iTunes 7 released - couple of nice features

[Crispy]

There is a place on the apple website where you can download quicktime standalone.
http://www.apple.com/au/quicktime/download/standalone.html
I've made one person happy today

 

[Structaural]

The album list view is pretty good as well. I like it, I can't get on with PC mp3 apps anyway - too tiny type, weird buttons and unintutive.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Hmmmm...don't like the look but everything is split up fairly simply...

 

[cesare]

Btw, have just discovered that if the album artwork doesn't show after the initial download, you can get it by right clicking a track and selecting 'get artwork'. There's a prompt that warns you that the album info gets sent to apple do you still want to go ahead - so you have that choice

 

[grosun]

There is a place on the apple website where you can download quicktime standalone.
http://www.apple.com/au/quicktime/download/standalone.html
I've made one person happy today

wow.. they hid that pretty well! Thanks for pointing it out. If quicktime alternative stops working, I know where to look. (for now tho, it seems to do the job very nicely & use less memory/cpu than official quicktime too)

 

[hiccup]

I've tried to use iTunes a couple of times on my Windows PC, but it's always run so slow as to be unusable. 5 minutes to start up, big lag when you click on anything. So I kind of gave up on it. Which is a shame cos I quite like it as a piece of software. Will give the updated version a go and see if it works any better.

 

[Crispy]

only really worth it on a decent pc.
although sparra uses it on her 900mhz jalloppy and it's bearable. I've certainly noticed that newer releases are snappier.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Anyone had a problem with syncing their podcasts? Every attempt to crashs iTunes...

 

[hiccup]

only really worth it on a decent pc.
although sparra uses it on her 900mhz jalloppy and it's bearable. I've certainly noticed that newer releases are snappier.

PC isn't all that bad. 512ram, 1.8ghz thingywotsit. If it runs Cubase, Reason and Sound Forge all at the same time with no problem, it should bloody well run iTunes.

I think it and iTunes just have a personality clash.

 

[Loki]

There is a place on the apple website where you can download quicktime standalone.
http://www.apple.com/au/quicktime/download/standalone.html
I've made one person happy today

Oooh ta I refused to install it before because it wanted to install all that iTunes crap that I didn't want.

 

[Structaural]

It's annoying that they've made the icon blue, my brain is still setup for green. It's nice to have album artwork - it really humanises my collection.
But playing MP3s on a rainy afternoon is never the same as playing vinyl.

 

[Biddlybee]

I've just downloaded this and tried to install and I get this message:

"iTunesSetup.exe is not a valid Win 32 application"

Any idea what I can do?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Try downloading it again, sounds like a botched download.

 

[Biddlybee]

Have done it twice, with same results... will try again.

 

[Biddlybee]

It's taking a little bit longer this time, so looks like it'll work - ta FM

 

[dervish]

I think that I chose the wrong option and it decided to "organise" my music folder.

I had my music sorted, I could find anything I wanted. It was simple.

Now I have over 1,000 folders, most of them with one track in them. It's going to take me weeks to sort it all out.



I'm now not a fan of itunes.

 

[Barking_Mad]

its full of bugs, or at least its causing no end of problems with my iPod. Keeps getting stuck on certain files when trying to determine gapless playback and crashing iTunes. PLus it consistently runs through all the tracks every time I add a new one.

Im going back to the old version until they can fix it.

 

[hiccup]

PC isn't all that bad. 512ram, 1.8ghz thingywotsit. If it runs Cubase, Reason and Sound Forge all at the same time with no problem, it should bloody well run iTunes.

I think it and iTunes just have a personality clash.

Well I tried to install it. All seemed to be going fine, until I tried to play a file. It wouldn't play any of my mp3s. I tried ripping from a CD - fine, but it wouldn't play the resulting mp3s. I pressed play, and ...nothing. Sometimes, if I left it for a couple of minutes, it would start making a weird bass-y sound. Then I'd have to shut it down in task manager to be able to use my PC. Load of rubbish. Bleh.

 

[Crispy]

I think that I chose the wrong option and it decided to "organise" my music folder.

I had my music sorted, I could find anything I wanted. It was simple.

Now I have over 1,000 folders, most of them with one track in them. It's going to take me weeks to sort it all out.



I'm now not a fan of itunes.

I used to have my usic sorted like that, all nicely foldered and tagged. Then I installed itunes and made the same mistake. But I have come to realise that my old mindset was the mistake. The whole point is that it doesn't matter which folder the music is in. Why do you need to look at individual files when itunes knows where everything is? It's all about the music, not the files. I know it's in e:/mp3 music but beyond that I neither know nor care.

 

[dervish]

Yeah but what if I want to write a cd for someone. I want to drag and drop, not be entirely reliant on bloody itunes.

 

[dogmatique]

You can always create a playlist and then burn that to disk. Easy, and drag and drop.

Very buggy release all the same, just tried to play some tunes and they were clipping all over the place. Their hurried update seems to have done the trick though.

Why release obviously buggy software?

 

[Crispy]

Yeah but what if I want to write a cd for someone. I want to drag and drop, not be entirely reliant on bloody itunes.

As dogm says, make playlist, set option to Data CD (not Audio CD) and hit the burn button. Yes it means you have to use itunes for everything, but surely that's better than using three different progs to rip, play and burn?

I genuinely can't think of anything I'd want to do with my MP3s that itunes can't do for me.