Apple Releases iTunes 9.0.1

[crisss1205]

iTunes 9.0.1 provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

• Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store.
• Addresses a performance issue where iTunes may become unresponsive.
• Fixes a problem where iTunes may unexpectedly quit.
• Fixes a problem syncing Podcasts in playlists to iPod or iPhone.
• Fixes a problem sorting albums with multiple discs.
• Addresses an issue with the Zoom button not switching to Mini Player.
• Improves application syncing for iPod touch and iPhone.
• Genius is now automatically updated to show Genius Mixes.
iTunes 9 comes with many new features and improvements, including:

• An improved look and feel, including a new Column Browser for easily browsing your artists or albums, movies, TV shows, and more.

• iTunes Store has a brand new look, with improved navigation for quick and easy exploration.

• iTunes LP and iTunes Extras create unique experiences that feature exclusive interviews, videos, photos, and more — available with select album and movie purchases on the iTunes Store.

• Home Sharing helps you manage your family's iTunes collection between computers in your home. iTunes can automatically transfer new purchases, or you can choose just the items you want.

• Genius Mixes are created for you by iTunes and play songs from your library that go great together.

• iPod and iPhone syncing now allows you to organize your iPhone and iPod touch home screens directly in iTunes. Syncing is now also more flexible, allowing you to sync individual artists, genres, or TV show and Podcast episodes.

• iTunes U items are now organized into their own section in your iTunes library.

• Sync with iPod nano (5th generation), iPod classic (Fall 2009), and iPod touch (Fall 2009).

• iTunes 9 also includes many other improvements, such as HE-AAC encoding and playback, more flexibility with Smart Playlists rules, simpler organization of your media files inside an iTunes Media folder, and more.

[rgarjr]

yeah it sure is, installing now.

[celticpride678]

Thanks. But, why is a restart needed for iTunes. Come on, Apple!

[spillproof]

Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store

Like? I have a few.

Fixes a problem sorting albums with multiple discs

Good, becasue that was really annoying!

New look is okay, I'll get use to it. No issues as of yet for me:)

[crisss1205]

Thanks. But, why is a restart needed for iTunes. Come on, Apple!

I didn't need to restart.

[celticpride678]

I didn't need to restart.

I did. Interesting:confused:. Lots of bug fixes that I noticed right away. The Store seems faster (about time:rolleyes:). The title bar seems to be a bit darker, which looks so much better than that almost white title bar in the first version. Overall, good so far. But it has only been five minutes:D

[Lancetx]

I didn't need to restart.

No restart needed here either....

[Biolizard]

• Addresses an issue with the Zoom button not switching to Mini Player.


That's not an issue, it's a fix dammit!!!!

[mrkgoo]

So the click+option to minelayer was a 'bug', then?

[GeekLawyer]

Yeppers... It sure is.

http://content.screencast.com/users/GeekLawyer/folders/Jing/media/01148321-c4b5-41ad-bc65-5bc51490c0e0/00000056.png

[NATO]

• Fixes a problem where iTunes may unexpectedly quit.

Ironically, I got the dialog box informing me that iTunes 9.01 was available when restarting it after it unexpectedly quit...

[mrkgoo]

I still have the bug with my iPhone having genius mix art in place of some podcast art, and smart playlists showing different things than on iTunes when live updating is checked. I guess those are iPhone 3.1 bugs.

[celticpride678]

I'm really ticked that they added the mini-player back. Horrible choice. At least offer a way to disable it, Apple.

[Divindude]

Just got a notification of iTunes 9.01 through 10.6.1 software update

[crisss1205]

Ironically, I got the dialog box informing me that iTunes 9.01 was available when restarting it after it unexpectedly quit...

That made my day! :D

[Surely]

Good. One needed update is out.

Now if only they could release iPhone OS 3.1.1 or 3.2 or whatever it will be called. It would be great if they could reduce my iPhone's choppiness. Apple really F'ed the chicken with 3.1.:D

[synth3tik]

Ironically, I got the dialog box informing me that iTunes 9.01 was available when restarting it after it unexpectedly quit...


guess that's a sure fire way to make sure the customers are on the current builds. :D

[Kate.]

Now I can go back to neurotically sorting all of my playlists "Album by Artist."

[srl7741]

Green button = Mini Player again. :)

[kbmb]

I did. Interesting:confused:. Lots of bug fixes that I noticed right away. The Store seems faster (about time:rolleyes:). The title bar seems to be a bit darker, which looks so much better than that almost white title bar in the first version. Overall, good so far. But it has only been five minutes:D

I'm not seeing any differences in the title bar color here.

-Kevin

[mac2x]

Just got it...was having no problems with 9.0.0, but the iTunes store is faster now. No reboot.

[Eric S.]

Wow, so obviously it just doesn't make sense to install the first version of any new Apple software, since .1 will be out very shortly.

But I still see no compelling reason to upgrade from 8.2.1. Does anyone think there's a "must have" here?

[MacRumors]

http://www.macrumors.com/images/macrumorsthreadlogo.gif (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/09/22/apple-releases-itunes-9-0-1/)

Apple today released iTunes 9.0.1 via Software Update and the iTunes download site (http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/), offering a number of bug fixes.iTunes 9.0.1 provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

- Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store.
- Addresses a performance issue where iTunes may become unresponsive.
- Fixes a problem where iTunes may unexpectedly quit.
- Fixes a problem syncing Podcasts in playlists to iPod or iPhone.
- Fixes a problem sorting albums with multiple discs.
- Addresses an issue with the Zoom button not switching to Mini Player.
- Improves application syncing for iPod touch and iPhone.
- Genius is now automatically updated to show Genius Mixes.Both Mac (OS X 10.4.11 or later) and Windows (XP or Vista) versions of iTunes 9.0.1 are available.

iTunes 9 was released earlier this month (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/09/09/apple-releases-itunes-9-new-media-syncing-options-genius-mixes-iphone-app-organization/) at Apple's "It's Only Rock and Roll" media event in San Francisco and brings a new look to the software as well as a number of new features.

