“Users on Apple’s web forums and our own tipsters are reporting that some new nanos aren’t being recognized in Windows iTunes 7, music being played through iTunes 7 sounds ‘scratchy’ at times, CoverFlip doesn’t always entirely download properly, and there are allegations that iTunes 7 has become, slow, bloated, and a resource hog. Some of us here at Engadget who have installed iTunes 7 haven’t noticed any bad playback or other slowdowns,” Cyrus Farivar reports for Engadget.
Full article here.
“Although Apple has yet to respond to these claims, its record in fixing iTunes problems has hitherto been very good,” Simon Aughton reports for PC Pro.
Aughton reports, “One issue that is has addressed is that of Mac users who have found that they can no longer stream music via AirPort and AirPort Express. Apple explains that the problem occurs where IPv6 networking, which is on by default, has been disabled. AirPort is restored once IPv6 is re-enabled via the Network System Preferences.”
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Apple debuts iTunes 7 – September 12, 2006
no problems on my 1999 g4 or my MacBook Pro
One thing I disoovered is that if you select multiple songs and then try to drag album cover art into the “Drag album cover art” box in the lower left hand cover it doesn’t import the art like it used to do in previous versions. You have to “get info” on all of the selected songs and drag the art to the little box in THAT dialog to get it to work.
sabotaged the windows version? lol
One thing I don’t like about the iTunes version of CoverFlow (not “CoverFlip” as the article calls it) is that you can’t drag images right onto the album representation in the CoverFlow window. That was so much easier in the standalone CoverFlow app. I also wish you could import images from the original app into iTunes–would save me a lot of time with albums that iTunes doesn’t have. I believe CoverFlow originally searched for images on Amazon, which has a much wider selection.
No problems here. Streaming through Airport Express fine.
What is CoverFlip? Do they mean CoverFlow?
Does anyone else notice that watching a movie on a portable drains the battery?
It takes forever to load my library now. And it hasn’t found album covers yet for a lot of things…..
I’m hoping once it finishes the Gapless scan, it will be speedier.
7.0 takes 2 mins to launch on my pc. Before, there was no problem.
I can’t find the new Search Feature on my nano and I have the latest software. 1.2 Does anyone know anything about this?
No problems at all on 3 Macs here. Can’t speak for the Winblows version though…
I’ve noticed considerable hesitation on my Mac mini running Tiger…. It’s somewhat annoying, actually…
It’s actually a big speed improvement for me. Better look, and the cover art thing is cool. Store loads quicker too.
But I do get a weird doubling sometimes when using shared library from my other mac. I’m sure it’ll be fixed on the next update.
The problems I am experiencing are:
A change in volume during playback, and
I was playing a song today and added the cover art and the song immediately lost its good sound and became tinny, sort of mono sounding. Very strange.
I also noticed this has happened to a few other songs as well. They seem to have lost their soul.
7.0 feels pretty bloated to me. It hasn’t found a lot of artwork that I expected it to find (though that doesn’t kill me). AirTunes has been spotty, but it’s always been kind of spotty for me (I wish Apple would release an AirportExpress with a 1 or 2GB flash drive, so it can have a nice big buffer, like the iPod.
HOwever, almost all of my complaints are nullified by the fact that it does gapless playback. That’s awesome.
DO NOT INSTALL IT YET, is my advice.
It has been a sputtering dog on both my DP G4 1.25 ghz PowerMac and 1.0 ghz G4 laptop, both running 10.4.7. I have 4000 songs and some video clips in the desktop. The laptop only has about 30 songs in it.
– The interface moves VERY slow and the screens do not draw correctly. It crashed repeatedly until I un-checked the “remember view setting for each source” in the general preferences.
– CoverFlow looks great but it tends to stick as I try and scroll through the cover art.
– Adding artwork to multiple albums does not work like it did in previous iTunes. I need to do it to each song individually.
– I can no longer crop the cover art image like previous versions. I went to Amazon to get cover art, but now it has a white border around them and I cannot crop the image to get rid of it.
Expect an update from Apple very soon.
No issues here at all. The CoverFlow feature is a resource hog (I got it up to about 731MB of active memory, which is more than a lot of people have in the first place), but I have 2GB of RAM so it’s clearly a non-issue for me. All of the memory is promptly released once you switch back to a normal view.
I’m predicting an iTunes 7.1 here in the next few days. That should fix a lot of the problems.
It isn’t what it should be on current Apple hardware. Cover Artwork does not load as readily as it should. Maybe it’s because I have a large library.
Mine seems to be working fine, from Alan Jackson to Wolfmother, on my iMac Core Duo w/1.5 megs RAM. Not all the album art has loaded, but the speed seems okay. I have the last two episodes of “Weeds” to watch, as I haven’t checked the video side out yet. My two pesos worth.
feels every bit as fast as 6 did on my intel mac mini – and just a HAIR slower on my girlfriend’s pentium 4 2.4ghz laptop. for some reason, cover flow won’t work on her laptop. it just says her computer can’t do it. it might be the lousy built-in sis graphics. other than that, we had no problems upgrading her ipod or itunes.
mw is great – the improvements in the 1.2 firmware are great, to say the least =)
I experienced the “scratchy” sound problems on my MacBook Pro. I restarted the app then it worked fine. It could be the new version of Quicktime?
Also noticed lip sync drifted out of sync off on the Pirates movies I downloaded. Paused the movie and when I started playing again, it was all synced up fine. Minor glitch.
To avoid the same cover art being shown multiple times in the Cover Flow view, (happens for something like a soundtrack with multiple artists), select them all and turn Compilations on. Then only one cover will show. Nice.
Yes, expect minor update in a few days.
“One thing I disoovered is that if you select multiple songs and then try to drag album cover art into the “Drag album cover art” box in the lower left hand cover it doesn’t import the art like it used to do in previous versions. You have to “get info” on all of the selected songs and drag the art to the little box in THAT dialog to get it to work.”
Yes, I noticed the same thing.
I’ve also had other problems:
1. Scratchy music (somewhat resolved by changing EQ settings)
2. Gapless playback is gapless, but appears to change the volume or some other sound as it shifts from one song to another. Gapless, but not seamless
3. Yep, it’s a resource hog.
Hoping for a bug-fixed, streamlined download soon!
Have not noticed much negative difference on Dual G5, but Dual G4 reveals a noticeable slowdown – not horrible, but noticeable. When scrolling on the G4 the graphics get weird, and Video Trailers and Previews will not show on the G4, I can hear the audio, but no video.
I really like the looks of iTunes 7, but I have to agree that it feels bloated. Oh, and still no choices when it comes to iTunes audio meters – What’s up with that?
Oh yeah: I’ve got a new MacBook with 1GB RAM and a PowerBook G4, also w/ 1GB. Coverflow is pretty slow, and really should work better on the brand new MacBook. Dare I try on the Powerbook?
Love Coverflow – but it crashed my Powermac Quad at work today. Had to restart using the power button.
From: Nick Holla
Sep 14, 06 – 11:48 am
Does anyone else notice that watching a movie on a portable drains the battery?
No shit, retard
mdn word: per, as in per haps you should get a clue.