Comments on: iTunes 8.1 is better, faster, stronger and now available

By: geneg

geneg — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:56:10 +0000

Alonso,

Switch to Media Monkey and spare yourself the headaches and Mac attacks.

By: geneg

geneg — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:54:30 +0000

Your statement about iTunes 645-bit support is not accurate. The automatic upgrade wiped out my music library. It did save a copy in my previous version folder to reimport killing time for over 40,000 songs, movies, etc. Another wonderful side effect is my iPod Touch has not been able to sync since. When I checked with Apple for the correct version to use, I was told to use 8.0.1. I got installed and still no sync and I am being pinged to upgrade. Bye Bye iTunes….Hello Media Monkey.

By: alonso

alonso — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:56:22 +0000

fuck all you people that say, “if you dont like it, move on”. listen assholes, not all of us buy in to the mac thing. We paid for Ipods that should be able to be synced at a decent speed, not at 1 song a minute, and no it is not the computer, its Apple. If i could use some other program to update my Ipod, i would. But i cant, so fuck you and fuck Apple. And I hope nobody got paid for writing that software.

By: Lindholdt

Lindholdt — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:00:04 +0000

My Itunes 8.1 is slower..!!!!

When i choose a number from my NAS it takes about 5-6 sec before the number is actualy loaded and played… Don’t know why??

The “funny” part is that it is not always. Sometimes it loads in half a second, like it always did… Sometimes it takes 5-10 sec.

By: Shrub

Shrub — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 13:05:02 +0000

Being openly Apple, I could be seeing/wanting to see things, but I am pretty sure surfing titles in AppleTV is considerably faster now. I have over 900 titles on my NAS served to my ATV with 8.1 and so far, it seems a good 100% jiffier.

By: Maximilian

Maximilian — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:56:17 +0000

Cover-flow in iTunes 8.1 is lightening fast!!! It is stunning. I have 10 gigs of music, and itunes takes less than 3 seconds to load all the album arts. Flick scrolling has also been improved.

By: Andy Bernard

Andy Bernard — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:21:15 +0000

My understanding, Jeremiah, is that in addition to gathering and condensing news, a blog should also try to make the news its own in some way. A review, opinions, whatever. But posting what is essentially an advertisement for Apple is not why I have been coming to BGR 10/day for the last year. And I’m not arguing Apple fanboy stuff. I couldn’t give a crap. My only point is that when you post a piece of news, it should contain at least a minor original component. If this post had included blatant Apple bias, which I don’t think it does, aside from the “go download it!” bit, I would probably be happier with it, because at least it would’ve included an original thought. So yes, I have noticed what blogs do, and I don’t believe that this pos accomplished that. I’ve also noticed that you’re a tool bag.

By: dacyj

dacyj — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:31:38 +0000

Boy you guys sure know how to fuck up a good review. Like stated before, if you don’t like it move on.

By: FarmerBob

FarmerBob — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:34:32 +0000

Where’s the feature of finding the music that iTunes loses on its own? Which an Apple iTunes Dev Rep/TSR told me was on the way this time last year.

I’m tired of having to hunt down songs that I just listened to that mysteriously disappeared, which is sitting right next the song that is currently playing.

Well, Apple?

By: G23

G23 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:44:54 +0000

Regardless of nearly every tech site’s review of 8.1, importing files at 256kbps is NOT a new feature.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:54:16 +0000

As we all know, PCs never crash. Ever. Under any circumstances. That’s only Macs, am I right? My Mac, which I reboot when I feel like it or when I run Software Update, doesn’t crash. But according to your sarcasm, that simply isn’t possible.

We both have stable computers. This is a good thing. We should go out for a beer some time.

By: Jared J.

Jared J. — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:40:17 +0000

Hope this itunes update is really faster cuz browsing the menus of my ipod classic, filled with 47.5gb, is super slow in itunes 8.Does this mean there are new ipod touches in the works too? It would be hot if there were a 160gb touch.

By: KDM

KDM — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:38:01 +0000

Hopefully newer is better! I’ll be upgrading soon

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Edgemoor United States

By: Orga

Orga — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:18:44 +0000

StevenGlansburg, I don’t really hate Apple at all. What I do hate, however, are people like you who drink the Kool-Aid.

As we all know, Macs never crash. Ever. Under any circumstances. That’s only PCs, am I right? My PC, which I reboot when I feel like it or when I run Windows Update, doesn’t crash. But according to your paradigm, that simply isn’t possible.

It must be interesting living in your world. I’d like to visit some time, if only briefly.

By: Abe Aalen

Abe Aalen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:49:37 +0000

I will give this new version a chance but I hate iTunes so much that I only use it when I need to (iPhone sync).

