Apple Releases iTunes 9: New Media Syncing Options, Genius Mixes, iPhone App Organization

Ugh, does the new App Organizaition screen have a ton of apps checked that were not before?

If I were to sync, it would try to install 46 apps that were not set to install before updating to 9 and 3.1. So much for easy organization, now I have to find all those app and uncheck them.

Anyone have this issue. The apps already installed are in their old spot in the app organization, except for the extra 46 apps filling any gaps and new pages.
 
TV Seasons sync tab in iTunes - bug?

This looks like a bug to me. Can someone else check it out and see if they can duplicate this? In iTunes, when I click on the "TV Shows" tab under iPhone (under "Devices"), then choose a TV show that has more than (about?) 14 episodes, I can't see all of them (yes, they are in my library). There is a scroll bar on the right for the episodes, but scrolling all the way down still does not show all of the episodes. I have duplicated this with a couple different shows.

The only way I was able to get around this was to change the name or season number for some of the shows so that there wouldn't be more than 14 episodes for any show/season.
 
How to fix that annoying rating width issue?

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Sorry if this has been mentioned already, but it just occurred to me that the new glossy look of iTunes 9 match the new glossy look of the iPod nanos, right?...

Btw, how do you know whether an album has iTunes LP or not? You don't know till you buy it?
 
kansai-pj said:
Got it up and running. Talked to an Apple genius at a nearby store. He suggested that I simply turn everything off and let iTunes run a LONG LONG time. It took 2.5 hours, but it finally finished going through the library and now seems to be working fine.

If you are having hangups and spinning beach balls, try shutting everything else off and just let it run over night....

Hope that helps.
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Did my two computers yesterday. The notebook took about 15 minutes (just music and audiobooks) and the mini took about an hour and a half. The mini has the same music, no audiobooks and about a terabyte of movies and tv shows. I thought it had locked up, but it was just chugging away. I think mine was slow also because my itunes for the mini is on a NAS in another room.

As a side note, the syncing worked well. I checked the box to keep all the music synced, I figure I want to do the movies/tv shows/audiobooks myself. I bought a song on the notebook, and about a minute later, I saw it transferring to the Mini. Kinda feel sorry for Supersync (the program I was using to do this). Now if they will do iphoto syncing (time to start emailing again :) )
 
I had a hard time navigating the new GUI on iTunes 9, but I'll give another week or so to see if I get used to it.

More importantly, the installation did not go smoothly. I downloaded, restarted and then all hell broke loose as various startup programs could not find their libraries. For instance, BOINC told me to reinstall. I tried that, but the installation package indicated my mirror backup disk was the start-up disk even though my primary disk was correctly listed as the start-up disk in system preferences. I restarted again in single user mode and used fsck, but there were no issues. I rebooted and everything was fine. Weird. :confused:
 
+ iPhone app organisation
+ Coverflow for Applications
+ Improved media organisation
+ Info window shows download progress

- Yet another new UI
- White background in icon view
- 2-disc albums don't sort properly
- iTunes Store uglier, more confusing

Overall it's a mixed bag. Crucially, it's still the same iTunes. Other than the wonky sorting with 2-disc albums, I've had no problems whatsoever playing my music. The new UI isn't fantastic but it doesn't distract either. The store still works perfectly, despite being hard on the eyes. I don't sync my videos with iTunes so am not aware of any problems there. Coverflow + Apps = :)
 
I think this looked much better than the new iTMS: http://maxvoltar.com/files/83.png

The new iTMS is too white, and the different areas (new and noteworthy, what's hot, what we're listening to etc) are so similar that the overall look is very crowded - there should be some stronger visual elements to separate them from each other.
 
Simon Young said:
+ iPhone app organisation
+ Coverflow for Applications
+ Improved media organisation
+ Info window shows download progress

- Yet another new UI
- White background in icon view
- 2-disc albums don't sort properly
- iTunes Store uglier, more confusing

Overall it's a mixed bag. Crucially, it's still the same iTunes. Other than the wonky sorting with 2-disc albums, I've had no problems whatsoever playing my music. The new UI isn't fantastic but it doesn't distract either. The store still works perfectly, despite being hard on the eyes. I don't sync my videos with iTunes so am not aware of any problems there. Coverflow + Apps = :)
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I AM NOT HAPPY:mad: I did not notice the 2-Disc nonsense last night. The sorting is ridiculous. I think I am going to have to now retag all of my music by track now. WHY would they change this?

Nevermind, easily fixed by clicking on the album tab. Got worked up for nothing...lol.

