Comments on: avoid iTunes 7 http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:58:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: giantmonster http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1786 giantmonster Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:31:40 +0000 http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1786 t - sorry to hear about all of those woes! you're not alone in the process though. i hope you got it all squared away. i am avoiding quicktime and itunes updates indefinitely and following the 'if it isn't broke, don't fix it' rule. having access to my iShuffle again using iTunes 6 is great. with iTunes 7, adding & deleting songs was a joke (not a funny one at that). anyway, hope it's all working. daniel - yeah, i know it sounds crazy, the loss of media files. but it does happen and is happening with iTunes 7. one thing i've noticed is that the media files that are purchased from the apple store (music, movies) are the ones that seem to become 'lost' or disappear first when iTunes 7 starts it's buggy road to breakdown. my guess is that with iTunes 7 heavily linked to the apple music store, it corrupts those files first. regardless of my guess as to why, the problem is happening with a lot of people. this has been reported by many sources, along with iTunes 7 just running incredibly slow and creating errors with iPodsand iShuffles. but if you haven't had any issues, that is great! you are lucky! thanks for the comments! t - sorry to hear about all of those woes! you’re not alone in the process though. i hope you got it all squared away. i am avoiding quicktime and itunes updates indefinitely and following the ‘if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it’ rule. having access to my iShuffle again using iTunes 6 is great. with iTunes 7, adding & deleting songs was a joke (not a funny one at that). anyway, hope it’s all working.

daniel - yeah, i know it sounds crazy, the loss of media files. but it does happen and is happening with iTunes 7. one thing i’ve noticed is that the media files that are purchased from the apple store (music, movies) are the ones that seem to become ‘lost’ or disappear first when iTunes 7 starts it’s buggy road to breakdown. my guess is that with iTunes 7 heavily linked to the apple music store, it corrupts those files first. regardless of my guess as to why, the problem is happening with a lot of people. this has been reported by many sources, along with iTunes 7 just running incredibly slow and creating errors with iPodsand iShuffles. but if you haven’t had any issues, that is great! you are lucky! thanks for the comments!

]]> By: Daniel http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1782 Daniel Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:26:04 +0000 http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1782 Buh? I have uninstalled iTunes on many a computer before and I never saw any loss of media files.. Yes, I am using the latest iTunes release. So. Omg. Wtf. M8. Buh? I have uninstalled iTunes on many a computer before and I never saw any loss of media files.. Yes, I am using the latest iTunes release. So. Omg. Wtf. M8.

]]> By: t http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1733 t Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:35:43 +0000 http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1733 same thing happened to me man. i had to delete iTunes 7, rename my previous iTunes music folder "iTunes 2", then reinstall 7 with the latest Quicktime and most other software updates to make sure i was up to date. then, it re-add my music from "iTunes 2" folder to the new install of 7. i had it set to copy all added files in the library to my new iTunes music folder. (then, i just deleted them from the iTunes 2 folder.) after all that, things worked great. i could drag & drop new files to the library. (which was my main problem previously. it kept freezing on me.) iPod connected & updated fine. the gathering of gapless playback info didn't stall out the app with the spinning beach ball of death. it is a buncha bullshit hurdle jumping ... but it worked. same thing happened to me man. i had to delete iTunes 7, rename my previous iTunes music folder “iTunes 2″, then reinstall 7 with the latest Quicktime and most other software updates to make sure i was up to date.
then, it re-add my music from “iTunes 2″ folder to the new install of 7. i had it set to copy all added files in the library to my new iTunes music folder.
(then, i just deleted them from the iTunes 2 folder.)
after all that, things worked great. i could drag & drop new files to the library. (which was my main problem previously. it kept freezing on me.) iPod connected & updated fine. the gathering of gapless playback info didn’t stall out the app with the spinning beach ball of death.
it is a buncha bullshit hurdle jumping … but it worked.

