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Apple Updates iTunes to 8.1.1

Just installed the new iTunes - no reboot. Easy as can be. Handled sync with iPhone no prob. Large iTunes library handled fine.
 
Synching issues !

Hi all ..

I have a 2G iPhone jailbroken with latest OS .. after upgrading to 8.1.1 my iPhone is not synching .. any thoughts? (initially stuck in a back up with bar not moving ... now says synching .. and the stripes are moving )

Any thoughts?
 
Hi - I asked this before but no one answered -- I can't find a single movie to rent in HD -- are there ANY in the entire iTunes store?
 
francoliu said:
Hi - I asked this before but no one answered -- I can't find a single movie to rent in HD -- are there ANY in the entire iTunes store?
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I can't see them either.... although I'm in Australia and we always seem to get the new features like this MONTHS later.
 
So now that Apple finally supports HD rentals on the computers.. Have they fixed AC3 5.1 passthrough in this latest iTunes/QT release, to match AppleTV capabilities?
 
Tallest Skil said:
Well, that doesn't make any sense. Why would they have left the 8.1.0 crap in there?
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You mean in the description? I think it's normal for a minor minor release to include the release notes of the minor release.
 
Anyone having trouble playing back podcasts? I'm trying to watch the stanford iphone dev one and its skipping visually like crazy and the audio is way off. I've already tried redownloading it.

Maybe its just the podcast?

Edit: its all video.
 
drober30 said:
All these releases/updates/fixes is a pain the a$$ and annoying! Seems more like a Microsoft practice.

Hopefully it does not require a reboot. I tired of the bouncing icon.
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I find bugs even more annoying than a simple click to fix them. The bug whereby the audio selection menu in the title menu bar didn't work in 8.1.0 is now happily FIXED in 8.1.1. Maybe they do read bug reports once in awhile....

I keep reading that 8.1.1 adds support for HD movie rentals, but this doesn't appear to be true. I can't find a single HD movie to rent. There are several hundred or more available to my two AppleTV units so maybe it would be a good idea if Apple news sites actually tried the update before posting things that it doesn't actually do. Or is this a situation where only SOME movies are available to rent in HD for computers while all are available to AppleTV? I've found exactly NONE to rent on the computer thus far so I'd say it is far more likely that it is simply not supported.

Tallest Skil said:
Well, that doesn't make any sense. Why would they have left the 8.1.0 crap in there?
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It only said "8.1" features here. There was no mention of 8.1.0 in the feature list so the features do fit what was listed, even if that doesn't really fit the upgrade. But given how close this release was to 8.1.0, maybe they figure a lot of people wouldn't have seen the 8.1 list if they skipped over the last update.

michael.lauden said:
would you actually want to rent an HD movie?

24 hours to watch a movie isn't worth paying for - i'd rather pay an extra 5-10 bucks and own it
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HD movies are $20, not $10-15 as your post suggests. I only watch most movies ONCE. Why on earth would I want to spend 4x as much plus use 5-7GB of space to store said move on my hard drive for a movie I have no desire to watch again? So yes, I do RENT HD movies (only AppleTV; I see none to rent from iTunes thus far). As for 24 hours, it generally only takes 1.5-3 hours to watch a movie, so yes that's generally enough.

Marx55 said:
ESSENTIAL FEATURE MISSING:

Resume playback. That simple!

Even the old SoundJam MP from which iTunes was created had it. Great to listen from head to toe large playlists on iTunes on the Mac.
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I don't know what makes you think it's missing in the first place. It's under Get Info -> Options as "Remember Playback Position". It works for ALL media items from movies to music videos to just plain audio music. Try it out.

Eraserhead said:
No, that remembers the position in the song, he wants to keep going where he left off in a playlist.
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If that is the case, I don't really get what he's looking for. You mean to LEAVE a playlist and go do something else like watch a movie and then come back later and have it remember where he left off before he decided to abandon listening to the playlist? Or do you mean to exit iTunes or shut down the computer or what? Otherwise, stopping playing music just pauses it. It will resume playing wherever you paused it.

I just tried playing a song in the middle of a playlist and then left it and went back to the general music library and started another song. When I went back to the playlist, the song I was playing was still high-lighted so I could resume where I left off. What am I missing here?
 
I'm still having the issues synching my wife's iPhone that suddenly appeared after installing 8.1.052. I thought 8.1.1 would resolve this but everytime I plug the phone in all I get is verifying iPhone on the screen for AGES! It seems to try and then hang and I have to end task through task manager (windows xp) and it's really starting to annoy me as essentially my wife can't use her phone as it was intended.

Does anyone have any idea what can be done to sort tis? Is it fairly easy to downgrade iTunes to the version before 8.1.052?

Thanks
 
since installing this i seem to have some crackling noise....like faint bubble wrap or something.....coming from my speakers....no its not the speakers....does the same through headphones etc. has only happened since the new itunes install.......and it happens whether or not itunes is even open now....
 
houttbe said:
I think that since 8.1 you can move back and forward in the iTunes Store by means of the three-finger swipe, like in Safari.
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YES!!! I just noticed this on my MBA. Really nice to see Apple implementing this across the spectrum of apps. :)
 
I've installed and reinstalled 8.1.1 several times on Vista, but I keep getting a message before it opens saying "The registry settings used by the iTunes drivers for importing and burning CDs and DVDs are missing...please reinstall iTunes".
All I did was upgrade iTunes, nothing else and now it's saying this every time I open it. Any ideas on how to fix it?
 
johnmcboston said:
Anyone notice if 811 fixes the 'slowness' problem introduced in 8.1?
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What 'slowness' problem are you referring to? 8.1 is much faster with larger libraries. I don't notice any slowdowns here and I'm running my whole house library on a 1.8GHz PPC Mac.
 
Am I the only one annoyed?

Am I the only one annoyed by the information window that cannot be closed? Getting info on a movie in the iTunes Store opens a window that is so tall the close box is not visible. With iTunes 8.1, I could press Cmd-W twice; the first would close the main iTunes window, the second (last) would close the info window. With iTunes 8.1.1 the only way to close the info window is to quit the application. :eek:
 
JoeCanadian said:
Since iTunes 8.1, podcast syncing with 2nd Gen shuffles has been broken. I was sad to see this latest update doesn't fix things.

There is a lengthy discussion about the iTunes 8.1 and 8.1.1 syncing problems with the 2nd Gen Shuffle on the Apple discussion forums here:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1939145&start=0&tstart=0
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Hate to hear that, I had all those problems listed and it was a pain to go back to 8.0.x because none of my previous iTunes libraries worked and basically had to start over. I'm just dreading that I will need 8.1.x for iphone 3.0 when it comes out and the shuffle problems won't be fixed:(
 
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