iTunes 4.5 Released

[Nermal]

Wow, I was on my winXP box and went to download the new 1) Quicktime, and 2) iTunes.

On windows, both downloads are the same, they are now bundled... it says "Thank you for downloading quicktime and itunes", and the filename for either one is: iTunessetup.exe, which might be confusing for those who just clicked for Quicktime.

I just did it through software update on my mac so I didn't notice if it was bundled there...

Not sure about 4.5, but with 4.2 they were only bundled sometimes. If you downloaded iTunes, it came bundled with QuickTime, because QuickTime is required for iTunes.

On the other hand, when downloading QuickTime, you had an option for either QuickTime, or QuickTime+iTunes.

Edit: The option's still there with 4.5. You can choose to download QuickTime by itself, or get it bundled with iTunes.

 

[GregA]

I wish we could "lock" the party shuffle so that while someone's browsing the library, they could double click on a song to add it to the list (instead of dragging it to the shuffle list). Now, if they double click it abandons the shuffle and plays the song.

The best design (IMO) would be if it let me pick a song and automatically made that song play (and any other hand picked songs) before the songs it was randomly selecting from my playlist...

This is indeed exactly how it works. If you right-click (that's control-click for those of you still using the soap bar mouse) on a song, you get two choices in the menu that pertain to the party shuffle. One says 'add to party shuffle', and the other says 'play next in party shuffle'. If say you have upcoming songs set to say 15, 'add to party shuffle' will put that song at number 16 in the queue, while 'play next in party shuffle' will do the logical thing and put it in number one. It's only milliseconds slower than a simple double click.

I hadn't noticed the right click options - thanks for the info.

However, I have to disagree with its usefulness if you've got other guests browsing. If I truly use this as a juke box and tell people to look in the library for songs they want to hear - I want it to be fool proof. So
- they can add their songs easily (yes - once you tell them to drag)
- people's selections come before the random selections (Yes as you say, with 1 flaw)
- the latest person to request a song doesn't play before earlier requests (No. this is a flaw)
- they wouldn't accidentally switch it out of juke box (No. This is very easy)

Then again... there are few times I would use the Juke box as a true juke box. If I left it on Juke box I'd have to make sure I didn't let others choose. Which is a pity I think. Still like the feature in it's own right, it's just that being so CLOSE to being useful as a Juke Box is frustrating.