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And when, oh when will iTunes allow me to search library from within a playlist??? Here's how this could work: from a playlist,
1. Say, Ctrl+click into search box
Do a search, screen would split into a search results pane on top, current playlist on the bottom.
2. Drag the song you want to where you want it in the playlist.

I hate having to:
1. Click "Library"
2. Click the search box
3. Drag the song to the tiny playlist name entry in the left-hand pane.
4. Click on the playlist name
5. Drag the song to where I want it in the list.

This is something everyone does quite often. Making such a common procedure take 5 steps as opposed to 2 makes no sense at all. Hello, Apple!]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
this said, the best news today that nobody talks about are the Apple iPod Nano Tubes, latex condoms for your music!]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
Still waiting... waiting... waiting... ok, finally done, and now I gotta go and uninstall the stupid QuickTime tray icon again... (bad Apple!)

Ok, I like the look of iTunes 5 better already, but it is still a freakin' dog on Intel machines. They still haven't even figured out how to get scrolling and window resizing to work properly. Both of these things are totally smooth on a Mac and the whole thing just feels a lot faster. It's totally just iTunes; most other cross-platform apps I have feel faster on PC. And all iTunes is is a web browser; there's no reason just scrolling through the music store should be so choppy.

I forgave them this up to now, but come on Apple, you're on version 5 now and this is getting stupid. You just did a total redesign of the look and you're still not using DirectDraw?

I am glad they got rid of the brushed metal, that look was played out the day it was introduced. We can only hope this means the Mac OS is gonna ditch the brushed metal soon too.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
the next question is WHEN are they coming out with an iPod updater to fix the live updating firmware problem?]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
I want one, but I doubt I'll buy the complete audiobook set ($249) so I can buy it. An iPod nano will suit me just fine...but it is tempting. :)]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
Its in spanish for some reason, even if i have my OS in spanish doesn't mean i want my apps in spanish, stupid Apple]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
Installed it the second the Apple site was updated and there was no problems. When it says to close iTunes, it means to close iTunes, why are you closing the installer??? Just close iTunes at this point and hit 'ok' then open iTunes.

Now for everyone else, iTunes 5 is much better (not to mention long overdue), and more attractive and gives me no problems. If you are having problems on your Windblows machine maybe it's time you bought a Mac.

The Harry Potter move (which is what these comment are supposed to be on) is a good one. Exclusive content of the audiobooks is a big deal to a lot of people and will help sales (minus the torrents which 90% of the world doesn't understand, especially all the 11 yr olds who are going to be begging for this for Christmas!)

]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
now click the folder and the songs from all the playlists will be displayed for playing/editing. this made the download well worthwhile for me.

anyone know how these folders are shown on the nano/older ipods? nested or in a list? and i wonder if playlist folders can be played....
]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/ Users -> you-> Startup Items -> turn off iTunes Helper/SizzlingKeys/other iTunes things -> reboot and install. Turn your stuff back on when you're done.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
"Error 1920.service.bonjour.service(bonjour service) failed to start. Varify that your had sufficient privilages to start system services"

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WTF!?]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
"Error 1920.service.bonjour.service(bonjour service) failed to start. Varify that your had sufficient privilages to start system services"

I have 2 machines, one is XP Pro and the other is running XP Home. I am running as an administrator on both too.

Can anyone help?]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/stupid bonjour service!
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"Error 1920.service.bonjour.service(bonjour service) failed to start. Varify that your had sufficient privilages to start system services"
]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
I had the same problem regarding language. Solved it doing the following: go to control panel - Regional and language options. Then in the regional options tab set both the "location" and "standards and formats" to English/ United States. Then reinstall iTunes and it should be english.]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
You don't have to reinstall. The language will magically change, once you've changed the regional settings. But you will have to live with the English format. You can press customize, to set the formats individually, however. In my eyes an annoying bug, that you cannot choose the language directly in iTunes...]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
I had the same problem and ended up with no working iTunes at all, even when doing a system restore. As suggested on some obscure help page I was able to find in apple, I updated my windows XP, restarted, closed my virus protection and my VPS services (a vurtual network program I didn't know I had open)

iTunes 5 loaded fine then, though I am still having problems getting onto the music store. Not sure if it's a virus protection conflict or just amazingly slow.

As mentioned by some of the others, I found the changes cosmetic and very minor, I would stick with an older version and wait for the bugs to be worked out myself if I could go back.

Good luck!]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
Thanks!]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-harry-potter-ipod-and-itunes-5/
Anyone else not see the unintended pun?]]>Dec 19th 2005 1:05AM