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iTunes 7 is here!

jholzner said:
If you have two different Airport Expresses, both with speakers attached, you can stream music to both at the same time. This isn't a new feature in 7.0.
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You maybe didn't read my post properly. I said I spotted that 6.0.5 could do this but I still don't know how. Whenever I select a different set of speakers it swaps to the new set. Do you need to press a modifier key or something? (Can't test just now because one of my AEs is elsewhere).

The v7 interface chugs a bit on my 1.25 GHz PBG4. I think the interface has too many dark shades. What's with the black highlight in the sidebar?
 
hyperpasta said:
GRRRRRRRRRR! I want to upgrade my current videos to 640x480... HOW?
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The usual answer would be: start with a new source, and compress that to 640x480. If you start with a video that's already 320x240, you can't expect it to look better if you later try to re-encode it to a larger screen size. Can't get data from nowhere... can't get blood from a stone.
 
Full screen playback of videos now has Quicktime-style translucent controls.

You can properly tag TV shows.
 
my critique

Here are my thoughts ( if anyone cares ):

The left column icons are really bad.
The type headers are too big.
The spacing is horrendous.

Missing Equalizer button.
Missing Visualizer button.

Coverflow was cool as it was a stand alone app. But to just squeeze the exisitng app into itunes is just plain lazy. Doesn't seem like much thought went into that one.

Ipod updates are cool.
The Search is back to how it was. No more tabs up on top? Not searching for videos?

What if i want to collapse the Store section on the Left Column? I can't. Stupid UI.

To be honest, i think all this Apple attention is hurting their creativity. The buttons look like the first version of iTunes for the PC.

Hopefully this is that bad version, and they will correct it. I will be sending these comments to Apple Feedback as well.

Peace.

Update: Oh and i forgot!... the Dock Icon. FUGLY!
 
Very dark and dingy interface, reminds me of some audio-editing ap. What happened to the nice white play buttons, and the bright blue scroll bars and music store.

iTunes is now much more accomplished as a sopisticated media ap, but the style really has suffured. Doesn't feel like an Apple product!
 
0x666D743F error

I'm getting the same unknown '0x666D743F' error; rebooting and uninstalling/reinstalling itunes doesn't help.

Does anyone have any ideas?
 
The cover art view sounds interesting, but I’ll have to see it for myself. Other than that, not too much else of interest to me, mostly because I don’t live in the States and therefore don’t have access to TV shows on iTunes, let alone movies. :rolleyes: :cool:

Let’s hope Apple fixes some of that so that I can actually make good use out of that iTV thing when it is released next year… ;)
 
I really hate that when you select something in the left hand menu, it is highlighted in black, just really doesnt work with the blue logos and the light blue background, it is just too dense and solid and really stands out!!
 
mooncaine said:
The usual answer would be: start with a new source, and compress that to 640x480. If you start with a video that's already 320x240, you can't expect it to look better if you later try to re-encode it to a larger screen size. Can't get data from nowhere... can't get blood from a stone.
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I think the person was referring to content they already pruchased from iTunes store. In which case, as I posted before, I too am wondering this same question. Looks like I will have to send Apple an email.
 
Damn, album artwork doesn't work in my country. I'm from Latvia (in Europe, just in case) and iTunes is not available here. So, just for getting album artwork, you'll need an account in iTunes, I've tried to make one, but iTunes ignore my credit card, cause it's not registered in US (or other available countries) Really want to use this feature. Maybe someone know what can I do... Thanks in advance
 
jacg said:
You maybe didn't read my post properly. I said I spotted that 6.0.5 could do this but I still don't know how. Whenever I select a different set of speakers it swaps to the new set. Do you need to press a modifier key or something? (Can't test just now because one of my AEs is elsewhere).

The v7 interface chugs a bit on my 1.25 GHz PBG4. I think the interface has too many dark shades. What's with the black highlight in the sidebar?
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Oh, sorry, I must have read it wrong. I'm not at home right now either but I know I can do it on my setup at home. It's just always worked but I can't recall exaclty what the menu looks like right now. I think there is a "multiple speakers" option in the drop down box for selecting where to stream. If you select that it will bring up a box with check boxes next to each set of spearks available and if you select them all it plays to them all. I'll double check when I get home.
 
MacNut said:
It works great, "Dark Side" and "The Wall" play as intended.
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He-he... I'm testing "The Wall", too... :)

Did the "Gapless Determination" detect your The Wall album or did you, like me, have to set the Gapless Album tag yourself...?
 
Is it just me....

...or does iTunes 7 scale videos much better in full screen mode. It just seems a lot smoother to me. Maybe I'm just crazy.
 
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.
 
mooncaine said:
The usual answer would be: start with a new source, and compress that to 640x480. If you start with a video that's already 320x240, you can't expect it to look better if you later try to re-encode it to a larger screen size. Can't get data from nowhere... can't get blood from a stone.
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I'm assuming hyperpasta meant getting the videos he/she already has purchased from the iTunes store upgraded to 640x480 without having to buy them a second time. While everyone would love a free upgrade, of course, but since bandwidth isn't free, some sort of one-time discounted fee for upgrading one's entire library to the higher resolution would be a reasonable solution. That would make early adopters not feel like they got screwed for supporting Apple, plus make people hope for a discounted upgrade to even higher resolution videos (at least movies) in the future.
 
2nyRiggz said:
Are you streaming that over your network?.....cool...I'll have to try it out when I get out of class...:)
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Wait a minute...

What do you mean by streaming over my network...? Are you speaking about shared libraries...? If so then: no, I'm not streaming... :eek:

I've had my AirPort Express hooked up to my stereo for so long that "streaming", for me means playing over remote speakers using AirTunes...

If I was wrong, and got your hopes up needlessly (I've not tried shared libraries, yet), I'm sincerely sorry... :eek: :eek: :eek:

Edit: I just tried accessing my girlfriend's library over our network, and you're quite right, the cover art browsing view does not work (actually no cover art is showing). Again sorry... :eek:
 
Where is the great three column view where you could easily brows by genres/albums/artist?
 
Looks really hot BUT where is EQ?, i live by this thing, now i can no longer find it. Whats up?
 
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