Article Link: Apple Releases iTunes 9.0.1 (http://www.macrumors.com/2009/09/22/apple-releases-itunes-9-0-1/)

[thegoldenmackid]

And it brings Palm Pre support...oh wait...

[JW008]

Thank God that clicking the zoom button switches to the mini player again. That's been driving me crazy!

[g-7]

...and the green button works the way it should again - it changes the iTunes window into miniplayer. ;)

EDIT: JW008 was faster :)

[kirky29]

I'm so pleased it's fixed the zoom to mini-player issue!

[j_maddison]

Thank God that clicking the zoom button switches to the mini player again. That's been driving me crazy!

Seconded, it was highly annoying! Glad it's been fixed, downloading now

[thejadedmonkey]

How does a dot update make front page news, yet a potential Apple store employee walkout not? I really think this site is to political...

[Sedulous]

Does it fix the horrible white background in the tiled album view?

[Dany M]

They don't fix opinions sorry.

[macindork]

Thank God that clicking the zoom button switches to the mini player again. That's been driving me crazy!

No kidding, A subtle yet very much worth it update.

Now I just hope this fixes my latency issues with converting videos.

[ricosuave]

Does this fix the syncing between users on the same computer? I cannot use this family sharing feature because it duplicates the songs on the drive. Even after I select it not to copy songs when I import.

[trainguy77]

Finally! This has been the most unstable apple app I have used in history. It would crash everytime I use it atleast once!

[Fender321]

I was happy with the zoom button not switching to the mini player. When I unplug my external monitor, sometimes iTunes is too big to fit on the MBP screen, and there's NO way to resize it. I have to change resolutions and then the window resizes itself to something proper. I was SO happy that the zoom button made it work!

[malachiman]

I am sure prior to 9 you used to be able to change the size of the tiles in grid view with a slider???

[xIGmanIx]

i welcome all software updates for the sake of feature set, but it does get tired to have to download 100. MB for a point release

[gmanist1000]

Sweet, glad it fixed the mini-player problem, although I realized that you could hold down option (alt) and press the green button to minimize it.

[Fender321]

Sweet, glad it fixed the mini-player problem, although I realized that you could hold down option (alt) and press the green button to minimize it.

You are my hero! That now does the behavior I've always wanted!

[skottichan]

I am sure prior to 9 you used to be able to change the size of the tiles in grid view with a slider???

View -> Grid View -> Show Header

[Lyra]

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[LOLaMac]

I am sure prior to 9 you used to be able to change the size of the tiles in grid view with a slider???

You still can, it's just hidden away. When in grid view, go to the 'View' menu; go down to the 'Grid View' option and turn on 'Show Header.'

[elektrizitat]

Brilliant. I've been having really annoying freezing issues with iTunes 9. Do people really use the miniplayer? Can't stand the thing.

[anjinha]

i welcome all software updates for the sake of feature set, but it does get tired to have to download 100. MB for a point release

You could always not download it and wait for 9.1...

[Thataboy]

i welcome all software updates for the sake of feature set, but it does get tired to have to download 100. MB for a point release

It gets tiring? Really? Are you rolling every megabyte up a mountain or something? ;)

[Galley]

Fixes a problem sorting albums with multiple discs.

Our long, national nightmare is over! :D

[xIGmanIx]

It gets tiring? Really? Are you rolling every megabyte up a mountain or something? ;)

actually using a mechanical advantage, however, getting them in the bucket......:cool:

[agwilson]

I was happy with the zoom button not switching to the mini player. When I unplug my external monitor, sometimes iTunes is too big to fit on the MBP screen, and there's NO way to resize it. I have to change resolutions and then the window resizes itself to something proper. I was SO happy that the zoom button made it work!

You can press the option key and the green button and it will do what it did pre-patch and work the way you want. Pre-patch you could hold down the option button and hit the green button and it would send the window to mini player, I believe this was already mentioned though.

[ortuno2k]

It gets tiring? Really? Are you rolling every megabyte up a mountain or something? ;)

This...was...TOO FUNNY!
My wife and I couldn't stop laughing.... :D

Very original :)

[celticpride678]

Does it fix the horrible white background in the tiled album view?

Nope. I don't think thats an issue. I really like the white, makes it look cleaner. But that is just my opinion.

Anyone else notice it takes up a lot less RAM than .0?

[CubusX]

What about the TV SHow syncing issue? iTunes used to separate the TV SHows by season and then episode. Now its all just thrown in there like the complaints about Podcasts.

I complained about this when it was released to an Apple Tech through my Apple Care Support Plan.

[JForestZ34]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the release of MMS on Friday..


James

[scottishwildcat]

Thank God that clicking the zoom button switches to the mini player again. That's been driving me crazy!
It's been driving me crazy for the past eight years that it didn't behave like every other window. Now they broke it again, the cowards!

[ob81]

Wow, that was fast. I guess I will wait about a week to hear all of the complaints about this one. One day I will finally be able to experience 9.0.

When it works that is.

[Jolly Jimmy]

Wow, so obviously it just doesn't make sense to install the first version of any new Apple software, since .1 will be out very shortly.

But I still see no compelling reason to upgrade from 8.2.1. Does anyone think there's a "must have" here?

I'm back on 8.2.1 after a brief encounter with iTunes 9. I couldn't stand the new look and the strange sorting bugs that appeared. I may give it another go though, probably when I upgrade to SL. I'm waiting until 10.6.2 for that so there may be another iTunes update in the meantime.

[celticpride678]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the release of MMS on Friday..


James

iTunes does not have anything to do with MMS. So, I don't see why it would.

It's been driving me crazy for the past eight years that it didn't behave like every other window. Now they broke it again, the cowards!

I don't understand why everyone is going crazy about this mini-player. I have been using iTunes for around 5 years now and not once have I even seen the mini-player. I think Apple should at least allow people to have the option of the mini-player or using the green button for what it is used for throughout the rest of Mac OS X.

[Tofaha]

miniplayer *green button* FTW!!

