iTunes 11

Well, the layout is certainly something you have to get used to. There are quite a bit of re-learning where they have placed everything. That part doesn't really bother me to much as long it is for the better. So far I love it. I really do like the new makeup of it. I think it is certainly more accessible and easier to navigate around. I did notice that when I did an update to my apps that it no longer ask for the password. Very much like on the IOS 6 on my phone. The only downside for me is that I am still using the old Jaws v12 and it has a few areas where it doesn't play nice. I will get a script error on it. Overall, two thumbs up for me.

I installed and do not find it accessible. If you do so, how are you moving from music, podcast, apps, radio and so on. I do not like it but if someone can shared how they are doing it will be good

I haven't installed it yet but I did see somewhere that one can get the sidebar back under the view menu. BTW, one can display the status bar as well.

I have installed iTunes 11 on my Mac and love it!. I haven't yet had a chance to try it on a Windows machine with WindowEyes. Hopefully I will be able to do that tomorrow evening.

upgraded on my mac, for some reason it wouldn't do it through the ap store, it kept giving me 102 and 103 errors. so i had to go to the apple site and get it. i really like it, the bit that's going to take me a bit of getting used to is the grid view thing, is there any way to change it to a list? i've installed it on my windows vm and i can't seem to get the itunes store to work, i can't use the jaws curser with vmware, do you have to use jaws curser with the itunes store anyway? or is it inaccessible with 11?

I took the upgrade this morning and so far it is working ok. I don't like the interface changes but Window-Eyes seems to be reading everything. Reports coming out of GW Micro suggest there may be problems reading menus, but I have not had any so far. I am running 8.0 Beta 2, which may make a difference. They also mention that "If using 1st letter nav in albums view, make sure to press Esc after landing on album as expanded view opens."

On the PC side, it's very very different, and for me it would appear I've lost lots of stuff unless I'm missing something. I can get to my music OK, but I can't find anything else in my library like podcasts, apps, books, etc. Help continues to be very inaccessible,too. I got so frustrated that I uninstalled iTunes 11 and tried to go back to 10, but when I did that I got the message that my library's dot I D L file couldn't be read any longer because it had been created by a newer version of iTunes. Will be watching this thread closely to hear what others are finding. For anyone else, if you haven't downloaded iTunes 11 for the PC, you might want to wait. I'm not sure what I'm going to do in my situation, especially since I have a number of podcasts I monitor regularly and now can't seem to get updates!

Hi all, My name is WahidRaza i have a problem with new update of ITunes11, when i update it im getting some accessibility problem, i am using jaws13, i cant naligate on ITunes11 please help me in this matter, how do i naligate with Jaws on ITunes11, and second problem is that, after upgrading ITunes from 10 to 11, when i connect my IPhone to pc through USB cable, a dialog appear that mini player you want to make defalt? i suddenly hit enter and make it defalt, now i am facing problems after making it defalt, please also help me in this matter sorry for writing long queri. Hope to here from all of you soon

Has anyone been able to figure out what the button that just says iCloud does, if anything? Pressing it seems to do nothing, unless there's something visual happening.

Over all, I like the changes to iTunes, but I'm having trouble with a couple things First, when I'm in my music library, and F6 to the library search box, typing into the field doesn't seem to work. JAWS goes silent for a bit, and unlike the previous version, I don't seem to be getting the search results in the main screen It seems unchanged. Second, when in my podcast or apps sections, using F5 no longer seems to look for updates. I have to tab to the update button. Has anyone else had these issues? Anyone have any work arounds? Thanks...

It sure sounds like the Windows users are having a rough time with the update. It's too bad because I'm loving it on the Mac! I thought I would do all those things to make it look like the old iTunes but I fell in love with the new layout pretty quickly. I don't miss the sources table at all. The store is still extremely slow for me but I don't accidentally get hung up on it now that I don't use the sources table. One thing I noticed in the store was that it was difficult to select the SD button while looking at a TV show. Form controls wouldn't see it so eventually I just tabbed from the first button and VO found the second button but only pressing enter was able to select it. Odd, but not that bad. That has been the only issue I've had. I also discovered the ability to sync my iPhone with specific playlists which apparently you could do before but I never saw it. iTunes 11 makes it ridiculously easy to select the playlists and now I'm able to sync it wirelessly no problem. I'm also very impressed with the Cloud. I watched a TV show and then deleted it since my old Macbook doesn't have a ton of space. iTunes let me know the episode would be available in the cloud if I ever wanted it back and it still shows in the TV shows area. Awesome! I am thrilled with this update. I'm running Snow Leopard on my old Macbook. If you update, just take some time and get to know it. It's totally different but accessible on the Mac side. I haven't lost access to any of my content; it's just located in different areas.

Okay, I was trying to figure out how to get to my phone and put iTunes in mini mode and now nothing works. I can't get to the minus or anything. Does any one know how to get it back to the way it was?

Hi all, I by mistake selected "switch to mini player" from the view menu in Itunes 11, and now I'm totally stuck in that mode, can't find anything on the keyboard to switch back to full screen mode or anything. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Itunes 11, but no luck, and now CTRL plus O or N or Y doesn't even allow me to open new music file, get to preferences, etc. I'm totally stuck now. Seems like the reinstall kept my library in tact though, when I connect my Iphone 4S it makes the sync complete sound after a while and my phone's music and stuff is the same. Anyone have any idea how one can switch out of this mini player mode, or is this so inaccessible with Jaws 13 on Windows 7 64 bit that I need sighted help?

