![]() If you don’t have Apple Music turned on, this header reads Music Playlists. If you have Apple Music turned on, you’ll see a header saying My Music Playlists (which you can click to toggle to show All Playlists). There is an interesting and confounding labelling used in the sidebar.If you’re viewing another media kind, Music Playlists will read Movie Playlists, Podcast Playlists, etc. This will show playlists with other content, such as podcasts, videos, audiobooks, etc. Click this to choose to display All Playlists. Above your playlists in the sidebar is a small header saying, for example, Music Playlists.I’ll see if Doug Adams can whip up an AppleScript for this. You can no longer reset play counts from the contextual menu.This only works with tracks you’ve ripped from CDs, and it’s something that a lot of people never use. Also removed from the contextual menu is the Get Track Names function, that looks up your tracks on Gracenote to get metadata.I think this is a good thing, because this, and other menu items removed from the contextual menu, have greatly simplified that menu. The Create New Version menu item is no longer in the contextual menu when you click on a track.Personally, I’ve never used that function, but apparently some people do. The Convert ID3 Tags function, that was previously in the contextual menu when you right-clicked on a track, is gone.You can’t access, say, your Music by choosing View > Media Kind > Music, so you can’t back out easily to scan your music library when, for example, trying to decide what you want to sync. When you click the icon for an iOS device to sync it, there’s no way to get back to your iTunes library other than using the Back button, or clicking the Done button.(You may not want to update all available apps if you have limited bandwidth.) Now, you can either click the Update All Apps button at the bottom right of the iTunes window, or click an app to expand its update notes, and click the Update button. Previously, you could right-click on one or more apps and choose Update, to only update those apps you wanted to.Out of 16,000 tracks in my Apple Music library, 843 are no longer available. Previously, I had, as the comments said, a smart playlist excluding all the other statuses. ![]() It’s interesting to create a smart playlist with this condition, to find how many tracks have been removed. This shows tracks that you added to your Apple Music library that record labels are no longer allowing to be streamed. As timmorrislw points out in the comments, there’s a new iCloud Status of No Longer Available.The iTunes MiniPlayer still shows what I call the “new” contextual menu the one added in iTunes 12, which you have to click to view submenus.And it balances with the Up Next icon on the right side of the iTunes LCD. The AirPlay button is now a real button, which contrasts with the background of the iTunes toolbar.The Repeat button is back in the iTunes LCD it has been missing since iTunes 12 was released. ![]()
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