iTunes 7.3

[saxondale.]

Also the organisation of artist names have been sorted so bands such as: *Shels, actually go under S.

[chrisgeleven]

Podcasts now have album view and coverflow.

Also the soundcheck bug for podcasts (it wasn't adding soundcheck values to new podcasts) is fixed.

There is also support for streaming photos from any computer to AppleTV.

will they ever add FLAC and Monkey Audio support? ............

Some people on Hydrogenaudio claim that the Leopard version of QuickTime will have FLAC support, which also means iTunes probably will have it too.

[Boo Berry]

I really dislike what they did to the artist ordering. That alone makes me want to downgrade back down.

[ahfunaki]

Also the organisation of artist names have been sorted so bands such as: *Shels, actually go under S.

holy crap, that's a random change...

i think it's a good idea though...

[Peter McGrath]

basic changes i noticed, 7.3 on the right

Ahh - very "Windows" looking.

Windows 3.1 that is - lol

[ahfunaki]

and so far still no black window for me...woo :)

[Creamy]

Also the organisation of artist names have been sorted so bands such as: *Shels, actually go under S.

Also: Artists with numbers ("3 Doors Down") are placed at the bottom (below "z").

[JamesCherrill]

Do you have Outlook 2007? The iTunes plug-in crashes it. I had to disable the plugin. :(

Yes, I have Outlook 2007 under XP/SP2 and, yes, the 7.3 iTunes plugin crashes it and has to be disabled.

Good thing I don't want my contacts synched onto my iPhone.

[JamesCherrill]

Is iTunes causing more services to run in the background? I've got AppleMobileDeviceHelper running in the background that I didn't have before.

You're doing better than me. AppleMobileDeviceHelper causes Data Execution exceptions on mine.

[Sonic2k]

shame i still get the black window issue

[Galley]

The blurry buttons in Cover Flow have been fixed for Macs running GMA 950 video adapters.

[DanManIt]

My iTunes has been crashing right after I open it since about 2 days ago. Maybe downloading this will fix it.

[b0m8er]

I deleted that Apple Mobile device and apple updater right after install. So far so good!

[DanManIt]

Looks like it did fix it!

[Neil]

Haven't had any problems with iTunes and this update makes it look better!

[batbeef]

Anybody know how to permanently delete or remove the AppleMobileDeviceHelper process?

Edit: nvm, uninstall from add remove programs

[amrinders87]

Anybody know how to permanently delete or remove the AppleMobileDeviceHelper process?

Edit: nvm, uninstall from add remove programs

What I did is this: I extracted the installer I downloaded from apple. Deleted the msi for the mobile devices and executed the ones for iTunes and Quicktime.

[batbeef]

What I did is this: I extracted the installer I downloaded from apple. Deleted the msi for the mobile devices and executed the ones for iTunes and Quicktime.

ok thanks. i already had it installed so i just went into add/remove and took it out. But next time ill try what you mentioned.

[amrinders87]

ok thanks. i already had it installed so i just went into add/remove and took it out. But next time ill try what you mentioned.

This way if the only update iTunes, you only install iTunes. Saves a little bit of time and the hassle of removing Quicktime from the system tray. :D

[VGVL]

This update really screwed up the sorting.

My Mac OS X is in Spanish, so now iTunes doesn't ignore "The" at the beginning of artists' names anymore. iTunes used to ignore "The" and it would sort the artists appropriately, now all the "The.." artists are sorted together.

iTunes is now set to ignore things such as "La, El, Los" in song names, and in Spanish it would be correct. However, it doesn't matter to iTunes if it's by itself or if it's part of a name. "Lang Lang" is now sorted by "ng Lang" and it's between the N's. "Elton John" is sorted by "ton John".

[Quillz]

This update really screwed up the sorting.

My Mac OS X is in Spanish, so now iTunes doesn't ignore "The" at the beginning of artists' names anymore. iTunes used to ignore "The" and it would sort the artists appropriately, now all the "The.." artists are sorted together.

iTunes is now set to ignore things such as "La, El, Los" in song names, and in Spanish it would be correct. However, it doesn't matter to iTunes if it's by itself or if it's part of a name. "Lang Lang" is now sorted by "ng Lang" and it's between the N's. "Elton John" is sorted by "ton John".

That seems to be a bug to me, it should only sort articles, not letters that happen to form articles.

[Crazysah]

I used the update on the laptop and it seems very good to me.

[Hav2enjoyit]

This update really screwed up the sorting.

My Mac OS X is in Spanish, so now iTunes doesn't ignore "The" at the beginning of artists' names anymore. iTunes used to ignore "The" and it would sort the artists appropriately, now all the "The.." artists are sorted together.

iTunes is now set to ignore things such as "La, El, Los" in song names, and in Spanish it would be correct. However, it doesn't matter to iTunes if it's by itself or if it's part of a name. "Lang Lang" is now sorted by "ng Lang" and it's between the N's. "Elton John" is sorted by "ton John".

LOL, you should get rid of "Los Tigres del Norte" y "Los Tucanes de Tijuana", man, that's not music for an iPod...

Just kidding, just rename them eliminating "the" for example, I have "Los Enanitos Verdes" in my iPod, I just renamed then as "Enanitos Verdes"...there, problem solved!

[Boo Berry]

I found if you edit the Sort Artist and Sort Album fields with like for example AAA 10 Years for an artist, or AAA 10,000 Days for a album, it works wonders. You can also edit back The with the Sort Name field.

Using this, it took me a little over an hour to reverse iTunes v7.3's re-ordering nightmare. :p

[hopp58902 Member]

*Avoids countless hours of renaming, sorts by Title*