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iTunes 7 is here!
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iGary said:Mine's around 10. Hrmmm.
It just starts up really slow.Always has on this machine.
I have a 70GB+ library (including podcasts) and my starts just fine
I don't either understand the switch to the old icon...but I guess some change is good
Anyone else having issues getting other videos onto their iPod 5G (old one). I have Quicktime 7.1.3 Pro, I used to be able to convert videos via the export for iPod option, but once I converted the video I couldn't drag it to my iPod in iTunes, then I tried the internal convert in iTunes 7, but that didn't work either....
Anyone else having the same problem?
Anyone else having the same problem?
PCMacUser said:
I've noticed this too!
You have to select all the songs, Get Info, then drag the album art into the little box in the dialogue box. Very annoying.
Mitthrawnuruodo said:I'm not saying crossfading, in itself is obsolete...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...
D'oh thought you were taling specifically about the 'gapless' tag.
I never used crossfading, but I guess people also use it who like the DJ-effect. Not that I ever crossfade when I do DJ.
No, I don't get a beach ball, but I get a very brief (end of a) progress bar saying "Loading Library" or something like that.iGary said:
Definitively takes longer to load than the previous version...
12577 songs, 42 GB on my MacBook 2.0.
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
It has all of the sudden stopped - I'm guessing it has to do with the iPods, since I do not have them mounted currently.
He-he... used to crossfade manually all the time back when I worked at the readio station.bluejacket said:
After crossfading appeared in iTunes I've experimented with it, but I finally preferred not to use it, that is I set it to crossfade in 0 seconds to get a kind of gapless playback, but that's it. So you might say I used the cross, but not the fade...
Nah... I still got the progress bar for a short second, even without my mini attaced... I guess it's just slower...iGary said:It has all of the sudden stopped - I'm guessing it has to do with the iPods, since I do not have them mounted currently.
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Mitthrawnuruodo said:
Yeah, i must say I'm not very taken with all the loading and analysing progress bars on this. I tried to shut it down yesterday and it started analysing something or other and all I could think of was Office Space when he's trying to shut down his computer and Lumbergh is coming over. Just shut down, damn you!
You had your very own little Friday afternoon nightmare...? On a Tuesday...?Lau said:
And I'm not very concerned... I have my library on my MacBook, and it cannot grow by much more than 50% (to about 60GB) before it gets very cramped... and even with a slightly longer start-up I'll manage... I only start iTunes once or twice a day, anyway... cannot shut it down more often because it's always running...
It's been mentioned... I don't think there's a fix, for now... maybe one of the small issues Apple needs to deal with in iTunes 7.0.1... which should be out very soon, if history repeats itself...cgfour said:
Just change the size of the cover flow "window" a bit to get rid of the fuzzyness...
What happens if you tag the soundtracks (or other compilations) as - you guessed it - compilations, and then in iTunes preferences -> General, check for Group compilations while browsing?Blind Buzzard said:
Mitthrawnuruodo said:
I tried this with no prevail.
But grouping by Album does pull the cover art back together.
Thanks for the help.
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Apparently, iTunes assumes anything labelled "TV Shows" is "Purchased". I decided to label some TV theme songs as "TV Shows", and then noticed a short time later that in addition to being in the "TV Shows" list, they are in the "Purchased" list.
Apparently if you labelled everything as a TV Show then it would be considered as purchased....
There are a lot of little things wrong with this release. Not glitches (at least for me so far), which you expect occasionally. Inconsistencies and counter-intuitive organization and behavior, which you don't expect from Apple.
EDIT: Another example: video playback. If you are watching a video in a window and then click on the full screen icon (in the controls that pop up when you move the cursor), it goes to full screen and keeps playing, as you would expect. If you are in full screen and click on the the icon to make it play back in a window, it stops the video. I believe this was the same in iTunes, but why can't you reduce the size of the video playback without it stopping? If I wanted it to stop, I would tell it to stop!!
iGary said:So maybe dumb/already asked questions, but I can only sync purchased music on another computer and my iPod not ALL the music on my iPod?
Apparently if you labelled everything as a TV Show then it would be considered as purchased....
There are a lot of little things wrong with this release. Not glitches (at least for me so far), which you expect occasionally. Inconsistencies and counter-intuitive organization and behavior, which you don't expect from Apple.
EDIT: Another example: video playback. If you are watching a video in a window and then click on the full screen icon (in the controls that pop up when you move the cursor), it goes to full screen and keeps playing, as you would expect. If you are in full screen and click on the the icon to make it play back in a window, it stops the video. I believe this was the same in iTunes, but why can't you reduce the size of the video playback without it stopping? If I wanted it to stop, I would tell it to stop!!