[iMJustAGuy]

Give me a music videos category and get those videos away from my music!!! :mad:

[malachiman]

View -> Grid View -> Show Header

Awesome thanks!! now if I had only looked for it before, I just assumed it was another "change"

Thanks:)

[NewMacbookPlz]

I know the first post was about the Palm Pre, but I wonder if this update has anything to do with the Apple/Palm talks with the USB IF.

[celticpride678]

Give me a music videos category and get those videos away from my music!!! :mad:

I have been wondering why Apple does not do this. Seems really simple and would help out a lot. At the same time, I can see why they did not yet.

Also, while I was thinking about this, how about dividing the iTunes folder up instead of having everything inside of "Music"? Seems logical too. But again, I can see why not too.

[malachiman]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the release of MMS on Friday..


James

Doubt it, we have MMS here in New Zealand and I think many other countries do to, its just AT&T

[mrkgoo]

How does a dot update make front page news, yet a potential Apple store employee walkout not? I really think this site is to political...

Because one is potential, and the other is not? Because one affects one store, where as the other affects a majority of mac users and iPod users?

[malachiman]

Give me a music videos category and get those videos away from my music!!! :mad:

Better yet, let us create our own, sure we have playlists but be nice to have our own custom categories too

[5DollaFootlong]

the itunes store loads a lot faster for me after this update. it's not related to my internet connection because it also loaded quickly in itunes 8. after first upgrading to itunes 9, however, loading the itunes store would lag.

[pooryou]

Ironically, I got the dialog box informing me that iTunes 9.01 was available when restarting it after it unexpectedly quit...

Same exact thing happened to me.

[mattwolfmatt]

Back to the drawing board for the Palm iTunes Hacker Department. They were probably a few days from releasing a new fix.

[-aggie-]

Great, now iTunes doesn't open. :mad:


This is BS!!

[MrCrowbar]

In other News, they updated Logic Pro to 9.0.1

Issues addressed include:

Flex Markers can align & snap to MIDI notes
Performing a punch-in recording with Replace Mode now behaves correctly
The I/O plug-in adds an option for latency compensation

I shall wait to really upgrade to Logic 9 until there are a few more fixes of the "now behaves correctly" variety.

iTunes 8 on my Core 2 Blackbook was great. iTunes 9 on my 2.53 GHz Macbook Pro 13", with Snow Leopard running, is worse than ever for video playback. Audio sync all over the place and it plays the first 5 seconds without video. It's like the old days, "Open in Finder", play with VLC or Quicktime and then mark it as watched in iTunes.
:rolleyes:

[CallsignBaron]

Give me a music videos category and get those videos away from my music!!! :mad:

AMEN! Makes no sense to me! Glad they fixed the zoom button though. I also would like to see the white background go away. Maybe a nice background slider like iPhoto has. :cool:

[devburke]

iTunes does not have anything to do with MMS. So, I don't see why it would.



I don't understand why everyone is going crazy about this mini-player. I have been using iTunes for around 5 years now and not once have I even seen the mini-player. I think Apple should at least allow people to have the option of the mini-player or using the green button for what it is used for throughout the rest of Mac OS X.

Yeah! Perhaps this option could be accessed with some kind of option key.

Oh wait…

[MrCrowbar]

Doubt it, we have MMS here in New Zealand and I think many other countries do to, its just AT&T

MMS already died out here for a while. It was hip in 2002 and 2003, but now no one cares anymore, phones do e-mails with attachment nowadays. :rolleyes:

[celticpride678]

Yeah! Perhaps this option could be accessed with some kind of option key.

Oh wait…

Thanks. I knew that. However, what I meant was an option where you do not need to hit a key every time. Maybe in the preferences?:rolleyes:

[EatRiceInCal]

Does it fix airtunes streaming problems?

[cazlar]

It gets tiring? Really? Are you rolling every megabyte up a mountain or something? ;)
Heh.
But to be fair, the size of updates can be a actual problem, especially if you are living in an area where bandwidth metering exists (like Australia). When you have iTunes, MacOSX, iLife, etc updates, not to mention third-party apps, all in the 50-300MB range, it is pretty easy to burn up those precious gigabytes. To give an example, at the moment I'm currently on an ADSL plan with 3GB peak/7GB offpeak (i know, it's very low, but not my connection!), so if I download a bunch of updates at once during the day I could blow through a large chunk of that 3GB in one go.

Snow leopard at least seems to have reduced it's update size, as 10.6.1 was much much smaller than the 10.5.x delta updates.

[fleshman03]

Thank God that clicking the zoom button switches to the mini player again. That's been driving me crazy!

Control-shift-m

Learn it. Use it. Love it.

[sladey]

It gets tiring? Really? Are you rolling every megabyte up a mountain or something? ;)

For some people, megabytes don't come cheap...

There are heaps of people I know who have basic internet access with a 250 megabyte limit per month, then $0.40 per megabyte after that. There's no way they can afford to download every update.

I used to say: get a mac - you'll love it. Now I say, get a mac, you'll love it, but only if you've got unlimited internet access for all the software updates. Is Windows this bad?

Surely some of the software updates are useless. For example, why should I keep having to update my software for iPhoto compatibility with Aperture RAW photo processing with the latest Nikon cameras if I don't have Aperture, I don't shoot my photos in RAW format, and I don't have a Nikon?

Of course I could choose only to install the software updates I actually need... but why should every Mac user in the world be forced to read through the SPAM-like list of what each and every single update does before choosing to download them? [hang on a minute... they've already been downloaded in the background and I've blown my monthly usage!]

Thus ends my rant. Don't get me wrong... I still love my Mac... :)

[Dinski]

Locks up for me right after launching, just like 9.0 did. It takes down my whole machine in fact. I'm helpless, haven't been able to sync my iPhone since 9.0 came out.
Anyone have any suggestions....? Thinking about downgrading.

[belltree]

When will apple please add "watch this folder" feature to iTunes (and iPhoto). For those of us keep our music (and photos) on network drives this is an absolute must. Not having it is eternally frustrating. :mad:

[wooo]

PLEASE.. SAFARI USERS, take this moment to DISABLE the open "safe" files after downloading option in Safari's general preferences... there is no such thing as a "safe" file.

