Apple quietly releases iTunes 7.0.1

In typical Apple fashion, they've just updated their jukebox app with hardly a hint of the changes, other than that it "addresses stability and performance issues with Cover Flow, CD importing, iPod syncing, and more." We suppose there's only one way to find out if iTunes 7.0.1 actually manages to fix all those problems that cropped up in the initial release, but if it's any consolation, we managed to install our very own copy without frying our machine or experiencing any of those formerly reported problems of Cover Flow kicking puppies.

[Thanks, Rob]

[JP @ Sep 27th 2006 6:07PM]

THANK GOD!!

[Moosegolfr @ Sep 27th 2006 6:11PM]

I never had a problem with iTunes 7, so I hope 7.0.1 is as good.

[Randale Watson @ Sep 27th 2006 6:39PM]

Itunes 6 and it's versions had their moments, but none were as bad as having itunes demand a minimum of 50% of my cpu power like this lemon did. It has crashed everyday at least twice since I got it. Earlier it just shut down my pc (Running a 3GHZ P4 PC with 1 GB of RAM.) So this update was much needed. Thats a PC guy. My MAC roomate loves it (as did I the first hour)and cover flow is cool, but damn... it was infested with all kinds of BUGS.

[supagold @ Sep 27th 2006 6:27PM]

My iTunes is still crashing after the update. We'll see if it can see my iPod when I get home...

[Waleed @ Sep 27th 2006 6:28PM]

SWEET! hopefully it works...

[Grant H @ Sep 27th 2006 6:32PM]

There is also an update for the iPod Nano (And possibly other versions of the iPod range)

firmware 1.0.2 change log? - Bug Fixes.

[customholle @ Sep 27th 2006 6:32PM]

its great, works with multi-plugin and everything.

[Daniel Downing @ Sep 27th 2006 6:34PM]

Quietly? What did you expect e-mail notification or perhaps a press release?

[Eden Dwek @ Sep 27th 2006 6:51PM]

For some reason there seems to be a black diagonal line acroos some of my artwork in the cover flow view. However this black line is not on the aartwork if u view it on any of the other views. Hope the sound on this version works properly.

[sogan3 @ Sep 27th 2006 7:04PM]

AAAGGGHHHH-I've downloaded the new itunes and it was working fine for about half an hour but now when i open another window or scroll up and down in itunes the music stutters. Don't get me wrong here the update is working far better than 7 ever worked for me but when are we going to be getting the finished product apple?

[ripismoney @ Sep 27th 2006 7:18PM]

This is the problem I had with iTunes 7.0.0, even though I had never had any problems with previous releases. I also had this problem when I first ran 7.0.1, but after exiting out of frustration, I later started iTunes again, and haven't had any problems since... After a few days we should be able to tell whether this version was ready for release or not.

I should have never fallen for all the initial iTunes 7 release hype... There wasn't anything wrong with iTunes 6, but the prospect of self-downloading album art lured me in.

[Gardner Greenway @ Sep 27th 2006 8:40PM]

Some of the stuttering may actually be due to the computer itself trying to process too much, not iTunes. What else is running at the time? How much RAM? CPU power?

[Christian James @ Sep 27th 2006 7:10PM]

My biggest complaint is that my iTunes movies come out choppy during fast action scenes. Well not really choppy, but there is a definite horizontal break line in the middle of the screen in the shape of a "z". I know it's probably because my 20" widescreen monitor is too big for my video card, but I would think my brand new Core 2 Duo 6600 system w 3GB RAM, and a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE 256 would be able to keep up??? All other media formats like divx and xvid work great, just not iTunes movies at full screen. Any1 got any suggestions on how to improve their playback? besides getting a newer video card (not really cost effective just to play iTunes movies)...

thanks,
Chris
http://ChristianJamesPhoto.com

[Sam @ Sep 27th 2006 7:13PM]

Seems to have fixed the problems I was having (major audio static). Hurray, now I can stop using windows media player.

[Mark from MT @ Sep 27th 2006 7:22PM]

Now let them fix the massive podcast problem that came from iPod 1.2 Do they even test these updates in-house?

[weaszel @ Sep 27th 2006 7:23PM]

Ugh, I was hoping this would fix my choppy audio problems but all it did was trade them for something more annoying... When I hit the Next or Previous play control buttons, it waits about half a second before playing the next or previous track.

