• Disables older versions of some incompatible third-party plug-ins
• Addresses minor issues with dragging and dropping items
• Addresses a performance issue when first syncing to some devices with iTunes 9.2
• Addresses an issue upgrading to iOS 4 on an iPhone or iPod touch with encrypted back-ups
• Addresses other issues that improve stability and performance
iTunes 9.2 comes with several new features and improvements, including:
• Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go
• Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 and iBooks 1.1
• Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4
• Organize your apps on your iOS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes
• Faster back-ups while syncing an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4
• Album artwork improvements make artwork appear more quickly when exploring your library
Information on the security content of this update here.
iTunes 9.2.1 is available via Software Update and also from Apple’s website here.
Snappier.
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This was released yesterday afternoon. Why so late posting here?
‘Cause they weren’t Snappy enough!
This has made my iTunes so snappy, I can listen to an album in half the time!
Wait…
——RM
When I hold this update a certain way, it gets snappier!
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Does this fix the problem with the album art?
I have a feeling that a completely re-coded re-designed (64-bit) “cloud” -centric iTunes 10 is not too far off in the future.
Re-coded iTunes 10? I’d love that…but what I’d really love is an iTunes that doesn’t rely on rewriting a giant flat file database. I hate having to keep music separated on different machines just because iTunes turns glacial as the number of tracks increases…
@ OpJ
Well, the “giant flat file database” is for the library file, not the media files, obviously. It’s not like iTunes is trying to store all your media into one mega file. That would be horrendous.
As a work-around that does not require “different machines,” why don’t you just create more than one iTunes library in one user account, and switch between those libraries when you launch iTunes.
I have a music collection, a very large music collection, and I have a three story house. If I am in my living room and want to listen to Bill Evan’s Conversations with Myself I would like to pull out my iPhone, hit the remote app, and have the album stream to the Airport Express I have connected to my stereo. What I do not want to do is have to take a couple of flights of stairs up to my iMac, log out of won account, log into another account with jazz tracks, and then go back down a couple of flights of stairs back to my stereo.
No offense, ken1w, but that is f’ing retarded.
The present thing I have to do of having jazz tracks on an old G4, alternative on a G5 tower, some classical on one machine and some classical on another, but stuff I’ve downloaded from dimeadozen on a another machine, is equally retarded, but at least doesn’t involve me going from floor to floor just to get the right music on.
But it is either do all that crap and break my music up among different machines, or stare at a spinning beach ball every time I try to use iTunes.
@ OpJ
I don’t think you understand my suggestion. First, if iTunes bogs down when you have too many songs in your library, that is a problem. I’m not saying it’s not a problem.
But instead of keeping your various music types on different Macs, you can keep them all on one machine. If the problem that requires a work-around is too many songs in one iTunes library, you can create more than one iTunes library, even if it’s in the same user account on the same Mac.
When you hold down the Option key while launching iTunes, you get a dialog box that says “Choose iTunes Library.” From there, you can “Create Library” or “Choose Library.” So if you want to avoid having your music on different Macs, move all the media files to one Mac. Create a library file for each “grouping” on that one Mac, so that each library does not exceed the point were you notice the “spinning beach ball.” You can then go into each library as needed, to access the desired music.
Alternately, if it’s just music you want to share between Macs on the same local network, I think the “Sharing” feature in iTunes works well. You can then access any music on any of the Macs’ iTunes library from one Mac, under SHARED in the iTunes sidebar. Streaming videos is a bit iffy without a really fast connection, but audio files seem to work fine, even if the Mac doing the sharing is old.
@ ken1w
Thanks for the tip!
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