iTunes 7 is here!

[Fukui]

Generally the layout is fine, but this thing (iTunes 7) looks absolutely FUGLY!

Yea, apple had platinum, then aqua, now, with this release the've invented "Delorean."

 

[baleensavage]

Has anyone seen anything about being able to redownload TV shows we already purchased with the higher resolution. I haven't seen anything, but if Apple doesn't offer this, I'll be pretty peeved off as I just bought these shows recently.

 

[Oryan]

I won't download movies until I can get them at the same quality as the HD trailers (at least 720p). And I despise DRM.

 

[djkatsuo]

no section for music videos or booklets

am i crazy or did apple completely leave this out of itunes 7...my booklets are mixed up with the music and so are the music videos...also no more search bar???

 

[neoelectronaut]

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.

B

Please explain further.

 

[travvy49423]

the Pros and Cons... in my opinion

Pros...

#1 Album Artwork. No more Google searches.
#2 Gapless playback. Now i can playback my 70 minute prog rock albums as they were intended

Cons...

#1 Movies 640 by 480? No widescreen or animorphic? forget that! I haven't bought a 4x3 movie since 1998
#2 Still can't burn it. I won't buy anything I can't burn an play in a DVD player. iTV could posibly change my mind. We'll see.

 

[swingerofbirch]

Does anyone know if you can view the entire library still and use that "strip bar" across the top where you filter by music, tv shows, etc.....I kind of liked that...MAYBE I'll get used to the new way...but is there a way to make it go back to the old way?


EDIT
This might be premature and I might change my mind, but I dont like the new iTunes at all. It looks like FCP. I'm using it on my PC right now. Maybe the Mac will look better? It's overwhelming looking to me right now.

 

[stuBCN75]

No new search on my 5G

Anyone get the new 'Search' on their 5G ? I have updated iTunes and done the iPod update. Its probably not even a feature I will use much but it's a shame it's not included in the update.

Any luck with the games on a current 5G ? Would be quite nice to have PacMan

 

[Some_Big_Spoon]

auto album art fetch isn't working for me, even on manual try. Anyone else having that issue?

 

[milo]

Movies purchased from the iTunes Store can't be burned to a DVD or VCD that will play in a DVD player or Video CD.

No kidding. It's been like that for a year, old news.

Pretty disappointing, although I was the ONLY PERSON on macrumors and apple insider to call the LAME GAME update, which doesn't even work on the current 5G iPOD Video (at least this is what I read somewhere earlier today).

It does. The new iPod is just a size bump of the 5G, the new features are just software updates.

 

[guifa]

Pros...

#1 Album Artwork. No more Google searches.
#2 Gapless playback. Now i can playback my 70 minute prog rock albums as they were intended

Cons...

#1 Movies 640 by 480? No widescreen or animorphic? forget that! I haven't bought a 4x3 movie since 1998
#2 Still can't burn it. I won't buy anything I can't burn an play in a DVD player. iTV could posibly change my mind. We'll see.

If you'd read Apple's page, it notes that 640x480 could be different depending on the aspect ratio of the file. 640x is what I get from bittorrent normally, so it's not bad.

 

[dunc85]

Does anyone know if you can view the entire library still and use that "strip bar" across the top where you filter by music, tv shows, etc.....I kind of liked that...MAYBE I'll get used to the new way...but is there a way to make it go back to the old way?

Thr browser? Apple + b?

auto album art fetch isn't working for me, even on manual try. Anyone else having that issue?

I selected all my tracks then right clicked and selected 'Download Artwork' or whatever. It's going through them now.

EDIT: bah, the majority of my tracks are still without artwork - theres even a couple of duplicated covers in there.

 

[phatspider]

Apologies if others have pointed it out - but hen upgrading to iTunes 7, i hit customize on the install it talks about an itunes phone driver

 

[ZildjianKX]

Has anyone seen anything about being able to redownload TV shows we already purchased with the higher resolution. I haven't seen anything, but if Apple doesn't offer this, I'll be pretty peeved off as I just bought these shows recently.

I'd like to know this as well.

 

[mmmcheese]

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?

The MPEG4 standard (which includes h.264) is scalable, so lower resolution devices will only decode to the lower resolution and not spend the extra time/power to decode to full resolution. There's a lot of complex details, but that's the quick gist of it.

 

[sixth]

how do you update your artwork? i have a ton of music on my pod and i want the artwork, how the heck do get the artwork?

 

[jacg]

I don't know how to include a screenshot in here but can anyone explain what the item in the Preferences > Advanced > General is that says:

'Allow iTunes control from remote speakers'

Also, while looking for iTunes7 I read that v 6.0.5 could send audio to more than one set of remote speakers simultaneously. How do you do that?

 

[hellodon]

Is it just me, or does the new iTunes logo look horrible in the dock? It doesnt seem to match anything, and it just doesnt look as "clean" as the typical dock logos have been/should be. When i went to click iTunes for the first time and it changed from the nice/clean green logo to this blue cheesy looking 1995 icon, I was pretty surprised!

 

[mcarnes]

The new iPod is just a size bump of the 5G, the new features are just software updates.

So the 60% brighter display is just a software update?

 

[tk421]

Cons...
#1 Movies 640 by 480? No widescreen or animorphic? forget that! I haven't bought a 4x3 movie since 1998

Are you sure they aren't anamorphic? I want to find this out.

Even an anamorphic DVD is still a 4:3 file. It just stretches it out. And Quicktime does support non-square pixels.

 

[840quadra]

Not sure yet,

But it looks like we may need to convert videos before we can place them onto our ipod from iTunes.

I just encoded a video using Quicktime Version 7.1.5 (available now via software update). Even after doing that, it appears that I have the option to encode it for iPod .

::EDIT::
This feature is to encode videos dragged into iTunes, for your ipod.

Meaning. If you are able to drag a movie into iTunes and play it, you can now encode it to play on your Video iPod within iTunes!!

 

[mark88]

Can you add movies to your library that are already on your HD?

I choose file > add to library and selected a bunch of AVI files and it just did nothing.

 

[kasei]

Did the Apple engineers forget to add a music video icon on the left side of iTunes 7? Everthing else is there except music video.

 

[840quadra]

Can you add movies to your library that are already on your HD?

I choose file > add to library and selected a bunch of AVI files and it just did nothing.

I was just able to do that. I grabbed an old Quicktime video from an apple keynote done in 1998.

I NOW understand what that dialog box is for that I posted earlier. You can now encode any video iTunes will accept, for your ipod, within iTunes.

You no longer need Quicktime Pro, iMovie, or 3rd party applications to do so!

Rock on!!!

 

[Fukui]

Is it just me, or does the new iTunes logo look horrible in the dock? It doesnt seem to match anything, and it just doesnt look as "clean" as the typical dock logos have been/should be. When i went to click iTunes for the first time and it changed from the nice/clean green logo to this blue cheesy looking 1995 icon, I was pretty surprised!

I think everyone should send massive feedback about how horrid everything in iTunes looks compared to before, even with the new features (which are great). Maybe they'll change it back, at least on OS X.