[- @ Sep 27th 2006 7:25PM]

Alrighty, 25.7MB download for 7.01... downloading it now. I'll know right away whether 7.0.1 fixes the "music next door" sound I get on some songs.

...less than a minutes left on the dl.

...time for a joke. A pirate walks into a bar with a ships wheel sticking out of his pants. He says, "Arrr barkeep, I'd like a glass of rum." Bartender says "Sure, I'll get your rum, but tell me why you have a wheel in your pants?" Pirate says, "Arrr, it's driving me nuts!"

Damnit, I have to reboot...

Playing some songs.... sounds nice and loud... playing Prince... hey, sounds good. Problem fixed. :)

[Tom @ Sep 27th 2006 7:31PM]

it still sux

[Billy @ Sep 27th 2006 7:34PM]

Argh... 7.0 was working fine for me, no problems, but I figured "what the hell", now I have major stuttering problems with 7.01... WinXP, AMD 3200+, 1.5GB RAM - this computer is not high end by today's standards but it's still plenty fast, this computer should not be having problems. Only happens when iTunes is in the background, and I'm doing something else like opening firefox or even just loading a web page, but that's pretty much all the time :(

[Molly C @ Sep 27th 2006 7:34PM]

Apple eschewed a beta release by shipping iTunes 7.0 *as* the beta. LOL Too bad it made them look incompetent in the process.

[Craig @ Sep 27th 2006 7:39PM]

well, apple didn't fix the problem i've been complaining about. you still can't drag-and-drop music from windows to the iPod. you have to drag music to the library first, then drag it to the iPod. also, i drag-and-dropped album art directly into the iPod, and that didn't work either. how much you wanna bet that when I hook my iPod up to my work computer it will still say that the iPod is in "recovery mode" and needs to be restored?

i've been looking forward to this update since i upgraded to iTunes 7, but it looks like i'll have to keep waiting...

[Thataboy @ Sep 27th 2006 7:44PM]

Uh, that's not a bug/problem -- that's the iTunes/iPod paradigm. The iPod is the full or partial portable collection of your music LIBRARY. It is not a simple hard disk you can drag your pirated music onto.

[Lane @ Sep 28th 2006 7:46AM]

What the other guy said. iTunes has never worked that way and was never intended to.

[Craig @ Sep 27th 2006 7:54PM]

@ Thataboy

no, you're wrong. the way i have always used my iPod is to select the iPod in iTunes (so the music on the iPod is showing), then just drag and drop albums (which i keep in individual folders in Windows) onto that list of music. then the music just goes directly onto the iPod without ever going into the iTunes library. try doing this; you'll see it act like it's working, but the music never shows up.

this worked in iTunes 6, but it doesn't work in iTunes 7. if anyone is able to confirm that they do or do not have this bug, please let me know.

[o rly @ Sep 27th 2006 7:53PM]

I wonder why people were so surprised that iTunes 7.0 was filled with bugs; I mean this is Apple, the same company that makes the craptastic iPod, so it only makes sense to have crappy software to go along with it.

[shon @ Sep 27th 2006 7:59PM]

well im sure a 70% marketshare really explains the crap you're talking about..

[kansei @ Sep 27th 2006 7:54PM]

things I'm hoping are fixed:

1. crazy static if the volume is anywhere below 100% - just on my desktop (pc), not my thinkpad.
2. not raising to the foreground when un-minimized from being in toolbar mode (on any pc I've tried)
3. crazy high memory/cpu usage
4. inability to stream any apple lossless music to my airport express, or play it from another computer that can see the shared music through bonjour.
5. not syncing with my ipod mini.. I had to kill ipodservice and reinstall the service, then restart the computer, and it would connect to my ipod, say that it was already updated, and disconnect.. undock, redock, and it doesn't detect again. rinse and repeat. I am totally unable to update the music on my ipod!! argh argh.

[kansei @ Sep 27th 2006 10:15PM]

1. Crazy static seems to be fixed on my desktop.. I haven't actually gone up to test it, but I did test it through windows Remote Desktop Connection and it was fine. It's also fine on my laptop.
2. Still doesn't come to the foreground.. argh argh
3. crazy high memory/cpu usage

[shon @ Sep 27th 2006 7:55PM]

it fixed my problem with converting my mac ipod to pc format.

[Iain @ Sep 27th 2006 7:58PM]

It's like this.
http://www.oldapps.com/itunes.htm

Apple I want a slim simple player for music and podcasts. Nothing more. I can guaruntee I am not the only one.

