I just noticed that since upgrading to iTunes 8.1 that I can no longer select a different audio track (Controls/Audio & Subtitles/). Most of my DVD conversions have additional soundtracks in them, mostly Dolby 5.1, Dolby Stereo and Commentary tracks. With iTunes 8.0x, I could easily select a different audio track even when they had the same label (if you don't label them in Handbrake, they'll often just say "stereo" for additional tracks). Most of mine are labeled now, but either way, it makes no difference. The additional tracks show up in the list and it looks like you can select one, but when I select one, it doesn't "take". It still has the default 1st track selected and won't change to the one I'm trying to select. I've tried it while playing, while paused and while sitting in the coverflow list. It doesn't matter. It won't change audio tracks any more. I tried restarting iTunes again. No dice.
This is on my PowerMac running Leopard 10.5.6. I haven't compared my Intel MBP yet and given the issue, I'm not sure I want to upgrade it on my MBP right now. Has anyone else run into this problem? I've sent a feedback response to Apple, but they are usually terrible about dealing with bugs and it seems like every upgrade of iTunes introduces NEW BUGS that were NOT present in the previous version. Maybe iTunes is just getting too big and too bloated for Apple to properly maintain?
On the postive side, though, iTunes 8.1 no longer stutters for a couple of seconds on my PowerMac when I first start a movie (would also do it on my MBP, but far less often). Everything is immediately smooth. iTunes seems to start faster once Leopard is fully booted, but when I have it boot at startup, it seems a bit slower to load than before (many more hops on the dock) and that's with my newer/faster Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda drives (sustained transfers over 100MB/sec now).
Edit:
I tried a few more things and found that I CAN change the audio track if I use the little round circle/loop (caption symbol?) on the on-screen interface instead of the menu bar audio track. So apparently the bug/problem is only with the OS X title bar selection of audio tracks. That still sucks, but at least there's a way to change the audio track (Dolby 5.1 tracks are normally the default tracks and they great for my two AppleTV units, but I only need stereo on my Mac and while Perian outputs a stereo signal from the 5.1 tracks, it doesn't sound as good as the actual stereo/ProLogic tracks I encoded into the movie (which are often FROM the 5.1 tracks themselves, so it shows Perian's dispersion isn't that great compared to Handbrake's conversion).
This is on my PowerMac running Leopard 10.5.6. I haven't compared my Intel MBP yet and given the issue, I'm not sure I want to upgrade it on my MBP right now. Has anyone else run into this problem? I've sent a feedback response to Apple, but they are usually terrible about dealing with bugs and it seems like every upgrade of iTunes introduces NEW BUGS that were NOT present in the previous version. Maybe iTunes is just getting too big and too bloated for Apple to properly maintain?
On the postive side, though, iTunes 8.1 no longer stutters for a couple of seconds on my PowerMac when I first start a movie (would also do it on my MBP, but far less often). Everything is immediately smooth. iTunes seems to start faster once Leopard is fully booted, but when I have it boot at startup, it seems a bit slower to load than before (many more hops on the dock) and that's with my newer/faster Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda drives (sustained transfers over 100MB/sec now).
Edit:
I tried a few more things and found that I CAN change the audio track if I use the little round circle/loop (caption symbol?) on the on-screen interface instead of the menu bar audio track. So apparently the bug/problem is only with the OS X title bar selection of audio tracks. That still sucks, but at least there's a way to change the audio track (Dolby 5.1 tracks are normally the default tracks and they great for my two AppleTV units, but I only need stereo on my Mac and while Perian outputs a stereo signal from the 5.1 tracks, it doesn't sound as good as the actual stereo/ProLogic tracks I encoded into the movie (which are often FROM the 5.1 tracks themselves, so it shows Perian's dispersion isn't that great compared to Handbrake's conversion).