put lyrics into the Lyrics tab of a song).

  6. lexxkoto - 9 years ago

    It’s also available for Mavericks. But I’m not installing it.

    • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

      I’d avoid it until necessary. It seems to be the same old thing but with a needlessly rearranged UI.

      There was talk of it being split into more than one application and being rewritten from the ground up but so it’s only been talk.

      • Air Burt - 9 years ago

        iTunes being re-written is a complete rumor. No one at Apple has confirmed that is even being considered.

      • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

        Since when does Apple confirm anything?

  7. philboogie - 9 years ago

    Quite a screwup this new iTunes. Many complaints to be found, as usual, but it has some really weird needless reordering of things, like the tabs in the info Panel. In there, one cannot 1-6 after getting into the 3rd tab, which is the lyrics now (instead of 6).

  8. squishyfishyum - 9 years ago

    This seems like the best iTunes update so far to me.

    • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

      Try downloading an audiobook from the cloud. OOPS! You still can’t. Just lipstick on a pig. New look, same stink. All the old bugs and limitations with a bright new interface.

      • Air Burt - 9 years ago

        Wow, you’re trolling all over this article! Back to your bridge.

      • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

        Call it trolling if you want but I’m just telling the truth. iTunes has been a running joke for a long time. The ONLY useful features Apple has added in recent years were Music Match and the ability to see and stream old video purchases and that still doesn’t work with audiobooks. I was tired of archiving every video I bought.

      • Air Burt - 9 years ago

        Far from it! Your opinion is NOT the majority! Your bridge needs a shoring up.

  9. Terry Jones Wright - 9 years ago

    I downloaded and created a playlist – but can’t get the list to play. It will play one song and stop.

  10. John Trauscht - 9 years ago

    I am quickly becoming a non-fan of Jony Ive. The iTunes 12 interface is a horrible step backwards in usability.

    For example: To minimize the player (to mini), you have to locate a hidden button. Once you realize where they have hidden the button and you click on it, the player indeed becomes mini, so naturally you want to click on that same hidden button to make it a full-size player window again, right? Nope. You have to click on another button, which is not hidden in the mini player – the button that looks like it should be a Close button – in order to open the larger player. Makes absolutely no sense.

    Then, lets say you are in your main window, and you want to drag some songs to a playlist … Can’t do it, because they removed the sidebar that shows the playlists. Insanity is taking over Apple’s User Interface design group.

    • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

      Jony Ive is a great hardware designer, but iOS 7 proved that he should be kept far away from the software design end of things. Apparently he lost his copy of Apple’s “Human Interface Guidelines”.

      By the way, I’d be careful about criticizing anything about Apple here, it’s likely to get you labeled as a troll.

      • Air Burt - 9 years ago

        Except that the consensus from actual users is that iOS 7 looks great. But keep thinking you’re a better designer than those who’ve made it their life’s work.

    • mpias3785 - 9 years ago

      See?

  11. Don English - 9 years ago

    Apple, what have you done to iTunes? It seems each “upgrade” brings the elimination of features. I used to be able to be able to easily set the length of playlists to match the length of specific events they were created for. Can’t do that any more. Used to be able to play my iTunes through the home theater system via Apple’s Airport. Can’t do that any more. What should we expect to see dumped next?

  12. Jax Chiang Junxiang - 9 years ago

    I cannot open my itunes 12 on my mac. OS X Yosemite is what i am using

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