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iTunes 6.0.2 and QuickTime 7.0.4

I don't like the new mini store either. It sticks out like an eyesore or something. I'm hiding it for now but like with everything I'm pretty sure we will get used to it or Apple gets so many complaints that they just drop it with the next update!:eek:
 
Is this new? I can see the x, +, and - signs on the "traffic lights.


mad jew said:
I don't really like the traffic lights on the mini mode but I'll probably live with them all the same... At least they only go like this when the curser is nearby.
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multiple airport expresses ?

agentkow said:
But in my opinion, the bigest improvement is...

Okay I just fired up iTunes and guess what I found: if you are playing music through Airtunes, in the little pulldown menu where you choose the remote speaker you can choose Multiple Speakers and play through more than one at a time!

I am currently listening to music through both my Airport Express and my computer at the same time and in-sync with each other.
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Has anyone got multiple airport expresses to confirm whether this works across those, or just one express and the computer?

I've been hopeing for this feature for ages :)
 
mad jew said:
It's possibly the worst song I've ever heard. It's from my brother's CD and I really doubt it's on iTMS. :D
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maybe in the mini-store?

My quicktime 7.0.4 crashes when I try to play an mpeg while disconnected from the internet. I can prevent the crash by opening two movies before i play the movie I desire, or by leaving the little quicktime window open that comes on when you open quicktime directly (instead of by opening a file that demands it).
 
iTunes 6.0.2 update crashes

So, in the excitement of yesterday, I updated qt, itunes and 10.4.4 (in that order) and everything works fine except for one thing, itunes won't play ANY music!!! It opens perfectly and faster than before but either when I double click on a song or I choose one and press play, it will crash no matter what. I have tried reinstalling itunes and nothing, then I reinstalled qt and nothing again, there's still the same problem.

Has anybody had the same issue? Please help! my life has become suddenly silent!!!:confused:
 
I personaly like the fact I can turn the mini store on and off cuz it shows other cd's by the same artist that i otherwise might not have know about.
 
agentkow said:
But in my opinion, the bigest improvement is...

Okay I just fired up iTunes and guess what I found: if you are playing music through Airtunes, in the little pulldown menu where you choose the remote speaker you can choose Multiple Speakers and play through more than one at a time!
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That sounds great, but I don't see that option in mine and I can't figure out why not.

I just updated everything to be current. Odd.
 
Don't like the mini store, scared me a little at first too with the thought that it may not be get-rid-able, but hey atleast we can hide it :) and i'm sure somebody out there will find it useful.

Another addition to iTunes that I'm liking the sound of is the ability to encode videos within iTunes.

Haven't played with this feature much but I have some .movs in my library that I liked but weren't compatable with iPod and wouldn't re-encode with 3rd party apps for some reason. Now using iTunes I can convert these to an iPod friendly format.. without even leaving the app :).
 
tzibo said:
Has anyone got multiple airport expresses to confirm whether this works across those, or just one express and the computer?

I've been hopeing for this feature for ages :)
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Same. I'm playing through my Mac and two Expresses at the moment. :)
 
Quicktime Full-screen Improvement!

OH MY GOD!

They've done the coolest thing with quicktime 7.0.4... Now, if you full screen, not only does the window slowly expand to fit the screen, but it fades to black as well now, AND the dock automatically hides.

When you're in full screen, if an icon in the dock bounces, you see a little tiny part of it - and when you move the mouse to where your dock is, the dock automatically comes up!

Try it!

EDIT:
ChrisFromCanada said:
Sorry if this has already been mentioned.

Anyone else notice in Quicktime 7.0.4 that when you go to full screen it fades everything in the background while the video is scaling to fit the screen. COOL!
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Oops, you beat me to it! But noone else seems to be excited about it! It's really cool!!
 
You can also play videos fullscreen in the background while you got other apps in front, like what I have now, Safari opened.

Here's to the Crazy Ones ​
 
TheArchpadre said:
So iTunes now supports half-star ratings. Kind of. Badly.

I use a number of AppleScripts to provide a finer-grained rating system, the neutral point of which is 50. (For those who don't know, iTunes ratings are actually from 0 to 100. *=20, **=40, ***=60, and so on.) All songs still at this neutral point now show up as **1/2. However, songs that have been increased to somewhere between **1/2 and *** stars register as just **, so the system doesn't round down properly. Furthermore, I haven't been able to find a way to actually give a song a half-star rating within iTunes.

Peculiar.
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Did you write the applescripts or find them? They sound well useful, I'd love a copy of them ;)
 
nagromme said:
I know you can turn them off, but if you option-click they cross link to YOUR library instead of to the store, and that's so useful it's worth keeping the link dots enabled. But I don't want to option-click. I want that function reversed.
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I didn't know about that shorcut....Nice
 
mad jew said:
Same. I'm playing through my Mac and two Expresses at the moment. :)
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I have an extreme base station and two expresses and can't get "multiple" to show up in iTunes.

Anyone else see it working in that configuration? Or does it have to go directly from computer to the Expresses?

:)
 
Upgrade the firmware in the expresses then it will show up if you have the latest itunes. Worked for me.

Cheers
James.

centauratlas said:
I have an extreme base station and two expresses and can't get "multiple" to show up in iTunes.

Anyone else see it working in that configuration? Or does it have to go directly from computer to the Expresses?

:)
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nagromme said:
Now how about a checkbox to let us reverse the action of those little Store cross-link arrows next to everything in your library?
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Here you go: macosxhints - Modify the iTunes 4.5 link arrows' behavior
If, like me, you think the Option-click method should be the standard, quit iTunes, open a Terminal window, and type:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES

When you re-launch iTunes, you'll find that clicking the arrow now takes you to your Library, and an Option-click takes you to the store. If, for some reason, you find that you'd like the old method back, just repeat the above command with NO at the end, instead of YES.
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I expect it will still work, although I haven't tried it myself.
 
Bad Beaver said:
Great, all updates done & iTunes crashes everytime I press play :mad: WTF?! :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Found it - it's the OSS 3D Plugin. Remove it & iTunes will work fine. Come on Apple, last time it was Sizzling Keys, now that - what's up? Gawd, it feels like Windows... :mad:
 
Doctor Q said:
Personally, I'm annoyed by the new ads (that's what the MiniStore is) appearing by default without my permission.
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Me too. Today they add this defaulted on with an option to turn off. I fear that next it will be permanent.

Don't shove the music store down my throat Apple, thank you very much.
 
seigel said:
Upgrade the firmware in the expresses then it will show up if you have the latest itunes. Worked for me.

Cheers
James.
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The two AirPort Expresses are running "Apple Base Station V6.2" according to AirPort Admin Utility. I think that is the current version, but am checking to see.

Both play music fine, interact with the AE base station fine (via join existing network), but I don't see the option to play over both at once. I did reset one of the expresses and started over from the beginning to make sure it wasn't something like that and it is the same too. Odd.
 
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