They didn't mention this in the "Software update" description, but there was a nasty security issue fixed too... with the number of iTunes installs across almost every version of Windows and every Mac, this could have been pretty bad.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3884

Too bad they left off this page the acknowledgement of the other guy who first pointed it out to me (listening to a bbc stream in iTunes through ooTunes first triggered the crash that led me to look into this bug).

Anyway, after all the bad stuff I've read about Apple dragging their feet on security fixes, this one was fixed in a matter of days... probably due to the scope of it (and other significant bugs in 9.0).

[JPS]

What it didn't fix was the issue that arose with iTunes 9: that if you set a playlist specifically for podcasts, it would no longer show up as a playlist, and thus you couldn't listen to podcasts in your preset order.

Seems a simple fix, but this didn't do it.

[Rapa Whelk]

i am still not able to sync my contacts and calendars on my ipod classic 160 and 4th gen nano.

[edenwaith]

Thank God that clicking the zoom button switches to the mini player again. That's been driving me crazy!

This is great news! I have held off from using iTunes 9 at home since I make use of the mini browser functionality constantly, at both home and work. Good to see I was not the only one annoyed by this change in functionality.

Granted, iTunes 9's change with the green button set it to be more like a traditional window, and one could still activate the Mini-Browser by pressing Option and clicking the green button, but that was annoying.

[caspian]

I just want 2 things from Apple Developers:

1. Hope the .1 update will fix me downloading the Apple September Video Podcast...Ya..it's lamb but see I still can't upload the freaking video from the last Apple events...Keeps downloading...downloading...downloading...What Apple.

2. I hope that Apple's developer is smart enough to disable Checking software updates twice...WTF...do you need to check for software updates twice...
I check for updates in iTune and when I click "Download itunes" it checks again...Waste of time and resources....Apple please fix.

[MacLady98]

Green button = Mini Player again. :)

Thank goodness. :D

[hammten]

It looks like they fixed the problem with the Album By Artist feature for multi-disc albums! That was getting pretty annoying seeing songs from disc 1 and 2 intermixed together by track number...

As said by Hiro (from Heroes), "Yatta!" :apple:

[Takuta-Nui]

Excellent. I'll have to download this for mom since she never knows what to do. =P

[schnee]

When will apple please add "watch this folder" feature to iTunes (and iPhoto). For those of us keep our music (and photos) on network drives this is an absolute must. Not having it is eternally frustrating. :mad:

They do have a 'watched folder' feature now, but it's inside the iTunes music folder and not configurable. Can you make that work?

[-aggie-]

Had to uninstall and reinstall to get it to work properly on Vista.

[TimSHB]

Thank God that clicking the zoom button switches to the mini player again. That's been driving me crazy!

Very happy about that. All it did for me before was move the window slightly.

[Mugwumper]

Locks up for me right after launching, just like 9.0 did. It takes down my whole machine in fact. I'm helpless, haven't been able to sync my iPhone since 9.0 came out.
Anyone have any suggestions....? Thinking about downgrading.

Can you tell us what kind of system you have? And what other apps do you
typically run? Are you on Snow Leopard? Do any other apps give you this
much trouble? Do you run Time Machine?

For whatever reason, I have had none of the problems people have reported
with either SL or iTunes 9. So either I'm not using my system the way it was
intended or the way some people use it, or maybe the clean install I did with
Leopard earlier this year has cleaned out some of the cobwebs.

Strange . . .

[mrrory]

Thank God that clicking the zoom button switches to the mini player again. That's been driving me crazy!

Seriously!! I was just checking to see if that was fixed and you answered it. Thanks!

[Stridder44]

It gets tiring? Really? Are you rolling every megabyte up a mountain or something? ;)


Haha! THANK YOU!

I never understood why people whined about downloading a 100 MB file. It took me all of 5 minutes, and I didn't even have to do anything. What's the problem again? :D

[jointsmoking]

MMS already died out here for a while. It was hip in 2002 and 2003, but now no one cares anymore, phones do e-mails with attachment nowadays. :rolleyes:

No ****. I don't understand this clamor for MMS. It's really old, and in my opinion pretty dead tech.

[Jelite]

Does it fix the horrible white background in the tiled album view?
No, but this (http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16799072) does, although the site seems to be down at the moment.

http://img.skitch.com/20090923-fkx8dqb6wy17j88dc4sn113a3p.jpg

View -> Grid View -> Show Header

Awesome, i was wondering what happened to that slider.

iTunes is working as i want it so im sticking with 9.0.

[tnisatard]

thanks for the update, downloading right now!

[MegaSignal]

Wow. Looks like the mini player took on a life of its own...but I must say: it is good to have it easily accessible again, now only one (green) click away once more.

[canadianpj]

How does a dot update make front page news, yet a potential Apple store employee walkout not? I really think this site is to political...

Because every update to iTunes get a story like that? Because a lot of people have had problems with 9.0 and this seems to be a solid step in addressing those issues?

Nah, can't see any reason at all to focus on it.

[X38]

Thanks for fixing the mini player so quickly Apple!
:)

[jointsmoking]

I was hoping that it would fix the issue where when you press the PLAY button on the Apple Remote it opens I-Tunes even when another program is using said remote. Blah.

[Chimpy]

Thank god they fixed the sync issues betwen the Touch and iPhone, maybe I can start syncing the two devices on the same machine now.

[jmcguckin]

"- Fixes a problem sorting albums with multiple discs."

and with this bugfix, I am officially upgrading to iTunes 9... well done, Apple! :)

[twoodcc]

glad to see this fix out. i'm sure many are

[hammten]

So I just tried to activate/enable Genius playlists on iTunes (I had created a new library to just test out how Genius reacts to re-enabling it), and iTunes 9.0.1 still doesn't like having to send music data on 240GB of music (:eek:), so it can create Genius playlists later. It hangs for quite a bit (as if the application is "Not Responding"), but if you just leave it be for a while, it will pop out of this unresponsive state, and finally work.

