iTunes 7 for Windows is unusable
:: Wednesday, September 13th, 2006 @ 5:10:33 pm
:: Tags: Computers, Music
It is absolutely incredible. iTunes for Windows keeps on getting worse! The UI improvements in iTunes 7 are welcome, but I just tried playing a 320×240 downloaded podcast, and it totally takes down my 2Ghz Core Duo IBM Thinkpad T60p. Incredible.
In the little integrated video window, the podcast is choppy. Heaven forbid that you’d want to click on the video to bring it up in its own window. At default size, podcasts run at 2 frames per second, and audio filters in and out. I would have been really embarrassed to release a software product so crappy.
An anonymous iTunes development team member replied, “use the Mac version,” when I brought up the extreme shittiness of the Windows version. Nice. :)
Update: I’ve gotten one of my other Windows boxes to play video smoothly using iTunes 7 for Windows. All I know is that on my Thinkpad, iTunes 6 worked, while iTunes 7 barfs on video.
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Eric,
I have to agree with you! I upgraded it yesterday on my MacBook Pro and it worked like a wonder. But when I tried it on my Windows 2000 Pro box, I had lots of issues. Couldn’t get Album Cover view to work until tonight after reading tons of postings on Apple site http://discussions.apple.com/m.....97#3109497
Glad to see someone else noticed it. At first, I didn’t attribute it to Itunes because I didn’t use it as soon as I installed V7. I thought I had picked up some kind of bug that was degrading my system. But when I figured out the issue was localized to just Itunes, I was both relieved and a little ticked. I’m not the computer guru some are here, and I’m trying to figure if I can go back to the old version without wiping out my library and all the database info on my files. I had to do a lot of work to get to where I am now. I’ve only got about half my audio files on Itunes and am already over 100GB in my library.
I’m told 7.0.1 fixes the Album Cover view works. I just downloaded it, and video is still 2 frames per second when played through iTunes.
Playing through Quicktime is fine. (all on Windows)
is there anyway to get I Tunes 7 to work on a windows 2000??? i really want to get an ipod nano video, but im afraid i dont have vista or xp. :[