Filed under: iTunes, Software Update
QuickTime 7.1.5 and iTunes 7.1 released
Apple just released QuickTime 7.1.5 and iTunes 7.1 via Software Update for both Macintosh and Windows. The QuickTime update addresses security issues (possibly the continuation of those raised by the Month of Apple Bugs) and adds numerous bug fixes. iTunes 7.1 adds AppleTV support, new full-screen Cover Flow, and better sorting options. I'm downloading both updates now, and can't wait to play with the new sort features. Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
Update: Apple's latest RSS support feed mentions that the Windows version of iTunes 7.1 addresses compatibility issues with Vista, but that Apple "is actively working with Microsoft to resolve a few remaining known issues."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
dylan said 4:51PM on 3-05-2007
Now I can finally trash CoverFlow.app, thanks for the heads up!
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iamdigitalman said 5:03PM on 3-05-2007
your welcome again. I have also nooticed both apps seem to be running faster after the update. anyone want to confirm this?
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James said 5:04PM on 3-05-2007
I'm sure I'm not the first to notice this but...
Under the Parental Tab in preferences, there is now the option to limit MOVIES by ratings in the folowing countries...
Australia
United States
Canada
Ireland
New Zealand
UNITED KINGDOM!
Looks like movies are finally being opened up to others!
Finally.
And I quite like the new Coverflow full screen option... Neato!
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Zack kitzmiller said 5:15PM on 3-05-2007
Yeah, But will my orange shuffle finally not be silver?
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brian said 5:21PM on 3-05-2007
One of the previous iTunes/QuickTime updates "broke" iPod movie conversion, at least as far as I'm concerned. It used to be that right-clicking on a standard 640x480 movie and choosing 'Convert selection for iPod' resulted in a 320x240 movie and the filesize was cut roughly in half. Since I've got several seasons of The Simpsons (ripped from DVD) on my iPod, I need all the space I can get, and since I only watch them on the iPod, 320x240 was fine. (I keep the 640x480 versions on my computer to watch there.) But after this last update (not today's, but the previous one, I think) converted movies are now 640x480 and have the same filesize as the original. Does anyone know how to fix this, besides going back to an older version of QuickTime & iTunes?
I know I could re-rip the movies at a smaller size, or use a dozen other programs to do the conversion but I loved the simplicity of iTunes--drag in all my new rips, click 'Convert', and let it chug away overnight. Does anyone know how to fix this? iTunes' preferences have lots of settings for audio importing, but none for video that I could see.
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Shane said 5:22PM on 3-05-2007
shame you cant change album when in full screen with the remote.
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Fraser Drew said 5:24PM on 3-05-2007
Ornage Shuffles are Orange!! Yay
But no frontRow coverflow love?
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jeremyjk1221 said 5:41PM on 3-05-2007
I'm liking the Vista Minimize/Maximize/Exit buttons but this updating iTunes Library is taking quite a while...
I can't wait to see what the fullscreen Cover Flow will look like!
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mentalsticks said 5:49PM on 3-05-2007
The itunes 'help' menu now gives 'apple tv help', which I, living in the Netherlands, clicked. it's really pathetic over here. It tells me why I should get myself an Appletv, which is... because it can show movie trailers! It even goes so far as to mention: '... and that's something your TV just couldn't do.' I wonder why they even bother selling the appletv in countries where you can't buy the content yet.
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mentalsticks said 5:52PM on 3-05-2007
One More Thing:
Both tuaw and Macworld mention these new sorting options... anybody found out what they are yet? i don't see any difference yet in that department.
Also: did anything visible change in QT? Or is it just bugfixing?
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Qin Zhi Lau said 6:09PM on 3-05-2007
There's a new sorting feature - Album by Year (at least, I didn't see it before.)
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Stretch said 6:11PM on 3-05-2007
Does this fix the problem where iTunes will take 10min to start up if the last speakers you used are airtunes speakers, because it is "connecting" to them?
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John Reynolds said 7:06PM on 3-05-2007
Ever since I got Vista from its update, iTunes has crashed my computer. Today, I eagerly updated iTunes in hopes of stable performance. While I was going through the update process, the thing stops and BSODs! I love iTunes to death, and I would be running it on a mac if I could afford one. I just hate these incompatibility problems.
Does anyone out there have the same problem and/or know how to fix this, any help would be appreciated!
Cheers
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joel johnson said 7:14PM on 3-05-2007
What? No listed compatibility with Vista?
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Martijn Engler said 2:42AM on 3-06-2007
I'm going to pick up my Macbook Pro again in an hour or so, can't wait to install 7.1 and have *fullscreen* coverflow!
Although I'll probably have to wait 'till I'm home since I'm supposed to work here.. Or something... ;-)
Maybe I should just install it on this MacBook right now... Anyway, can't wait, thanks for the tip!
Oh, and Qin Zhi Lau: that option isn't new. ;)
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Dempsey said 7:09AM on 3-06-2007
Call me crazy (or not-tech-savvy-enough) but downloading a 36MB file is not an update, that's another version. Have all iTunes updates been a full re-download.
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JeffDM said 10:28AM on 3-06-2007
A lot of Apple's updates are huge. It might really be a full-fledged version, it's probably simpler than making sure that the update is compatible with several previous revisions of iTunes.
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JBarnes said 9:42AM on 3-07-2007
So fulllscreen coverflow is of course brilliant. After being frustrated by not having it in Front Row for too long. After playing with Remote Buddy ( 60 day free trial at http://www.iospirit.com/index.php?mode=view&obj_type=infogroup&obj_id=24&o_infogroup_objcode=infogroup-23&sid=3422945Gc45b2c1f6e87ec90 ) you can have a CoverFlow FrontRow-esque experiance. Takes some simple custom actions in the Mapping menu, but now you can change that music from across the room while making dinner.
Cheers,
JB
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