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Who doesn't like iTunes 8?
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So let me get this straight. Itunes' new license agreement states that you can not buy music or shows through the Itunes store if you are not living in the States? How does that make any sense? What about everyone else?
Maybe I'm just being dense. Any thoughts?
Maybe I'm just being dense. Any thoughts?
They've tinkered with the Mini Player.
Put it into Mini Player mode, and click away and it becomes an "inactive" window, all grey and white. In iTunes 7, even though the window wasn't active, it didn't change to the appearance of an inactive window. It just looks ugly now.
Also, when in Mini Player mode, and you click the Green Plus to maximise iTunes again, if the Mini Player was not your active window when you clicked the Green Plus, then iTunes maximises itself behind your current window. How bloody annoying.
Aside from all the cool features, they've really left quite a few bugs in there. Here's hoping iTunes 8.0.1 won't be too far away.
Put it into Mini Player mode, and click away and it becomes an "inactive" window, all grey and white. In iTunes 7, even though the window wasn't active, it didn't change to the appearance of an inactive window. It just looks ugly now.
Also, when in Mini Player mode, and you click the Green Plus to maximise iTunes again, if the Mini Player was not your active window when you clicked the Green Plus, then iTunes maximises itself behind your current window. How bloody annoying.
Aside from all the cool features, they've really left quite a few bugs in there. Here's hoping iTunes 8.0.1 won't be too far away.
I really, really dislike this. I want to go back to 7.5.5.
I LIKE the blackness of it all.
The smallest part is that Grid is almost as useless as coverflow. Almost, though, so I consider that as better than the "old". I'll just not use the bloating feature, though.
What I really dislike is how iTunes-store centric this update is. It's almost akin to malware forcing your computer onto certain websites, and popups "suggesting" you buy this and that.
Besides the new look (which I like), this is nothing more than a vehicly to force feed people "suggestions" from the iTunes store. It's worse than bloody MS when they were at their worst.
In fact, this is so bad I am now going to look for something better, deleting iTunes in the process. Of course I'll look to see if someone will post on how to go back to iTunes 7.5.5.
Edit: And once again we're betatesters ...
I LIKE the blackness of it all.
The smallest part is that Grid is almost as useless as coverflow. Almost, though, so I consider that as better than the "old". I'll just not use the bloating feature, though.
What I really dislike is how iTunes-store centric this update is. It's almost akin to malware forcing your computer onto certain websites, and popups "suggesting" you buy this and that.
Besides the new look (which I like), this is nothing more than a vehicly to force feed people "suggestions" from the iTunes store. It's worse than bloody MS when they were at their worst.
In fact, this is so bad I am now going to look for something better, deleting iTunes in the process. Of course I'll look to see if someone will post on how to go back to iTunes 7.5.5.
Edit: And once again we're betatesters ...
Oh, that irritates me a bit. I have not activated this genius feature. I don't think I ever will. I'm downloading 7.7.1 at this moment. Contemplating a downgrade.
Yup, I just "downgraded". It doesn't look as good and still the bloatware it was, but at least I get to own my own computer and not let Apple use it as a vehicle to forcefeed me their iTunes Store to the extent they try with iTunes 8.
Grid View is like the best thing ever; you just gotta know how to use it.
Exactly! I've been waiting for grid view for over a year. It looks great. One look at iPhoto 08 and I wondered why iTunes couldn't do the same.
What country does country come from, then?
Whenever the word country appears in a country song, I think we all know which country is meant!
What's not to like???
They didn't remove any features ... and you don't HAVE to use the genius. If you don't like it; simply don't turn it on.
If you like purchasing songs from Apple via iTunes, then the genius is great!!
Cheers.
They didn't remove any features ... and you don't HAVE to use the genius. If you don't like it; simply don't turn it on.
If you like purchasing songs from Apple via iTunes, then the genius is great!!
Cheers.
I think it's a great improvement, except the shuffle option doesn't seem to work properly for me 100% of the time
I love it, I think this is the best iTunes yet.
You + This thread = Wasteland, Have you used either of them?
i was wondering, if i downgrade do i first have to uninstall itunes then reinstall 7.7.1? because i don't want to uninstall it because i have a lot of information i don't want to lose.
Well, first I couldn't install iTunes 7 because "a newer version [was] installed".
Then I deleted (not uninstalled) the iTunes App from the folder.
Logged out and in again.
Then, for some reason it couldn't start. It said something along the lines of "Could not open because [the library] was created by a newer version".
Deleted the iTunes library in the folder.
Restarted iTunes and it didn't ask for me to make a new library, it just started again.
However, there were no tracks and podcasts, but I simply redirected to the folders and there they all were.
Sounds very complicated, but it really wasn't.
For all you people complaining about the increasing file size, do we want another Vista? Vista Premium and Ultimate and Home Basic and Starter... etc. It's 60mb, relatively small file. If your internet is slow, that's not Apple's concern in any way. I pay the cheapest AT&T DSL package and I downloaded the new 2.1 firmware for my iPod touch in 10 mins.
And if you had a problem with updating to iTunes 8.0, just download it from apple.com, I had a problem saying I needed to update to at least iTunes 7.7.1 for 2.1 firmware and I already had 7.7.1. I just paid apple.com a visit, type in my email and downloaded 8.0.
If you don't like the new features, then don't use them. It's not going to save a crucial amount of hard drive space if you trim even 50% of the 60mb.
