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iTunes 7 is here!

Mitthrawnuruodo said:
I think it's only the name for Album when viewing the main Music library... but I'm not sure... :eek:

He-he... I knew I'd seen it more places than Apple Support... :)

Neat trick, though... rendered obsolete today... but still neat... ;)
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I don't think it's obsolete. The point it it instructs crossfade to skip albums that are set to gapless because the crossfade would screw up the sound.

But apparently it only skips them if that tag is set. The tag itself does not apparently forece an album that isn't playing gapless to play gapless.
 
You know what really sucks? The new version won't even read my Mac formatted iPod on the PC version. So I can't listen to my iPod library at work.

Yes, obviously I can just listen to my iPod and it still charges. But its a pain to have to navigate using the iPod and makes me look as if I'm not concentrating on my work.

Fortunately I can still manually add music to my iPod from a PC using XPlay. If they'd "broken" that I'd be really pissed as I wouldn't be able to listen to Podcasts on the long train journey home each day.
 
I am over the moon about this release as it has practically all my wishes.

*Coverflow - loved it as a seperate thing but is awesome integrated

*Gapless! Hooray!

*The new browsing style - album by album with art and the seperating lines is great.

*New look is excellent. Possibly a hint at interface style for Leopard?

*iPod browser settings thing is excellent.

So an update that gives me loads.

One question though - when will it be possible to browse albums by art (coverflow style) with front row? That will be very cool
 
bluejacket said:
I don't think it's obsolete. The point it it instructs crossfade to skip albums that are set to gapless because the crossfade would screw up the sound.

But apparently it only skips them if that tag is set. The tag itself does not apparently forece an album that isn't playing gapless to play gapless.
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I'm not saying crossfading, in itself is obsolete... just that I no longer need it for concept albums like The Wall or live albums...

When shuffling all kinds of music (a short) crossfading might still be needed... ;)
 
Posted the exact same text in a different thread, but I thought I could get more replies in this specific thread:

I really like iTunes 7, but when I want to change the view and I press the button nothing happens till I move the courser off the button.

Otherwise it will look like this and the view won't change:

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Is that supposed to be like that?
 
Tymmz said:
Posted the exact same text in a different thread, but I thought I could get more replies in this specific thread:

I really like iTunes 7, but when I want to change the view and I press the button nothing happens till I move the courser off the button.

Otherwise it will look like this and the view won't change:

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Is that supposed to be like that?
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Hmm. I just tried it and the same thing happens to me. Odd.

It isn't a huge problem as such, but it is a bit buggy. :(
 
Two things I have noticed

You can now tag movies as TV Shows within iTunes, and update their season number and everything - so that's good.

However when converting videos in Quicktime 7.1.3 Pro to 'for iPod', it doesn't scale down the resolution, so you have to convert it AGAIN within iTunes! My old iMac isn't that fast at encoding Apple!
 
Lau said:
Hmm. I just tried it and the same thing happens to me. Odd.

It isn't a huge problem as such, but it is a bit buggy. :(
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I'm glad I'm not the only one with that problem/bug.
 
iTunes 7 mobile phone integration

Sorry if this has been addressed, a bit to much now to read back through.

Could you synch photos and voice notes with iTunes to your mobile phone before today?
How about TV shows?
 
This is a great update; performance is greatly increased, my CPU and RAM usage is down, the video playback is much better....:D
 
So far I really like it, but am I the only one that gets a beach ball every time I start iTunes up (even previous version to this one).

Although syncing purchased music is nice, I'd like to be able to sync my entire pod--all of the music--through iTunes.

The interface is really nice, but they can ditch the old iTunes icon.
 
iGary said:
So far I really like it, but am I the only one that gets a beach ball every time I start iTunes up (even previous version to this one).
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Mine doesn't beachball. Specs are in the sig. My library is around 8GB.
 
FadeToBlack said:
That's weird, especially considering you're on a Quad, or are you on your PowerBook?
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Fine on the PB.

Maybe I will uninstall it one of these days and iPod Rip my iPod again...

Can be bothered lately. :p
 
I was running iTunes 7 on Vista Beta 2 before and it was such a pain in the ass: Slow, buggy, jittery playback, errors galore, wouldn't minimise to tray.

But since yesterday when I upgraded to RC1 and installed iTunes 7 everything is running flawlessly. It's fantastic! iTunes 7 is vastly improved on 6 as well, in terms of usability, features and looks IMO.
 
I recently spent several hours copying and pasting album art (mainly from amazon) into iTunes. Seems that was a waste of time but never mind!

I noticed that for some albums there are several versions of album artwork. I was careful to match what I was putting into iTunes with what was actually in my CD box. I wonder if iTunes 7 distinguishes different versions of artwork?
 
Alas no movie store for Australia :( Probably take another year or so before we get that little feature...
 
Bern said:
Alas no movie store for Australia :( Probably take another year or so before we get that little feature...
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i wouldn't worry about it too much.. in a years time, who knows if the movie store will still exist ;) or if any other studio's would of come onboard..

on the plus side, after a year, there might be movies on the store you will actually want to watch.. PoTC? lame................. ;)
 
a few notes

i am running this now on my winz and on my mac and i cant believe some of these posts!

1) if you are looking to get the album art for free do the following

I) Make sure you dont have any album art on the track(s) already
II) open mini store (its in the view option)
III) open the get info window for the track(s) you are looking for
IV) the mini store at the bottom should have a list of albums by this artist, copy the atris name and album name exactly as you see it
IV) quit the show info screen, right click the track(s) select find album art and then wait a few seconds

BINGO BANGO JELLY ON YOUR PLATE...

this is a bit of a long proccess i know, but if these are from albums then itunes will have done all this for you, all you will need to do is the last step, but if you got them from some where... else! you will need to do some minor leg work
 
FlipperPhil said:
This may be harder than you think. Problem: I frequently copy the iTunes library files from my home PC to the work one and I just found out that the files (xml & itl) were converted to iTunes 7 and are not compatible with iTunes 6 !
I did not try to uninstall version 7 to see if it brings back the file format to the version 6 compatible one.

Advice before the iTunes 7 upgrade: backup your iTunes Music Library.xml & iTunes Library.itl files in your iTunes folder before installing iTunes 7.
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iTunes always makes a backup before converting the library to the current version. Its only the .itl file but I've always assumed it could rebuild everything from that. Isn't that the case?

You could always just deleted everything and re-import your folders. Though you'd obviously lose the playlists and other bits, but most track info should be retained.
 
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