[X38]

Brilliant. I've been having really annoying freezing issues with iTunes 9. Do people really use the miniplayer? Can't stand the thing.

Constantly. If I'm in the house, I have itunes playing constantly and it is almost always in mini player. Fixing the green button was a hugely welcome thing.

[X38]

It's been driving me crazy for the past eight years that it didn't behave like every other window. Now they broke it again, the cowards!

You were the only one. The rest of us are mighty happy it's back to working the way we know and love.

[Stigma]

At least now all my multiple disc albums won't play 1,1,2,2,3,3... so annoying.

[belltree]

They do have a 'watched folder' feature now, but it's inside the iTunes music folder and not configurable. Can you make that work?


Not configurable? How do you select what folder to 'watch' then? :(

[deannnnn]

I was happy with the zoom button not switching to the mini player. When I unplug my external monitor, sometimes iTunes is too big to fit on the MBP screen, and there's NO way to resize it. I have to change resolutions and then the window resizes itself to something proper. I was SO happy that the zoom button made it work!

I'm with you on this one!
MiniPlayer should have it's own button.
I don't like how the zoom button works differently in every app.

[Quicksilver00X]

Can somebody please enlighten me, why Software update weighs around 89.8mb and Apple's Website shows 82.95mb for the update?:confused:

[Dinski]

Can you tell us what kind of system you have? And what other apps do you
typically run? Are you on Snow Leopard? Do any other apps give you this
much trouble? Do you run Time Machine?

For whatever reason, I have had none of the problems people have reported
with either SL or iTunes 9. So either I'm not using my system the way it was
intended or the way some people use it, or maybe the clean install I did with
Leopard earlier this year has cleaned out some of the cobwebs.

Strange . . .

I'm Running 10.5.8 on a 2.16ghz Core Duo PBook. w/ 2 Gig Ram. I have a small music library (8 gigs and around 1800 songs). This is my work / design computer so i have the Microsoft Office Suite, Entourage, Illustrator, Photoshop, Aperture, etc etc.

Initially it started up, then began to hang when it started the gapless playback work. After a reboot I turned that off,then it hung on setting up the genius feature. After a reboot I turned that off. Then it hung when communicating to the store. I gave up on 9.0. Today I installed 9.0.1 now it simply hangs before it lets me get to trying any feature at all. Force quit won''t work and it takes the whole system down.

A lot of the music I have however was burned from disc a long while back, I'm wondering if it is hanging while trying to access titles it can't find in the iTunes store database..?

I'll let it churn overnight and see what happens.

[iMaggot]

I hope they fix the crashing, because it's driving me nuts.

[Mr. Gates]

what about the white?

and the size slider?

gotta fix the app organization... almost as ridiculous as on the iPhone

[mackandproud]

It's all right to ditch the white...

[Otaviano]

Thank God that clicking the zoom button switches to the mini player again. That's been driving me crazy!

Ask and you shall receive!

I must have sent 5 feedback forms bitching about the plus button. I love that actually listen and implement feedback. This is my second victory, my first was getting iTunes to not expand every time you docked your iPhone.

[Otaviano]

Not configurable? How do you select what folder to 'watch' then? :(

You can create an alias of the watch folder and then put that where ever you want. I don't think you can assign a random folder to be the watch folder.

[MacManiac1953]

Just downloaded 9.01 and installed it. iTunes seems to be supercharged compared to 9.0, and much more usable.

[Eric5h5]

What's the problem again? :D

The problem is with people who have tiny bandwidth limits. However, this is actually a problem with really bad ISPs rather than Apple, so if it helps to increase pressure on said ISPs to drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century instead of pretending that it's still the '80s, maybe it's a good thing.

Anyway, this update fixed the problems I was having with browsing the app store, so that's sorted then.

--Eric

[Parky]

I just want 2 things from Apple Developers:

1. Hope the .1 update will fix me downloading the Apple September Video Podcast...Ya..it's lamb but see I still can't upload the freaking video from the last Apple events...Keeps downloading...downloading...downloading...What Apple.

2. I hope that Apple's developer is smart enough to disable Checking software updates twice...WTF...do you need to check for software updates twice...
I check for updates in iTune and when I click "Download itunes" it checks again...Waste of time and resources....Apple please fix.

It checks twice because sometimes there are other software updates that are only available once earlier ones have been installed.

For instance going from 10.5 to 10.5.8 would show a mass of updates on the first pass, once these were installed another set of updates would appear that can ONLY be installed once 10.5.8 is running. That is why you get two checks. And it has to do it because every machine has a different software collection on it, which Apple need to check to ensure you have all the correct versions.

[4np]

"- Addresses an issue with the Zoom button not switching to Mini Player. "

Thank God!:)

[MorphingDragon]

But is it faster?

[sunfast]

I'm glad the mini-player issue was a bug, not a change of policy!

[OllyW]

I just want 2 things from Apple Developers:

1. Hope the .1 update will fix me downloading the Apple September Video Podcast...Ya..it's lamb but see I still can't upload the freaking video from the last Apple events...Keeps downloading...downloading...downloading...What Apple.

I still can't download that video, it starts the download for about 10 seconds then stops. :(

[ronausoz]

Ever since I upgraded to iTunes 9.0.0 and enabled Home Sharing on 2 computers (iMac and Windows notebook), my wifi connection on both computers drops out shortly after iTunes is started and the Home Sharing synching starts.

I have not encountered a problem with my wifi network before and the problem with the dropped wifi connections stops on each computer after I quit iTunes on that computer. I've reset the router a couple of times as well, but the problem persists.

Has anyone else encountered this problem and/or does anyone know whether v9.0.1 fixes this?

Thanks.

[Exile]

iTunes 9.0.1 provides a number of important bug fixes, including:

• Fixes a problem sorting albums with multiple discs.

Was waiting for that. :D

[ShaunC]

does this version sync better with airtunes?

9.0 was horribly patchy

[vvebsta]

Thank God that clicking the zoom button switches to the mini player again. That's been driving me crazy!

me too! i'm am so happy they fixed it!

