Users of Apple Computer’s Mac OS X Tiger are soon to receive a handout from the Cupertino, Calif-based company – a new software update to the operating system that will offer increased stability and some performance enhancements. Under development since the summer, Mac OS X 10.4.8 Update will represent the eighth such maintenance release issued to users of Tiger since the system made its debut in late April of 2005.
I hope it will come with iSync update and support for more mobile phones… apart from security updates of course…
Please, please, please fix iTunes 7. It’s the shoddiest piece of software out of Apple in god knows how long.
Whats wrong with iTunes, I mean besides the fact Apple hit with an ugly stick?
For me, it can’t go a whole CD without crashing.
My issues with iTunes is that it takes longer to load with 7.0. The other issue is while an mp3 is playing if I click on one of the menus at the top the music starts to stutter and stays that way until I close iTunes then reopen it.
Have you updated to 7.0.1? I know that i don’t get the stuttering anymore unless I start something in the quicktime browser plugin…
Not yet, I didn’t know 7.0.1 was out until I read this story. I will upgrade when I get home from work tonight.
iTunes updates aren’t typically part of OS updates and FWIW, 7.0.1 was released today.
Who cares if it is an OS update or not….they really need to fix them.
Apple released the iTunes 7.0.1 update today through the Mac OS X Software Update
“iTunes 7.0.1 addresses stability and performance issues with Cover Flow, CD importing, iPod syncing, and more.”
Still broken. I can reproduce the crash every time by rapidly clicking on three different songs in the same albumb in a row.
is this the only time it crashes (after the update)?
if so, why are you trying to play 3 songs simultaneously?!
Clicking three songs in rapid succession doesn’t cause them to play simultaniously, it just cases iTunes to switch from one song to the next very quickly.
It’s not the only way to invoke the crash — iTunes will still crash after playing five or six songs anyway, its just the fastest way to do so.
And we dont have to pay 😮
And we dont have to pay 😮
Yeah, just like a service pack for windows.
only if MS had more frequent service packs!
service packs are really big updates, for smaller ones there is windows update
>service packs are really big updates, for smaller ones there is windows update
Yeap.. this is what I hate! if you make frequent XP installs on many machines, you have to wait to get every update via the net (unless you use the Autopatcher).
If you make frequent XP installs on many machines, you should have made a slipstream CD long ago.
I hope they fix the very low sound level of the MacBook!
I hope they fix the very low sound level of the MacBook!
Mine sounds pretty loud, if it is iTunes music what has a low volume, try: View > Show Equalizer (they removed the button on iTunes 7 :/ ), choose the “small speakers” preset and play with the preap.
That is the thing I miss the most from my old 12in Power Book. The Power Book had the best laptop speakers I had ever heard, and good volume.
The MacBook speakers are alright, not as good, not a pro model anymore, but they just have no volume.
I hope 10.4.8 brings performance, stability and fixen in Preview and would be very nice to see Aqua again in iTunes 7…
I doubt Apple will return the Aqua in iTunes7. There’s a simple patch you can apply to add the Aqua look http://www.thrica.com/software/aguat/
it’s not just aqua,
it’s the missing equalizier button, or the nice burn button, and so much more…
You find the lower right hand corner where the Burn Disc button is to be too repugnant for your discriminating tastes? You need an EQ Button because the View->Equalizer menu select is too taxing? I can understand that they need a keyboard equivalent but a button is not a lost feature.
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If you can reproduce the bug then file it.
Huzzah, my iPod no longer hard-resets every time I try play a Podcast 😐 It’s like they didn’t do any testing at all; must’ve been on a tight schedule.
No problems with iTunes 7 on my G4 PowerMac
No problems with iTunes 7 on my G4 PowerMac
Me neither and I rather like the new look. Still, there’s always a chance of breakage during an update. Best to take a “carbon copy clone” beforehand.
CMD+1 for Equalizer
CMD+2 for Main window
They haven’t even used the shortcuts for something else, they’ve just removed them. Stupid…