iTunes 4.5 Released

[medea]

I can not connect to iTMS after the update, I even rebooted a second time and still no connection. Anyone else experience this?

 

[hesitaliandad]

I can not connect to iTMS after the update, I even rebooted a second time and still no connection. Anyone else experience this?

i can't connect either. it must be getting slammed. i want my free song!!!!

 

[egsaxy]

Trouble keeps coming

Definately deleted my old playlist info and cant get anything back. Currently iTunes is empty (i reinstalled 4.5) and i want all of the songs off of my ipod (it wont let me im conected to a different playlist do i want to update to this one? NO!) So while my ipod says i have 4078 tracks iTunes has none. If I reload all of them (according to where they were saved) im missing 300 tracks. Are there any trash recovery programs that dont cost big bucks i want to unerase a file from today (this morning) that is 5 or so megs and not pay (like Virtual Lab)? Somebody Help me please.

 

[chabig]

Take a look in the iTunes folder that is in your Music Folder. You will probably find a copy of your old iTunes library titled "iTunes 4 Music Library (Old)". In iTunes, choose Import from the File menu and then select this file. It will restore your stuff.

Chris

 

[Parikh1234]

I would think that they could just make them play correctly without the little jump between tracks ... isn't that as easy as buffering the next song? The best workaround I've found is to turn on crossfading, and then take the slider down to 0 seconds. It's not perfect, but it sounds closer to how it's supposed to.

The best feature that itunes and my ipod doesnt have. 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 itunes is an awesome program but I have ALOT of mix CDs so it makes itunes ****ty. Sometimes it annoys me so much I use WMP 😱

 

[mainstreetmark]

I'm glad we've got an Apple Lossless codec now (hey, maybe they've actually read all of my emails requesting lossless audio!)... but what about OGG, FLAC, SHN? These codecs need to be supported (especially the open-source ones).

I wrote an article about this thing.

http://www.itunesregistry.com/articles/flac

I suppose now you're able to go from the resulting WAV straight to Apple Lossless, and be cruisin' on the iPod.

 

[harperska]

There has been a bit of talk in this thread about how network sharing is disabled between 4.2 and 4.5. This is truly a shame. Someone (I forget who. I'm too lazy to sort through the whole thread to quote them) suggested that it has something to do with iTunes reorganizing or reformatting the library. Remember the status bar when you started 4.5 for the first time? Anyway, I think I might know why they did that. There was a neat little application called Leechster, which would listen over your network connection and when you played a shared song it would download it to your computer. With 4.5, leechster is unable to detect anything. The library was probably reorganized to close the loophole that leechster exploited, and the closing of the loophole would then be what causes the two versions of iTunes to not be able to share with each other.

 

[latergator116]

I can not connect to iTMS after the update, I even rebooted a second time and still no connection. Anyone else experience this?

It wasn't working for me either, but it seems to be working now. Too bad they don't give you a choice for your free song. 🙁

 

[realityisterror]

i'm sry if this has already been discussed, but this thread is too long...
i feel like i should be able to scroll through my iTunes library and find a song i like and then just cmd click it or something to add it to party shuffle... i tried cmd, opt, shift, and combinations of the above to no avail... if you have any ideas, please just quote this so i can find it easily...
i should probably just send feedback...

reality

 

[SilentPanda]

i'm sry if this has already been discussed, but this thread is too long...
i feel like i should be able to scroll through my iTunes library and find a song i like and then just cmd click it or something to add it to party shuffle... i tried cmd, opt, shift, and combinations of the above to no avail... if you have any ideas, please just quote this so i can find it easily...
i should probably just send feedback...

reality

I just ctrl clicked a song in my library and it says "Play Next in Party Shuffle" and "Add to Party Shuffle". Works fine for me.

 

[7on]

Just confirmed that there is no way of De-DRMing the protected music now.

I've tried,
Ripping from a CD
QTConvert
iMovie
Toast > Export Audio

Nothing seems to work shy looping your audio out to your audio in.

 

[maveness]

Quicktime Download Failed

I've tried a couple of times to get the new QT, but each time Safari tells me that the verification failed (checksum invalid).

Anybody else?

 

[chasingapple]

I've tried a couple of times to get the new QT, but each time Safari tells me that the verification failed (checksum invalid).

Anybody else?

Just use the software updater in OSX 😀

 

[redAPPLE]

can someone tell me how you can group all of the artist together say off a dance cd so you dont have like 400 artists? also how do you group 2 tracks together so if they follow on you dont have the gap?

create a playlist...?

 

[7on]

Also it seems iTunes thought I bought 2 of the same song. Anyway to get my .99 back?

 

[hoothoot1]

lossless audio

Ack. and I JUST finished converting my entire collection to FLAC..
Does anyone know what kind of lossless file format this is? As the previous person noted, is it just a very high bitrate lossy format?

I don't know what type of lossless codec this is, but considering that ripping using the 'Apple Lossless' setting in iTunes creates a .m4a file, the lossless codec should therefore conform to the MPEG-4 spec. This would suggest that the Apple Lossless codec is an early implementation of the upcoming MPEG-4 ALS extension of MPEG-4. MPEG-4 ALS is lossless audio coding for MPEG-4. Interestingly at the MPEG-4 ALS site there is a prominent iTunes logo (though no other mention of Apple). The site is at:

http://www.nue.tu-berlin.de/forschung/projekte/lossless/mpeg4als.html

If true, this means that the lossless audio files created by iTunes and playable on iPod are standards based and likely a better choice than using FLAC or something similar. Whatever, looking at the new lossless coding settings in QT 6.5.1 I don't hold faith in the idea posted earlier that Apple Lossless is simply a very high-bitrate MPEG-4 AAC.

