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iTunes 7 issues surface on Web

updated 01:20 pm EDT, Tue September 19, 2006

iTunes 7 under fire

Apple's recent release of its iTunes 7 multimedia software is drawing complaints from Mac as well as PC users, which range from poor sound quality to mobile phone troubles. Apple has already acknowledged numerous issues which include AirTunes' inability to connect to remote speakers, iTunes 7 inability to play interactive booklets purchased from the iTunes Music Store, album art not downloading properly, iPods not playing content purchased from the iTunes Music Store, and numerous cell phone users reporting that music transferred to their handsets after upgrading to iTunes 7.0 fails to play on the device. Some users reported only receiving audio during video playback, and one user claims his iTunes software has slowed to a crawl following the update, according to CRN. "Unless it is absolutely necessary for you to upgrade to iTunes 7 right now, I would advise holding off until a correct version is released - these forums are full of members who have spent hours trying to work out fixes - just stick with 6.0.3," one user suggested.

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macbuddha1
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09/19, 05:11pm | report spam | close Reply |
No way...

Using iTunes 7 right now. Love it. Works great. Over 4,000 songs in my library. I will admit that not all of the album art seems to have been found, although I got more than I had before! Looks great, no tech problems to speak of. I think that unless you have an iTunes phone, go ahead and upgrade! Heck, did anyone actually wait, anyway?

ZinkDifferent
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09/19, 05:29pm | report spam | close Reply |
album art..

If album artwork has not been found, click on the link of that song or album to take you to the iTunes store in order to verify if that particularl music is actually available via iTunes. They can't download album art, if they don't have the songs.

Deal
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09/19, 06:32pm | report spam | close Reply |
Bumber...

But I'm glad it's working with the 30 some computers I've put it on.

Cec
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09/19, 09:48pm | report spam | close Reply |
Excellent

iTunes 7 works great for me too...other than album art snafues it's great. We can rest easy that Apple will take care of the issues reported by some.

VinitaBoy
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09/20, 02:37am | report spam | close Reply |
Errors

Select two (or more) songs from the same album in your library, and then try to add album art MANUALLY to those multiple selections. Can you do it? I can't. After a brief "hiccup," nothing at all happens.

pbjudge
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09/20, 04:01am | report spam | close Reply |
art

Other than problems with retreiving album art, it seems to work fine. Though my old shuffle no longer has the option to keep the playlist there when it is disconnected. I miss that feature as I could add things at the spur of the moment.

Otherwise, I have not yet detected any problems.

handydan
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09/20, 07:57am | report spam | close Reply |
some songs not working fo

I too have upgraded but some songs I have purchased via IT7 will not play on my 4th gen 20 gig ipod. When I select play the songs just skip by until one of the other titles I purchased long ago comes up then that one plays. I hope Apple fixes this soon before the trolls take this and run.

jorgem4
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09/20, 08:27am | report spam | close Reply |
Video quality issues

On some videos I bought of from the iTunes Music store the audio is fine, but the image is choppy and compleatly unviewable...they work fine in quicktime but not in iTunes 7.

Hope Apple gets on it quick!

neurascenic
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09/20, 09:39am | report spam | close Reply |
audio quality.

the audio quality blows!

It sounds like many of the songs are being played in a toilet filled with mud. Huge difference between it and my iPod even using the same headphones.

Very disappointed.

mgescuro
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09/20, 11:55am | report spam | close Reply |
I had problems

I've noticed no audio issues in iTunes 7 on a Mac or PC. I've noticed no AirTunes issues too.

My problems come from the videos. They wouldn't play. BUt that was fixed once I updated to Quicktime 7.13. But once they played, it was choppy and heavily pixellated, if the video was viewable at all. But the audio would always come through just fine.

I pretty much just chalked it up to running a secondary monitor on a 1st Gen PowerBook G4 12" and a lack of memory.

