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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1616047">Welcome to the forums!Do you mean the sidebar? Is that what you want when you say &quot;lists?&quot; If so, select Music then on the top bar above the list of tracks, click on Playlists and the left column will reappear sort of like it was in iTunes11. That same trick works on all the other pages in iTunes also.Yes, by Apps we mean applications, it's just easier to type. The operating system is usually &quot;OS,&quot; or Yosemite/Mavericks/etc. You can't go back on iTunes very easily. I saw one place where they had a process. The challenge is as you found, you cannot delete iTunes12 to reinstall iTunes11, so you have to play some games to make that work.Can't help on the library data, but I will ask, what do you want to do with it? I know that for classical music iTunes tends to organize by artist rather than composer, which is not how classical music is typically approached. The only way I've seen to get around it is to right click on a track, then Get Info and edit the Sort fields to get the composer into one of the sort fields you can get to. It's not pretty, but seems to sort of work. I have an album of Adagio music that was clever enough to put the composer name FIRST in the track name, so those sort well, but the rest of my collection (modest at best) doesn't follow that pattern.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1616047"] Welcome to the forums! Do you mean the sidebar? Is that what you want when you say "lists?" If so, select Music then on the top bar above the list of tracks, click on Playlists and the left column will reappear sort of like it was in iTunes11. That same trick works on all the other pages in iTunes also. Yes, by Apps we mean applications, it's just easier to type. The operating system is usually "OS," or Yosemite/Mavericks/etc. You can't go back on iTunes very easily. I saw one place where they had a process. The challenge is as you found, you cannot delete iTunes12 to reinstall iTunes11, so you have to play some games to make that work. Can't help on the library data, but I will ask, what do you want to do with it? I know that for classical music iTunes tends to organize by artist rather than composer, which is not how classical music is typically approached. The only way I've seen to get around it is to right click on a track, then Get Info and edit the Sort fields to get the composer into one of the sort fields you can get to. It's not pretty, but seems to sort of work. I have an album of Adagio music that was clever enough to put the composer name FIRST in the track name, so those sort well, but the rest of my collection (modest at best) doesn't follow that pattern. [/QUOTE]

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