We were all excited to stream Genius-generated playlists from
iTunes 8 to our Airport Express last night when -- poof -- "-3256 Unknown Error Occurred." This cryptic error, along with another under the equally descriptive name "-15000," has been keeping iTunes 8 upgraders from using their Airtunes on remote speakers. Turns out the issue is one of Firewalls and Firmware. The solutions come from users at Apple's discussion boards. Basically, you need to either turn off your Firewall and / or allow iTunes to accept incoming requests or update your Airport Express to the latest (7.3.2 as of this post) firmware version via AirPort Utility 6.3. Meanwhile, Windows-based
iPod touch users are seeing Blue Screens of Death when plugging in their players due to some other undocumented problem. The solution there looks to be a reboot with the touch plugged in to force the system to recognize the device, run a sync, and turn off photo syncing (not the most elegant solution, clearly). Let's hope Apple at least updates this with something more descriptive than "-3256" in the future. Customer service reps at Apple say they're aware of the problems and are working on a fix.
Read - iTunes 8 & Airtunes/Airport Express
Read - blue screen comes up when plugging in ipod
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
posted Sep 10th 2008 9:48AM
[you're welcome]
[Attention whore]
You get a little, you lose a little.
ALL LEGIT!
So just be to clear: Apple makes the best software ever?
Seriously. I was ecstatic about using the new Itunes 8 with the Genius playlist feature. I got home and downloaded it and the isntall ran just like normal. I created a few Genius playlists and loved it's accuracy in determining a playlist. Then I plugged in my iPhone (not iPod as mentioned above) and blue screen...I have been using Vista since it's beta and have NEVER had a blue screen. I rebooted and the same thing happened again (actually 3 times).
I got on the Apple forums to see if it was an issue and it had already hit the fan. The work around that everyone said to try was to unplug your HP printer. Shockingly, I had an HP printer and proceeded to unplug. I then plugged my iPhone in for a sync...and no blue screen. OMG. Are you serious?
For all of you who complain that Apple gets too much coverage here - it obviously goes both ways. A glitch like this would never be reported here from most other companies.
i think this article negates that claim, facetious or otherwise.
personally i think a more useful error message is: :(
lollerskates
MurphyMac,
You're spot on, not sure why you're low-ranked. I guess the dolts who rub their hands with glee any time any minor glitch comes up but then wet their pants in anger when a non-glitch Apple post comes thru don't get that the company simple attracts more attention, good and bad.
FWIW, my airtunes works, but I don't have my localhost FW on my system.
You KNOW it's got to be M$ at fault; it can't be Apple and you should be ashamed of yourself for even suggesting such a blasphemy!
@UnixSystemEngineer and @MacMurphy: It's precisely because of these problems that so many of us wonder why so many postings are devoted to Apple and their products. If your iPhones had stable reception you'd have got the memo.
@Jon
Apple, Microsoft and HP have teamed up to give us more blue screens!
Apple thanks you all for your continued support in assisting with Beta testing.
"Apple thanks you all for your continued support in assisting with Beta testing"
That comment is fair enough.
I have to agree - iTunes on the PC is a pile of poop, but then, it's hardly like it's the only program on there that causes the blue screen of death is it?
I found iTunes8 to be pretty poor. It is still slow and laggy, and I still only use it because I have an iPhone.
The Genius thing isn't too smart. It kept recommending I buy songs I already own from the iTunes store. Sometimes it recommended I buy a song from the album it was currently playing.
The 2.x software for the iPhone is slow and crashes a lot. iTunes8 crashes a lot, and Genius is a waste of time. MobileMe appears to be completely broken. Come on Apple, this isn't like you.
Who would've thought an Apple product was cause my first Bluescreen under Vista?
I'm definitely holding back the Friday 2.1 upgrade... waiting for the initial responses from the brave ones...
@Backlin:
Sure Apple deserves to be slammed here, but if Vista were a truly stable OS, why did it bluescreen? Seriously, should it not have been designed to catch bad system calls (assuming that's what this was)? If plugging in these new devices crashed OS X, I'd be pointing the finger at Leopard too. But of course the MS fanbois will low-rank this comment for daring to suggest Vista is not blame-free here....
i always bought apple stuff cuz they look cool, thats all, no thing else.
I had more problems with my 1st gen macbook pro than my previous vaio, thinkpad, inspirion; actually had to sent it back and took them a month to get it back to me.
