Apple quietly releases iTunes 7.0.1
By Paul Miller 
posted September 27th 2006 6:02PM
posted September 27th 2006 6:02PM
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]
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.
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.
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?
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/
A purely unscientific observation, but it seems a lot of the larger problems with iTunes 7 have been on Windows machines.
I see some minor annoyances and areas for improvement with iT7 on my iBook but no show stoppers. I think it's still a fine upgrade.
Perhaps Apple has yet to fully grasp how to dumb themselves down enough to create software for Windows? :)
mac users can't even admit apple has a problem when it releases a shoddy version of a program that was working perfectly fine in previous versions. god, i hate pious apple geeks.
btw, you can give it up because no amount of stability or security can make up for the fact that i can't do half of what i do in windows on a mac
hey craig,
why don't you tell us all the great stuff you can do on your windows machine.
hey, better still, put a link to your web site so we can all enjoy the great stuff you can do.
waddo
http://www.waddo.net/
"hey, better still, put a link to your web site so we can all enjoy the great stuff you can do."
Yes, he should, so we can compare it to your great site, that looks like it was created on an overclocked Lisa (with the 5mb external of course.)
"99.9% of these problems are coming from Windows users. Now put 1 and 1 together and you get your answer."
I did and your scientific facts are unproven (and will remain so) and your "made on a Mac" site is garbage.
Yup -- stutters with v7.0.1 all right. However -- just as problematic for me -- when the new version imported all my audiobooks (and there is a slew), it put them in the music category. Only audiobooks purchased from iTunes store appear in the audiobooks category. Nice. According to posts on iTunes discussions, you must rename the imported files from .m4a to .m4b...and then go through some rigamarole so that iTunes can fine the files again. Why bother applying a genre setting to the files in the first place?
oh.. they fixed the bug where you couldn't add custom art to more than one item at a time. that was a grossly incompetent bug. Now to go back through all my albums and see which ones it messed up.
I'm a WINDOWS USER.
I have a few friends that prefer Macs to PCs, and that's fine. For the purposes they use their comps for, I agree that they should.
However, I'm not the most computer literate person out there, but I've always admired what Apple's itunes worked. I went out and bought myself an AMD 64 3400, 2 G RAM, 300 G HD. My first program downloaded itunes 6, for one of my sole purposes of my comp purchase was to better organize my 1800 CD collection. It took a while, but I've imported my entire library into it. It's been running like a dream, and I think it may have crashed twice since I've run it. I've even organized every song with the proper track #, album title, genre and album art (I'm a Virgo - I can't help it).
IT'S BEEN INCREDIBLE - I HAVE REFERRED COUNTLESS OTHER "PC USERS" TO FOLLOW SUIT.
Now the funny part: Anyone that's had their itunes updated to the new Ver.7 has been VERY UNHAPPY. The worst thing about it all is that there doesn't seem to be a way of getting back to Ver.6, and they're P.O.'d with the way it's running.
I'm VERY FORTUNATE that I never agreed to update from my now cherished itunes6, and am very pleased with everything it's provided me with.
NOTE: I have itunes running almost ALL the time. If my PC is on, then itunes is most likely running. I have Windows XP Media Centre as my O.S., and I've been checking out various blogs to convince myself to upgrade to Ver.7.
I HAVE NOT FOUND ANY INFO TO CONVINCE ME THAT I SHOULD UPGRADE YET.
So, to all you MAC users: I agree that your O.S. is better than what we use, but my itunes has been running FANTASTICALLY, so offer up some other excuse to why Apple's itunes 7 is acting wonky with whomever has used it. Maybe Apple has realized how many users have chosen itunes as their music library organizer (ipod sales have helped this to happen), that now they've tried to monopolize the music library market by adding all these "new gadgets" so that you'll be prompted to download from them exclusively.
I'm just a 'dumb PC user', so if you have any answers, PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME.
1.
I did't want to install iTunes 7.0 because I feared bedbugs that would bite me....so I trolled a few forums and waited for reaction. (I was right......killer bedbugs, so I still use v.6)
2.
I wanted the new Nano, but with the problems with iTunes, I waited and found out people had problems (Here Apple LOST a customer, which is very baaad for them)...
3.
I saw the new iTunes update, but AGAIN I waited.....(AND I was right again, phu....)
Here Apple has made three mistakes, resulting in loosing a customer. I guess I'm NOT the only one. It's a shame for Apple, but they SHOULD now better.
BTW: I'm using www.mediamonkey.com now and after some initial gripes, I am starting to find it much better then iTunes......(But it does not look half as good on your screen, but what does that matter if it "just works"..... ;)
I don't understand why is there so many fanboys... It would be different if you ownded the company but since most of you don't (owning stock is not owning a company.) Admit it, Apple launched some bugged out software just like any other company would do so... Last I knew we still don't live in a perfect world and Apple, Microsoft or your moms isn't either(Most of you were probably a mistake.)
As for for me I think I'm going to stick to version 6 since its not a power hungry app.
From my testing, all of the artwork problems have been fixed. Downloaded artwork is also embedded in the file, and dropping artwork on the panel in the lower left adds it to all the tracks on the album.
No problems at all for me with iTunes 7, other than CoverFlow running too slow to really be useful (I blame my graphics card; this is a 3D application).
Just dl'd 7.01; no difference at all for me in anything.
yes, it does work that way. please read my other post. i was able to do it in itunes 6 (and prior), but it doesn't work in itunes 7. it acts like it's working, but it doesn't. definitely a bug.
I have an AMD 3500 and 2GB RAM in my pc. I don't think it should be experiencing any problems really. I loaded up firefox and the trouble started.
the problems i heard about on macs are with older slower models like g3 ibooks etc. I have a g5 tower and never had a single problem. it uses between 5 and 9 % processor power.
