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iTunes 7.5 Coming Soon
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If by "suck a little less on windows" you mean "actually act like a normal Windows application" you can stop wasting your time - Fuggedaboutit.
Historically, Apple apps have always been among the most user-belligerent ones on Windows....
Time for a new Icon?
I think it's time Apple made a significant change to the iTunes icon. A CD seems... outdated....
I think it's time Apple made a significant change to the iTunes icon. A CD seems... outdated....
Better performance for Windows would be nicer too, come on Apple, why is it I only get 10 FPS in your visualizer in a window, and I can pull 40-60FPS at 1920x1200 with all the settings maxed on Half Life 2 Episode Two, using a Radeon X1950 Pro.
I highly doubt visualizer, if coded right, would require that much power. Its just ridiculous.
Oh, and on my earlier rant about it opening and crashing, sometimes it will, sometimes it wont.
You can also click it, and it'll load into memory, but never, ever pop up.
Oh, and the whole Lets Put Words before Numbers and The, is annoying as all hell.
I highly doubt visualizer, if coded right, would require that much power. Its just ridiculous.
Oh, and on my earlier rant about it opening and crashing, sometimes it will, sometimes it wont.
You can also click it, and it'll load into memory, but never, ever pop up.
Oh, and the whole Lets Put Words before Numbers and The, is annoying as all hell.
Apple petition to support open-source FLAC lossless audio codec
I encourage all people who are interested in iPods, iTunes, iPhones and Apple TVs being able to natively support FLAC to contact Apple (politely) and ask for Apple to adopt this open-source free lossless standard format (FLAC) in all their audio products. That way Apple will truly have open, standard (read non-proprietary) support in their popular iPod, iTunes and other products that can freely be read by other competitior's software and hardware products.
The more open formats that Apple adopts, the better we all are. Being tied into proprietary Microsoft WMA (DRM and non-DRM) and Apple ALAC formats is not wise in the long run and will require audio conversions in the future. Better to support a popular, non-proprietary, free lossless format now.
More: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=53975&st=0
Would you like iTunes to support FLAC? So would we!
Due to the design of iTunes, only Apple can add support for FLAC [1]. And why wouldn't they? FLAC usage is accelerating, many bands like Pearl Jam, Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Metallica -- the same hip, influential people whose fans Apple courts -- are already distributing music in FLAC format, and users are clamoring for it in the iTunes forums:
* [2] "I have seen a lot of people on live music message boards turn away from the iPod because there are other music players that support FLAC. I am on the verge... and I am an Apple die-hard!"
* [3] "If your source material is FLAC (as many bands have gone this way to distribute online music) your choice is to use another music player ..."
* [4] (many more requests)
Make your voice heard! Fill out the iTunes feedback form (politely!) and let them know. Feel free to also direct them to this page. We at the FLAC project stand ready to help as well. http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
XiphQT, through tremendous effort by developers, goes as far as possible in allowing some playback capability via QuickTime. But proper iTunes support -- tag handling, no import delays, etc. -- is not possible without Apple.
http://flac.sourceforge.net/itunes.html
FLAC support in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard SDK?
What does it mean "supported (...) via its developer SDK"? That's a quite inaccurate statement and I don't think word "supported" can be used with what there is in the Leopard developer SDK. An example implementation of an AudioCodec built on top of libFLAC is all there is. Without any attempts to support any container file format that is used for FLAC (native FLAC, Ogg FLAC) it's of no use to normal users, and of little use even to developers. And there are no "FLAC tools embedded in the Leopard SDK".
For interested a bit more details on that subject in my post here. => http://barelyfocused.net/blog/2007/10/28/flac-support-in-mac-os-x-105-leopard/
I would like this too, although for now I've been using the comments field to accomplish this, only 1/2 way through my library though
Wow you must have lots of time on your hands?
The CD is kind of iconic, and CD's are still a big format for music right now, so it's not really outdated. Now, if the icon was a tape cassette, then we'd have something there.
My big problem with itunes, is that when it sync an iPod, the iPod no longer remebers where it was in the playlist. I listen to podcasts on the way in and out of work and then sync in the morning for new ones, it always forgets where it left off.
GRRR
GRRR
they should make it more like windows media player... i mean that piece of software is probably the best thing ms has done (and office too of course...)
iTunes for windows sucks.. it SUCKS in capital letters!!!
iTunes for windows sucks.. it SUCKS in capital letters!!!
Agree. I know there's quite a few tricks (or workarounds) to do this but still, it is strange that they haven't included this feature yet...
Are you smoking crack? iTunes is waaaaaay better than media player. MS has been trying to get media player up to itunes for years and still can't. And yes I use media player every day at work because I can't download iTunes here. I hate using media player and can't wait to get home to iTunes.
The new WMP blows. Sure, iTunes may be slow on XP but it's manageable for now (until I get my iMac). To be honest, I was a fan of the OLD WMP... I think it's called Classic but it's still installed in XP. It was simple and worked back in the day.
I know it wold be pointless but how about quicklook
How about when in coverflow you can see the video in coverflow like in the finder whre a small play icon appear or when in coverflow, you can see albums and when you click on the albums in coverflow, they flip around to show the songs like in iphone or iPod Touch.
How about when in coverflow you can see the video in coverflow like in the finder whre a small play icon appear or when in coverflow, you can see albums and when you click on the albums in coverflow, they flip around to show the songs like in iphone or iPod Touch.
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They need to fix the close, minimize, maximize buttons--in Leopard they still have the Tiger appearance.
The window also doesn't fade to the white background color when not in front like the other apps.
The window also doesn't fade to the white background color when not in front like the other apps.
I am very happy Apple is finally releasing this, hopefully there is some other cool new features
Apple Loseless isn't free? How much does it cost? Maybe because I don't use it I don't pay for it.
I meant free as in speech, not free as in beer (although FLAC is that too). ALAC is a proprietary codec, while FLAC is open.