It's faster than 9 was for me on a MacBook with C2D.
Yeah, but does it still work and what did it get rid of?
You can it's just not enabled by default. Go to View > Always Show Artwork.
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iTunes 10 Now Available to Download
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Perhaps this was mentioned before, but the big Oops with Ping (outside the fact that you can't get rid of it from the sidebar), would seem to be that it's one account, one ping. Unless I'm missing something obvious?
A family of four--mom, dad and the two teens--use one credit card under one account for downloading iTunes. If all four want to set up "pings" for their with their particular circle of friends, focusing on their particular music...they would seem to be outta luck.
From what I can see, one account gets you one Ping under one name.
Agreed, this is definitely a problem for me if this is how it works. I'd prefer my wife's terrible taste in music (Katy Perry? Really???) not be attributed to me just because we share the same iTunes purchase account.
Steve Jobs using Lady Gaga as the feature artist to promote Ping should be a glaring example of how pointless it is.
Just saying....
Amen. That Lady Gaga video he showed in his presentation was truly cringeworthy. I really thought Steve had more taste. Actually, I think I detected a bit of a painful cringe from Steve himself after that portion of the demo. I imagine he was thinking "Why did I agree to this???"
The only "music business personality" (note I didn't say musician) more desperate for attention than Lady Gaga is...Katy Perry.
OH SNAP!Amen. That Lady Gaga video he showed in his presentation was truly cringeworthy. I really thought Steve had more taste. Actually, I think I detected a bit of a painful cringe from Steve himself after that portion of the demo. I imagine he was thinking "Why did I agree to this???"
The only "music business personality" (note I didn't say musician) more desperate for attention than Lady Gaga is...Katy Perry.
I was thinking the same thing when watching it. I completely agree that Gaga is no musician. She's more like moving art than good music and the arts not that good. I'm perplexed to how she's become so popular.
Steve explained it in the keynote: it's 5 tracks and the reason you don't get album art for singles is because there's not enough room.
One song one album is:
One-hit-wonder.....album
Several songs form the same album is:
Big hits.....album
...............album
...............album
...............album
...............album
The logic was, why repeat the album title five or more times when there's room to fit the actual image of the album? So that's why a single song from a single album has no picture (no room), but five or more from the same album does get a picture.
You know, apart from the UI changes it's really not a bad update. Granted I won't be using any of the new features but it sure is a lot faster on the 64-bit version of windows 7.
I, too, suspect that List view is your only option now.Go to View>List
That, at least, is an option. I suspect that iTunes 10.1 will be out soon with more options, like darkening the font and hiding Ping.
Something else I noticed today, in List view you can FINALLY move the track name field. That always bugged me as I wanted it to be organzied, Artist | Album | Track. Now you can do that.
Performance seems alot better in all aspects of the program EXCEPT for navigating the iTunes Store. It got very laggy to scroll through the store
wtf.
Just wanted to post a link in here. I've completed a significant amount of my mod
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=10977137
Oh & just so there's no confusion, it looks like OutThere & I had the same idea at the same time
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10975137/.
I hope this mod helps someone
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=10977137
Oh & just so there's no confusion, it looks like OutThere & I had the same idea at the same time
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10975137/.
I hope this mod helps someone
Check the first page of the iTunes Preferences. I cleaned mine up a bit just now. Only things you can't remove are Music and iTunes Store (pity on the last, I never use it).
jW
Eh?
Part of it is the mechanical drive mechanism: it's not so much the software as you state. Yes there's a pause while the post-processing (mainly slotting whatever song you just encoded into the proper part of the database) but much of it is waiting for the superdrive to say "I'm ready".
The drive mechanisms honestly just aren't as fast as the ones as used in the past.
I suspect part of this is due to heat and noise generated by the faster mechanisms and part of it might be cost.
The drive in my G5 2.5 dual tower is a lot faster at reading discs than my Corei7 iMac.
I'm told it could be faster yet because it had special firmware to slow it down so it would be quiet (you know how SOME Mac users are about noise). It was also flashed to be single layer even though hardware-wise it's a dual layer drive also to keep it quiet.
But The Corei7 imac can cross-convert insanely faster than the G5 can so...
I do agree it would be nice if iTunes was multithreaded and multicore aware but remember this is still basically Casady & Greene's SoundJam MP with a candy coated skin on it.
Adding all of these "creeping features" like social networks just makes it harder to re-write it from scratch as a new application.
Part of it is the mechanical drive mechanism: it's not so much the software as you state. Yes there's a pause while the post-processing (mainly slotting whatever song you just encoded into the proper part of the database) but much of it is waiting for the superdrive to say "I'm ready".
The drive mechanisms honestly just aren't as fast as the ones as used in the past.
I suspect part of this is due to heat and noise generated by the faster mechanisms and part of it might be cost.
The drive in my G5 2.5 dual tower is a lot faster at reading discs than my Corei7 iMac.