Up until I used my friends mac, the only thing I knew of apple was their crummy iTunes and quiktime, which would crash my PC alot. So obviously I didn’t get what the hype was about. That I think hurts apple, because alot of people form their opinions by their first impressions, and iTunes leaves a bad first impression. The iPhone (which I own and use) doesn’t fare all that much better because it crashes alot too. So while their notebooks are almost flawless, alot of their other products aren’t. But the fanboy nation doesn’t address that, and that maybe part of the problem.

I personally don’t care about companies, I just want a good product.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:39:16 +0000

^Ya just gotta laugh your ass off at those who, so easily, marry their [platform / carrier / manufacturer] and then make such public fools of themselves in the process. One day they will find Zen and realize it doesn’t come with, nor require, a brand-name.

Glad to see 8.1 finally arrive. Time to move from my ancient mp3 and try out an iPod now that I’m finally moving to a new laptop.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:06:33 +0000

Lol@: all the fanboys. Someday there will be a single apple or microsoft related post without either party foaming at the mouth.

P.S. Update working well so far.

By: StevenGlansburg

StevenGlansburg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:09:56 +0000

The majorty of people who openly “hate” Apple have probably never used half the stuff they bash. Additionally they probably enjoy their computers crashing frequenty and have no desire for something that is reliable.

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Dayton United States

By: Dash69

Dash69 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:51:19 +0000

If you hate Apple products and software, stop using them. Apple does have competitors. But please stop crying about how they constantly update their products. I am sorry MS can’t compete with this company. No, I meant don’t want to compete. MS puts profits over innovation. This is why their technology is always years behind apple and other tech companies. They wait to see what someone else creates, then they copy it or steal it, to claim it as their own.

I am not saying Apple is perfect. No company is. But you have to give them credit for trying to push the technology envelope. What is hard, they make simple. What is confusing, they make clear. Yes I am a fanboy. They have made using technology fun and exciting. I will not apologize for that and neither should Apple.

Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Bartlett United States

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:44:17 +0000

@Tyrone D.

Thanks so much i’ll definitely look into it . Its been giving me such a headache everytime I try to burn a cd or something . I ALMOST regret buying a Vista 64 Bit laptop . Does it matter if its a Dell Xps ? Because that’s what I have .

By: jonnybruha

jonnybruha — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:41:25 +0000

Do you know how I know you’re Apple fan boys? You write change logs for Apple’s website.

By: Tyrone D.

Tyrone D. — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:57:08 +0000

@ Kimberly:
This version is compatible with Vista 64-bit, and iTunes has been compatible with Vista 32 and 64-bit since they were released.

If you’re having issues with it, check out this website: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

I’ve been using iTunes on my Vista 64-bit desktop since it was in beta and has worked just fine with no serious issues; only performance issue but that’s because Apple doesn’t really care too much about Windows users experience with Apple applications.

By: tande04

tande04 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:56:48 +0000

The whole “CDs can be imported at higher quality” is frankly wrong.

You could always import at that quality. You could always import at a higher quality, you still can, the only thing that’s changed is apple now is pointing out that its “iTunes plus” quality.

By: keymaker

keymaker — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:56:01 +0000

Wow am loving this DJ request feature, yep iTunes just became my default player again. Imagine just going to anywhere music is playing and being able to view the entire music catalog and being able to vote songs up on a list and being able to request songs to play, i find it cool, it’s like every time i walk into my local restaurant they’re playing the Bee Gees, not that they’re bad or anything but damn every time.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:52:29 +0000

No, regurgitating is what fan-boys do. Genius does nothing but crash windows machines and nothing about iTunes has EVER been quick. I’ll give them easy, but surely not quick. Why is it BG that Apple can never do no wrong. If RIM had named the next version 8.1 you’d comment “how original”
CDs can be imported at a much higher quality.. OH BOY, if you’re that concerned with sound quality, listen to the CD itself. How exactly does increased speed make the experience richer? It’s about time they had the store actually function at a reasonable speed. I’d call it functional now, not richer. Plus, no bashing “1 infinate loop” for strong-arming people into the new version if they buy the new 4gb apple memory stick, uh, I mean shuffle. If another manufacturer (MS) made someone upgrade windows media player with a product, you’d be all over it.
Please oh please, just finally admit that apple is as fallable as the rest of these companies. They all try and fail all the time.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:49:27 +0000

They need to make one compataible with my vista 64 bit , I can’t do shit with these iTunes updates .

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:43:30 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed, that’s what blogs do. They condense all different stories into one convenient website so that people don’t have to go to twenty different websites. If you don’t like that, don’t come back!

By: Andy Bernard

Andy Bernard — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:39:51 +0000

I don’t understand this post. What is the point in regurgitating what any of us can read on Apple’s own website. Why not give a review with substantive information?

By: Edward O

Edward O — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:37:17 +0000

And Genuis in 8.1 is crashing my computer!