Search by composer on ITunes4?

Hi
I download a lot of classical music and liked to search by Composer. Now I've upgraded to the latest version I am no longer seeing that option (or the option to search by album). Any ideas?
Thanks!

Hi,
Upgrade to iTunes 11.0.2. This has new composer view. Also in search box deselect search entire library. In this box you can tick search by composer in addition to album and artist etc.
Jim

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Could it be that no one at Apple has ever had formal music education? In Verion 11 they (for some unfathomable reason) took away the Power Search option. Now you are left with Artist and Title and somekind of ranking. I have a news break for Apple, classical music is searched by COMPOSER and is OPERA in many cases. If you can't return the composer option, then dump the Classical category. It's essentially useless. Apple-people, you may cyber-geniuses but you apparently know little about music. How could they have overlooked this?

In the SONGS or PLAYLISTS lists view, turn on the Column Browser (View Menu, Column Browser) and then select Composers.

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I would like to purchase music by searching for composers. The Power Search only gives us Title and Artist. For example, searching for "p.f. sloan" from the Search iTunes Store field at the top right of the iTunes window, one of the albums shown is by Herman's Hermits - but which song is the one written by P.F. Sloan? We used to have the capability to see the composer column in the search results in a prior version of iTunes, but no more. Now you only get Name, Album, Artist, Time, Popularity and Price columns - they've dumbed it down.

Dave,
I never tried selecting "Music" from the drop-down list!
Thanks so much, this answers my question. Very much appreciated.
I hope Apple will eventually tag music more completely, as Composer and other tags are sometimes not filled.
Regards,
Francis.

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Dear friends,
This is a request for a little improvement.
Today, you can search the Music Store by album, song and artist. But, when looking for classical music it's very useful to be able to search in the composer field.
I hope you can implement it.
Thanks in advance.

In the US iTMS, at least, there's a Composer field in the Power Search.

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The last version that worked for me was iTunes 4.9. I do not like the look since 5.0 and the fact that you can no longer search by composer.
Apple has removed almost all previous iTunes versions from their web site. I don't know why because they have all previous iPhoto versions and upgrades still available. Apple, please post prior iTunes versions on your website.
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http://appldnld.m7z.net/content.info.apple.com/iTunes4/SBML/osx/061-1868.2005062 7.Tnpl6/iTunes4.9.dmg
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Edited by: Caseyinal on Oct 30, 2012 8:06 PM
Edited by: Caseyinal on Oct 30, 2012 8:12 PM

Hi Casey
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http://soaserverhost:8001/soa/composer
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http://www.eclassical.com/
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Default.aspx

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Classical music purchasers apparently can no longer purchase musicbecause the option of listing composer and/or artist and/or piece and/or across all categories is gone
Every online music download store that caters to classical music fans makes it easy to search by Composer. Here are two good ones:
http://www.eclassical.com/
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Default.aspx

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Classical music purchasers apparently can no longer purchase musicbecause the option of listing composer and/or artist and/or piece and/or across all categories is gone
Every online music download store that caters to classical music fans makes it easy to search by Composer. Here are two good ones:
http://www.eclassical.com/
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Default.aspx

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