Issues with iTunes 7 (Mac or PC) - please post them here!

[gnagel]

Since I installed iTunes 7, I can no longer synchronize with my Outlook Calendar.

[Tannerman]

I'm getting the stuttered playback when doing anything else on my machine. Extremely frustrating. How much more resource intensive is v7 vs. v6?

[body electric]

how do you turn off "determining gapless playback information"?
It's making my life slow
hehe

[fadetowhite]

Originally Posted by body electric

how do you turn off "determining gapless playback information"?
It's making my life slow
hehe

Just let it go through your library once and that should be it, no? Except for when you add more tunes.

[Marcust99]

Ok this sucks ROTTON eggs. I just upgraded to iTunes7 and the damn thing won't play anything. I click on a song and nothing happens. When I insert a CD, it gets the tracknames and asks me if I want to import it, but won't play a CD either. GRRR. Reboot didn't help either. Now I'm faced with tracking down an older 6.x version and trying to re-install that.

[marbletulip]

Originally Posted by fadetowhite

I got this error:

"iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer."

in white over grey, where the cover art browser should be. No additional information.

I'm having the same problem.

Everything else with version 7 is working great, and all of my album artwork, both old and new (post-install of v7) loads up fine in the other browse functions. When I use the new scroll feature with the artwork loading up small next to each album, it loads fine.

I have artwork assigned to maybe 20% of my collection. I installed v7 on my girlfriend's laptop and her Cover Flow feature works just fine. I'm at a loss.

The newest version of Quicktime (7.1.3) that came with v7 works great on its own outside of iTunes.

[toastjam]

I had the same thing happen to me last night after installing the new Itunes. It's wierd, I could do as many as 4 songs but never the whole list of songs. I think it may have to do with the file size because some of the longer songs I could only add 2 files at a time.

[landmark]

For me, I'm having a problem that when I'm playing a song in iTunes 7, every minute or so the song stops playing. Well really, the song is still playing because the diamond at the bar keeps moving, just there's no sound. If I pause and then press play again, it works ok for a while, but needless to say, this is annoying.

[landmark]

I unchecked the "sound enhancer" in playback preferences, and it seemed to help. For those of you who are having sound/speaker problems, maybe you have this option checked and need to uncheck it.

[ChrisMatchett]

Cross posted from this thread: http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread...d=1#post987055

For applying album art from a web site to multiple tracks at once do the following:

1. Visit discogs or amazon or other source of album art
2. in Firefox, Inter Explorer or other RIGHT-CLICK the image
3. Choose Copy Image (FFx) or Copy(MSIE)
4. in iTunes 7 select the tracks
5. Right-click and Get Info
6. RIGHT-CLICK in the square Album Art box
7. Choose PASTE
8. Click OK

[Gnu]

I suspect that a few of the problems caused by this release under Windows is due to the fact that they've sorta integrated iTunes, the firmware updater, and the iPod Windows service and changed things 'round a bit. Try this, it might help some of you. If anything like what happened to me happened to any of you, the iPod pseudo-driver that iTunes installs might be getting a bit confuzzled on the update. This fixed it for me.

Close iTunes and disconnect your iPod.

Go into your system services and stop the iPod service.

If under Add/Remove programs you have one (or several) entries that look akin to "iPod 06-25-06" (I forget how they're named), remove them. Remove your Program Files/iPod directory afterward.

Reinstall iTunes.

[jkmaster]

I admit to have a rather old PC (1GHz AMD Athlon, 384 MB RAM, Matrox G450) running the new iTunes 7, and I'll probably go back to 6.0.5, which I considered the best-ever iTunes for Windows regarding performance.

Apart from that I've noticed two minor issues. My 4G iPod didn't stop synching after I had copied some new podcasts from iTunes 7. Album art is totally messed up in my cover browser. I just see some strange triangle pattern resembling album art colors. The scroll bar beneath isn't drawn correctly, either.

OT: It's a shame that gapless playback wasn't brought to the older iPods! I can't imagine it was so hard to implement.

[beckylooo]

Most of my album art is either blank or shows up as Stevie Ray Vaughn's Greatest Hits. I've tried every which way to change it - copy and pasting, dragging, going into info>artwork and selecting from a file - and nothing sticks.

Also - there are huge chuncks of albums grouped as one, with one album cover (stevie ray, naturally). I don't have this problem on my work computer. The only difference between the two is at home, all my music is on an external drive.

Is any one else having this problem? Any thoughts on how to solve it?

Thanks!

[dvdmon]

I have a 5G iPod and yesterday upgraded to iTunes 7. Everything went fine and iTunes 7 seemed to work ok except that when I plugged my iPod in it didn't recognize it. I'm on a Windows XP system and tried the things suggested on Apple's site - resetting the iPod, redoing the COM Service, even reinstalling iTunes. ONCE it did actually see it and I was prompted to update my firmware, but it then disconnected my iPod so I thought that was that, killed iTunes and started it back up, but it never again recognized it. I even tried restoring my iPod, but that had no effect either. I can' t use an earlier version of iTunes because iTunes 7 changes the library to a format that ealier versions don't recognize. I'm at a loss as to what else to try at this point. I suppose I could try killing my library and starting from scratch with that too and trying to get iTunes 6 to recognize the iPod. My computer sees the iPod fine as an external drive, and when I uninstall iTunes 7 and run the updater, it sees it fine and is able to update/restore it. It just seems to be iTunes 7 that can't see it!

[grzelakc]

DVDMon,

I have the EXACT same problem you're having. I found no solution (spent until 4am last nite trying to fix it) but the only thing that appears to work is reverting to iTunes 6.0.5 and sacrificing your music library. This is what I've done and (as expected) the reverted itunes/ipod combo works perfect.

The only difference between you and me is that my ipod is the 1st gen 4gig Nano.

I'm glad to have seen your post because I thought I was the only one with the problem.

Apple better fix this one and fast! This is a huuuge bug in iTunes 7.