Comments on: iTunes 7, bye-bye

By: themilkman

themilkman — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:44:23 +0000

Well, I didn’t have any problem with iTunes 7.whatever on my old laptop (PC) or on my old Mac (G3), but I have installed it on my new laptop (once again PC) and it doesn’t seem to work all that well. Trying to import albums seems almost impossible as it stops in the middle of a track, seem to hesitate forever before starting again, sometimes, or not. Some tracks only get half imported, and the program also seems to freeze the PC altogether while importing tracks. Unfortunately I don’t have iTunes 6 anymore, so I am going to try to uninstall the bugger and start again… iTunes’s always worked fine until now, let’s hope it doesn’t disappoint more than it is at the moment…

By: 11V

11V — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:21:48 +0000

Ouch, sorry to hear that Mita – I ended up having to reimport quite a lot because I’d lost a fortnight’s worth of updates to the v6 library. Whole thing was pretty disappointing given Apple’s previous good record. A sign of increasing popularity I guess and that they’re feeling the pressure from Microsoft’s Zune. I think for me it was a bit of a realisation about the lack of interfaces we have to our music now that the medium’s digital.

By: mita

mita — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:05:53 +0000

I hate this program more than anything. I had to downgrade back to 6 and ended up losing my library so I had to manually put everything back. It also made me lose all my playlists and other information.

By: mapsadaisical

mapsadaisical — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:37:40 +0000

[...] This long-awaited new reel of continuous noise arrived just in time for me to test out the new gapless playback whatsit on iTunes (it works for me, although seemingly not for him). While some of my listening has been done via this, volume turned up way past sensible, giving me the joy of trying to separate speaker crackle from window wobble from shouting neighbour (like I would have heard that!) from the sonic glories of the impressionistic masterpiece Harmony In Ultraviolet, the majority has been done using the iPod’s suddenly much more obtrusive gapful playback. [...]