Bringing back relevant search in iTunes 11

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Rod Christiansen posted about how the default search now works in iTunes 11 and how you can bring back the old version of the search. Such a simple solution.



  • Boo

    Thanks for the link Jim. Very handy.

    My only gripe with iTunes so far is in downloading individual podcasts on the iTunes store search. Before you could do a search for a specific word or name and it would show relevant podcast episodes in a list and a download button in the results. It now shows the episodes but clicking on it brings up the entire list of episodes for the podcast and it can be a pain to find it in the list manually. Otherwise I love it.

  • bjhomer

    Or, you can just hit “enter” after typing, and it will filter the current view. The default selection in the new search drop-down is “Show ” in Music”. If you hit enter while that is selected (which is the default), it will do exactly what the old iTunes used to do.

    • bjhomer

      er, that should be “Show ‘[current search text]‘ in Music”. Silly HTML escaping.