[vvebsta]

I'm with you on this one!
MiniPlayer should have it's own button.
I don't like how the zoom button works differently in every app.

It would be simple just to have a setting where you can choose whether you want the zoom to make it bigger and smaller or make it the miniplayer. i personally like the miniplayer but give people the option

[weareallone]

I cannot believe the smart playlist syncing with iPhone 3G problem is still not fixed with this iTunes update. I'm starting to be really disappointed at Apple. It's pretty major bug and many people are complaining about it. :(

[AdeFowler]

Give me a music videos category and get those videos away from my music!!! :mad:

So true. To get round it, I select all my music videos, go to File>Get Info, select the Options tab, and change the Media Kind to "Film" (Movie in the USA I guess). Obviously they then move to my Films folder which isn't ideal, but at least they're not with my music.

[joemama]

...but still related:

I just bought the iPhone a couple of months ago. No matter what I try in iTunes, I can't MANUALLY drag the songs I want. It's either sync all or make a playlist.

Apple can't have disabled this feature, can they? I used to do it all the time with my older iPods.

thanks

[milo]

Call me crazy, but I was happy they finally fixed the stupid green button, and I'm kind of annoyed they broke it again. Oh well, they seem to have a corporate policy of making that button the most useless feature of OSX.

FYI, option click on the green button "zooms" the window. And I use that term loosely, it doesn't maximize it but instead sets it to some useless arbitrary size.

[skate71290]

something i have been wanting since the first iPhone came out was for iTunes, in full-screen cover flow for it to act like the iPhone (being able to click the album cover and it to flick over and show songs) release it already... i think Apple is slowly turning into a more expensive Microsoft.... disappointed

[W1LLk]

For me, ever since 9.0, itunes seems to occasionaly get choppy when playing through my remote speakers (Airport Express Hook-up). I'm not sure what changed, but I have to switch songs or cause some sort of event chage to make it play regularly again. :confused:

[interconnect]

2. I hope that Apple's developer is smart enough to disable Checking software updates twice...WTF...do you need to check for software updates twice...
I check for updates in iTune and when I click "Download itunes" it checks again...Waste of time and resources....Apple please fix.
this is not a bug, this is done on purpose. sometimes apple will release updates for several components at the same time, and one relies on the other and one has to be installed first before you can install the other. software update checks for updates again to see if there are any more updates that can be installed now that you've just done an update.

[mattDC5R]

That's not an issue, it's a fix dammit!!!!

Im with you on that, wish id read the release notes before installing it!

[blybug]

Better yet, let us create our own, sure we have playlists but be nice to have our own custom categories too

"Home Movies" would be a logical category. Can't believe they still haven't added that as of iTunes 9.

I've made mine into a "TV show" so I can tag and sort them by "Season" using the year, "Month" by using disc number, and order them by episode number. Funny at virtually every keynote they show these great home videos imported from digicams and edited with iMovie, but the default behavior when they get to iTunes (then to :apple:TV) is to be just mixed in with your Hollywood feature films.

[EarthDawn]

I dident have to restart either .... hmmmm

[gt1948]

Green button = Mini Player again. :)

Just when I was getting use to the option green button senario… well glad to see the one green button back for mini player.....

Thanks Apple

[Perdix]

Has anyone else found that accessing CD track info automatically via Gracenote has become very hit and miss since 9.01 - and I mean largely (90%) miss? You put in a CD, it thinks for a long time, and then tells you the CD information isn't available, do you still want to import?

[farleysmaster]

So true. To get round it, I select all my music videos, go to File>Get Info, select the Options tab, and change the Media Kind to "Film" (Movie in the USA I guess). Obviously they then move to my Films folder which isn't ideal, but at least they're not with my music.

Why not use a smart playlist? Is the problem that they're with your music, or that you can't see just them on their own?

[norriegga]

Ever since I got an Apple device it seems that all I ever to is update software and firmware...Just spend a little more time testing and getting it right, rather than inundating us with update after update after update...

[heads up]

... and iTunes 9.0.1 still doesn't like having to send music data on 240GB of music (:eek:)...

that is insane. did you download every single song from the itunes store? rob a walmart? or do you just bittorent like 10GB of music a month? haha

but on a serious note, is this thing finally stable? I've read 3434232493 people talk about the stupid mini-player / green button ordeal, but nobody has mentioned if it stops crashing/hanging up. with 9.0 i can't even scroll through my albums in cover flow without it hanging up for a few minutes! what's the 411 on that?

[pmccann]

Ever since I got an Apple device it seems that all I ever to is update software and firmware...Just spend a little more time testing and getting it right, rather than inundating us with update after update after update...

Every time you see a software update appear repeat the following five words v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.

I am not a hampster.

Substitute "lemming" for "hampster" if it's more *you*. Then embrace your freedom of choice.

Stop licking one bone and picking at the other: choose one and chow down...

Paul

[roger6106]

I'm annoyed that they broke the zoom button. I was glad that iTunes 9 finally fixed it. They should give the mini player it's own button. Don't mess up the zoom button.

[jmpage2]

...but still related:

I just bought the iPhone a couple of months ago. No matter what I try in iTunes, I can't MANUALLY drag the songs I want. It's either sync all or make a playlist.

Apple can't have disabled this feature, can they? I used to do it all the time with my older iPods.

thanks

In iTunes click on the picture of your iPhone. On the Summary tab (main tab) click the option that says MANUALLY manage music and videos.

Problem solved. You also could have found the answer to this in 10 seconds doing a Google search or a search of these forums.

[iMJustAGuy]

So true. To get round it, I select all my music videos, go to File>Get Info, select the Options tab, and change the Media Kind to "Film" (Movie in the USA I guess). Obviously they then move to my Films folder which isn't ideal, but at least they're not with my music.

Hmmmm. I didn't know it was possible to do that. I'll try it when I get home.

[Nym]

I'm annoyed that they broke the zoom button. I was glad that iTunes 9 finally fixed it. They should give the mini player it's own button. Don't mess up the zoom button.

