Apple Releases iTunes 10.1 With Support for AirPlay and iOS 4.2

[schalkse]

switch to mac.

Funny, coz it's true

 

[schalkse]

Hello All,
Just found it interesting that while the iTunes update was installing, right before "Cleaning Up" stage, my iPhone (which was connected) double-vibrated meaning it was unmounted and remounted...

That's normal

 

[nuelino]

Slower encoding

AAC encoding in 10.0.1 was 50x, now in 10.1 is 38x !?!?

 

[taxiapple]

Is Ping finally gone?

Before I download it, did they get rid of Ping or at least allow users to delete it?

Is the import function restored that was missing in !0.0.1?

 

[clientsiman]

At last!

 

[nOw2]

The speed of loading uncached cover art in the album grid view seems much faster. I would guess there are a few more similar performance fixes - iTunes could certainly do with them..

 

[imwoblin]

Looks like you can disable Ping in prefs>parental controls. I wish Apple would bring back the colors though...

 

[Statiq]

iTunes with Airplay

The reason why they put airplay in 10.1 is for the situation when your at a friends house with your laptop and need to stream a video to the AppleTV 2 without the hassle of syncing and all that extra stuff.

 

[BlackMangoTree]

I don't think that's anything to do with it being 64 bit though - iTunes has always been dog slow on Windows and is one of the worst Windows apps there is IMO.

It's not slow here at all on Windows 7 Ultimate running on a 2009 MacMini 4 gb Ram. It's actually very fast.

 

[ghostlyorb]

Here's to hoping for VLC to add airplay support (if it's even possible?)!

if VLC added Airplay support.. I'm buying an ATV next week...

 

[newagemac]

VLC already has Airplay support. They don't need to add anything. Nor do any of the other thousands of iOS apps as long as they use the native media player. Airplay is a default feature built in to iOS natively.

 

[Kahnyl]

I don't see why it shouldn't already work if VLC uses the native iOS media player. I can't remember if it does since I only used it for a few minutes before deleting it.

EDIT: Well, there you go.

 

[farleysmaster]

Wait for Dev Team or musclenerd to declare. as always...

Has iTunes ever broken a jailbreak? Surely that would be an iOS update...

 

[Kahnyl]

Has iTunes ever broken a jailbreak? Surely that would be an iOS update...

It has created problems for people performing jailbreaks and syncing devices that are jailbroken already.

 

[ghostface147]

Can anyone who edited the position of the stoplight and added the color back to the icons confirm if upgrading from 10.0 to 10.1 will have to be redone, and if so if the same files work?

I don't know about the colors, but the buttons don't change back to the vertical way.

 

[dgalvan123]

The reason why they put airplay in 10.1 is for the situation when your at a friends house with your laptop and need to stream a video to the AppleTV 2 without the hassle of syncing and all that extra stuff.

Does Airplay not require you to "register" the additional apple tv or anything like that? If so, I suppose I see that as a potential use case. Otherwise, I don't understand the benefit of being able to use Airplay to stream iTunes video to Apple TV. We already do that using Homesharing. How much of a hassle is it, really, to join a home share at your friend's house? Enter a username/password and you're done.

Now, if Airplay on the mac would allow me to wirelessly stream web videos to the apple tv, THAT would be something. For that it should be built into quicktime, VLC, and their various browser plugins. But as it is described, it sounds like airplay video streaming from itunes is a redundant feature.

 

[farleysmaster]

It has created problems for people performing jailbreaks and syncing devices that are jailbroken already.

Interesting. I am a bit surprised, though. I'd never worried about it when I had jailbroken devices.

 

[dgalvan123]

VLC already has Airplay support. They don't need to add anything. Nor do any of the other thousands of iOS apps as long as they use the native media player. Airplay is a default feature built in to iOS natively.

I think they meant VLC on the mac, not VLC on iOS. And I agree I'd love to see Airplay implemented into Mac OS X natively, so that I can Airplay web videos (flash, even?) to my Apple TV, or even just use the Apple TV as a way to use my TV as a second monitor wirelessly.

 

[triceretops]

Downloaded

But I doubt I can do anything with this on my 1G iPod Touch.

 

[Corrode]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

Man this update is causing mad hangs on my Mac. Goes in and out of responding. Hope it's not serious.

 

[London Lad]

Is airplay supposed to be working (windows itunes > Apple TV2)

I can see the airplay selector arrow / box thing in the movie window but the only choice on the drop down is 'My computer'

 

[BlackMangoTree]

It still doesn't show artwork for albus that only ave a few songs. Piss Poor.

Organising many apps is even slower in this version.

Piss Poor.

The last year Apple have been producing rubbish.

 

[IDreamOfSpace]

I don't get it. iTunes was always able to stream videos to the Apple TV.

Right! Iv'e been doing this since day one with my ATV. What new functionality has been added?

 

[2992]

But I doubt I can do anything with this on my 1G iPod Touch.

what were you expecting to do?!

 

[EViL LeViaTHaN]

I don't know about the colors, but the buttons don't change back to the vertical way.

Thanks.