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iTunes 7 is here!

Is there a keyboard shortcut to go to the search part of iTunes? I have to click it with my mouse, and I try to minimize mouse usage... if I could find a key combo for it, that'd be great...

-Chris
 
MacNut said:
Time to give it the ultimate seemless playback test, Pink Floyd "Dark Side Of The Moon":)
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Make sure you're smokin' a doobie while you're at it... haha :p

-Chris
 
Going through all the Free TV Show episodes I haven't yet seen and redownloading them in 640x480.

I love every bit of this new iTunes... well except for the annoying fact that all the store views now scroll horizontally.
 
Kind of cool... the icon is back to iTunes 2... :)

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Also, anybody else got this? :D

Love the new look, but I'm not sure about the library/store/devices/playlist area... the new one takes a lot more room than the old one... :(
 
Seemless playback is great, but my soundtracks are not listing right, they display every song separate.
 
New iTunes Video Resolutions?

:confused: Here's a possibly dumb question, but per Apple's support site, the following video play back specs are given for iPod (5G) playback:

iPod can play the following video formats:

H.264
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 768 kbits/sec, 320 x 240, 30 frames per second (fps), Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, and stereo audio.
MPEG-4
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 2.5 Mbits/sec, 480 x 480, 30 fps, Simple Profile.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, stereo audio.

How will the new, higher resolution video play back on the current iPods? Do they currently have higher resolution capability that Apple was just holding back through software?:confused:
 
Did Apple buy out whatever company made Cover Flow? If not, that's fairly shady of them. They didn't even bother to change the name.
 
Ja Di ksw said:
Did Apple buy out whatever company made Cover Flow? If not, that's fairly shady of them. They didn't even bother to change the name.
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From Coverflow's website:

"We are pleased to announce that all CoverFlow technology and intellectual property was recently sold to Apple. It has been incorporated into the latest version of iTunes."
 
DavidLeblond said:
From Coverflow's website:

"We are pleased to announce that all CoverFlow technology and intellectual property was recently sold to Apple. It has been incorporated into the latest version of iTunes."
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Nice, thank you :). I liked Coverflow's application, glad they incorporated it. To be honest, though, I thought it looked better as the previous app . . . .
 
New Quicktime

I have Final Cut Pro and it comes with quicktime pro... my system is telling me all my software is up to date yet iTunes says i need to download the new quicktime. if i download the new quicktime and it isn't pro will it automatically give me pro features?
 
can't run it

I just installed it on my PC, restarted, and it said:
"Quicktime 7.00d0 is installed, iTunes needs at least QT 7.1.3" where infact the setup file is supposed to install QT 7.1.3.
Uninstalled, reinstalled and restarted several times but no luck...
 
drlunanerd said:
Gapless playback.

w00t OMG LOL etc.

:D
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Oh yeah.

First thing I did after I did the upgrade was go to The Cars first album and started playing "Bye Bye Love" and let it play.... gapless playback, just like how it should be.

I didn't see an option for this in Preferences. I'm assuming it's automatic.
 
hakala01 said:
:confused: Here's a possibly dumb question, but per Apple's support site, the following video play back specs are given for iPod (5G) playback:

iPod can play the following video formats:

H.264
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 768 kbits/sec, 320 x 240, 30 frames per second (fps), Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, and stereo audio.
MPEG-4
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 2.5 Mbits/sec, 480 x 480, 30 fps, Simple Profile.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, stereo audio.

How will the new, higher resolution video play back on the current iPods? Do they currently have higher resolution capability that Apple was just holding back through software?:confused:
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Great question!

I am wondering the same thing, along with the question of wether or not the current 5G ipod will get the software updates (besides the obvious update to allow it to play these new games) that include some of the features the new 5.5G ipod gets.

I would assume that the loading construct for playing H.264 videos on the ipod, will automatically scale down the video to fit the ipod screen. This may also mean less artifacts while watching videos on the ipod screen, as the encode quality will be higher off the bat !
 
It seems very slow to me. The new iTunes spends at least 2 minutes "Loading iTunes Library" before the main screen appears. iTunes 6 never did that and it didn't take as long to load :(

My library is around 25,000 songs.
 
ripfrankwhite said:
I get iTunes error when I try to open iTunes 7 after installation. Don't know what to do.
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Are you on Windows? If so, then do an uninstall, reboot and then reinstall.

Also, try uninstalling QuickTime if there are problems still.
 
Woah, so to get the album artwork it sends my list of songs to apple? what if I have an advance copy of an album from my friends band that I don't want apple to have? What about all those people who download albums, are they gonna get in trouble??
 
I think its fantastic, I like how it looks, I love the cover flow, and the ability to get the covers, and it gets the whole album, not just the one song. The movies/videos Ive got in my library now play flawlessly.

I love it, now all i need is a new iPod, If the iPod photo as it was called. I presume I cant play games on that one?

Edit. Just connected my iPod to my iMac, I love the new screen that itunes comes up with showing your iPod.
 
Tommyg117 said:
Woah, so to get the album artwork it sends my list of songs to apple? what if I have an advance copy of an album from my friends band that I don't want apple to have? What about all those people who download albums, are they gonna get in trouble??
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There's a disclaimer when your first open iTunes 7 that basically says the information sent to Apple will not be used for any other purpose other than to get album art.

You can turn off the option under Preferences.

I also like how they've integrated the iPod updates into iTunes without having to do the updates seperately.

Just wondering where the new 1.2 update is. I'm anxious to get it loaded on my 5G and get PacMan downloaded.
 
iTunes now provides access to an "Album Artist" tag which should help keep those duets and other collaborations in line without having to declare them as compilations.

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