My 5th gen iPod had some glitches as well, e.g. when you use it all the way till battery completely drained, the disk just keeps spinning and wont turn off, I found the fix but still very annoying.
Mac OS X was nice, but Safari crashes, Mail crashes, iTunes crashes, and various iLife apps have crashed as well, my XP box does not crash that often; well just to be fair, I like how in osx app crash usually doesnt affect the OS at all, where as sometimes XP crashes I have to restart; but seriously, my XP doesnt really crash...
I'm really satisfied with the iPhone though, I stayed on 1.1.4 and it has no problems at all, im staying the hell away from 2.x for now.
Apple isn't some awesome company, they fuck things up too, and from what I can tell that happens quite often.
Why is it that microsoft can never release software that just works? oh wait, this came from apple???
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! it cant be true
funny, my 20" imac has a 8 bit ips monitor and my 2 year old macbook has never seen a case and still works fine. but im just bowing to the alter of jobs!
@Darkroom
My last 3 computers and all of my MP3 players have been from Apple. My next ones won't.
@Darkroom, Mr Smith,
You have not been taking the pills. You need to come back in for re-indoctrination.
Hmm iFail :)
I have been running iTunes 8 and well... its a little lame. It crashed twice in the first 5 minutes on my Mac, the new thumb view scrolling is laggy, and Genius is just iTunes store recommendations on steroids :P
Hopefully this is gonna be sorted in the 8.1 update :)
Agreed, Genius has been an epic fail. I tried it on Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" and I got songs from the White Stripes and Violent Femmes. It really is just a way for Apple to sell you more songs on iTunes.
Weird to hear the Mac folks talking like Windows users: "Well, it should all be fixed in the next patch."
Even as an upsell tool, Genius doesn't seem all that smart if you don't listen to some fairly mainstream music. Genius can't handle any of the indie music I listen to (even the stuff purchased through iTunes).
@Aaronage
I thing iBSOD is more appropriate for this situation.
Not personally experienced any problems as of yet, running iTunes 8 and iTouch 2.1 on Vista x64. Let's hope it stays that way....
"No crashes I promise"
Well you can't fault Steve no iPhone crashes.
The worlds best hardware and software maker HA I guess bugs are not just the domain of Windows users.
Mind you I could list ALOT of bugs I've had with Apple products.
[Que Apple Fanboys telling us all off and reminding us we got our 160GB iPods upgraded to 120GB]
I wonder how much testing went into this particular piece of software? I'm guessing none, just like every other crapple release
well if this was microsoft it would be pointed out repeatly,riduculed.. but somehow its apple and apple can do no wrong as they have fancy adverts and simple front ends to their softwares and did i mention catchy adverts and fancy big "we have a collective large penis's " shops/churches ..hmm appleFail lately ..not impressed as a first time apple owener(3gphone) I'm wondering if the hype surronding apple was all an llusion.. :( do we now have to wait another month for a fix..anyone know?
Hi, I'm a PC
And I'm a Mac. And I'm about to KILL YOU.
They should've called it 7.8 and made a rewrite from scratch called 8.0.
It's almost like Vista was, keep stacking on features release after release and after a while it will become too bloated and unstable with shitty performance.
Well, iTunes has always been bloated and slow for Windows...
I have a 580 song library and scrolling is laggy as balls.
So true, I think Apple peaked with Tiger and the early Macbook Pros and now they are just coasting on the iphone as they complete their transition to a consumer electronics company like Sony and with all of Sony's problems. Typing from a PowerBook so no I am not a hater. And yes as a web designer, photographer I AM a little bitter. What about the Pros?
I am starting to hope that XP will run stably on 8 core notebooks. :(
I think they put the BSOD problem in on purpose so they can make it the topic of the next Mac vs. PC commercial.
And for the streaming issue:
If you're the type that downloads the latest update for iTunes hours after it's released, why wouldn't you do the same for the airport express firmware that's been out for months?
I installed last night and found the entire experience to be very slow and clunky. I also haven't gotten any good recommendations from Genius that I wasn't already getting from the mini-store, despite being more visually intrusive.
apple fanboys pwnd
apple is hardly helping it's reputation at the moment, my iPhone 3g regularly crashes out of safari, google maps and loads of 3rd party apps, my friend installed the newest firmware only for it to stop him from using apps completely (crash to home screen on launch of anything). Now we have itunes not working, mobile me was a complete disaster too.
