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Less than two weeks after releasing iTunes 7.1 and people encountering library corruption and other issues, Apple has released iTunes 7.1.1 for both Windows and Mac. This new update addresses stability and compatibility issues and hopefully will stop those unfortunate library corruption problems.
Thanks, Jonathan.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
vahtryn said 3:08PM on 3-16-2007
Thank you! My entire library went south last night, still in the process of rebuilding it. God it sucks.
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quandmeme said 3:22PM on 3-16-2007
Download page still says Windows 2000 and XP, is this the Vista fix too? I think it is a big black eye for Apple to not have iTunes Vista ready, makes it look like the Vista delays weren't that long if popular programs aren't ready for it, etc.
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Lars said 3:32PM on 3-16-2007
From all the horror stories I heard when 7 first came out, I'm still on 6.0.5 and it's been months, but I still don't think I'm missing much...
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Jeff said 3:35PM on 3-16-2007
I open up iTunes after installing 7.1.1 and I can't preview any videos, both tv shows or music videos.
iTunes comes up with this dialogue box:
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/2746/picture1wj9.png
after clicking "Open iTunes" (even though it's already open) it displays this:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7662/picture2el3.png
Anyone else with similar results?
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justflie said 3:49PM on 3-16-2007
It's probably not as big of a black eye as you might think. After all, how many consumers have ACTUALLY adopted Vista anyways? I know plenty of people that have never even heard of it yet! That being said, Apple should have figured out the Vista software problem by now for those early adopters. Then again, it could be Microsoft purposely throwing a wrench in the works. It's happened before, but I doubt they would be that stupid after all the anti-trust trouble.
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kylej608 said 4:53PM on 3-16-2007
stop sticking up for apple you retards there is no excuse for not being vista compatible after all the time they had to fix the issues
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Jeff said 5:08PM on 3-16-2007
ignore my last post. problem resolved itself. : )
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Rae said 6:00PM on 3-16-2007
Looks like it fixes the sort-by-letter issue I wrote into TUAW about (which they posted) the other day. Someone was listening.
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jh said 6:00PM on 3-16-2007
kylej608-
What do trolls do in their spare time?
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sebastian said 6:13PM on 3-16-2007
Hi guys... i dn't know if any of you observed this... U have a macBook Black :-)... and when you go through coverflow full screen version... the controls and the sound controls get blurry when you play around with them.. this is an issue which ahsn't been resolved... it's not a tragedy.. but visually i find it not so cooll... any thoughts??? Sebs
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Fritz Laurel said 6:26PM on 3-16-2007
People are still running Windows??
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Rae Whitlock said 6:32PM on 3-16-2007
@#10: The blur occurs on my Core Duo Mac mini, as well. I've found that it goes away if you ever so slightly adjust the size of your coverflow view (via the bar between coverflow and your track listing).
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Daveoc64 said 6:56PM on 3-16-2007
Fritz Laurel, I don't feel that Apple's amazing iTunes and Quicktime are setting a good example of what the Mac is capable of to Windows users.
Both are quite poorly made pieces of software.
The 7.1.1 update is just further evidence of this.
Apple has has AGES to get Windows Vista compatibility in, it's been finished for almost 6 months and in beta (which Apple could have used to fix iTunes) before then.
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niknak said 7:03PM on 3-16-2007
Wake up guys. R.e. the Vista support;: It's obviously part of Apple's 'Switch' strategy to not rush this. Why make it any easier to upgrade to the only (and i'm being *very* generous here) OS that might come close to the functionality and ease of use of OS X.
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Martin Hamer said 8:25PM on 3-16-2007
i too have the blurred scrollbar problem on my macbook (only gma-graphics affected). There is a topic on both apple discussions and macrumors, go join!
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Reg Muffet said 8:27PM on 3-16-2007
Daveoc64, you're off-base in a few ways.
iTunes is actually pretty good software, and QuickTime's APIs are superb software engineering. But both have an enormous user base and have to cater for a wide variety of setups to do hardware level things (sound, video, and hardware device support).
Inevitable issues are bound to crop up, but they are actually quite low in the scheme of things.
Vista support was present and mostly stable in the late developer, beta 1 and beta 2 builds. RTM build 6000 broke it. Who's fault is that really?
Besides, the Vista issues are relatively minor and most users don't experience problems with iTunes per se (there is something with resolution independence going on, but no one uses that anyway). Apple is simply playing it safe by not guaranteeing it, which is wise giving that if a problem does occur it can corrupt an iPod's disk catalog, thus creating a warranty claim situation.
(Again, a hardware device support issues extremely common in the Vista transition. Not just Apple, but everyone from nVidia through scanner makers are experiencing it.)
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ShaleX said 8:40PM on 3-16-2007
I dunno, seeing as how much Apple has attacked Vista pubicallly, I basically just figured their lack of Vista support was on purpose to try and smear the OS to the iPod users. How better to urge people to switch from Vista. Nobody would consider iPods not working an iTunes problem.
That's the fun of having a monopoly on the portable media player market.
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John said 10:12AM on 3-19-2007
Funny how noone complains about Zune not working with OSX isnt it? But plenty come out of the woodwork when it envolves iTunes. Just a minor matter.
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prof. gerbik said 4:07PM on 3-25-2007
hi, im a mac - hi, im a pc... hey mac you got any good games.. mac - no i cant handle extreme game applications mainly because no one besides mac works with me.. i dont have sli capabilities either.. im a mac made mainly for multimedia, like pictures, movies and music only. pc - wow really.. kinda boring.. is everything compatible with your os x.. mac - well not as of yet some companies are still working on making somethings mac appropriate.. pc - i got this dual core amd prossesor and 2 new 7800gtx's by nvidia to add to my already existing collection of 2 7800's now i will have over 1gb of graphics memory, can you upgrade like that? mac - no, not really like i said before most things arent mac compatible. pc - damn youve been around as long as i have why so slow with improvements? mac - ask mac.. oh wait they dont have customer service, might find the answer in frequently asked questions though.. pc - hmm...
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prof. gerbik said 4:25PM on 3-25-2007
apple really needs to get on itunes 7 its an absolute failure every time a new update has came out and i have even thought of downloading it. i come to places like these to see it isnt working and the bugs havent even been touched. on top of the claimed cpu usage of 7 which is unbearable.. why so much cpu just to run a movie or play a music file is beyond me. what all this just becuase you want to add some movies and try and screw my music library which ive been piling up for years? your god damned ipods arent any better either if it wasnt for their disc space i wouldnt want one period. you have your retarded mac commercials claiming they are more fun, i dont see how.. i see it like this mac = a prison cell.. all you need to get by is offered by the prison itself its enough to live but nothing special. windows xp(not including vista cuase it sucks)= the window from within the cell your looking out, so many possibilities are waiting for you outside the walls of your confined cell so many more things you can actually do. why settle for a mac when a pc with windows can do everything it can and much much more. so tired of people acting like mac is on some high horse when they are that much worse then pcs, i know microsoft isnt perfect but they are doing more for pcs then mac has ever done in its entire existence.
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