I just got off the phone with Apple. They told me it will be released tomorrow (Friday).
I just got off the phone with Apple. They told me it will be released tomorrow (Friday).
And we should believe you, why?
I just got off the oujia board with Steve - he says you're predicting it wrong.
If it wasn't for some of the features and abilities of ML, I would have stayed on Snow Leopard. Lion was awful and ML isn't the best thing ever either.
On Topic, seriously hoping for iTunes 11 today, I just want to try it out and see how it performs.
Call them yourself.
I am not bashing you I am just curious as to why you thought Lion was terrible and ML is not great?
I just did, and they couldn't say anything.
It's there, girls and boys - go download!!!
You'll have to go outside iTunes, using PLEX or Air Video. They'll stream (and even convert on the fly, I think) any shows/movies to your iOS device by basically setting up your computer as a server (and pointing toward your respective media folders). No experience with that myself just yet, but thinking about it.Really, is there?
Because DRM'd stuff won't get streamed by anything and to add to it the play marker won't get updated in iTunes, which is a big annoyance especially with TV shows.
I have the same need as you apparently.
Also, but I don't ever expect this to happen: I'd love to natively share my friends outside the network.
Right now I'm thinking about setting up a VPN for AirDrop, iTunes HomeShares and a few other things for friends.
Although I heard HomeShares don't play nicely with VPNs (read: don't work)...
Anyone with experience in that?
Glassed Silver:mac
There needs to be an iTunes light version for those of us who just need to play mp3s from a library. iTunes is way too bloated and there are many people that don't need and will never use the ipod, ipad, iphone connectivity, the app store, music store, etc. I have no iDevices and don't need the extra junk that comes with iTunes.
also, itunes is really bad at handling libraries with over 200gb of music. it becomes a memory and cpu hog, sometimes hitting 200mb of ram... a simple mp3 player shouldn't use that much memory.
You'll have to go outside iTunes, using PLEX or Air Video. They'll stream (and even convert on the fly, I think) any shows/movies to your iOS device by basically setting up your computer as a server (and pointing toward your respective media folders). No experience with that myself just yet, but thinking about it.
EDIT - You're right about the DRM stuff (Air Video won't play it). Not sure about PLEX, but probably similar (maybe). I backup all my media from my own DVDs, so I don't run into that problem.
Why? You don't even know how iTunes 11 is.
you crazy.
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Let's get one thing straight: Ping never had an ounce of potential. Ever.
Who said it was? I'm talking about iTunes Match which uses the iTunes Store
Just tested out Air Video. Works awesomely. Just download the free server software and it sets up everything fairly automatically. You just have to point toward the folders your media is located in. I downloaded the iPhone/iPad app ($2.99) and it worked quite swell.No third party app does this.
Also, no application updates the marker to my knowledge.
Air Video maybe? Idk... Will look into that.
I do bring my own media mostly, too, but I do spend some money on iTunes movies or shows sometimes, which is actually only worth it when they are on sale, because iTunes prices are ridiculous for TV shows and movies.
Especially as HD costs more and 1080p mostly isn't available. Grrr
Glassed Silver:mac
For the purposes of it being a simple mp3 player and nothing more, this is unacceptable. If all developers were that lazy, we'd require a lot more than 8gb of RAM just to run software.
This is another reason why I refuse to switch to OS X 10.7 or 10.8. Snow Leopard is killer and was nicely optimized, I was super excited about it being released knowing how much under the hood work went into it.
The same should be done with iTunes or a lighter alternative that handles a full library.
Apple wouldn't want to cut off their revenue from the digital purchases on the iTunes Store like that. I think it will run only on Intel, 10.5.8 or later.
My friend was cut off on his Macbook Late 2007 still running Leopard. He just bought an iPhone 5 but cannot manage it on his MacBook running 10.5.8. He vented his frustrations to me and then proceeded to install iTunes on his Windows 7 computer.I think you mean 10.6.8 or later.
It's not like iTunes 10.7 still suddenly stop working on older machines, I highly doubt Snow Leopard will be supported. Lion or later, me thinks.