Cover Flow isn't blurry on my Macbook in full screen anymore!However, it is at normal size
i thought so, too, but i it blurred when i tried moving the scroll bar.
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i thought so, too, but i it blurred when i tried moving the scroll bar.
Cover Flow isn't blurry on my Macbook in full screen anymore!
It's still blurry on mine full and not
It still says "Windows 2000 or XP" on the download page, so my guess is that it still has slow-as-molasses graphics with dodgy coverflow and a vertical scroll rate of one pixel row per year. Apple probably wants to make sure that their contribution to the Vista experience sucks for as long as possible, maybe they'll cave in and add proper WPF/DWM support next year or so.
These point updates are a hassle anyway. Apple apparently never heard of software patches, so you have to download and install the entire iTunes+QT package each time 1% of its content has changed, and each time you have to fix stuff like removing the goddamn QT system tray icon etc.
Also, why does almost every Apple software update these days require a reboot on Mac, but not on Windows? Reboots is something Mac users used to heckle Windoze users over, but since Vista came around, the real reboot dawg is OS X.
The iTunes update doesn't require a restart on the Mac. Generally only updates to the system will need a restart.
Well, everytime I switch on my Mac (which isn't often, admittedly) the first thing that happens is that I get a software update nag screen with a bunch of stuff that has that arrow icon on it, indicating a restart is necessary. I can't say for sure that iTunes has been one of those items, but QuickTime definitely has.
That's because QuickTime is essentially part of the OS on OS X. It is used for media playback stuff throughout the OS and even in a lot of third party apps.
I was rounding. The point wasn't the specific size so much as the fact that it was another substantially sized update for dial-up users.
You can shut off the software update nag by going to System Prefs -> Software update and select the update schedule that best fits you.
I don't get why people complain about updating. Just don't update if it bothers you that much.
You could argue that they should just release it when it's fixed, but for one, they don't necessarily know all the bugs that are potentially out there for the end users, and two, the same answer still applies- just don't update if you really find it annoying. Do it when it suits you, and then you'd get it about when you want anyway.
But why complain when a company is trying to fix something for you, or to imporve your experience?
why dont they just fix the blurry coverflow controls issue on mac mini's and macbooks!! GRR... is it really that hard, it never used to. jus change it back.
It's happened since 7.0.0 was released, and seeing as though 7.0.0 was the first/only version of iTunes to incorporate Cover Flow, that means it's always happened.
If, by "never used to," you meant CoverFlow.app, then you're right. The standalone application never had this issue, but then again the standalone app's scrollbar wasn't the same as iTunes'.
It's annoying because 99% of this code is redundant. Therefore we are downloading 27MB (36MB for Windows users) of data for changes of only a couple hundred kilobytes.
Why can't Apple implement actual updates? Instead of us having to reinstall the entire program.
But if that 100KB fix isn't that big a deal then don't get teh whole thing. You probably won't miss it. And regardless, I believe the whole package solves a lot of potential issues. For one, everyone is downloading the same thing, every time. There is no, "Which version do you have? Oh, you need this upater". There's just the most recent version of iTunes (and a lot of other apps, such as Quick time are like this). It means the software is more likely to just work, than for people who like have apps in strange places etc.
I'm not a big fan of patching small things. Besides, the fix may have been a small bug, but it might be replacing a lot more than a 100K of code.
The fix is a good thing, but there's no reason one should have to wait through a download of the entire package for just that one portion. Some people do have quotas on their internet service.
Isn't that the whole point of the Apple Software Updater? You don't have to think about such things because the software knows what you have and what you need. And now Software Update is available for Windows users.
Some of these programs can't function in "strange places". As a system component, I doubt QuickTime can be placed anywhere.
One thing an full-version-only download does is exaggerate the number of downloads. Since it is now impossible to differentiate people upgrading from new users, the company will usually try to imply that they are all new users. One of those lessons learned from watching Firefox development.
Just updated iTunes from 7.0.2 and OS X to 10.4.9, (had a few apps running that I didn't want to interrupt, so left updates for a few days).
Now I always find music played a little too quiet for my liking both in iTunes through built-in speakers on MBP and on my iPod, so I always moved the volume to +100% for all songs. Even just as background music on my MBP, I would perhaps have the volume set to +100%, max. iTunes and OS X set to maybe 75%. After updating, I seem to get a similar level in dB with all settings the same, but OS X now at about 25%.
Not done tests in other apps just yet, but has anyone else noticed similar changes?
Edit: Doesn't seem to be iTunes. I forgot about trying it on other apps, opened up a file on VLC and it was also the same volume, (volume had been left on 25%).
Now I always find music played a little too quiet for my liking both in iTunes through built-in speakers on MBP and on my iPod, so I always moved the volume to +100% for all songs. Even just as background music on my MBP, I would perhaps have the volume set to +100%, max. iTunes and OS X set to maybe 75%. After updating, I seem to get a similar level in dB with all settings the same, but OS X now at about 25%.
Not done tests in other apps just yet, but has anyone else noticed similar changes?
Edit: Doesn't seem to be iTunes. I forgot about trying it on other apps, opened up a file on VLC and it was also the same volume, (volume had been left on 25%).
Reboot fixed this...
Everything works now!
Does anyone else have a problem paying content (purchased, imported from CD, or streamed) in iTunes?
Everything works now!
Itunes 7.1 broke my iPod sync and 7.1.1 did not fix it. It is very annoying: now when I connect my iPod mini through firewire, about half of the ipod's content is redownloaded. This is absolutely unnecessary and very annoying. Instead of a few seconds the ipod syncing is now taking several minutes even if I unplug the ipod and then instantly plug it back in . This is the first time in years that Apple is making me really annoyed, as by this update they had broken something that did not need fixing.
By the way, reverting to iTunes 7.01 FIXED the problem, and everything is back to normal. No more iTunes updates for me.
Although to be fair, this seems to be an isolated issue, as I have not heard about similar problems with iTunes. Still, it is clearly a software, not hardware, issue that was introduced by the update.
. This is the first time in years that Apple is making me really annoyed, as by this update they had broken something that did not need fixing.By the way, reverting to iTunes 7.01 FIXED the problem, and everything is back to normal. No more iTunes updates for me.
Although to be fair, this seems to be an isolated issue, as I have not heard about similar problems with iTunes. Still, it is clearly a software, not hardware, issue that was introduced by the update.