Still prefer the black background though. I don't get Apple lately, with many products moving to a black interface why go white. All the iWork apps and now parts of snow leopard and quicktime has the black look while iTunes has the white look. Apple's new boxes for software moved toward white. Most of the computers are black and silver, yet all the peripherals are white. I don't get it...dammit just pick one.
 
I noticed two things immediately:

The window can't minimize like the old version. WTF, Apple?

They STILL can't full screen just ONE monitor and blank productivity on both. WTH, Apple? Some small group of French guys can do it with VLC but you can't do it with a huge corporation making billions??

Overall, not bad, but so much crap finishing. Apple products are getting sloppy around the edges these days.
 
I'm glad they finally fixed the green button, it never worked consistently with other apps, and there's still a key command for it.

The new option for side artist/genre is nice, especially with so many people on widescreen monitors.

The new smart playlist and sync options are awesome and way overdue.

Overall doesn't seem faster although it finally ejects my Nano MUCH quicker than before, I never could understand why it was always so extremely slow.

melchior said:
i don't give a damn about 64-bit or cocoa, but i am very annoyed that my library STILL takes 5 minutes to load, with 99% cpu during that time.
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Sounds like you DO care about 64 bit and cocoa. I don't get why they haven't switched that over, this is an app that has always run on the slow side and could really use it. There are plenty of people out there with thousands of files in iTunes.

So has anyone checked to see if 9 makes better use of multiple cores? Sorry if that has been covered already in this thread.
 
Itunes Purchases not DRM Free

In iTunes 9 does anyone knows a way to find the songs that still have DRM on your library?
The option upgrade your library to iTunes Plus disappeared...
 
Home Sharing for iTunes PURCHASED content only

Is it me or does home sharing ONLY automatically copy iTunes purchases and NOT other content added other ways such as CD rips or music added from other sources (Amazon etc). Import from Home Sharing works fine.
 
Yeah that was my finding too. Why make it so its only purchased content that syncs automatically and not ALL content after all iTunes were the first mainstream company to promote ripping from CD's. I was looking forward to abandoning Mojo for syncing content between multiple Macs.
 
Gluben said:
With the iTunes Extras, will this include commentary tracks? This is something, among a few other things, which has driven me more to DVDs than online movie purchases. Commentaries by directors, writers and stars on some of the biggest films in the iTunes 9 library certainly wouldn't go amiss.
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Well I read the info on the iTunes Extra page in the iTunes Store and it acted like film commentaries would be included (if the DVD equivilent has them available) plus its not like it would be that hard for them to have them included since alternate audio tracks in iTunes has been available for some time since the last couple versions of Handbrake allowed multiple audio tracks. What I find cool is the fact that the iTunes Extras movies will have more special features than a single disc version of a DVD which is a comparable price point. I was going to buy the single disc version of Star Trek this November but I may get the iTunes version since no doubt it will have all the special features included in the single disc version and some from the two disc version plus if its available in HD that would give me as good picture quality compared to the DVD.

Does anyone know how (or if) you can get iTunes LP or Movie Extras for albums you already own? I already got Wall-e from iTunes and was hoping to get the extras.
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I'm not sure but I would go into the support chat to find out if you could.
 
Oooh, I found a feature. If you select tracks in a playlist, it tells you how many tracks you have selected, and how many MB they are, in the status bar. That's new, right?
 
farleysmaster said:
Oooh, I found a feature. If you select tracks in a playlist, it tells you how many tracks you have selected, and how many MB they are, in the status bar. That's new, right?
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Seems to be. Only gave you total tracks in the playlist before not selection.
 
Mini-Player

The switch to mini-player has changed! If you press the green plus button it changes window size now, and doesn't switch to mini-player. The keyboard shortcut has also changed; from CMD+CONT+Z, to SHFT+CMD+M.

This will take me a while to get used to since I use mini-player alot!
 
ugh, I hate to gripe about nearly everything that was announced/released yesterday, but considering the first thing I noticed right off the bat was the redesigned interface (which looks awful, IMHO, at least from the standpoint of being a long-time iTunes user), my initial impression of iTunes 9 wasn't a good one... they really seem to have taken a step backward as far as the appearance of the UI is concerned. plus, what's with their using a variety of fonts now? (for the title/artist below album artwork in List View, it looks like either Arial or Helvetica, but considering the entire remainder of the UI is Lucida Grande, it just looks tacky)

as for functionality, I'm at least glad to see that they have included being able to jump to chapter markers while watching video content, and the indicators next to content that I haven't finished watching/listening to are a nice added touch... plus with HE-AAC support, I can finally use iTunes for listening to HE-AAC-based online radio stations.

overall, it's a worthwhile update, I just wish there was some way I could've kept the old UI while still having access to the new features.
 
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