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iTunes 4.1.1 for Windows

hope it fixes the muddy sound

I hope it fixes the muddy sound I get from my work PC. Yes, I changed the Quicktime "Sound Out" preference. It even worked for a day. But when I restarted the following day, it reverted to the muddy sound. I played with preferences for about an hour (during work!), and I could not get it to sound good again.

In case you don't know what I mean by "muddy sound," the music just sounds less defined. Also, when you turn on Sound Enhancer, the greater the amount of enhancement you apply, the less you'll be able to hear the vocals. It's horrible on the ears!

-Alex
 
yay! my friend wants to use itunes on windows but when he connects the ipod the song title don't show up. I hope this fixes that problem.
 
Fixes crash on launch for me.

Itunes 4.0 on windows crashed whenever I tried to launch it. Granted I don't have a monitor on my PC I just use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Client from my powerbook to connect to my PC (and sometimes VNC). But either way, for whatever reason iTunes crashed before but now with the update iTunes no longer crashes, instead it runs flawlessly.

Now I have to consider moving my Mp3 collection to my PC, since my PC tower has been converted into a file server anyways and my powerbook is always running out of disk space due to all the video editing I do on it.

Thanks Apple!
joe.
 
Not a shock

Good to see that Apple is being responsive -- should bolster their appeal to PC users - quite a few friends were hesitant to try out iTunes for Windows simply because they feared that Apple would treat them like red-headed stepchildren, only addressing issues when they were addressed on the Mac - kind of the same way most Mac users feel about cross-platform software.

:eek:
 
In Apple's defense, not that they need one, they responded quickly to a critical (system crashing) flaw. In addition, the problem was with a previous version of Windows not truly intended for consumer use (Windows 2k).

Just a taste of what PC Developers have to go through with a million and one drivers, third party apps, and what not.

Still, Apple has delivered a helluvan applicaiton in iTunes4W. There's some new thinking going on at Apple.
 
Re: Fixes crash on launch for me.

Originally posted by jelwell
Itunes 4.0 on windows crashed whenever I tried to launch it. Granted I don't have a monitor on my PC I just use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Client from my powerbook to connect to my PC (and sometimes VNC). But either way, for whatever reason iTunes crashed before but now with the update iTunes no longer crashes, instead it runs flawlessly.

Now I have to consider moving my Mp3 collection to my PC, since my PC tower has been converted into a file server anyways and my powerbook is always running out of disk space due to all the video editing I do on it.

Thanks Apple!
joe.
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Sounds like a perfect setup for streaming your music from your PC to your Mac. It worked great for me (going from powerbook to PC), except for the crap sound I was getting out of my PC (see my above post).
 
Re: Will Windows users know?

Originally posted by scorpion
How will they be notified? At least we have Software Update...
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About as useful for third-party apps as Windows Update. Though both are talking about making the services available to third parties. Versiontracker works for Windows as well as all the media sites like ZDNN and C|Net.

This shouldn't be an issue as most software worth it's salt these days has an Internet update feature.
 
I can imagine the people at Apple:

Yeah!!! we sold one million songs just with the PC market!!!

Next day:

Damn it, stinky PCs, now we have to deal with all the PC bugs.

_____
The dilema, bigger market, bigger problems. :rolleyes:
 
Re: Re: Fixes crash on launch for me.

Originally posted by a_kim
Sounds like a perfect setup for streaming your music from your PC to your Mac. It worked great for me (going from powerbook to PC), except for the crap sound I was getting out of my PC (see my above post).
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Another poster mentioned that the "Sound Enhancement" option on the Windows version of iTunes was degrading the sound quality. Have you tried turning it off? On my wife's XP machine, iTunes installed with "Sound Enhancement" at 50%.
 
iTunes for Windows has a "Check for iTunes Updates" option under the help toolbar menu. There's also a place in preferences to turn on automatic check and update features (which I have turned off, of course.)

Only problem is that the "Check for iTunes Updates" returns a "This version of iTunes (4.1) is the current version." response. My guess is Apple hasn't loaded the new +0.0.1 update to the the update servers.

The other issue I see for Windows users is that the update is hard to get to/use on the Apple site. It appears as a complete new download of a full package verses just an update for exisiting software.
 
serious iTunes network problems?

There's a post over in the Mac forum at Ars Technica where a user mentions that they got an email from the sysadmins at their workplace (1000+ employee tech firm that's entirely PCs) saying that iTunes for windows has caused some network outages. Maybe it's just too many people sharing or maybe there's some glitch that this new update fixes.
 
The main problem I've noticed is the delay in starting up of the app - anyway I'm downloading the new version now so hopefully that will show some improvement.
 
4.1.1 is only available at the Apple website. It should be on the Software Update panel by tomorrow. One poster at MacDailyNews said it fixed his problem on a Win2000 computer. He bought 10 songs immediately.
 
Re: iTunes 4.1.1 for Windows

Originally posted by Macrumors
CNet reports that Apple posted version 4.1.1 of iTunes (for Windows) on its site on Wednesday.
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NOOOOOOO!!! Windows users have a higher version number than we do! Expect to see this in Software Update tomorrow:

New in iTunes 4.1.2 for Mac OS X:
- loads .01 of a second faster than 4.1
- fixes that thingie with the songs when they do that thing...
- displays 4.1.2 while loading
- minimizes to the taskbar
- wait, Mac OS X doesn't have a taskbar...
- never mind
- yeah
- whatever
 
Originally posted by legion
iTunes for Windows has a "Check for iTunes Updates" option under the help toolbar menu. There's also a place in preferences to turn on automatic check and update features (which I have turned off, of course.)

Only problem is that the "Check for iTunes Updates" returns a "This version of iTunes (4.1) is the current version." response. My guess is Apple hasn't loaded the new +0.0.1 update to the the update servers.

The other issue I see for Windows users is that the update is hard to get to/use on the Apple site. It appears as a complete new download of a full package verses just an update for exisiting software.
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Yes, this is confusing indeed.

I also noticed that under Help > About Itunes version 4.1.0.52 is being mentioned.
It would be nice to have some kind of feature like a message box popping up asking "New update available. Install update?"

Also noticed another stupid thing..I want to change an Artist name from CAPITAL to lower case, so I start typing over it. But there is some auto add function active that 'forbids' me to do so and the name in CAPITALS is being displayed, when I type in the first few characters in lowercase.

:rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by NoVi
Yes, this is confusing indeed.

I also noticed that under Help > About Itunes version 4.1.0.52 is being mentioned.
It would be nice to have some kind of feature like a message box popping up asking "New update available. Install update?"
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It will be there eventually. I'm waiting until the end of the week before I start worrying about it :p

Originally posted by NoVi
Also noticed another stupid thing..I want to change an Artist name from CAPITAL to lower case, so I start typing over it. But there is some auto add function active that 'forbids' me to do so and the name in CAPITALS is being displayed, when I type in the first few characters in lowercase.

:rolleyes:
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When it does the auto complete just press the delete key and it will remove the "rest" of it :)
 
When it does the auto complete just press the delete key and it will remove the "rest" of it :)
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I'm afraid you'll have to do better than that! :cool:

It's easy to reproduce..just find 2 tracks with the same artist name.
Now try to change one of the artist names from lower case to capital (or vice versa)
 
I like the way Apple has started releasing things then quickly offering a fix. There's no testing like getting a milion people to download the program on a million different computers. It's sorta like open source in a way. Or beta testing (see safari).

I too just hope there is a "check for new version" function built in.
 
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