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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WOW! cover flow works and i mean actually REALLY works!!!!
Hopefully the Product RED nano will show up properly within iTunes now as well.
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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.
Never had a problem with my Product(RED) Nano – and yes Coverflow works great now..
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!
“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”
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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.
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!
This update actually lost some of my album artwork. Weird.
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,
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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.
should have read..
“go the the song in itunes, click on it once, get info… yadayadayada”
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.
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.
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.
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.
i wonder if this break DVD Jon hack?
Jim – the independent voter
Thanks Jim, that deletes the pic in the bottom left, but not in the coverflow. Any ideas?
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.
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.
I think the album art looks less sharp…maybe lower rez. Maybe this is how they solved the speed problem. Or maybe it’s just me.
So, everything on mine seems normal, but the iTunes Store is in a different language. And it no longer has movies or tv shows. what the hell?
yea Hmm… it’s true! I also got shot over to the German iTunes Store. No idea why. At least it’s easy to change back . . . but why such a change?
And CoverFlow does seem to work a little faster now, displaying art instead of the generic musical notes when “flowing” fast.
How do you change it back? I have the German store, too… what the hell?
Single processor Mac’s need not apply iTunes 7
Trust me, I’m crawling over here with my large iTunes library on my G5 iMac.
My keyboard isn’t even the least bit dirty yet, the mighty mouse scroll pea still works like it was brand new.
Bloat, bloat bloat. Apple want’s us all on Intel chips fast to implement Trusted Computing so the iTunes store can sell more movies.