]]> By: jamie http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1687 jamie Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:39:01 +0000 http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1687 It amazes me that a product whose only purpose is to play music was brought to market before they figured out how to get rid of those annoying gaps between tracks. It completely destoys Jeff Wayne's WAR OF THE WORLDS. What have they got against "concept albums" at apple? It amazes me that a product whose only purpose is to play music was brought to market before they figured out how to get rid of those annoying gaps between tracks. It completely destoys Jeff Wayne’s WAR OF THE WORLDS.

What have they got against “concept albums” at apple?

]]> By: giantmonster http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1675 giantmonster Mon, 13 Nov 2006 03:49:57 +0000 http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1675 jamie - agreed! itunes adding space between tracks is a big pain. o'reilly network talks about <a rel="nofollow" title="oreillynet: iTunes and Gaps between songs" href="http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/4953" rel="nofollow">using the crossfade feature</a> to minimalize this added space. also, this space-adding is reportedly fixed in itunes 7 with <a rel="nofollow" title="docs.apple: What is Gapless Playback?" href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304362" rel="nofollow">'gapless playback.'</a> but, as itunes 7 doesn't work or play nice and upgrading to get the coveted gapless playback will only resort in more problems, i say wait or don't upgrade. the big differences from 4 to 6 were better 'shuffling' or randomizing of songs, improved search, 'party shuffle' feature (where you can see the next 5 to 20 upcoming songs and manage it as a real-time playlist), easier to create a podcast, and video playback and organization of videos & movie clips (.mp4, .mpg, .mpeg, & .mov only - no .avi). all in all, if it isn't broke - don't fix it! or rather, don't upgrade if what you have is working fine for you and working fine on your machine. all of the recent upgrades from itunes 4 on up were not really to improve music playback but rather to match products coming out from apple (ipods, apple music store, apple videos, podcasts, audiobooks). the music playback features are basically the same. if they built in a bulk id3 tag editor into the new version, that would be nice. but yeah, wait if what you have works. here are some sites that list the a few of the differences in iTunes versions: <a rel="nofollow" title="tuaw: iTunes: From 0 to 7.0" href="http://www.tuaw.com/2006/09/14/itunes-from-0-0-to-7-0/" rel="nofollow">the unofficial apple weblog</a> and <a rel="nofollow" title="beadesigngroup: iTunes 4 vs. iTunes 5" href="http://www.beadesigngroup.com/blog/archives/2005/09/itunes_4_vs_itunes_5_1.shtml" rel="nofollow">be a design group</a>. jamie - agreed! itunes adding space between tracks is a big pain. o’reilly network talks about using the crossfade feature to minimalize this added space. also, this space-adding is reportedly fixed in itunes 7 with ‘gapless playback.’ but, as itunes 7 doesn’t work or play nice and upgrading to get the coveted gapless playback will only resort in more problems, i say wait or don’t upgrade. the big differences from 4 to 6 were better ’shuffling’ or randomizing of songs, improved search, ‘party shuffle’ feature (where you can see the next 5 to 20 upcoming songs and manage it as a real-time playlist), easier to create a podcast, and video playback and organization of videos & movie clips (.mp4, .mpg, .mpeg, & .mov only - no .avi). all in all, if it isn’t broke - don’t fix it! or rather, don’t upgrade if what you have is working fine for you and working fine on your machine. all of the recent upgrades from itunes 4 on up were not really to improve music playback but rather to match products coming out from apple (ipods, apple music store, apple videos, podcasts, audiobooks). the music playback features are basically the same. if they built in a bulk id3 tag editor into the new version, that would be nice. but yeah, wait if what you have works. here are some sites that list the a few of the differences in iTunes versions: the unofficial apple weblog and be a design group.

]]> By: jamie http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1668 jamie Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:28:42 +0000 http://giantmonster.com/2006/11/11/avoid-itunes-7/#comment-1668 Me, i'm still on itunes 4... is there any reason to go UP to 6.0.5? If it doesn't add spaces between tracks that would be swell. Me, i’m still on itunes 4… is there any reason to go UP to 6.0.5? If it doesn’t add spaces between tracks that would be swell.

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