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Apple releases iTunes 7.0.2

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 · 5:15 pm · 32 Comments

Apple today released iTunes 7.0.2 which adds support for the Second Generation iPod shuffle and addresses a variety of stability and performance issues found in iTunes 7 and 7.0.1.

System Requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later
• Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4 or later)
• Windows XP (latest Service Pack recommended)

More info and download link (25.5MB for the Mac version, 35.1MB for the Windows version) here.

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andy

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 6:33 pm · Reply

WOW! cover flow works and i mean actually REALLY works!!!!
JR

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 6:35 pm · Reply

Hopefully the Product RED nano will show up properly within iTunes now as well.
iTunes 7.0.3

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 6:44 pm · Reply

Andy, what do you mean it works? Have you noticed an increase in performance, or is it doing something else that I’m not seeing? Doesn’t seem different for me. Just curious.
whatever

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 6:46 pm · Reply

Never had a problem with my Product(RED) Nano – and yes Coverflow works great now..
pog

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 6:47 pm · Reply

He means that the artwork actually appears on all the albums when you scroll fast now. It doesn’t show empty albums that suddenly fill in their art on screen. I.e. it works as it is supposed to now!
andy

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 6:50 pm · Reply

“He means that the artwork actually appears on all the albums when you scroll fast now. It doesn’t show empty albums that suddenly fill in their art on screen. I.e. it works as it is supposed to now!”

sure do mean that, “scrolls like butter” lol
cjt

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 6:52 pm · Reply

v7.0 was one of the buggiest pieces of software I’ve seen from Apple in a long time.

this version, so far so good…., library loads faster (no loading library status bar), cover flow significantly snappier, better scrolling through the list cover flow. lets see how it handles podcasts.

my recommendation to Apple – call a beta a beta.
ron

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:17 pm · Reply

Anyone know how to get rid of album covers which are not correct?

I had an app. which put one album cover picture (all the same) on every tune which was blank, I can put the correct one in the area to the bottom left of the iTune window but the other one is there also …AAAARRRGGGHHHHH!
ndelc

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:25 pm · Reply

This update actually lost some of my album artwork. Weird.
itunes 7.0.3

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:27 pm · Reply

Guess your right, coverflow does seem snappier now that you mention it. Apple caught such heat from 7.0. I’m glad to see them responding with updates relatively quickly. I never really had any issues itwh it in the first place, but any additional speed boost is welcome! But the Zune is going to squirt the iPod off the map. jk,
Jim - the independent voter

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:28 pm · Reply

Ron… go to the song, GET INFO, select the ARTWORK tab, click on the artwork you don’t want and delete it.

also to CJT… the buggiest piece of software IMHO from apple recently was iweb 1.0. Flat out didn’t work. Period.
Jim - the independent voter

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:29 pm · Reply

should have read..

“go the the song in itunes, click on it once, get info… yadayadayada”
maclover

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:34 pm · Reply

hey cjt,

Give Apple a break, if you want to be safe, never use x.0 software in the first place, Apple software is usually 98% functional the first time (maybe 90% for Aperture) so that is far beyond Beta status. Problems also come out when software is mass distributed, so their 2 updates in like 3 months is very good work in my opinion.
Randian

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 7:40 pm · Reply

Hey, cjt . . .

You want to see REAL buggy software? Take a look at Internet Explorer 7.0, not to mention Windows XP and all of its “Service Packs”!

Here we go again: The “holier than thou” experts that just can’t tolerate anything less than pure perfection–on the first try–from vendors they support. Well, smartasses, I can tell that you’ve never developed, written, tested, released, supported, and then upgraded a major piece of software in your lives. If you HAD, you’d be a lot more sympathetic and realistic in your appraisal of others’ shortcomings.

On the whole, Apple responds quickly and well to its missteps, especially considered that they are supporting two OS’s with each release of iTunes and its counterparts. But then again, that fact doesn’t make you feel better about yourselves, does it? There’s nothing so ego-building as slamming down one’s superiors.
cjt

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:12 pm · Reply

Randian: uh, actually I’m a product manager. have been responsible for more than a handful of large product releases. while I agree that Apple has a high standard (one of the many things that made me switch), v7 didn’t meet it. when releasing software that has millions of users like iTunes, I’d like to see them keep their high standard. at the end of the day, I think iTunes is one of the products that is winning over Windows users. lets keep the momentum going and keep the bar high.

re IE 7 an XP: I use both every day at work. if I could punt both out my office window, I would. that said, compared to NT 4, and other older MS OS’s, I think XP stands up pretty well. so does does IE 7. do either compare to OS X and Safari or Firefox? no way. but being ‘good enough’ is the problem. for many people these products are ‘good enough’ to not make them switch. Apple has managed to raise the bar – and the message is getting through. now they need to keep it there…, especially for products that are dual OS.
SJR

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:14 pm · Reply

I believe he meant that the Product RED nano showed up as a silver nano in iTunes 7.0.1. It properly shows up as a red one now.
me2

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 8:54 pm · Reply

i wonder if this break DVD Jon hack?
ron

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 9:56 pm · Reply

Jim – the independent voter

Thanks Jim, that deletes the pic in the bottom left, but not in the coverflow. Any ideas?
LordRobin

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 10:18 pm · Reply

ron: Make sure you’ve deleted the artwork from each and every track on the album (you can edit them all at once). Once you’ve done that, the bad artwork should go away from CoverFlow.
ken1w

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 - 11:18 pm · Reply

My iMac is old. Old enough so that the “browse album covers” feature is disabled. However, I have to say that performance has been noticeably improved. Such things would be most obvious on the oldest hardware.