On my computer at work, where no iTunes library is active, when I select a media file to play, iTunes now automatically opens, starts playing the file, creates a library and adds that file to it. This is different than previous versions' behavior which asked you to either select an existing library, create a new one or quit. OS is Windows XP. Note that iLounge has a complete tutorial on iTunes. Though it is of course mous-oriented, it's always good to know how you are expected to work with the interface using a mouse. As blind users, its best when we're skilled at translating mous-oriented instructions in to something we can use anyway. Also the iLounge article points out everything one should be seeing onscreen, and described the best practices for working fully with iTunes 11. For me, reading this articles first, before tabbing and arrowing around is a lot more helpful. Read "Secrets And Features of iTunes 11 at: http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/instant-expert-secrets-features-of-itunes-11/

To switch from miny player to the standard player press control plus 1 or try 2 if that doesn't work. This is on a windows device. Hope this helps some people.

Hi. I don't know how iTunes 11 is working on windows computers or with windows screen readers as I use an apple Mac which currently has mountain lion version 10.8.2 installed. I upgraded to iTunes 11 on the 30th of November and I posted a short guide to this website on that date as well. On the plus side, the screens are less cluttered, the pop up button for select sources such as music movies books etc is easy enough to understand. I want to talk about the search box. If you select music or movies etc on the pop up button the search box says search library. Two interesting observations, and one comes from the fact I have sight to see a screen with zoom. 1. The search box comes back empty even after you type a search word when voice over is on. 2. For some reason when voice over is on, when I type in something in the search box every single song in my library comes up, this even happens if I select the songs radio button before doing the search. This doesn't always happen with voice over off. Creating playlists with voice over on is a nightmare to be honest. Ok here's what I'm doing. I've made sure the pop up button says music. I select the playlists radio button. Then press VO keys with right arrow until I locate a playlists table. Ok there is a new playlists menu so press VO keys with right arrow to find that menu, then open the menu with VO keys and space, select the create new playlists option. Type in the title of my new playlist. Ok now there is another screen, so press VO keys with right arrow and now there is an add too button so select that. Why don't you just copy and paste Frank? I hear people say. Because if you only want one song from the library on your new playlist from each artist, you can't, the copy and paste isn't working. So I've selected the add too button, and as I've already set my column browser up in music to tell me how many artists and their names, album names and how many albums and how many types of music I've got, like rock pop etc, the add too button takes me to my music browser. Oh yes, I did try turning all the columns off in the view menu, but then what happens is every song ends up on the new playlist, and I only want one song from each of the 500 artists I have. So I have to interact with the browser, find the artists column, then down arrow to the artist I want. But still no copy and paste works for one individual song when I finally find the table of songs from the artist I've selected. No, the only way I've found is to select all the songs then use the copy function as it works then. Now comes the tricky pasting part. I've added my new playlist, so I have to find that with the cursor VO keys with left arrow or right arrow, and there is a vertical splitter just to the left of that playlists name, and that is where we have to paste the songs. We're not finished yet, before we go and delete the songs we don't want, we interact with the table of the playlist. Now when voice over is on there is only one way to delete an individual song now. Insure the cursor is on the song and then press VO keys with the backslash key, on my apple mac it is the key above the enter key. What a mess. Another way to do it is to select the artists radio button, interact with the table of artists, insure your cursor is on that artist, select the songs by that artist, copy that, then find your new playlist, find the vertical splitter just to the left, paste, then interact with the table of the new playlist and insuring your cursor is on the song you want to delete, press VO keys with backslash. Somebody Please. Surely, there's a quicker way. Could somebody please help me with this matter please.

I am using window-eyes with the new itunes. I plugged in my i-phone for the first time, and it said something about a new i-phone. Then window-eyes went silent. How can I prevent this from happening so I can get itunes to see that my phone is not active and how can I preven window-eyes from going silent in the devices area?

I have found the solution for the search box for apple mac users and voice over users. 1. In iTunes 11, press VO keys with m to bring up the menu. 2. Select view menu. 3. Press down arrow key until you hear something about show or hide side bar. 4. We want to show the side bar so make sure voice over is saying show side bar. 5. Press escape key to exit. 6. Now press VO keys with left arrow key and lo and behold the sources are listed just like they were in iTunes 10. 7. to the right of the sources lists are radio buttons. 8. I'm going to assume you want to search for a song. 9. So press VO keys with left arrow key until you locate a pop up button. 10. This pop up button needs to say music pop up button. If it doesn't insure your cursor is on the pop up button, press VO keys with space key to interact with the pop up button, then press up or down arrow keys until you hear music. When you hear music press enter. 11. Now find your search box. Insure your cursor is on that search box. 12. Start typing. You may hear your mac making sounds that's to tell you it's refining its search. 13. Now unfortunately, although the search results come up, VO won't let you copy and paste all of them to a playlist.. See my playlists post in this forum for details to create copy paste and delete songs from a playlist. Feel free to contact me at. frankperry2011@gmail.com

For those who use JAWS, the latest FSCast podcast is great. I have been rather frustrated getting around in iTunes 11. Jonathon Mosen explains things and offers suggestions on how to get around in the new interface, or make it more like the old one. Well worth giving a listen to. http://www.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/default.asp