Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Glad you guys warned me about the new iTunes skin. I'll zip up my current copy before installing.
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Hmm?
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I'm at my folks' place, a far cry from the heady 20Mbit Cable connection I get where I live They have crummy broadband, and my Father, in his wisdom, put the wireless router downstairs, despite all the computers in the house being upstairs. Transmission gets a reasonable if not brilliant 50kb/s up here, so it's probably just Software Update being shit. I'm quite impressed by it really, this spare bedroom is above the drawing room which is bloody miles away from the router. My entitlement syndrome doesn't stretch as far as complaining about the invisible internet access I get being slow
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Why, oh, why does Apple have to make the basic interface progressively worse with every release of iTunes? Sure, some things improve with each release, but it always feels like a "two steps forward, three steps back" kind of situation. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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OK Mr. Sunshine!
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Toronto
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I don't care for it much either. Is there any way to re-skin it with the old ones?
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Argh, the stupid genre in the browser is back again! and the -
defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-genre-when-browsing -bool FALSE doesn't seem to work.. anyone found the work around or did it work for you. |
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skates=grafs
Join Date: May 2005
Location: New York
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I HATE genre view.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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You can nest logical connectives in smart playlists now.
For example you can do: That will give top rated songs where the genre is either rock or alternative. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Anyhow, it looks like the window gradient and controls are in there. So, one could change them in a similar manner as with previous versions with a resource editor. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Veteran Member
Join Date: May 2004
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Random notes:
Home Sharing: Like! Still haven't tested with multiple iTunes Store accounts. (Really really wish there were a way to tie this to MobileMe family accounts as an option, so that there was a concept of 'a family' where all accounts could inter-mix... may not be an issue though, we'll see.) Basic functionality is pretty slick, although the auto-sync is limited to *PURCHASED* items, and only one way. If I purchase anything on my laptop, it gets auto-pushed to the home media server, but not the other way around. Also, I don't see how to handle playlists in any sort of reasonable fashion. Seems to be files only. Bummer. Usability win however: bottom left, flip "All Files" pop up to "Items not on this computer". Instant filtering to see what you don't have locally. Awesome. I wonder if this feature is scriptable at all? If so, huzzah, simple syncing in the bag. (Probably not. ) WebKit: Gruber was half right. iTunes9 is still a 32-bit Carbon app, but the iTunes Store is now (all? mostly?) straight up HTML5 being rendered through WebKit. There is no native client-side store UI, it's *all* being fed from the servers. This is both a great move and a great testbed, as well as (assuming it works well) a great piece of PR for "no, really, HTML5 is usable". Love it. File -> Library -> Organize Library: Yay! |
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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I tried my hand at home sharing but ran into an iTunes store account snafu: apparently I had some DRM'ed music under a second iTunes account (AOL), and now Apple is telling me to change that second account................
Anyone know if I can combine my primary (MobileMe) account with the AOL one? I'd like to let you all know how home sharing works with 2 macs and a windows machine |
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(edit) Tried two more pages. In all cases, it first sends a property list, then an XHTML 1.1 document (incorrectly as text/html for no apparent reason) with PList intermingled. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Wait, you did *experiments*!?! Dear god man, are you trying to single-handedly destroy the rumor blogosphere with your truthiness?? You *CAD*.
I stand corrected. Not HTML5. Mea culpa. |
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skates=grafs
Join Date: May 2005
Location: New York
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Ca na da
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Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Yeah, I actually found that menu because my browser defaulted to the left position with only the artists column enabled. So, I was just trying to find out how you guys even had the old top position one!
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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I just found it today as well, when I was showing someone how to change it back to the top view. Thanks anyway
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melbourne
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Anyway I'm glad I'm not the only one who instantly noticed how ghastly the new iTunes looks, especially the play controls P.S. ARGH the position indicator in the scrubber is WHITE, WTF??? |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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What what whaat?! /Mrs. Broflovski The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Safari 4.0.3 is required to use the store now? Ugh. I really don't like having to restart my computer for a freakin' browser update.
Oh, and can I just say how freakin' cool the genius mix thing is? I just turned it on and I'm impressed with the "stations". If it's not red and showing substantial musculature, you're wearing it wrong. |
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If it's not red and showing substantial musculature, you're wearing it wrong. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Veteran Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Melbourne
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http://static.maniacalrage.net/bucket/itunes/: UI Comparison
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