I've been saying for a while that apple products aren't quite as rosy as everone makes out, everyone else seems to be clocking on now.
Works perfect on my 2 Mac...
WOW. Apple has been blowing so bad lately. Every release to fix a problem comes with another problem for the next release to fix, and so on. Vicious Circle of Death anyone? What is going on at Apple? For real? I mean this is so unlike them. Since the release of iPhone 3G, its been down hill all the way. They need to get it right or the fear of Upgrading to anything will be theirs. Sounds familiar?
My iPod Touch is still sitting at 1.1.3. I already fear to upgrade my Apple products.
The first thing I did after installing iTunes 8 was stream a Genius playlist to Aiport Express and IT WORKED FLAWLESSLY.
The first thing I did after not downloading iTunes 8 was synch my ATT Tilt over the air (Exchange stuff only) and the rest via bluetooth- it worked fine. I was concerned about my streaming, so I remoted into my WHS and it was still working fine! I downloaded songs over WiFi and listened to them on my bluetooth headphones. I realized I had vista running on at least a couple computers, so I remoted into those as well- no BSODS- ever!
I figured since the posts have turned to stuff actually working, I should fill you in.
UPDATE: OMG, the doorknob still works! This is a red-letter day!
multiple crashes,Ive had that too ,sometimes only a ahard reboot(home button and switch-on button held for 10+ sec) did the job of booting up some of my apps :( such a shame..all that hoo haa show yesterday -'look at us how amazing we are at coming up with new ways to steal your money :called genius' (as if patch updates for $9.99 isnt enough of a joke) can you imagine if microsoft news psoted one engadget had the headline " vista bsod with crysis fixed .. only $9.99 new features added ,soudn now works! apps start up , and your pc can now log off safely" .. blah furior with a side portion of wee drizzled salad would be the meal of that day! I hope they have a big announcement to say sorry and this evenign there will be a fix !!
I have A Touch and I am running Itunes 8 on a Windows XP Media center edition with NO problems at all.
I like Apple products and I think my Vista has ran great since I installed it very early. But one of the first things someone said when I got BSOD with my iPod touch is "that's windows for ya". Apparently not the case.
notice how it's really easy to bash microsoft AND use their products? it just rolls right off, no big deal.
notice how this cavalier attitude is almost never seen by a mac user? 'no no, that wasn't an error.. it's ok it'll be fixed, i have faith.. oh it's so shiny! screw you i can run windows too!'
quit grasping for your saviour corporation to make everything better. they all suck and the sooner people quit being such blind fanboys the sooner we can all get along and make fun of everything. pussies.
I'm getting something odd in windows too since iTunes 8 install.....
http://blog.garryrenshall.co.uk/itunes-8-first-experiencechinese-iphone
Here we go again!
It's funny because when I had iTouch, it use to BSOD all the time. But instead of blue screen, I get a nice graphical screen and before you know it, my iTouch rebooted. Apple user doesn't realize that they too get BSOD, but Apple just has them looking through happy eye glasses.
NOOOO!
What happened to "It just works" ???????
It's "just not working!"
lmao
The new Apple slogan has been changed from the declarative "It just works." into the interrogative "It just works?" or "It just works" where "just" is an adverb meaning "barely", as in "It barely works".
I got a BSOD after attempting to sync my iPhone last night after upgrading to iTunes8. Sheesh. So fellow iPhone users, be warned for the time being.
I had the same problems with my iphone... I read on the forums that it was because of logitech drivers..... updated all the drivers and still got the BSOD
Found another fix on some ipod touch forum.
I removed the apple mobile services app that was installed with itunes 8. Then I downloaded itunes 7.7, extracted the mobile services app msi and installed it.
So, I now havea combination of 7.7 apple mobile services and 8.0 itunes....
works like a charm now...
no BSOD
Wow another Roach. I had Roach since first Doom online (96)...you're (and others) are the reason I have to use Roach_779 as my online ID!!
since 3g 2.1update is due fri ,who wants to guess the engadget headline for friday afternoon>?
"phone hangs when answering a phone call"
"volume now limited so much due to bug ridden update that only apple branded amps can pullout the tunes loud enough "
"apple 2.1 updates creates blackhole whilst using the genius as one scientest at CERN confirms,.."I tried to ring my mother of the exciting news that we started the experiment and all went well ,but the iphone with the new update crashed my vnc app and what proceded was a monumental error here at cerns main computer,the iphone itself created a black hole and now we are all about d.. "
That is sooo 15000.
