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WOW is iTunes 10.5 buggy!!
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Rajani Isa
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I blame video games, especially MMOs, where they use beta as a hook, so the betas are less beta and more a release candidate. It was funny with the stuff going in RIFT beta, people were getting upset at bugs! 😛
noticed a lot of badness with Windows 7 x64, but as someone has always said, it's never been very smooth on any windows machine that I've used.
Dieu
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10.5 is garbage on Windows 7 64. I imported almost 600GB (backed-up of course), of music and it started its endless "determining gapless playback" nonsense. Just a continues loop when I moved my mouse. Anyway, I uninstalled 10.5 and it somehow deleted everything up to my "Compilations" folder. Thank God I always backup my music. Frankly, I cannot recall the last time (version) that iTunes ever ran well on Windows. The really early versions ran well but today, iTunes is a bloated and poorly designed application. Actually, it is less of a music management tools as it is more of a marketing/advertising tool for Apple.
FYI - It's my understanding that 10.5 is a significant re-write that finally moves iTunes into 64Bit cocoa. As a result, I would expect his to be more buggy than your average iTunes Beta. I wouldn't be surprised if the release version is rebranded iTunes 11. Don't worry about it though, they still have a lot of time to address these issues. Just keep submitting those bug reports!
mine runs great as long as i don't go into the apps section of my iOS device to add or remove them, but that's ok, i get round that by just dragging from the apps library 🙂 i can still get to the file sharing section with no issues 🙂
no harm in people sharing their experiences with the beta so far, if you don't like it, don't bother wasting your time to read...... 😛
i so hope that the tightasses that just come onto a beta thread to moan would find something better to do but oh well! 🙄
NutsNGum
macrumors 68030
Why? Do you hold nothing but bitter contempt for your fellow MacRumours members and the people who bring insider information to sites like these?
iTunes on Windows isn't good because Apple doesn't want it to be good for whatever reason. I've heard they plopped just enough of OS X on top of Windows to make iTunes work, instead of just working with native resources that would run faster.
I was pretty shocked at how much better it was on OS X the first time I used a Mac.
I was pretty shocked at how much better it was on OS X the first time I used a Mac.
they really need to just scrap iTunes and rebuild it from the ground up. MS did it with windows media player and it's all the better for it
NutsNGum
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I don't know if it's possible to just plop an Objective C application onto a Windows computer.