Good. hopefully this'll fix the problems Coverflow has with not finding album covers.
...and improve the speed.
I have a 15 day library of songs at home and any time I have to restart iTunes- on my G5- it takes about 7-10 seconds because I get a progress bar that says, "Loading iTunes Library"
...which is something I never, ever saw in any previous version of iTunes. It really kinda pisses me off.

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I updated and as expected I had to re install aqua4iTunes to get my aqua back. Other than that since I had no problems before I havnt noticed any differences.

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The original coverflow is better.

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Is it just me, or did this update take an amazingly long time to be released when compared with the amount of outcry on Apple's support boards there has been?

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is anyone having problems with their iPod locking up? Ever since I installed the iTunes update (and the new 1.2 firmware for my 5G iPod... when I plug it in, the "Do not disconnect" read slash comes up, but does not flash like it normally does. It basically just sits there frozen. Does not appear on the desktop, does not show up in iTunes. The ONLY way to get it to work is to restart the iPod while it's still connected with the cable. when it's done restarting, it opens and works just fine.

this new .0.1 update did nothing to fix that either.... :-(

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didn't seem to fix anything for me on my Mac, Coverflow is still annoying to use and uses way to much RAM which was the only iTunes 7-specific problem I've had on my Mac and my PC.

hopefully it does fix al the bugs other people are having with Apple's rushed software though.

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Way off topic, but... Professional Photographer here... I've seen Pro updateds for Final Cut and the like this week... I've seen this iTunes update... all in the amount of time I've been sitting on my hind parts waiting and waiting to get a crack at the newest Aperture that will be available "later this week." Anyone at TUAW have any leads on a 'when' on that so I can stop being so impatient when there's an update and AGAIN it's not what I'm waiting for? Thanks. :)

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you can 'here's hoping' and 'hopefully this will fix...' all you want. apple still needs to fix the major problems with the iPod Updater 1.2, a lot of people (including me) have this problem with several podcasts:

Get a new episode of Cnet's Buzz Out Loud (great podcast btw, give it a listen) then sync it to 5th Gen iPod, on the ipod MUSIC>PODCASTS>Buzz Out Loud..>Play. at this point ipod will appear to begin playing the file, and after about half a second, will go CLICK loudly (the hard disk parking) and will re-boot.
So still no way of playing at least 3 of the podcasts on my iPod. not good apple. not good.

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Is it me or, as mentioned in a comment above, is the original CoverFlow far better that the version used in iTunes? The animation is a lot smoother and the album art is rendered almost instantaneously ... all I ever see when scrolling is that annoying place holder image. I'd much prefer if iTunes pre-cached these on launch in order to avoid seeing that annoying image all the time... pretty sure the original CoverFlow did exactly that.

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i agree. the original coverflow is a beautiful app. i think it's lame in iTunes 7. i don't like how restricted the viewing area is. in CoverFlow, you can make it fullscreen. much smoother graphics/animation.

what a shame.

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I'm on Windows here at work and iTunes updater says my 7.0 version is the current one.

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Is this supposed to come through Apple's magic software update that I got installed onto my PC? I keep on refreshing it but it tells me that my software would be up to date.
I guess Coverflow makes iTunes the one software claiming the most memory in the shortest time. Zapping through only a quarter of my library brings it up to >250MB. Insane for a music player!

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Does it fix the fact that it takes nearly 60 full seconds to load my library? Does it fix the insane lag when I scroll around or update tags? No? Then I'll continue to use iTunes less and less. Eventually, I'll only use it to load my iPod. I'm mostly there already.

(Bad, bad update, Apple. Wasting my time with slow, buggy, bloatware is the one thing I can't forgive you.)

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iTunes 7 is generally well put together, except for the new Cover Flow feature -- which is still a memory fiend after this update.

I launched iTunes 7.0.1 and it was using 48 MB of Real (not Virtual) memory. Respectable. After scrolling thru only about 100 albums with Cover Flow, iTunes was using 503 MB of Real memory. After 100 more albums, Real memory usage was 741 MB. The system slowed, not to a crawl, but it definitely slowed.

Cover Flow is still poorly implemented in iTunes -- and isn't an enjoyable experience as the rest of iTunes is.

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what about the album-art issues?

it would be great to have the option of either attaching the artwork to the file itself, or removing all artwork from the files and have a single file in the itunes folder. i just don't like the inconsistency with artwork that was previously attached with that which we can now download.

and what about the cover art screensaver? will the 10.4.8 update allow us to show off that “beautiful” artwork steve was so proud of?

and one more thing...
i have a feeling all our complaints with coverflow will be resolved with core-animation in leopard... agree???

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wheres 7.0.1 for windows at apple? i just ran software update and checked within windows and theres no updates available? what the heck is going on here? you can't just do that to the majority of your iTunes user base!

(and yes apple fanboys, you know its true, there are most likely more people running iTunes on XP than on Mac OS simply because XP has a much larger market share, not to mention the fact apple is targeting the iPod at PC users. it says right on the box: PC + Mac)

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lol @ adam (#16)

Apple loves us more than you.

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"it says right on the box: PC + Mac"

Wow, so just because 'PC' comes before 'Mac' means that they're gearing iTunes to the PC population?

Gee, thanks for clearing that up.

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hey, just as a heads up to #17, i am a future mac user. i'm stuck with a lame hp laptop right now for school because i can't afford the macbook pro, so i'm going to hold off until january when apple rev's them and puts core 2 duos in them.

i have also tried running osx86 on here, but it will not install because the keyboard and trackpad don't work :(

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Here is how to add the cover iTunes downloads to the music files itself:
a) Select one of the tracks of the album you need the cover
b) right click, select "Get Album Artwork"
c) Once the cover downloads, right-click the cover in iTunes (in the window, bottom left), select copy
d) select all the tracks of the album, then "Get Info"
e) Select the Artwork field in the window, and paste the cover there (has to be via keyboard, Apple+V)
f) Press OK. There you go, iTunes adds the cover to all the tracks of the album, INSIDE the music file.

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