Lol way2go Apple. Next time, try testing your software before releasing it to the public.
here here ! ol chap.. yeah whats with the no testing APPLE ,you get poor Stevo out there in front of all those journos for this ! And a few colourful nanos, of course, yes, they is pretty, yes but still dead itouch god danmit to many gadgets are mockign me of late .. im
here here ! ol chap.. yeah whats with the no testing APPLE ,you get poor Stevo out there in front of all those journos for this ! And a few colourful nanos, of course, yes, they is pretty, yes but still dead itouch god danmit to many gadgets are mockign me of late .. im
I think Steve should take a good chunk of his programmers from making Window virus creation to QA.
**On a sided note: why does Engadget comment page doesn't remember email and password? I got all option checked.
@ roach: Underneath 'Add your comments', make sure you click on the 'Returning' tab. I wish there was a cookie that would default it to 'Returning' instead of 'New Readers', but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
I am convinced that Apple has no software quality assurance department. Don't they test their software on a number of system configurations before they make it available for download? I'm sure Apple hates to do it, but if they're selling into the Windows market, they should have a complete QA lab containing every major PC model set up using typical home configurations. Especially since they hold more than 70% of their market.
It seems to me that too many companies now just throw their software over the wall figuring that their users will discover the problems for them, and they'll just fix the ones that many people complain about. I can't believe the amount of apparently untested product that Apple has been releasing recently.
to be fair... Microsoft Office on Mac isnt the greatest either.. bugs all over
Or Apple can comply with the terms of the open source software they use and release open source products so users can debug for them. If iPhone really is OSX, where is the code required by the open source agreement? I'm an Apple hater too, but I have to say the AirPort Express thing seems minor- doubtful if QA would have caught it, but it is troubling in light of their recent... difficulties. All the difficulties we've seen lately are troubling considering the proprietary 1st party nature of Apple's products.
I haven't used iTunes in over a year. I only use it to update my iPods' libraries. iTunes is probably one of the worst media players I've dealt with. It's great eye candy. But, it's too demanding on my cpu. It's just playing an mp3 file for crying out loud. Also, the way iTunes "organizes" your library is atrocious. I've had to go into my music folders and re-arrange them again. iTunes is an awful application. The store on the other hand has a great catalog, and that's basically what has saved them.
In all fairness, most media players applications are terrible. Yahoo Music, Rhapsody, iTunes, and WMP are bad. So, since I don't want to deal with their ridiculous demands, I just use VLC for all my media playback. It works great and doesn't bring my pc's performance to the ground.
If you don't like the way iTunes organizes your music folders you shouldn't let iTunes organize your music folders. You were asked that when you installed it and you can still change it in preferences. Your other complaints may be valid but personally I've only had problems with early 7.x versions on my PC. But most PC users did. Now I hear horror stories about ver 8. All I can do is check it out when I get home from work.
Good love how smug Apple is getting calling their program "Genius" when it works like a retard. Plus I never got that Mac vs PC commercial where they call their store employee "genius"? Does that mean the customer is too retard to do the transfer themselves? I didn't need a genius to help me figure out how to use Windows and Linux.
And what are your thoughts on Microsoft's copycat "Gurus" who will be working in retail stores? You want to talk smug, let talk about these "Gurus". Apparently they're there because you're too stupid to use Vista on your own, despite Microsoft's claims of how easy it is to use. You may not have needed a genius to figure out Vista, but MS thinks you need a Guru.
@Zak:
The Guru program exists to rectify the false image that has been portrayed by the "me too" tech press and to properly inform the customers of the "real" benefits of Vista, not to do anything that you said they are there to do.
Still doesnt change the fact that iTunes is the first application to give alot of people their first blue screen in Vista. Thats very impressive, Apple.
Mine was caused by OCZ memory. Thanks OCZ.
Unfortunately, im unable to diagnose why my iBook gets the "Multilingual Instruction To Reset Of Death" in Leopard.
just try creating a genius playlist with a Beatles track, see how far you get!
The good news is at least the computer does SOMETHING now to let you know iTunes is or isn't going to load. I ditched my Gen5 iPod mostly because iTunes is such a slow and clunky user experience. I couldn't plug the iPod in without having it "Searching for Gapless Playback."