Personally, I love the new iTunes 8.0, although I don't use Grid view, since I'm used to alpha order in Cover Flow, but that's just me. Some people love browsing music by album, some may not. It's personal preference. Genius saves time when creating playlists, I don't have much music, 250+ songs, but I still get great results. Bottom line is, this is FREE software. You can choose to add songs and videos to your iPod manually.
And for the BSOD windows vista users, blame MS. I love Vista for it's eye candy, but not for the way it works and the OS as a whole. XP Pro imho, is the best windows-based OS to date. Since the OS crashed, because an app was running, then it's the OS' fault. If app crashed but the OS still runs fine with no BSODs, then it's the app's fault. The OS faltered, not the app itself. Probably just a compatibility issue within drivers. And serves you vista fans right for using vista in the first place. vista is NOT an OS where you can have fun on the computer while doing work at the same time. that's a mac. Vista, it's a constant, "am i up to date with the latest service packs and updates" kind of game, a game that never ends.
Also, some dude complained iWork is bloated. That may be true for the first version, but every time Apple released new versions of software and the OS, it's dramatically smaller than previous. And Office 04 is NOT 400mb. I have it on CD, and when it installs, it's about 2GB of my hard disk space. Office 08 is about the same. iWork on the other hand is 283.7mb for Keynote, 136mb for Numbers and 266.8mb for Pages. Not the 1.9+ gb that dude was talking about. 280+260+140 is approx 680 or so.
And if you had a problem with updating to iTunes 8.0, just download it from apple.com, I had a problem saying I needed to update to at least iTunes 7.7.1 for 2.1 firmware and I already had 7.7.1. I just paid apple.com a visit, type in my email and downloaded 8.0.
If you don't like the new features, then don't use them. It's not going to save a crucial amount of hard drive space if you trim even 50% of the 60mb.
Personally, I love the new iTunes 8.0, although I don't use Grid view, since I'm used to alpha order in Cover Flow, but that's just me. Some people love browsing music by album, some may not. It's personal preference. Genius saves time when creating playlists, I don't have much music, 250+ songs, but I still get great results. Bottom line is, this is FREE software. You can choose to add songs and videos to your iPod manually.
And for the BSOD windows vista users, blame MS. I love Vista for it's eye candy, but not for the way it works and the OS as a whole. XP Pro imho, is the best windows-based OS to date. Since the OS crashed, because an app was running, then it's the OS' fault. If app crashed but the OS still runs fine with no BSODs, then it's the app's fault. The OS faltered, not the app itself. Probably just a compatibility issue within drivers. And serves you vista fans right for using vista in the first place. vista is NOT an OS where you can have fun on the computer while doing work at the same time. that's a mac. Vista, it's a constant, "am i up to date with the latest service packs and updates" kind of game, a game that never ends.
Also, some dude complained iWork is bloated. That may be true for the first version, but every time Apple released new versions of software and the OS, it's dramatically smaller than previous. And Office 04 is NOT 400mb. I have it on CD, and when it installs, it's about 2GB of my hard disk space. Office 08 is about the same. iWork on the other hand is 283.7mb for Keynote, 136mb for Numbers and 266.8mb for Pages. Not the 1.9+ gb that dude was talking about. 280+260+140 is approx 680 or so.
I've been running it since I downloaded it. Zero problems with it, and I love the new features.
Macbook Mid level, 2gb
Macbook Mid level, 2gb
I'm having a problem with the grid view. I have a handful of loose songs that are not associated with any specific album. In previous versions, these songs have been grouped into one "unknown album" album. In iTunes 8, each song without an album title shows up in it's own album with it's own non-existant art. This makes the grid view frustrating to even look through, since I have 50+ albums with one song each. Is there any way to group all these non-album songs together without putting in an album name?
Friggin hate it..
As a starter, the iTunes8 removed my library.
I have the music and movies on a timecapsule and it is streamed to my iBook or MP.All worked nice and dandy before.
Now, the 8s library was empty.
Tried to import it but everything froze.Timecapsule,iTunes,Finder. Several times.Not even forcequite helped. Then it killed my internet connection..
After several restarts and unpluggins I finally got the library showing,but it wouldnt let me just stream the stuff from the TC,it tried to copy all the content to my iBook...
At that point I noticed that half of my purchased music was missing, mainly the materiel that I bought via
TV. Search continues.
And lot of material is missing from the music library as well,so I am building it up from my backups.
Lets see after that if iTunes8 will allow me to rebuild the library as it originally was. Remotely on a Timecapsule.
I am not asking for much..
iBook+MP+Timecapsule+Tigers.
Jeebus apple what a mess... again...
As a starter, the iTunes8 removed my library.
I have the music and movies on a timecapsule and it is streamed to my iBook or MP.All worked nice and dandy before.
Now, the 8s library was empty.
Tried to import it but everything froze.Timecapsule,iTunes,Finder. Several times.Not even forcequite helped. Then it killed my internet connection..
After several restarts and unpluggins I finally got the library showing,but it wouldnt let me just stream the stuff from the TC,it tried to copy all the content to my iBook...
At that point I noticed that half of my purchased music was missing, mainly the materiel that I bought via
TV. Search continues.And lot of material is missing from the music library as well,so I am building it up from my backups.
Lets see after that if iTunes8 will allow me to rebuild the library as it originally was. Remotely on a Timecapsule.
I am not asking for much..
iBook+MP+Timecapsule+Tigers.
Jeebus apple what a mess... again...