iTunes 7.0.1

I downloaded iTunes 7.0.1 (I think....the newest version, anyway), and when I try to run iTunes, it immediately goes into a scan of "gapless playback information" and locks up after scanning 20 or 30 songs (always on a different song). Any thoughts on how to fix this would be appreciated. Right now, iTunes has been rendered useless by this "upgrade."

It keeps getting better!

Apple has disabled the ability to view all video in the Itunes store in Itunes 6.05! I'm required to upgrade to Itunes 7. The same videos played fine last month in 6.05.

Nice Microsoft move, Jobs! Force an upgrade on users from software that worked fine to your buggy new software.

Payback's a bitch:
http://featured.gigaom.com/2006/10/02/dvd-jon-fairplays-apple/

At least I can still hear the store music in 6.05.

Awesome, I uninstalled Itunes 7, rebooted, and installed Itunes 6.05 for windows.

Itunes 7 left files on my machine that won't let Itunes 6.05 run. Time to start hand picking through the Itunes 7 leftover garbage...

Latest 7.0.1.8 still crashes whenever I try to 'Add folders' to my large, old mp3 or (not so large) music video collection.

Windows version.

This update works much better for me (Windows). With the same amount of cover flow browsing, the memory usage stays well below 100Mb, where before it went way over 500Mb before i shut it down. Also, minimizing seems to release some memory where it didn't do that before. Maybe not perfect yet, but it's an improvement for sure.

FWIW - on my particular problem podcast (clicks and resets when starting up) - I've found that if I play a second or two in Itunes itself and then sync again - it gets past the prob and I can play the rest on my Ipod. YMMV

Alec

I agree re: original CoverFlow being far superior -- the movement algorithms for browsing around are so much nicer (both clicking on adjacent albums and jumping to a distant album). And where's the uber-handy "filter to albums of 20+ min"? ITunes has a ton of duplicate album covers for compilation albums and random scattered songs. Did they test it at all? How could CoverFlow be so much better in implementation? Bah.

I'm having the same problem as craig. 7.0 worked fine for me, but after updating to 7.0.1 I've had about it crash several times.

Hard to believe, but the 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, so I get no visible information whatsoever on any subsequent tracks I play unless I click on each track as it plays (which then starts the track playing from its beginning. What the heck have Apple done!

Response-to-command time lag is also more pronounced, and thus more irritating.

Complete and utter shambles.

20" iMac Early 2006 (2 GHz Intel Core Duo) Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Adam,

I'm sorry for calling you a Windows-fanboy, if indeed you are not... but you must admit the way you wrote your initial comment did make you sound like one.

“some apple users around the internet are so stuck up just because they think that because they run a superior OS” - I don't think you finished this sentence and I'm interested to hear what you have to say. Also, I don't consider myself an Apple-fanboy. There's plenty of things which piss me off about the Mac... but the thing that annoys me the most is when close minded people come along and talk like they know everything about Apple and the Mac... when in fact their arguments hold no weight whatsoever.

As regards comment #27 - good point... I have no beef with that. Indeed Windows’ users do have more choice. The only thing I will add though is... Apple's way is all about giving you few options. It's about making sure the software, hardware and devices are all so tightly-knit that nothing can go wrong. Perhaps instead we could call me a ‘closed-ness fanboy’ and you an ‘open-ness fanboy’.

This really isn't the place to have this discussion though... my Yahoo!'s bonnie.jonnie if you want to talk further.