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iTunes 7 is here!

motulist said:
I wonder if iTunes 7 was a rush job to meet a deadline for the release of the new iPods. Maybe they'll refine the ui in a few weeks for 7.1.
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Seems well thought out to me...the most advanced itunes to date. This is the best itunes update period. Everything is in its right place and I wouldn't even waste seconds on what the icon looks like:rolleyes:

Well seems like we can't use that snappy album view when listening to your music through sharing...oh well still a good update.



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OutThere said:
Not sure if anyone noticed yet, but there are a ton of new visualizer effects i've never seen before, and the visualizer runs at native res when in fullscreen.
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also, the new interface looks nice! As for this being a sneak peak of Leopard, I have to admit it....compared to the new glass UI in Vista....Im kinda diggin the glass interface over this.
 
Amazon and Apple will both fail with movies. Apple will fail first, because they don't offer rentals. Common, movies suck today; who the **** wants to buy this garbage? Suck or not is not the point, most people want to rent.

Apple doesn't offer a rental service so they fail 1st.

Amazon offers a rental service, but no easy solution to watch it on your TV. Failure!!!

I think cable has it right. On Demand Service. You have 24 hrs to watch it multiple times, with no late fees and no driving back to the video store. There only drawback today is there lack of content. If they get that, all others are doomed!
 
Cameront9 said:
These boards crack me up. Everytime there is a new major version of iTunes, there are cries of "ugh! It looks ugly! I want to go back to Version X"
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It's true, a lot of people do say that, but don't lump all of us those who see problems with the ui into a group who claims to want to revert to the old version. Personally I like the newer version over the the older one because it adds a bunch of fun and useful features. However, Apple has made a lot of design choices since OS X came out that were unpopular, so this is hardly a new phenomenon. With any upgrade there will be things that are better and things that are worse. As long as the pluses far out weigh the minuses then it's a good upgrade, but if you never bring up the minuses then they'll never improve.

So overall iTunes 7 is a worthwhile upgrade, but there are some problems with the new ui that breaks long held Mac conventions and doesn't live up to the overall spit and polish gui quality that we've come to expect from Apple. But it's still a big thumbs up. :D
 
nope - they'll fail too

Frisco said:
Amazon and Apple will both fail with movies. Apple will fail first, because they don't offer rentals. Common, movies suck today; who the **** wants to buy this garbage? Suck or not is not the point, most people want to rent.

Apple doesn't offer a rental service so they fail 1st.

Amazon offers a rental service, but no easy solution to watch it on your TV. Failure!!!

I think cable has it right. On Demand Service. You have 24 hrs to watch it multiple times, with no late fees and no driving back to the video store. There only drawback today is there lack of content. If they get that, all others are doomed!
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If your cable company is anything like mine you have to pay to get the digital service then for the dvr as well just to have the ability to get movies on demand. Past that it's at least 3.99 a pop and it's not even in widescreen!!!!!

I don't use mine anymore just because of the latter issue. I don't have a 42" widescreen HD TV so I can watch 4:3 movies... At least apple offers widescreen and will soon offer a way to get it from my cpu to my TV in HD. Heck - it's even small enough you could take it on trips with you if you wanted...
 
Frisco said:
Amazon and Apple will both fail with movies. Apple will fail first, because they don't offer rentals. Common, movies suck today; who the **** wants to buy this garbage? Suck or not is not the point, most people want to rent.

Apple doesn't offer a rental service so they fail 1st.

Amazon offers a rental service, but no easy solution to watch it on your TV. Failure!!!

I think cable has it right. On Demand Service. You have 24 hrs to watch it multiple times, with no late fees and no driving back to the video store. There only drawback today is there lack of content. If they get that, all others are doomed!
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Hhhmm. I rather enjoy movies so I dunno, I dont think I really agree with a single point you've made
 
ouch, this itunes is broken for me. whenever i play a quicktime file and try to play a song in itunes it's horribly cracky and it stutters. anyone else experiencing this?? i don't know how to fix it. it didn't used to do this before :(
 
Man, I'm loving iTunes 7! The new features in it are fantastic, especially gapless playback and the new iPod update interface. :D
I agree with a lot of you that the new scroll bar looks a bit cheap, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. The plethora of new features more than makes up for it.:p


"Dark Side of the Moon" and "The Wall" now sound godlike when played gapless in iTunes.:eek: :D
 
whyyyyy

Why is this happening? Its not finding most of the Artwork and I knowwww for a fact iTunes has these CD's.

Then, under normal view, this is under 1 nice neat catigory, under the second option, with Album View, it takes the same album and wants lots of album covers for it.....that it cant find.... :confused:
 

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I don't like the new UI, especially the sidebar but I can appreciate the new features and hope that it all works smoothly by 7.0.1.