 

[me_94501]

Are you serious? How lame


EDIT: I just verified this on Apple's support site. That SUCKS!

I don't have a whole lot of WMA files on my comp, but when someone on AIM sends me a WMA file i'd like to be able to play it

You may want to download EasyWMA. It converts WMA to MP3, not AAC, but it's better than nothing.

 

[Freg3000]

Just confirmed that there is no way of De-DRMing the protected music now.

I've tried,
Ripping from a CD
QTConvert
iMovie
Toast > Export Audio

Nothing seems to work shy looping your audio out to your audio in.

I burnt a CD of today's free song and then imported it.....it was without DRM.

 

[BoMo]

Grouping Compilation artists on the iPod?

The new iTunes allows you to group the artists from any compilations together while browsing. I have played with the feature, and I love it.

I was hoping that the new iPod Software Update 2.2 would bring this functionality to the iPod as well, but I can't find it. Has anyone else - maybe I am overlooking a setting somewhere.

Thanks.

 

[blybug]

Very clever...

Just confirmed that there is no way of De-DRMing the protected music now.

I've tried,
Ripping from a CD
QTConvert
iMovie
Toast > Export Audio

Nothing seems to work shy looping your audio out to your audio in.

Wow...I wonder how they did this. The files must be watermarked somehow, otherwise how could iTunes recognize that a burned AUDIO CD has protected files? I've confirmed this as well, burning a CD of a dozen songs I bought this morning after the upgrade (Foo Fighters included). Putting the CD into another computer required authorization before the CD would play. And attempting to rip the CD results in the unceremonious message : "My Hero" could not be converted because protected files cannot be converted to other formats. The Toast method appears to work, but the created files are nothing but silence. Haven't tried it yet, but Audio Hijack should always work (if you can hear it you can copy it) but of course that takes "real time."

These new "restrictions" (nobody ever said you were allowed to do this before, it just happened to work or we all felt like Steve snuck those backdoors in there for us under the noses of the record execs) are balanced by the upping of authorized computers. I hope that the movement towards increasing computer authorization while continuing to clamp down on CDs continues. Especially to the point of allowing devices to be authorized, such as TiVo or SliMP3, or EyeHome (which could previously play m4ps but is now also broken).

I'm an honest music buyer...own over 500 CDs and almost 2000 iTMS purchases and don't use P2P, but this is making me a little nervous. As unrestrictive as the DRM is, as much as I presently don't notice it, as I can now play songs across all my computers and my 2 iPods, I still worry that one day I will be locked out of my music somehow. Have to give credit to Apple for figuring out how to close these loopholes, but admittedly I was using these loopholes as a "backup" in case 5,10,20 years from now Apple or iTunes no longer exists and I can't play my own purchased music anymore!

 

[BoMo]

Wow...I wonder how they did this. The files must be watermarked somehow, otherwise how could iTunes recognize that a burned AUDIO CD has protected files?

It may be the CD that is watermarked and not the files. Otherwise, would the tracks play properly in a CD player?

I wonder if perhaps there is a hidden file on the CD that the new iTunes 4.5 looks for before allowing you to rip the disk. If this is the case, you may be able to re-rip the CD using an older version of iTunes, another program, or even on a PC.

 

[hulugu]

This is exactly what the anti-DRM nazis were talking about.. they CHANGED the licensing agreement and nobody cares.

Do you realize what this means? They could simply one day revoke all but 1 of your machine licenses, put all your m4p's into one big encrypted image, and turn your genitals into scrambled eggs and there's nothing you can do about it because YOU agreed to it by buying DRM.

Sure, THIS time it's not a big deal, in fact most people will be happy with this new way of doing things.. but doesn't it bother you that they can take as well as give?

Seven burns down from Ten on tracks you already own.
Think about that; Think Different 🙂

Didn't you post almost the same rant on Slashdot?
I agree with your point though, this is the thing that sucks about DRM, but it also can be nice, the five computers thing was obviously part of a negotiation.

 

[jared_kipe]

There's NO WAY you can distinguish AAC@192 from the orginal CD, on a hi-fi equipment costing less than $50,000. You're not a music conductor like Herbert von Karajan, and you're not Mozart too, and of course you're not a bat 😀
So, please stop worrying about it!

🙄

Whoa there, you must have bad ears. Or perfectly fine ears and don't care. Never the less, either way "I" can tell the difference, and "I" sure as hell don't have a system costing more than $1000. Just because you are content with downloading music at 128 and ripping at 192 doesn't mean everybody else is fine with it. Choices, thats what it's about.

 

[7on]

It may be the CD that is watermarked and not the files. Otherwise, would the tracks play properly in a CD player?

I wonder if perhaps there is a hidden file on the CD that the new iTunes 4.5 looks for before allowing you to rip the disk. If this is the case, you may be able to re-rip the CD using an older version of iTunes, another program, or even on a PC.

CDEX on windows98 didn't import a CD burned with Toast... though I might try burning with iTunes.

 

[johngordon]

couple of questions...

1. has anyone tried printing labels yet? i've had a go, but its printing them about 0.5-1cm out on the special jewel case sheets with the perforations etc. what does the page setup need to be? i've basically just tried it with A4, but there's nothing else obvious (eg *jewel label sheets*).

2. The group by comilations thing is really handy - but has anyone sussed a way of telling i-tunes what is and what is not a compilation? for example - i'd like to weed out all the artists on things like the *ministry of sound* dance type compilations thaat mean nothing to me, but perhaps keep in artists with, for example their *greatest hits* compilation.

cheers,
Iain