Preceeding today's launch of the iPhone Apple released iTunes 7.3 for Windows and Mac OS X. It is available on the iTunes homepage and via Apple Software Update.

Excellent, thanks for the heads up

Cool, cheers

-Rich-

interesting: some buttons have changed, are brighter now.

looks very, very good imho.

is it necessary to upgrade even if wed don't use iPhone?

No, not really. There is a new feature for sharing photos with AppleTV as well, but that's about it.

Mewonders if it's Vista-compatible yet ...

only 47.7MB

thats terrible IMO

It's been Vista compatible for a while now...

it still does some funny things in vista, like for me sometimes it takes a year to open

Thanks.

Some slight changes to the GUI. I think it looks better.

Performance-wise it's great for me, however I usually get the black window on startup, which is fixed with a quick minimize. Even so it's still compatible with Vista, even if there are a few bugs here and there.

EDIT: This is on 7.2. I'm still downloading 7.3, so I hope the black window issue is finally fixed

Updated. It looks different somehow, but I updated cause I skipped the previous version, so might as well.

They removed the non-metal like buttons and replaced them with something a little more Leopard like.

Looks lame, but nicer than before I suppose

heh... i've seen worse apps wanting more space on your disk tho...

Glassed Silver:mac

edit: 34MB for mac os x yay ^^

^Such as Adobe.

i wish they made it a true vista app, like when you minimize or maximize the window it does the transition, same as when you close it, still feels like a port to me.

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

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

The included QuickTime (7.1.6) is still keeps on crushing every time. I can't watch a single trailer.

"Provides the interface to Apple mobile devices."

Lol duhh... i've stopped it now anyways

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

basic changes i noticed, 7.3 on the right

lol, i knew summet had changed on the menu!!
thort i was going mad!

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

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.



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

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

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

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

Ahh - very "Windows" looking.

Windows 3.1 that is - lol

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

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

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.

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

shame i still get the black window issue

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

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

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

Looks like it did fix it!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

*Avoids countless hours of renaming, sorts by Title*