I was really upset when I first started it as it reset the location of the library, which is normally on an external drive, to the internal drive. I don't have space for my photographs and my music so my music goes on the external drive.

I rushed to get the external drive and after attaching it, iTunes set the location to that library. :)

I haven't had any video to watch but whatever they have will get smoother as they have time to get it right.

I'm betting that the sidebar was left as-is after many frustrating hours in committee trying to figure out what to do. It looks very unfinished, but it works and that's what matters.
 
question

Warbrain said:
Holy cow, that automatic update for the iPod is nice. My shuffle is up to date now and I love it.
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Can you get it to stay in the source list???
 
hiyel said:
Anyways, while I'm at it, you know what else I want? Those dublicate songs... drive me nuts. iTunes can find and show them nicely but what for? They should make an option so that a dublicate song has two entries in the library but pointing the same mp3 file. That would save megs of space for me. Heck, I can even do this manually, by going to the xml of the library and changing the path of the file on that dublicate song entry. They should implement this too someway...
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I totally agree with this! I mean, if I have the album, and I buy the single (for tracks that aren't on the album) I either have numerous duplicate songs or have to delete one version from the library.

Also, I've seen many people post saying their Cover feature isn't fetching album artwork. I've ran it and while some of the covers are there, I think they're all from ones I had downloaded before iTunes 7 came along. So has anyone found a reason why new covers aren't downloading, or a solution to the problem? Hrm.

Joshua
 
I'm giving iTunes 7 a big thumbs up. it looks GREAT and I love the fact that album art is actually integrated in a meaningful way now. Kudos to the cover flow guys.

I also hope the scroll bars become standard across OS X, after 5 years the jelly beans have gotta go.
 
OutThere said:
... the visualizer runs at native res when in fullscreen.
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Actually, it looks like it's still processing the visualizer at 640 x 480 but keeping the monitor resolution at native and anti-aliasing the output up. It does look better than ever, but it's still not actually running the visualizer at native resolution, which would look even better. Or at least that's the way it's operating on my ppc powerbook.
 
illegalprelude said:
Why is this happening? Its not finding most of the Artwork and I knowwww for a fact iTunes has these CD's.

Then, under normal view, this is under 1 nice neat catigory, under the second option, with Album View, it takes the same album and wants lots of album covers for it.....that it cant find.... :confused:
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Go to prefs > general > check off "automatically download missing album artwork"
 
decksnap said:
ugghhh. You can call it whining. I call it telling it like it is. Before and after.
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Before:

Steve Jobs introduces OS X and announces that the all of the buttons and controls in OS X look so good, you'll want to walk up to the screen and lick it. (Seriously, that's what he said).

After:

Steve Jobs announces iTunes 7 and after seeing the buttons and controls, I want to walk up to my screen and hurl.

And why, oh why was the visualizer button removed? Did it look...too good?
 
illegalprelude said:
Why is this happening? Its not finding most of the Artwork and I knowwww for a fact iTunes has these CD's.

Then, under normal view, this is under 1 nice neat catigory, under the second option, with Album View, it takes the same album and wants lots of album covers for it.....that it cant find.... :confused:
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Same thing is happening to me (Windows version).
 
VanNess said:
... why was the visualizer button removed?
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I agree, that was one of the few buttons I actually used in iTunes, and it seems logical to make it one of the "View" buttons.
 
motulist said:
Look at the jaggies on the itunes 7 icon when you apple-tab. Bleah. Did they switch graphic designers or what?
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I woke up today with the strangest feeling -- that idiots all over the world would have their panties in a twist.

I just didn't know the cause.

Would it be the attack on the US embassy in Syria? The pending trial against Lance Corporal Shumate (or of Chaplain Klingenschmitt, for that matter)? Revelations of CIA torture camps? Global warming?

No. It's invisible jaggies when Cmd-Tabbing between applications. The humanity.

Get a goddamned grip.
 
Edit: I just quit iTunes and relaunched. All of the display issues are fixed, including coverflow. My icon criticism still stands however.

If you don't have a quartz extreme capable graphics card, don't install this.

My Radeon 9800 in my PowerMac G4 crapped out on me last week, so I had to put the old Rage 128 Pro back in until I get a replacement.

I installed iTunes 7 and it really is a broken app. If I am in my Music Library and I click on the Podcast Library, the list does not update/refresh with the new info until I actually grap the iTunes window and move it with my mouse. It is the same with anything that requires the screen to redraw in the app.

Coverflow of course doesn't work and doesn't degrade gracefully either like Dashboard does. It just does nothing.

Other little issues I notices are the quality of the icons in this version. It almost looks like they salvaged them from OS 9. They just don't look as polished as I would expect coming from Apple.​
 
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