The real kick in the balls was when I called Apple support and they said I wouldn't have the issue if I were using a Mac.
I doubt that Apple does any QC on the Windows platform, which is probably 70+% of their install base. This is really sad. I predict that Apple will ultimately work themselves into a low end consumer electronics company; similar to the way American car companies have done with automobiles. It is their arrogance for their own product that will kill them. I read an article just last year about how Ford planned to turn their R&D team around. They basically said, they had to stop looking at their own previous model and improve upon that, but rather, look at their competition and see what they have to offer. That story has some striking similarities already doesn't it?
My Airtunes is working fine with iTunes 8... No problems yet.
bullshit
even windows media player and my old creative zen syncs better than this itunes mallarky(ver7), partly why i went for an iphone was thinking that although its missing all sorts of features(mms?cutandpastings?sound formats) what you are expected to get from apple is flawless usage proper one-time-one-button-forget-about-it-itjustworks-software - .. but the other day i had to wait over an hour before IFailtunes returned my iphone from a backup snyc attempt ,makign me late for work .. grrr
I only use iTunes to listen to music cause it came with my MBP. Zune owner and lover. All my iTunes store purchases have been with the gift cards they gave me and only DRM-free tracks so I can listen to them on my zune, too. Also, for putting on a USB stick and sticking it in my car to play on SYNC. Hate apple. But needed the MBP to be able to use final cut studio, and the high res screen.
I really wish Engadget would stop posting Apple news just because I am so sick and tired of the pro-Apple/anti-Apple wars. For the record, I'm a long-time Mac user and had an iPod mini, iPod video and currently have an iPod Touch. No doubt the anti-Apple crowd will latch onto what follows. I wish they'd just shut up and go away so we can have a useful discussion. Same with the pro-Apple crowd that feels the need to fight with these idiots.
Ok, so that out of the way.... I've a got a 16 GB iPod touch and sync with my trusty 1 GHz iMac G4 running 10.4.x. Installed iTunes 8 last night and then the 2.1 firmware. I had been having *major* problems with the 2.0.x firmware, including 6 - count 'em 6 - crashes that resulted in an endless Apple logo (would no longer boot up), leading to restore hell, and it is hell. The crashes all occurred while installing applications. 4 times it happened when installing apps via the AppStore on my touch and 2 times it occurred while syncing applications/updates to my touch via iTunes on my computer.
I did run into a problem initially when trying to install the 2.1 firmware. It download fine, but when it tried to update it gave some mysterious error I can't remember now. I tried to quit iTunes and it said I was syncing, even though no syncing was happening (the iPod wasn't showing any sync happening and neither was iTunes). I chose to quit iTunes anyway, but iTunes got stuck and never finished quitting, so I ended up having to force quit out of it. However, after starting iTunes back it up it updated fine and iTunes has been fine since.
The 2.1 firmware has been great so far on my iPod touch. App installs are now fast and backups during sync are way faster, such that syncing is no longer the abomination it was before. What will really matter, though, is whether or not the stability is actually improved. So far no crashes on my iPod touch and the system seems to run much smoother, but I've only had it for less than 24 hours. We shall see. Still it is clearly much, much better than 2.0.x and I'd definitely recommend updating ASAP. Except, I guess, for Vista users. It sounds like Airport Express users just need to update the firmware on that device.
"I really wish Engadget would stop posting Apple news just because I am so sick and tired of the pro-Apple/anti-Apple wars."
This is all payback for years and years of insulting PC's and Microsoft products, and those mother fucking Mac Vs. PC ads.
Hurts, doesnt it?
We never claimed PC's or Windows was better, but Apple always did with their products, and that all other products sucked, no matter what. Its about time they got some of their own medicine. The starters of the war should be the ones to end it. Until then, we will relish every one of these events and laugh out loud every time we read about it.
Your move.
Ruben; Way to prove your point about how windows users are more mature when it comes to arguing their points.
Honestly, SteveJ used to annoy me, because he used to make the old boring Pro-Apple-Anti-Microsoft comments that had little grounding in reality, or even sanity. But he's actually trying to improve his opinion, and I for one applaud him for that. Same situation with iEye.
But if you bash him for that, it's not helping much.
OK CJ, ill give you and SteveJ that.
