Apple Seeds iTunes 10.5 Beta 9 to Developers

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Apple Seeds iTunes 10.5 Beta 9 to Developers

Just days before Apple's iPhone media event where the company is also expected to make the final public introduction of its iCloud services, Apple has seeded developers with the ninth beta version of iTunes 10.5. The release comes three weeks after Apple seeded the previous beta.

The beta 9 release is a required update for all developers testers of the company's forthcoming iTunes Match service, although the company continues to note several known issues with the release, including the following:

- "Scan and match" feature is not yet complete. Some users' tracks may not be recognized by iTunes Match even if the tracks are available in the iTunes Store, and those tracks will be uploaded to the users' iCloud storage. Some tracks may also be mis-matched to a different version of the same song on the iTunes Store.

- Music can only be added to iCloud from one computer at a time.

- Updating an iOS device to iOS 5 beta 7 may result in music failing to play. Users should turn off iTunes Match in settings and then turn it back on to restore functionality.

Apple continues to warn developers that their iCloud music libraries will be deleted at the end of the beta, so developers should be sure to maintain local copies of their music libraries.

Source: Mac Rumors

[cooky560 Veteran]

Does iTunes 10.5 still allow users to just turn this online media storage nonsense off entirly? I'm worried about this for when I have to update my current iTunes

[Elliott]

Does iTunes 10.5 still allow users to just turn this online media storage nonsense off entirly? I'm worried about this for when I have to update my current iTunes

This "nonsense" is off by default.

[PyX]

I don’t know why they suddenly need 9 betas when there has never been much more than 1 in the past. Is iCloud, Music Match and support for the new iPods and iPhones really that hard to implement? They had only four betas of Lion, which is at least 20 times bigger than iTunes 10.5.

I’ll stay with Beta 7 until the final. Last time I installed a new beta of this, I was forced to upgrade to the latest iOS 5 beta, which I certainly don’t want right now. Beta 5 is fine until the final, as it doesn’t cause me high-data-transfer problems.

[cooky560 Veteran]

This "nonsense" is off by default.

Fair enough, it's just the idea of having to rely on streamed music frankly scares me

[Rudy]

Fair enough, it's just the idea of having to rely on streamed music frankly scares me

You don't understand how it works

[Jub]

They still haven't managed to fix the issue with iTunes not being able to playback relatively long songs (20+ minutes) when skipping in it. It's really annoying.

[Vice]

They still haven't managed to fix the issue with iTunes not being able to playback relatively long songs (20+ minutes) when skipping in it. It's really annoying.

I don't have this issue. I can click at any point in a song and scrub backwards and forwards in a song and it plays back fine. I even tried with a large trance-mix that's over 1 hour and 20 minutes long.

Snow Leopard, iTunes 10.5 Beta 9. Is the issue Lion specific?

[Jub]

Well, could be. I'm running Lion. It does the same thing on both my MBP and the iMac, and no plugins or anything are running. If I remember correctly, it behaved the same on Snow Leopard though. Hmm. Oh well, I suppose it doesn't really matter so much since I rarely skip through tracks but still…