Don't know if it's been said, but I'm not going to read 250 comments to see, particularly when this is the first time it's actually let me see comments at all, b/c there are too many mac fans for the server
Of course, it's an update, and the new features look so cool, I'm very happy. But there are three things I'm dissapointed with.
1. Network sharing. itunes 4.2 (is that right?) users can't see itunes 4.5 users libraries (they appear grey, so they're there, but can't be accessed), and itunes 4.5 users can't see 4.2 users libraries. All this is is a little ploy to make people get the updated version. But it's not the right way to do it. People should go, ohhh, look at all the cool features! I want! Instead, they go-oh, man, now my itunes is broken. I guess I have to download the next version to fix it. (and, nowhere is there any indication that that's how to fix it, the stuff just goes grey) And then, when they do that, they find that it's still broken, until OTHER people download 4.5, too.
2. Needs the new version of quicktime for full functionality, but it doesn't update that automatically, or give you a button to do it, or make any other effort to make it easy. So, you, what? go to apple's home page, and find that they are advertizing ibooks and stuff where they might have put a link to the new QT version, and you eventually find the link to quicktime. Then, you run into the same thing they've had there forever- everything is designed to make you think you need to pay 30 bucks for quicktime pro.
3. they insert links after every song, artist, album, etc. to the music store, in another shameless promo, and you have to turn it off in prefrences. Who is going to use it to buy music they already have? All it does is adds clutter. Maybe you would want the link to other stuff by the same artist, but I would imagine you would want that rarely enough compared to how often you use itunes for just listening to music, and itms is easy enough to use, there is no practical purpose that I can see, at all, except boosting itms sales, at the expense of the quality of itunes.
Fortunately, I'm sure that once I get to using it enough, I'll fall in love with the new version of itunes, and forget about all of this. It's just that I always wish apple was above clever little ways of pushing it's products.
