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

I Strongly Recommend NOT Downgrading To iTunes 9

:mad: Trust me. This is a DOWNGRADE not an upgrade. You don't want it. It destroys the iTunes Store Shopping Experience. No longer can you highlight a track and hit return to play it followed by the down arrow to highlight the next track so that when the one that's playing 30 seconds ends you can hit return to play the next one and so forth. No. :mad: Now you can only play PARTIALLY VISIBLE playlist songs with a double click of the mouse. :mad:

:mad: Plus they took away the Shopping Cart and replaced it with a LAME Wish List that you can't make into a separate window and which only displays PART of your list at a time. I mean this is the most UN-Engineered Human Interface I have ever seen Apple do. It's like the designers NEVER USE the Store. INSANE would be a kind description of what's been done here. :mad:

:mad: Thankfully I was abel to revert to 8.1.2 this morning thanks to the Previous Library and my SAVED install packages from the past in my Downloads folder. Unless Apple puts back what they took away I will NEVER be advancing my iTunes version again. :mad:
 
Do NOT Downgrade To iTunes 9 - It Is An Abysmal Disaster

kansai-pj said:
Updated from Software Update. When I started iTunes 9, it said that is adusting the music for gapless play, and every time, somewhere between 500 and the 4700 songs I have, I got a spinning ball that never goes away no matter how long I wait.

Let it run for over an hour once and the spinning ball never went away. I cannot even force quit!!! I have to to a hard restart. I have tried this five times now and I cannot seem to avoid the spinning beach ball...

Anyone else having a similar problem?

I am running OS10.5.8 on a 24" iMac.
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I think when an update like this comes along the best practice is to download the disk image from Apple.com and run that installer NOT running anything from Software Updater. However I recommend against this - what amounts to a - DOWNGRADE. Recover your Previous Library from the Previous Library folder in your iTunes folder and reinstall 8.2.1 from your previous packages installer in your downloads folder if you were wise enough to always download and KEEP all your installers from the past.

If not Here's the link to Apple's download of 8.2.1 which they are calling for G3 but which includes the same version for all Macs - Universal Binary.
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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I swear iTunes 9 is a disaster you don't want.
 
I'm a little baffled by the white background for videos and apps. It seems to be a huge step backward in aesthetics. I'm still undecided on the new look as a whole, but I'm leaning towards the look of iTunes 8.
 
Apple Now Denies All SD Video & HD Video Downloads In 8.2.1

:mad: I just found out when I went to do my weekly set of free downloads that Apple has now blocked anyone staying on 8.2.1 from downloading any more videos be they SD or HD. Podcast Videos are still allowed. But nothing you have to buy or get for free as part of the free section. I find this to be a bummer. But I have a work around. I'll just install 9 on another Mac that is ONLY FOR DOWNLOADING free videos. Then I'll copy those downloads into my regular library, rename them "whatever.mp4" and play them in QuickTime X. :mad:

Here's the link to the Apple Download Page of the disk image of Universal Binary of 8.2.1. They call it for G3 but when you open the image the read me file admits it's for all Macs.
 
swindmill said:
I'm a little baffled by the white background for videos and apps. It seems to be a huge step backward in aesthetics. I'm still undecided on the new look as a whole, but I'm leaning towards the look of iTunes 8.
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my thoughts exactly...

and on a related side-note, I've already found a bug- in the previous version of iTunes, albums could be sorted by year, and while this still works properly for single-disc albums, multi-disc albums (for instance, The Beatles' "White Album") now list the tracks in order of track number, not disc number... and for the sizable number of 2- and 3-disc albums that I own, the majority of them contain tracks which should flow gaplessly from one to the next, and this no longer works properly.

what would be the best way to go about submitting this to Apple?
 
Home Sharing

I don't know if its been covered on this thread. 22 pages!

I'm on a single machine with multiple users. The wife and kids.

When they copy songs and apps after selecting not to "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library". It still does it. I cannot use this feature which I was exited about since it creates duplicates on same disk.

Have any of you found a solution for this?
 
jmcguckin said:
my thoughts exactly...

and on a related side-note, I've already found a bug- in the previous version of iTunes, albums could be sorted by year, and while this still works properly for single-disc albums, multi-disc albums (for instance, The Beatles' "White Album") now list the tracks in order of track number, not disc number... and for the sizable number of 2- and 3-disc albums that I own, the majority of them contain tracks which should flow gaplessly from one to the next, and this no longer works properly.

what would be the best way to go about submitting this to Apple?
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I noticed this as well. I usually keep my library organized by "Album by Year"

My temporary fix until Apple fixes (I hope they do) is to organize by "Album"

That seems to have taken care of it for now...
 
mjteggy05 said:
I noticed this as well. I usually keep my library organized by "Album by Year"

My temporary fix until Apple fixes (I hope they do) is to organize by "Album"

That seems to have taken care of it for now...
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That's a crappy fix because the "Album" sort pays no attention to artist. "Album by Year" first sorts alphabetically by artist, then sorts each artist's albums by year. What I did was go into the album field and rename each one with a (1), (2), (3), etc. after the album title. Even renaming the "sort album" field doesn't fix the problem, you have to change the actual album name. I have around 28 gigs of music on my computer and quite a few multi-disc albums. But it could have been worse. Some people have a hell of a lot more music than that on their computers to sift through.
 
App store categories gone?

In App store, I can't find the list of categories, ie Business, Entertainment, Lifestyle, etc. Am I missing something?
 