Let's face it, this is exactly why Macs run better than PCs: Apple know what hardware their software will be dealing with, and so do third party companies.
Feel free to argue ad nauseam . . .
waddo
http://www.waddo.net/
Let's face it, keith waddington is an idiotic fanboy who trys to post his opinions as facts yet never backs them up (use this thread as an example)...and his website looks like crap.
maybe one day it wont crash every hour in vista RC1
Hard to believe, but this update has made things much worse.
Artwork, the little blue "playing" symbol in the number column and the track playing information window in the top bezel all now remain fixed on the first track played.
Also, the response-to-command time lag is more pronounced, and hence more irritating.
What a complete b@*%s up!
20" iMac Early 2006 (2 GHz Intel Core Duo) Mac OS X (10.4.7)
Oh yeah, I'm running Vista RC1 so I don't really have too much room to complain about visual bugs. But the podcasting getting all fuxored?? That's an Apple/Stevie J problem I'd think. Hope this "patch" gets patched ASAP.
"Apple eschewed a beta release by shipping iTunes 7.0 *as* the beta. LOL Too bad it made them look incompetent in the process."
And that comment makes YOU look incompetent. Nothing is perfect, and the Internet has a way of taking remote issues and amplifying them so as to seem widespread. See complaints about the PS2.
I installed 7.0.1 last night. Today I came home from work to a BSOD. I hope this just some kinda coincidence.
I can't seem to install iTunes 7.0.1 on my computer. It says that there's a problem with Quicktime and it requires Quicktime to run iTunes. I've uninstalled Quicktime so that the iTunes 7.0.1 setup file will install both Quicktime and the newer version of iTunes. But it doesn't work! Why the hell do I always have this problem!? I had it with iTunes 6.5! If anyone could shine some light on the subject it would be very much appreciated.
And it sucketh mightily.
It looks like Apple has picked up a bunch of laid-off Microsoft Millenium Edition programmers for this kludge of an 'upgrade.'
Strips album art from older ipods, and skips all the time in the Windows environment, regardless of the quality of the tracks.
Can't listen to music in iTunes on my Windows system anymore.
Thanks, Apple. And I was just getting ready to replace my PC's with MACs.
H.
harold:
everything you wrote suggests you SHOULD replace them!
Apple fanboy comments not required:)
waddo
I have the bug in iTunes whereby I have to leave the sound volume at 100% or I get static in the left speaker. This "update" didn't change a thing. Still getting audio static when the volume slider is not at 100%.
Hmmm, in their release notes the "and more" part makes me suspicious. I wish I hadn't upgraded from version 6, now all my podcasts start with advertising at the start. Bet they added more advertising with this version. Pretty soon it will be as bad as television and apple will have managed to f#$k themselves over.....
I am still having problems with 7.0.1 (the latest version as of today, 10/14/06. Music still stutters and it is such a resource hog that if I run any other application, things lock up. What a piece of crap! If I knew how to roll back to iTunes 6 while keeping my playlists and settings, I would do it in a second. And the so-called "enhancements" for iTunes 7 are just frivilous nonsense and fluff. Anyone who feels that their life is much better with that stuff has to seriously think about getting a life.
haha, how long before were getting itunesX??? im barley getting by with a 1 GHz running 512 of memory, so coverflow hasnt worked, lets see what happens. (and i hate updating, they take away all the "cool" *cough*hacks*cough* features.
The upgrade on iTunes was not optional on my computer. It would not let me enter any part of iTunes until I downloaded 7.0. I cannot get into the music store, buy songs or anything. It just keeps telling me to download ver. 7. I'VE DOWNLOADED IT ALREADY...SO WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? Why is it still telling me to download 7.0? HELP. God forbid there should be someone to call. Let's waste effort on this snail mail method of communication.
my itunes never crashed with 7.0.0 and now its crashing (or at least freezing when it opens) 50% of the time.
very, very, frustrating...
I think the new iTunes disables blue coconut. Anyone else having problems using this program with the new version of itunes?? Slick move on apple's part.
I've been running with itunes 6 for the last year, and have had no issues. I'm running it on a AMD 64 3400 with 2G RAM and 300 G hard drive. I currently have loaded 100G (!) of just music, and have personalized it by creating my own "genres" for MY music. I've even taken the time to copy album artwork from various websites to accompany ALL my music files. It's taken quite a while, but it's been sweet using itunes like this - it's now MY FULLY FUNCTIONAL JUKEBOX.
I've been hearing quite a few negative comments about the new itunes 7, and have been hesitant to have mine updated when the program prompts me to.
My question is this: Is it really running better than itunes 6, and if so, can you explain what and how you find it to be better?
I've been having a hard time finding a ver.6 available for download, and don't wish to get stuck with ver.7 if it's not "really better"
im really hating this new version. it has crashed on me twice, deleted some files (yeah, i should have backed them up, but i didnt think they would get lost in an update!!), when i have the player on shuffle, the songs stop at the end of their runtime and dont continue with a playlist, songs skip when i run more than two programs at once, and i had to re-import my whole library. i wish i never updated.
i am surprised by the lack of comments from anyone trying to install the update on Vista. IT DOESN'T WORK! iTunes requires VBSCRIPT to be registered, which Vista does not do by default. In order for the update to work, you need a cmd prompt,go into the c:\windows\system32 directory, and do a regsvr32 vbscript.dll at the prompt. Now retry the update and viola'.
i like the new itunes, its great other than the fact that it wont let me drag and drop home movies or movies i download off limewire ne more it acts like its going to but then it doesnt, i need to get this fixed because i have a lot of movies i want on my ipod and no way to get them on, if you have any way to solve this let me no