iTunes 7, the buggiest software ever released by Apple.
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My first impressions of iTunes 7 are great. Getting deeper into it I have to say that it is the buggiest piece of software ever to be released by Apple. Though I have not experienced as bad of problems as some other users have, like loosing all of your purchased music, have an iPod never successfully upgrading firmware, etc. I have found many flaws with the new release.
The main thing to me is this new view in iTunes 7 called album view. In which a user can graphically scroll through album art to the chosen album and find your music. It is very sleek and sexy. The problem I encountered was that if you have a soundtrack that has multiple artists songs in the album, you get the same album over and over in they view only because iTunes recognizes that they have different artists. Come on APPLE! It is one album, I’m sorting by albums, SHOW ME THE ONE ALBUM. NOT 11 OF THE SAME STINKING ALBUM!
Now that I got that out of they way, gapless playback. I love this idea for gapless playback, its great to listen to songs with no gap and get the real feel the artist was going for.
I have also noticed, with other users, that when you login or off MSN, or you lose your internet connection, you music playing in the background suddenly stops, and a minute later resumes.
My last nudge with the release is when I play videos. When I play my TV shows (The Office for example) in a small window on my desktop, I lag out. The video is all stuttery and slow and the refresh rates are horrible. When I change over to full screen all is well. This has never happened before, why start now?
UPDATE: After reading some other bloggers post about there experiences (problems) with iTunes 7, I have come to realize that iTunes is using more memmory then it did in version 6. In version six I got about 20,000 K - 40,000 K Memm Usage, and now I get 144,000 K Memm Usage.
Here are some links to other bloggers issues.
-iTunes Memmory Hog
-Huge Problems with iTunes 7
-iTunes 7 Bug Discovery
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September 14th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
Hello…you do realize that if you do not want a billion album covers, all you have to do is set a single Album artist. Apple has solved the “situation” you dare to call a bug. As for the video resizing, I have always had that problem, so perhaps we share something in common. But Apple is smart enough to create a way to make all of your album pictures with multiple artists magically become one. Also note because all of the music you purchase from iTunes does not have the same problem that you do.
September 15th, 2006 at 12:03 am
You can keep your multiple artists if you set the compilation flag on all the tracks it will put them back together as a single album.
On the bug front. Yeah, problems. run 2 quicktime streams at the same time and the audio becomes horrible. Mouse scroll wheel does not work. Sycing with ipod is inconsistent, sometimes it starts sometimes it doesn’t see the ipod is plugged in and I need to try again. Trying to get itunes to do 2 things at once can cause freezes (like searching for album art and trying to play a movie at the same time and trying to do things like stop or fast forward the movie while this is all going on). It’s all very wonky.