Agreed. And people who are defending that it should switch to the mini player are not thinking it through. The "Zoom" button has a (more or less) consistent function throughout the entire system and it's completely incoherent when in one particular application it does the opposite.

Press the "plus" green sign and it "minimizes" into the mini player? WTF?

It makes no sense at all from a GUI design point of view.

IMO Apple should just remake the "zoom" function because it's the most unused control in OSX. They should remake it so it switches into a fullscreen view (black overlay over the rest of the UI, kinda like fullscreen works on Pages. It's different from maximizing).

Call it the "focus" mode so it doesn't sound too "Windows" :rolleyes:

[iMJustAGuy]

Just when I was getting use to the option green button senario… well glad to see the one green button back for mini player.....

Thanks Apple

Ugh. And this is how Apple works. They take away something and then give it back or put something in that SHOULD have been there and we get all excited about it. But damnit it works.

[MrMoore]

Nice (and quick) update.

I never really used the Mini Player. I just use Cover Stream to control iTunes when it's hidden. Still prefered the black background, but I can adapt.

But, nice to have the multi-disc sorting issue resolved. Going from Back in the USSR to Birthday is disconcerting. ;)

[jgbhardy]

I was happy with the zoom button not switching to the mini player. When I unplug my external monitor, sometimes iTunes is too big to fit on the MBP screen, and there's NO way to resize it. I have to change resolutions and then the window resizes itself to something proper. I was SO happy that the zoom button made it work!

+1 exactly the same for me. It was so annoying, every other program's '+' button changed the size. Does someone know if pressing option '+' in the update will resize it?

[rubenarthe]

Miniplayer is just a click away again. Thank you Apple! I didn't like the other way. However, I can undestand people thinking different, after all, they should put another extra button to swich miniplayer and left the green button original purpose.


By the way, anyone knows if 9.0.1. solved the compatibility issues with Airport Express? I've had to donwgrade to 8.2.1 because of that.

[Sylvan]

Thank God that clicking the zoom button switches to the mini player again. That's been driving me crazy!

I actually switched back to iTunes 8 just for that reason. I'm glad to know I can re-install iTunes 9 again :)

For once it seems Apple listened to the complaints.

[BRLawyer]

I actually switched back to iTunes 8 just for that reason. I'm glad to know I can re-install iTunes 9 again :)

For once it seems Apple listened to the complaints.

Although I totally disagree with this deviation of the green button function, it's, ONCE MORE, CLEAR evidence that Apple's level of response to user's comments and complaints is SECOND TO NONE (even when such users suggest WRONG things). They ALSO PROMPTLY fixed the sorting of multiple album tracks.

CONGRATULATIONS for another great job in terms of customer service, Apple!

[OllyW]

Although I totally disagree with this deviation of the green button function, it's, ONCE MORE, CLEAR evidence that Apple's level of response to user's comments and complaints is SECOND TO NONE (even when such users suggest WRONG things). They ALSO PROMPTLY fixed the sorting of multiple album tracks.

CONGRATULATIONS for another great job in terms of customer service, Apple!

Let's hope they can now concentrate on getting a fix out for OS 3.1 for the iPhone 3G. :(

[Jamvan]

I apologize if this has been already stated but I still can't "Complete My Album." I get a message that states: "Purchase of this item is not currently available. This item is being modified. Please try again later."

It also still doesn't address the issue with the user specific quick links such as "complete my album", "iTunes Plus" etc not appearing unless you stand on one foot and twirl around while rubbing your belly and tapping your head.

But the green button works...

[Mark Booth]

I haven't read the entire thread, so sorry if this is a repeat... iTunes 9 created a major hassle for me with regard to the syncing of podcasts and audiobooks. It wasn't syncing the "pause place" for a given podcast or audiobook. I could have listened to, say, 30m:25s in a podcast but, when I would sync it with iTunes 9, the pause point would not get retained. iTunes 9 would reset the pause point back to wherever it was set in iTunes 9 (which would be 00:00 if I hadn't listened to the podcast in iTunes 9). VERY annoying.

I'm happy to report this bug is squashed in iTunes 9.0.1. The pause point of a given podcast or audiobook gets transferred from my device to iTunes 9.0.1 and then can also subsequently be properly transferred to a different device.

Further, iTunes 9.0.1 takes into consideration which device (or iTunes 9.0.1 itself) was the most recent place you actually played the given podcast or audiobook. So, if you listened to a podcast on your iPhone to, say, 30:30 and paused it... and then, later, you listened to the same podcast in iTunes 9.0.1 to 40:40, and then (without syncing), you went back to the iPhone and listened to 35:35... well, when you then sync the iPhone to iTunes 9.0.1 the pause point will be retained in the iPhone at 35:35 and reset in iTunes to 35:35 because the iPhone was the most recent place you listened to that podcast.

So:

1) Whichever device (or iTunes) is farthest along in the podcast becomes the default pause point for each sync.
2) EXCEPT, if you listened to a device most recently with an earlier pause point.

Very logical!!

Mark

[macfan881]

now when can we get a 64 bit update :rolleyes:

[thirdwaver]

I'm really ticked that they added the mini-player back. Horrible choice. At least offer a way to disable it, Apple.

Proof that you can't make everyone happy. This functionality is the same type of usage as calculator's zoom button. I was one of the (obviously) many, many people who wrote to Apple and complained when they changed it to 9.0's behavior. I'm in and out of mini-player all day long, dozens of times a day and it was driving me crazy!

Apple did give you a way to disable it. You and the other 12 people who like the zoom button to resize the window from one size to a (seemingly random) other size can now hold the option key when you click it while the other 12 million of us don't need to do so to get to our mini-player.

[Xian Zhu Xuande]

Control-shift-m
Learn it. Use it. Love it.
Couldn't use it while iTunes was inactive.
Couldn't use it with the mouse alone.

I'm very glad apple brought the old mini-player functionality back, and so is a hefty chunk of the Mac users out there (just do a search). You folks who don't use it can just size your window accordingly and smile, as you always have. :P

[omgwut]

Agreed, just hold the apple key + green button to automatically resize the window. Many more people use it to minimize to the mini player so it makes sense to cede to their requests first.