TripHop said:
:mad: Trust me. This is a DOWNGRADE not an upgrade. You don't want it. It destroys the iTunes Store Shopping Experience. No longer can you highlight a track and hit return to play it followed by the down arrow to highlight the next track so that when the one that's playing 30 seconds ends you can hit return to play the next one and so forth. No. :mad: Now you can only play PARTIALLY VISIBLE playlist songs with a double click of the mouse. :mad:
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Just hover the mouse over the track number and it turns into a play symbol then you just have to click it once
 
redfirebird08 said:
That's a crappy fix because the "Album" sort pays no attention to artist. "Album by Year" first sorts alphabetically by artist, then sorts each artist's albums by year. What I did was go into the album field and rename each one with a (1), (2), (3), etc. after the album title. Even renaming the "sort album" field doesn't fix the problem, you have to change the actual album name. I have around 28 gigs of music on my computer and quite a few multi-disc albums. But it could have been worse. Some people have a hell of a lot more music than that on their computers to sift through.
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As long as feedback is provided, this is a bug easily fixed in 9.0.1...
 
another bad change in iTunes 9

When one creates a playlist, it used to show, at the bottom, the number of minutes in the playlist. Now it shows a decimal, like 1.1 hours instead of saying 66 minutes. For people who use iTunes to create playlists for radio, as I do, this is an unfortunate change. I hope this will be corrected.
 
TripHop said:
:mad: Trust me. This is a DOWNGRADE not an upgrade. You don't want it. It destroys the iTunes Store Shopping Experience. No longer can you highlight a track and hit return to play it followed by the down arrow to highlight the next track so that when the one that's playing 30 seconds ends you can hit return to play the next one and so forth. No. :mad: Now you can only play PARTIALLY VISIBLE playlist songs with a double click of the mouse. :mad:

:mad: Plus they took away the Shopping Cart and replaced it with a LAME Wish List that you can't make into a separate window and which only displays PART of your list at a time. I mean this is the most UN-Engineered Human Interface I have ever seen Apple do. It's like the designers NEVER USE the Store. INSANE would be a kind description of what's been done here. :mad:

:mad: Thankfully I was abel to revert to 8.1.2 this morning thanks to the Previous Library and my SAVED install packages from the past in my Downloads folder. Unless Apple puts back what they took away I will NEVER be advancing my iTunes version again. :mad:
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You're absolutely right. I wish I'd saved my earlier library etc. v9 is not an improvement in terms of functionality, just a bit glossier for shopping.
 
baruch said:
When one creates a playlist, it used to show, at the bottom, the number of minutes in the playlist. Now it shows a decimal, like 1.1 hours instead of saying 66 minutes. For people who use iTunes to create playlists for radio, as I do, this is an unfortunate change. I hope this will be corrected.
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try clicking the 1.1 hours. It will change it to 66 minutes. iTunes has acted this way as long as I can remember...
 
Can iTunes 9 Home Sharing work over the internet? I miss that feature from my Windows 7 machine where I can listen to my WMP library from anywhere over the net...

edit, not sure if anyone posted this before but iTunes 9 now has the media controls built into the 7 taskbar:

itunes9TaskBar.jpg
 
In regards to the firewall prompting everytime iTunes is opened, the following was found over on the Apple discussion forums:
An engineer got in touch with me and here's the steps I was to do:

* Open terminal and enter "codesign -v /Applications/iTunes.app"

If the output of this command is anything but "Valid on disk", uninstall iTunes and reinstall it.
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mjteggy05 said:
I noticed this as well. I usually keep my library organized by "Album by Year"

My temporary fix until Apple fixes (I hope they do) is to organize by "Album"

That seems to have taken care of it for now...
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[RANT]glad to see I'm not the only one who was having this issue... though I've since managed to "fix" it by reverting back to iTunes v. 8.2.1- and I don't plan on updating from it until either 1) I'm forced to in order to maintain compatibility with future versions of QuickTime or 2) Apple eventually release a version of iTunes with a dramatically less tacky UI. I like uniformity in my apps' user interfaces (colors, shapes, etc.), and call me crazy, but I couldn't deal with the overly glossy, unrefined appearance of iTunes 9, not when every other app I use has the non-distracting flat/matte appearance that I'm used to.

ahem.[/RANT]
 
jmcguckin said:
[RANT]glad to see I'm not the only one who was having this issue... though I've since managed to "fix" it by reverting back to iTunes v. 8.2.1- and I don't plan on updating from it until either 1) I'm forced to in order to maintain compatibility with future versions of QuickTime or 2) Apple eventually release a version of iTunes with a dramatically less tacky UI. I like uniformity in my apps' user interfaces (colors, shapes, etc.), and call me crazy, but I couldn't deal with the overly glossy, unrefined appearance of iTunes 9, not when every other app I use has the non-distracting flat/matte appearance that I'm used to.

ahem.[/RANT]
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Hmm i started getting this in 8.2.1 and hoped that once i had updated to 9 it would be resolved but its still here now :mad:
 
REturn & Down Arrow Keys Don't Work In 9 To Play and Advnace Tracks

AAPLaday said:
Just hover the mouse over the track number and it turns into a play symbol then you just have to click it once
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We never had to use the mouse before. Just start with a highlighted track line and press return and down arrow. When that 30 seconds is up hit return and down arrow etc. Easy Peezy. Now the return and down arrow keys don't even do anything in 9. Crazy. :mad:
 
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