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iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5
usr122122121 writes "iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5 were released today, available by Apple's Site and Software Update (respectively)."
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Hm - hopefully this will fix the problem of "No One Lives Forever 2" not being able to function in Quicktime 6.4. Otherwise, I'm going to install Jaguar to my iPod and boot off that when I want some "Cate Archer" sneaking action.
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
any plans of a Linux version of iTunes? Since Mac OS X kernel is BSD, I guess porting to Linux wouldn't be that hard.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
It still doesn't minimize to the tray (single most common complaint on Windows), but maximize does make it full screen now. Otherwise there's no discernible diffeence.
I'm really surprised that people are still talking about his vaporware. If you want to reencode an AAC to an MP3. Open the AAC in Soundstudio and save it as an MP3, its very easy.
MPEG, and if you pay the 30 dollars for Quicktime Pro Quicktime should be able to export to MPEG from any format it plays for you, i'm pretty sure.
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Installed the update on WinXP, rebooted, and no iTunes won't start. Nothing at all happens, really. Awesome patch.
Can't please all the people all the time. If they release a jumbo patch a bunch of people complain about why they couldn't have been broken up so they could pick and choose what they want to install.
If they release it in pieces then everyone complains about having to install in chunks. People just love to gripe I guess it's human nature.
Switch Software Update to only check for updates once a month, and you can have all of your updates at once, if it really causes you "madness."
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
actually, there was a Winamp 5 story (yesterday?)
My main gripe with performance was that the play/pause and skip controls were slow to respond, and at times would seemingly not detect clicks. This seems to have fixed. The application also maximizes correctly now at higher resolutions, which is a big plus. It's not a revolutionary upgrade, but definately worth getting.
While I applaud DownHillBattle for their efforts, their efforts seem to be largely composed of swinging a big mase around, hoping they hit something they should, and hoping no one notices when they hit something they shouldn't. DHB is correct, for example, in that the iTMS is built on the RIAA's terms, and helps the RIAA a bit in that way, but they also make several arguable/incorrect statements about things such as AAC compression, and how Apple gets such a large share of the sale(remember, Apple isn't making any money on the iTMS, their share pays for the bandwidth, the CC transaction, and just barely supporting the store itself). Their "solution" isn't doing their cause much good either, asking Apple to list the artist's share of the sale(something not possible, Apple has agreements with the label, not the artist; the label gets to dicate the share and doesn't have to tell a soul), and encouraging users to instead using things like Poisioned(an OSS Kazaa client) to acquire their music instead.
I can't fault DHB for trying, but I can fault them for not trying hard enough. The site seems built more on FUD than facts, and a little bit of something resembling backmail is there too(That could really change the industry. (and we promise we'll take down the iTunes iSbogus page)).
This isn't funny at all.
I'm guessing that the reason they haven't ported Quicktime to Linux has more to do with the licenses for all the codecs that Quicktime depends on (from other vendors) and not any fault really of Apple's. Quicktime without all the codecs wouldn't really be Quicktime, and it's likely not in Apple's interest to dilute their brand for no good reason.
First: My beloved 'player-control' window is now accessible only by using 'ctrl+m'. The standard windows 'maximize' button now sets iTunes up to full screen.
Second: One performance increase I noticed immediately is that it's no longer lagging when scrolling through large library lists. I have 3500+ mp3s in there, and the previous version was very choppy when scrolling. The update seems to have fixed that.
The big news is that these were items that could have been announced at MacWorld SF. instead, they are released now.
What does Steve have up his sleeve for then?
What exactly do you mean by "Don't touch this button?"
I read a news item about the company that encodes the 30-second preview files for iTunes and other music services. I can't remember their name right now, but they encode directly from the master recordings. I'm not sure if they handle the entire encoding operation, though. By the way, this company is going to start offering its tools to other companies so they can start their own music services.
Harold
Um.. Apple publicly states that one prefered way to image xServes is to boot from your iPod and then copy an image from it. Apple had the Genetech guys up on stage at WWDC hawking iPods because they use them to configure their clusters.
so.. Apple says it's OK to boot from it and iPodHacks says Apple says you can't boot from it.
Hmn.. who to believe, who to believe?
I'm not feeling witty so bite me