iTunes 6.0.2 and QuickTime 7.0.4

[pepita]

Here you go: macosxhints - Modify the iTunes 4.5 link arrows' behavior

I expect it will still work, although I haven't tried it myself.

It does still work -- I'd modified the link arrows behaviour in a previous version of iTunes, and the update did not change that back.

Also, a nice thing I noticed related to the arrows behaviour is they fixed a bug where, if you were in a playlist, and clicked the arrow on artist or album name, *and* had "Show Search Bar" enabled (in the Edit menu) in the main Library window, clicking (or option clicking, depending on whether you had made that modification in the Terminal or not) the arrow would only bring you to the main Library window, in the position you'd left it, not to the actual artist or album you clicked -- now, it does, the artist or album are selected. ie. Now it works the same whether you have "Show Search Bar" enabled or not.

Another nice thing: you can now tag any QuickTime video as "Music Video" or "TV Show" as well as "Movie", directly through the Options panel in Get Info, without the need for any hacks. (Wish I'd known last week this was going to be in the update!)

I never buy stuff from the iTunes music store for a variety of reasons so I don't much care for the mini-store panel either way, but the automatic selection is actually nice to instantly see what other albums from the same artist have been released. I really don't see the concern for privacy, not just cos you can turn the mini-store off, but because I very much doubt they collect and store any of that information (and they certainly wouldn't be allowed to do it in the EU, unless it's just like any search engine works, sending your search data only, without attaching personal data to it) and also, in case you're worried about this, they cannot tell what stuff is ripped from cd or downloaded from a torrent.

Just seems to me that instead of having to manually type a name in the music store search, they just send the search based on what tracks you select in your library. I very much doubt it works differently.

 

[Oryan]

Now if we include all possible combinations of on, off, slow blink, and fast blink, we can have those buttons distinguish 64 different states of the window. And drive you crazy at the same time!

Thanks for the analysis. I certainly hope Apple doesn't consider using this scheme anytime soon.

 

[Sunrunner]

Depending on which country you live in and whether or not the iTunes window is minimized!

Come to think of it, usually all of the "traffic lights" on Mac windows are off at the same time, or all of them are on (enabled) at the same time. That's not the way traffic lights work! Real traffic lights (typically) use three combinations out of the 8 possibilities:

Now if we include all possible combinations of on, off, slow blink, and fast blink, we can have those buttons distinguish 64 different states of the window. And drive you crazy at the same time!

Whoah... waaaay too much thouht went into that one...

 

[Sunrunner]

I agree, the adds are very annoying . Apple should have not made the defult. It made be usfull to some users but not for me, i guess you could allways turn it off (and the music store).

I agree, the new ministore is cheesy and much more blatantly commercial for what we expect from Apple. I definitely think it cheapened my iTunes experience...

 

[jonparadise]

Rather embarrassingly it's already caused me to buy 2 new remixes of songs I had in my library.

 

[dernhelm]

I agree, the new ministore is cheesy and much more blatantly commercial for what we expect from Apple. I definitely think it cheapened my iTunes experience...

As I mentioned here
I think the first thing you do is turn that crazy thing off.

Then you do your best to forget it ever existed.

I hope it goes away in future versions...

 

[wattage]

forums.macrumors.com/threads/172365/

Another nice thing: you can now tag any QuickTime video as "Music Video" or "TV Show" as well as "Movie", directly through the Options panel in Get Info, without the need for any hacks. (Wish I'd known last week this was going to be in the update!)

Have a look at this thread, I am having trouble getting my newly labeled TV Shows to cooperate with my iPod

 

[Kurt871]

Is it just me, or did Apple add some fancy new effects to Full Screen View in QuickTime 7.0.4? When watching a movie and enabling Full Screen (CMD-F), everything outside the movie fades to black while the player resizes to fit the screen, and the Finder bar and Dock slide into the top and bottom of the screen, respectively. Has this been there the whole time? I feel like it's new.

 

[illegalprelude]

Is it just me, or did Apple add some fancy new effects to Full Screen View in QuickTime 7.0.4? When watching a movie and enabling Full Screen (CMD-F), everything outside the movie fades to black while the player resizes to fit the screen, and the Finder bar and Dock slide into the top and bottom of the screen, respectively. Has this been there the whole time? I feel like it's new.

huh. ur right, I had never seen that before myself

 

[le sacre]

itunes 6.0.2: no more firewire for old ipods?

since updating to itunes 6.0.2, my ipod mounts fine in finder, but will not show up in itunes. but i can't find mention of anyone else having the same problem. they couldn't possibly have removed firewire support for old (mine's 3rd gen) ipods, could they have?
--edit: resetting ipod, switching cable, and restarting itunes seems to have fixed the problem.

 

[atomcoeur]

since i updated quicktime won't play any mpgs anymore - i reinstalled 7.0.1 - still wouldnt play em - reinstalled 7.0.3 - nada ://

 

[liketom]

when i export from 7.04 into H.264 and put up my my website it all plays well from my mac but is crashing on my Windows box running Firefox and Internet Exploiter

and i do not like the mini store

 

[daliscar55]

cany access my library itunes 6.0.2

i updated to the new itunes today and since i did i cant get into my library, eberything still playes fine but no window. it shows the music store and if i turn the music store off it breaks up/off as if freezing.

firstly, is there a way to revert back to the previous itunes, and if not does anyone know how to get this fixed? has anyone else had this problem?

my mp3s need me, they are in limbo........

 

[Bedawyn]

So iTunes now supports half-star ratings. Kind of. Badly.

Huh. So that's why my ratings stars are now screwed up. I just noticed today that it now can't use odd numbers of stars in smart playlist criteria -- if I click one star, it automatically goes to two, if I click on three, it automatically goes to four. Hope they get that fixed quickly.

 

[Doctor Q]

Apple has changed the MiniStore (see iTunes MiniStore Now Issues Warning) for people with iTunes 6.0.2 installed.

I'm surprised, but glad, that they could do this without having to update iTunes again.

They haven't changed the feature itself, so it still uses your song information to give you shopping offers, but I'm glad they reacted to the bad impression they left when they first turned on the feature by default and without warning.

 

[Jetson]

These Latest Apple Updates Are Really Annoying

First of all I want to express many thanks to mikkif, who sent me a nifty solution to the Disk Utility failure problem associated with iTunes 6.0.2.

I'm still having problems associated with Quicktime 7.0.4

Some of my internet client apps stopped working. Also my external firewire drive will no longer mount. Even after I reverted back to QT 7.0.3, it still won't work!

I've not heard a peep from Apple. I can see from reading the above posts that I'm not the only Mac user experiencing these issues.

I guess I've been very fortunate in the past because this is the first update that has caused me any problems. But after reading all the complaints over the past few years about Apple's updates crippling customers' Macs, I really wonder what the heck those people in Cupertino are doing to insure quality assurance.

Hopefully I can find a way to fix my now unmountable firewire drive.

 

[Austin.xstone]

Stop with the adds!