[o rly @ Sep 28th 2006 3:43AM]

Microsoft Windows has what, 94+% of the home PC market? So what's your point about a measly 70%? Market share means little to you fanboys when it doesn't benefit your meek argument but is extremely important when it may help your point (it doesn't in this case, it actually does the opposite); and your current iPod & iTunes will continue to be crap regardless of this great market share you speak of.

[Iain @ Sep 27th 2006 8:02PM]

"shon"

This is the fisrt itunes with such a buggy release.
70% who gives a shit

[tcc3 @ Sep 27th 2006 8:02PM]

I thought Apple products "just worked" ? (snorts derisively)

[Taylor @ Sep 27th 2006 8:03PM]

Yeah, i still have the minor bug where, if album flow is on, and itunes is open but beneath another window, the cover art (by itself) wants to show up over my current application when the song changes. Clicking somewhere fixes it, but it's still lame...
-Taylor

[Cody S. @ Sep 27th 2006 8:06PM]

Still doesn't fix my quicktime registry issue. I can't install. I know others have this issue so It isn't isolated. Get your shit together Apple.

[Iain @ Sep 27th 2006 8:07PM]

I need a new player

[telepheedian @ Sep 27th 2006 8:23PM]

My intelmac-running friend and my pc-running self have had no problems with iTunes 7.

[Gardner Greenway @ Sep 27th 2006 8:40PM]

I fell so left out, I never had problems with iTunes 7...not with coverflow, nor with my iPods. We sure some of the problems aren't caused by third party software and windows itself?

[Seals @ Sep 27th 2006 8:56PM]

still takes hours to sync my 5G ipod...v6 would sync in a minute or two.

[Dan Welygan @ Sep 27th 2006 9:18PM]

What's up with the automatic update feature on windows? I would have thought that might allow for this upgrade to take place without having to download the whole app all over again - guess not.

[Sam @ Sep 27th 2006 9:25PM]

Nevermind, it didn't fix my audio problem, now it hickups when I scroll in firefox (wtf?)

[JR @ Sep 27th 2006 9:34PM]

6.0 ran pretty solid, though it was a but of a RAM-hog. The "flair factor" of the album art got me to upgrade...but now the album art no longer shows up on my ipod (even w. that option checked) and transferring songs onto my (old school) shuffle w. the 128kbs mode enabled takes EONS! maybe winamp wasn't so bad after all ;-)

[Peter Clark @ Sep 27th 2006 9:43PM]

Wow... my Nano still doesn't work right with iTunes 7.0.1... I don't believe it.

[Tyler @ Sep 27th 2006 9:50PM]

is iTunes 7.0.77 different than 7.0.1? so far i dont have any problems with my iTunes...i may wait until another relase comes out...

[Tyler @ Sep 27th 2006 10:25PM]

Well i decided to repost to my old comment...i took the dive and installed 7.0.1 and the darn thing wont close...it just kepps on playing songs and crud...the infamous CTRL ALT DEL Keys had to be used...*sigh*

[Dustin @ Sep 27th 2006 9:56PM]

I don't know what's the deal with this update, but trying to install it on both my pc and mac failed. My mac tells me to quit itunes during the install and nothing happens when I click ok, my PC keeps looking for a network resource that is unavailable.

[Jason @ Sep 27th 2006 10:06PM]

I have iTunes, but I don't use it at all. I'll stick with winamp and windows media player until I can finally afford a Mac. Besides, I never really could associate too well with iTunes, it's not the greatest media player in the world.

[Rich M @ Sep 27th 2006 10:09PM]

With the new update it wanted to update one of my podcasts (diggnation) with an episode from 2005... even after I unsubscribed and resubscribed. It started up completely black until I clicked around. And the downloading bar is messed up too. 4 shows downloading on sidebar, only 2 shows in the actual download window.

iTunes 7 is still a sick bug ridden puppy.

[Nick @ Sep 28th 2006 12:44AM]

iTunes 7.0.1 keeps crashing on my older Mac (900 MHZ G3 Running Tiger). I didn't really want an online media superstore, just a place where I could buy some songs and play my music with software that "just works." Am I the only one that wants that?

[keith waddington @ Sep 28th 2006 12:44AM]

99.9% of these problems are coming from Windows users.

Now put 1 and 1 together and you get your answer.

waddo
http://www.waddo.net/