What im pointing out is the sudden onslaught on anything Apple does wrong, and the reason behind it. Its obviously an explosion of pent up anger, and quite frankly, i think we should let PC users have their time in the light for once. There isn't a Microsoft post that isnt descecrated by a poorly position pro-apple comment. This is just a taste of their own medicine.
What we really need to be is more neutral overall. And ill start with myself becoming more neutral. But it does get irritating to see stupid comments like "iPhone FTW" when your trying to find out more about an HTC phone, or "Winblows FTL" or other really irritating comments. Those end up causing a grouping of all Apple fans into one category, including those irritating douches. Not everyone is bad, its just that some bring down the entire group of people.
And quite frankly, its been a long time since ive read anything relevant in these comment sections. Its all become a tickle fight between fans of X vs fans of Y. Sure, im also part of that, but im usually the one in defense, rarely on attack. I think its time for myself, and everyone to stop.
You also have to keep in mind that Windows users have already had their moment in the sun. More accurately known as 'most of the 1990s'. Apple was the laughingstock of the computer industry before the release of the 3G iMac, and even then it took a while to get back into the swing of things.
If anything, this is loyal Apple users getting back at WINDOWS users who ridiculed them for the better part of a decade. But I digress. It has to stop, enough of this, if you're going to fight over something, fight over who has the biggest penis, like regular people.
Wow is it seriously some fuck up thing with HP printers. I was having problems at home but not at work. Guess the difference! Weird.
Am I the only person who had absolutely no problems with iTunes 8? I enabled and synched up the genius info, and both my 802.11g Expresses are chugged along just fine. I guess keeping my firmware current has paid off.
My setup:
20" 2.0 Ghz CoreDuo iMac
1- 1TB Time Capsule
1- AT&T Uverse router (I forget the brand)
2- Airport Expresses
Works all fine here on my Macs. Genius feature is pretty rad.
I havent had a problem at all with my iPod Touch and iTunes 8 on 64bit Vista
No problems with iTunes 8 yet on my Vista machine. Nor have I had any trouble since upgrading my Touch to 2.1 firmware. However, Genius tells me that I NEED to download this top song I'm missing. Only problem is, I clearly already have it in my library. The ID3 tags seem to match up, too. So IDK why genius wants me to re-download it.
Because its a "Genius"?
/pun
iTunes have watch folders yet?
Watch Folders??
Only if they include another processor core with the purchase. And they said the Zune software was bad. Zune software sips CPU cycles in comparison to this guzzler.
I upgraded to iTunes 8, and AirTunes works fine with my express. I also tested using the remote app to control it, and its also working fine. I did an upgrade, and I am running OS X 10.5.4.
The latest Airport Express firmware is not 6.3 (at least for the N version)... it is 7.3.2 (the same as the Airport Extreme). I have no trouble with my AirTunes.
You're right - I fixed that. Airport Utility is 6.3, which will grab the latest FW and updated your AE. Thanks!
Apple deserves blame for creating software that causes problems like this.
Microsoft deserves blame for having an OS that can BSOD just because a USB device is plugged into it.
How is it Microsoft's OS's problem? It's not like whenever users plug in USB's on Windows their computers explode. Apple released something that is causing issues for, what it sounds like, a clear majority of their Itunes users. Apple deserves blame for this and only them. Blaming anyone besides Apple for this would be like if i built a computer, threw it into a pool and blamed the water instead of my own actions.
>How is it Microsoft's OS's problem? It's not like whenever users plug in USB's on Windows their computers explode.
While faulty memory or power supplies could understandably cause a kernel panic (which is what a BSOD is), there's no good reason why simply plugging in a USB peripheral should be able to bring an OS down like that.
So, IMO both Apple and Microsoft deserve blame for this problem.
>How is it Microsoft's OS's problem? It's not like whenever users plug in USB's on Windows their computers explode.
While faulty memory or power supplies could understandably cause a kernel panic (which is what a BSOD is), there's no good reason why simply plugging in a USB peripheral should be able to bring an OS down like that.
So, IMO both Apple and Microsoft deserve blame for this problem.
Has anyone experienced the bug where you stick in an audio CD and it briefly shows up in iTunes and then disappears. If you eject the CD and reinsert it then everything works fine. I've had it happen before and it went away in an update. I'd love to know how to make it go away if someone knows!
I tried a genius playlist with my airport express this morning and it worked fine, same as ever. I don't know why I didn't have the same problem