Blind Buzzard said:
It works great for me... of course you have to sort by album while browsing, to get it to gather albums, but it works as expected both in the main library (sorted by Album by Artist) and in playlists (sorted by Album).
What it messes up is if those songs, on a compilation album, has different album art... then it just displays one (random?) of those...
I guest it's already been noted but with the installation of iTunes 7 (on Windoze), an "Apple Software Update" application is also being installed.
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Love Coverflow being implemented within iTunes and I hope the developer cleaned up on Apple bying his tech.
Wish it was the full coverflow .app though where you could view fullscreen and the album covers moved gently as your mouse moved; you could also set to just show your Albums so it was just like the old days as you flipped through your vinyl collection!
Sreenshot from the original Coverflow:
Love Coverflow being implemented within iTunes and I hope the developer cleaned up on Apple bying his tech.
Wish it was the full coverflow .app though where you could view fullscreen and the album covers moved gently as your mouse moved; you could also set to just show your Albums so it was just like the old days as you flipped through your vinyl collection!
Sreenshot from the original Coverflow:
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Are Widescreen TV Shows & Movies 640 x 360?
Thank God. Will you please tell us if they are 640 x 360 pixels?balamw said:
Sigh. I don't know why I bothered downloading this -- I should have known by now that every new iTunes update consists of useless eye candy, a few nice but nonessential (for me) improvements, an uglier interface, and a whole lot of new hassles. I thought I was safe by saving iTunes 6 apart so I'd have it to go back to if necessary, but now it sounds like even that might be a hassle because of library changes?
The video playback is totally screwed for me. First of all, I have no actual movie-movies in iTunes and never will. I have maybe a dozen TV shows, most of which are freebies, and I never watch any of them more than once. The videos that I do watch are video podcasts and music videos. None of the latter have been downloaded from iTunes -- most are WMVs converted to MOVs, and still mislabeled because iTunes automatically assigns them as movies and I haven't yet manually relabeled them all as music videos.
So, in iTunes 6, I could listen to my morning playlist, which alternates news podcasts with songs. Some of these are videos, some aren't. A track would come on and go to full screen, so I can watch it while still wandering about the house getting ready for the day. If I needed to do something on the computer, all I had to do was click anywhere on the screen, the video would shrink into the artwork pane but keep playing, I could do whatever, then click on the button to make it go back to full screen.
Now, when a video goes to full screen, it has that ugly slider plastered over it, a slider that I'm not going to use for anything under half an hour, which is most of my videos. To get my screen back, I have to click once to get back the slider if it's already faded (which it doesn't do quickly enough), then click again specifically in the little box on the slider. Once the video has shrunk, it DOESN'T KEEP PLAYING. Only the audio does, the video doesn't. Maybe it's too hard for the Apple guys, but I for one am perfectly capable of watching a video and fiddling with my to-do list at the same time when they're two inches apart on my screen -- there is no reason to lose the video feed. And when I'm done, it now takes two clicks instead of one to get back to full screen.
Please, please someone tell me there's a way around these annoyances.
The video playback is totally screwed for me. First of all, I have no actual movie-movies in iTunes and never will. I have maybe a dozen TV shows, most of which are freebies, and I never watch any of them more than once. The videos that I do watch are video podcasts and music videos. None of the latter have been downloaded from iTunes -- most are WMVs converted to MOVs, and still mislabeled because iTunes automatically assigns them as movies and I haven't yet manually relabeled them all as music videos.
So, in iTunes 6, I could listen to my morning playlist, which alternates news podcasts with songs. Some of these are videos, some aren't. A track would come on and go to full screen, so I can watch it while still wandering about the house getting ready for the day. If I needed to do something on the computer, all I had to do was click anywhere on the screen, the video would shrink into the artwork pane but keep playing, I could do whatever, then click on the button to make it go back to full screen.
Now, when a video goes to full screen, it has that ugly slider plastered over it, a slider that I'm not going to use for anything under half an hour, which is most of my videos. To get my screen back, I have to click once to get back the slider if it's already faded (which it doesn't do quickly enough), then click again specifically in the little box on the slider. Once the video has shrunk, it DOESN'T KEEP PLAYING. Only the audio does, the video doesn't. Maybe it's too hard for the Apple guys, but I for one am perfectly capable of watching a video and fiddling with my to-do list at the same time when they're two inches apart on my screen -- there is no reason to lose the video feed. And when I'm done, it now takes two clicks instead of one to get back to full screen.
Please, please someone tell me there's a way around these annoyances.