Now they should give us an option to use the old black background, this white one looks like garbage with the album artwork.

[jonnysods]

iTunes is a great program, but its so bloated. I get a lot of beach balling on all my machines, even the Mac Pro.

[man3ster]

Okay iTunes 9.0.1 appears to have taken care of many of the major bugs but is anyone having an issue with the way Podcast are managed or is it just my machine. So you download a podcast and you get the number "1" saying you have a new unwatched podcast. Before in iTunes 8, as soon as you hit play that 1 gets taken off so that you know you have watched it. Now it remains as "unwatched" even though its been played at least once. Perhaps its just a problem for me but its seems more right the way before.

[Mark Booth]

Okay iTunes 9.0.1 appears to have taken care of many of the major bugs but is anyone having an issue with the way Podcast are managed or is it just my machine. So you download a podcast and you get the number "1" saying you have a new unwatched podcast. Before in iTunes 8, as soon as you hit play that 1 gets taken off so that you know you have watched it. Now it remains as "unwatched" even though its been played at least once. Perhaps its just a problem for me but its seems more right the way before.

The user interface for handling the syncing of podcasts (and other media) to a device got a fairly significant makeover in iTunes 9. I suggest you double-check the settings you have enabled in the podcast tab for your device to be sure iTunes is set the way you want it to be. Perhaps you have it set to always save the most recent podcasts, regardless if you've listened to them or not.

Mark

[Rapmastac1]

This update surely makes things faster, and the Black Grid mod still works too.

They still haven't fixed the column resizing issue, makes it a pain in the butt to get album info for some songs. It's harder for me to browse the store now more than ever!

[Target362]

anyone else have a click noise when you click on anything on the windows version? been an issue since v8.0

[sravana]

Didn't fix my problem-not being able to sync AAC playlists.
Downgraded to 8.2.1. Fixed my issue, but I lost a lot of downloads in the process (my bad).

Not happy - I liked 9! - but at least I can study my audio files again.

[mickhyperion]

Having just imported a cd into this glorious 9.0.1 and gotten nothing but beachball the ENTIRE time leaving me unable to even play the tracks that were importing, I for one would like to say that this update sucks.

[Mark Booth]

Imported a CD in 9.0.1 last night and playback while importing worked just fine for me! No spinning beach ball or any other weirdness.

As I recall, there used to be a preference setting for playback while importing but, for the life of me, I can't find it anymore.

Mark

[GSMiller]

Green button = Mini Player again. :)

Thankfully! That was the first feature I tried out when I upgraded from 9.0.0 :p

[SeaFox]

So true. To get round it, I select all my music videos, go to File>Get Info, select the Options tab, and change the Media Kind to "Film" (Movie in the USA I guess). Obviously they then move to my Films folder which isn't ideal, but at least they're not with my music.

Why not just select them and set the Grouping to "Music Videos", and then make a smart playlist that pulls just that group. That will make them easy to find. Uncheck them in your song list and they wont get played when you're just listening to music

[AdeFowler]

Why not just select them and set the Grouping to "Music Videos", and then make a smart playlist that pulls just that group. That will make them easy to find. Uncheck them in your song list and they wont get played when you're just listening to music

Because I don't want them in with my music; they just don't belong there. I don't buy films from iTunes so this works for me :p

[hayesk]

Green button = Mini Player again. :)

Another blow for UI consistency. Why don't I just switch to friggin' Windows if Apple is publicly stating the UI consistency means nothing to them?

OK, maybe a bit melodramatic. But seriously, how can Apple reasonably expect developers to follow their UI guidelines, when they can't seem to do it themselves?

[Ram Mac]

I personally love the new itunes store layout. It rocks

[baruch]

iTunes 9.0.1 restored the zoom to miniplayer and the time measurement in playlists (from decimal to minutes) BUT they took away the ability to reorder items within a playlist. I cannot drag the tracks into the order I want, I can only order them by column heading. If I am missing something, please fill me in. Thanks!

[baruch]

Imported a CD in 9.0.1 last night and playback while importing worked just fine for me! No spinning beach ball or any other weirdness.

As I recall, there used to be a preference setting for playback while importing but, for the life of me, I can't find it anymore.

Mark

The setting you are looking for is at the bottom of the iTunes interface, it appears after you insert a CD, right next to the Burn Disc button.

[Locoboof]

No ****. I don't understand this clamor for MMS. It's really old, and in my opinion pretty dead tech.

PLEASE PLEASE!!!!! stop saying it's dead tech or isn't any good just because YOU don't use it.
I have a 11 year old niece who has a regular phone and likes to send me pictures of her dog all the time but I can't see them.
I have friends who don't even own a computer....so how they gonna email me a picure? But they do have inexspensive phones and can send mms all day and I can't see those at all.
So for me it's not dead tech........ So if you don't like it when it comes out Friday don't use it .....but I will be happy it's here

[Jolly Jimmy]

iTunes 9.0.1 restored the zoom to miniplayer and the time measurement in playlists (from decimal to minutes) BUT they took away the ability to reorder items within a playlist. I cannot drag the tracks into the order I want, I can only order them by column heading. If I am missing something, please fill me in. Thanks!

You can change the way time is measured by simply clicking on it.

And make sure shuffle is not on if you want to rearrange playlists.

[JasonGough]

I've tried to read every post in this 8 page thread, seems like everyone is happy that the mini player is working again but i haven't seen anyone talk about the beach balling..

Updated to iTunes 9 and you know the story. constant unpredictable beach balling.

Very happily i updated to 9.0.1 to solve the problem of 'iTunes becoming unresponsive' but its still just as bad as it was before. Mini player works great! but the entire app will still freeze. its mega annoying. what can i do?

I've never had a more annoying problem with my MacBook Pro ever. updated to SL no probs. got 4Gb RAM, no other problems with my system. help? :confused:

[Eric S.]

I'm just really glad I stuck with 8.2.1. It does everything I want for now, and works great.