I'm told it could be faster yet because it had special firmware to slow it down so it would be quiet (you know how SOME Mac users are about noise). It was also flashed to be single layer even though hardware-wise it's a dual layer drive also to keep it quiet.
But The Corei7 imac can cross-convert insanely faster than the G5 can so...
I do agree it would be nice if iTunes was multithreaded and multicore aware but remember this is still basically Casady & Greene's SoundJam MP with a candy coated skin on it.
Adding all of these "creeping features" like social networks just makes it harder to re-write it from scratch as a new application.
There's almost nothing that I like about this update:
-performance is equally sluggish as iTunes 9.x on a <2 year old iMac
-what on earth have they done with the aqua close, minimise, maximise buttons
-why has it all gone monochrome. Certainly more difficult to distinguish the different categories in the left hand panel
-volume slider looks weird compared with the old one. what is that funny nubbin supposed to look like?
-the new iTunes application icon - you would never know that Apple has some of the best icon designers in the industry
but most of all I'm upset by the fact that each iteration of iTunes goes further away from Apple's UI guidelines. Why is one of the most popular iLife applications (and one known by most Windows users too) constantly being toyed with in terms of look and feel. This should be a flagship application, not a plaything.
-performance is equally sluggish as iTunes 9.x on a <2 year old iMac
-what on earth have they done with the aqua close, minimise, maximise buttons
-why has it all gone monochrome. Certainly more difficult to distinguish the different categories in the left hand panel
-volume slider looks weird compared with the old one. what is that funny nubbin supposed to look like?
-the new iTunes application icon - you would never know that Apple has some of the best icon designers in the industry
but most of all I'm upset by the fact that each iteration of iTunes goes further away from Apple's UI guidelines. Why is one of the most popular iLife applications (and one known by most Windows users too) constantly being toyed with in terms of look and feel. This should be a flagship application, not a plaything.
I wonder if Apple is going to chuck the iTunes name soon. I am thinking that within the next 2 years, it will be renamed iPlay. The reason I say that is AirTunes was renamed AirPlay and the reason was it isn't just about music. Well neither is iTunes.
Yes...
Agree. My iTunes database is over 165 gigs on another network share via gigabit and it feels like it's directly on the machine now.
I may move it to the machine as if it could be even faster I'd be a happier camper.
Dunno about some of you but I'm a musician and at least a good third to a fourth of the music is my own which is very easy to catalog and keep at my fingertips in this app.
But having everything else be this faster is just a good deal for me.
Agree. My iTunes database is over 165 gigs on another network share via gigabit and it feels like it's directly on the machine now.
I may move it to the machine as if it could be even faster I'd be a happier camper.
Dunno about some of you but I'm a musician and at least a good third to a fourth of the music is my own which is very easy to catalog and keep at my fingertips in this app.
But having everything else be this faster is just a good deal for me.
Wowie, wow, wow. I never though iTunes was sluggish, but iTunes 10 is noticeably faster.
Scrolling is smooth, no crashes/hiccups, the store is faster to browse, the mini artwork/player is cool too. I got say I love the grey icons.
I don't find it necessary to have applications lit up like Christmas trees. I understand that are many kinds of users. Some probably camp out in iTunes all day long with the app open, or for hours at a time with the app open. Not me. I pick a playlist, hide it, and do other things. JM2C.
The volume knob is a bit "odd" looking to me. Non-issue I guess.
Scrolling is smooth, no crashes/hiccups, the store is faster to browse, the mini artwork/player is cool too. I got say I love the grey icons.
I don't find it necessary to have applications lit up like Christmas trees. I understand that are many kinds of users. Some probably camp out in iTunes all day long with the app open, or for hours at a time with the app open. Not me. I pick a playlist, hide it, and do other things. JM2C.
The volume knob is a bit "odd" looking to me. Non-issue I guess.
Every five-to-ten years there is, in music, a new blond female singer who becomes popular with the incoming, mainstream generation that's reached a certain age. Back in the 80's this was Madonna, who was amazing in how long she lasted, and did so only because she found ways to update and renew herself. But most of the time, such women last about five years (give or take); then there is a year or two down time, and then some new blond lady appears who becomes very popular and no one who isn't a fan can understand why.
They are, essentially, a performer/fashion model/stripper rather than artist. Their talent at singing/songwriting doesn't matter so much as their ability to put on a good show and wear "interesting" fashions.
I doubt the iTunes name will go the way of AirTunes. Unlike AirTunes, iTunes is too well known. You change a name when it's not getting anyone's attention or is getting negative attention. You don''t change it when it's become a well-known and well-liked brand.
I wouldn't be so sure. It very well could be a possibility at some point. I've thought this in the past, it's been a long time since this has been just an app for "tunes."
This keeps getting brought up. They'd have to buy out the name from everyone currently using it. Not to mention that iPlay sounds like a kids toy.