Kirth
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09/20, 03:15pm | report spam | close Reply |
Too much for my eMac

For me iTunes 7 is a perfect example of a step too far. I upgraded to iTunes 7.0 to get get the long awaited gapless playback. However iTunes 7 totally hogs my eMac 700 processor (1Gb RAM). Admittidly I do have a large iTunes library 25000+ tracks on an external Firewire drive, so granted I had to wait nearly a whole day whilst iTunes 7 examined the library for gapless playback (which works great) & artwork but once that was complete iTunes was still incredibly slow with the spinning beach-ball of death making a regular unwelcome appearence. I do not use album art, for me most of it is irrelevant but there is no way to stop iTunes 7 checking for it I rarely use the music store, I'm still converting my 2000+ CD collection, most of which was imported without artwork. With iTunes 7 it seems that every time I listen to a track there is a wait, even when set not to display artwork, whilst it is off hunting for artwork (most of which isn't there) on the off chance that I may switch to album/coverflow view to see a load of missing artwork icons. If I could disable the artwork side of things I'm sure it would be fine. The new iPod view it just freezes everytime with a blocky screen saying that it is updating, which is strange as the iPod is set for manual update. As for trying to rip CDs - no chance just endless beach-ball. iTunes 7 may be great on the new Mactel machines but it cripples my ancient (3 year old) eMac. Activity viewer shows between 45-55% processor usage by iTunes 7 whilst idle! The eMac was primarily used a a music server as I have 12" Powerbook & G5 for my work. iTunes 7 may be fine on newer MacTel machines but it is too much for my ancient (3 years old) eMac I expect a lot of people who were used to running iTunes in the background as they worked on older machines having a similar problem. The market is now open for a good music file player without all the bells & whistles. Perhaps now is the time for some different flavors of iTunes. iTunes Lite - a good basic audio player. iTunes - the multimedia version. iTunes Express - a paid for audio player with mixing capabilities for all those bedroom DJs out there. iTunes Pro - a professional DJ mixing version with input from Logic (a sort of cross between Traktor & Abelton Live). Apple already do this for video with iMovie, Final Cut Express & Final Cut Studio. The market is now open for a good basic audio player for Mac OS X - perhaps Audion will wake up. I have now ripped out iTunes 7 (including package receipts in the Library) & reinstalled iTunes 06 (reverting to the previous iTunes Library) Shame as was looking forward to gapless playback.

chluper
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09/20, 04:33pm | report spam | close Reply |
Issues Resolved

I was having similar problems after upgrading iTunes and not Quicktime. Of course, Apple does tell you update QT, but who ever listens. I had to dump my iTunes preferences and then reopen. After that it worked fine.

Just remember to backup prefs before you dump just in case you have a problem.

slytle
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09/21, 10:41am | report spam | close Reply |
Errors

VinitaBoy said: Select two (or more) songs from the same album in your library, and then try to add album art MANUALLY to those multiple selections. Can you do it? I can't. After a brief "hiccup," nothing at all happens.

Vinita, You only need to select one of the songs on an album in order for it to attach the art to all songs. Apple's album covers are stored in a central db based on artist and album, instead of with each song. See if that doesn't make a difference.

.sly

farmboy
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09/21, 01:17pm | report spam | close Reply |
incompatibility!!

IMHO, iTunes has only gone down hill since it was ported for the PC crowd. We've got adverts, bloating, incompatibility, etc.. How utterly Microsoft it all is.

It seems that iTunes 7 is the first revision that arbitrarily forces everyone around you to update! Once someone on your LAN moves to version 7 their share will no longer be usable to everyone else. This starts a domino effect. To see the share you have to update and now your share is no longer available. Why-o-why did they do this? What was wrong with iTunes 4.9 after all!?!

JEB
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09/22, 01:35am | report spam | close Reply |
Working great

Hey, now, ours is working Great�

Coverflow is sweeeet

Airport Express / sound is fine

farmboy
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09/25, 04:39pm | report spam | close Reply |
yet more incompatibility!

i'm making a wedding dvd with idvd 5 (which i purchased as on its own just before 6 came out - lame). anyway, i needed music for this dvd. i went to the music store - and i see i'm forced to move to itunes 7 just to buy music! then for the freaking load of frosting on this sheit cake - the music plays in itunes but idvd says i'm not authorized to play the music! are you kidding me, i'm not authorized to play the music i just bought in idvd?! what a freaking load!

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