I have an old Quicksilver at home I'm using as a media server for my ATV. My current media collection is 90+ days worth of movies, TV shows, music, audiobooks, etc (and growing). and iTunes can really drag at times. Yesterday I was going through my movies and came across 20 out of 160 movies that had spontaniously become corrupted. Some in the last two weeks.
The release notes indicate better performance with large libraries and I was wondering if anyone has applied this to a large library yet and given it a test drive. Are the improvements supposed to be related to speed, stability, or maybe dealing with spontanious corruption? I'll probably wait until this weekend to upgrade since I don't want to risk the stability of my library until I'm sure it won't hose my system.
What is special about the iTunes Plus encoding that iTunes couldn't encode before? I thought it was 256kbps encoded constant bit rate, and the program already had that for a long time. The only thing I can think of is that it's now a pre-made setting that's in the drop-down list instead of something that you manually enter as a custom setting.
Good.
I'd say this was overdue.
In 8.1 there is a new iTunes Plus option is the import seeting drop down, it is the new default. It appears to the 256mps, VBR.
After updating to iTunes 8.1 and updating the Remote App to 1.2 I can no longer get my iTunes to see my iPhone 3G. It syncs just fine and mounts in the device list like normal but when trying to connect to my iTunes Library through the remote app when it presents the 4 digit pass code, thats as far as it goes. iTunes never gives me a place to enter that pass code.
It might seem like an obvious question, but are you on the same wifi network?
Interesting how the ad copy for the new Shuffle says up to 1,000 songs, with a footnote fine print disclaimer that it's 500 songs using 256. Maybe they should reverse those numbers now that 256 is default, with this "new feature."
It might seem like an obvious question, but are you on the same wifi network?
I have exactly the same problem as FlashmanBurgess, and all of iTunes diagnostic tests confirm network connectivity is OK. (Remember he said the passcode is accepted by iTunes, proving LAN connectivity).
It just does not get to the final act, which is finding the library.
It might seem like an obvious question, but are you on the same wifi network?
Unlike your issue, FlashmanBurgess, when I enter the remote passcode, iTunes tells me "Your remote is now able to control iTunes", but the same as you, my iPhone tells me "could not find library"
8.1 made about 100 songs in my library lose their path to their location ok the disk and I can't get the updates to my App Store apps. Both are easily fixable with some repetitive work, but I would have rathered it not occur, of course.
What is iTunes DJ and friends requesting songs? How does this work?
It allows you to view a DJs music catalog and it allows you to request songs right from your iPhone or iPod touch, it's like if you where to walk into a store and if they got iTunes DJ enable you could just request for songs instead of listening to all the crap they got, pretty cool i'll say.
My main concern was that iTunes would hang when processing the files for iTunes Plus tracks, resulting in an album taking 2+ hours to download, more often taking 3 hours....anyone noticed if this issue has been addressed ? This is the true test of 'snappier'
Yikes! After upgrading to 8.1, I noticed that I can no longer upgrade songs and albums to iTunes Plus format.
Can anyone on the older iTunes check to see if this is an iTunes store thing, or just a version 8.1 thing? There were still a whole bunch of tracks I wanted to upgrade, but I was waiting on them for budgetary reasons. I know Apple said that offer could end at any time, but I'm hoping it's just an upgrade thing and perhaps I can downgrade back to the previous version of iTunes to grab those last tracks and albums that I wanted.
Scrolling through my 6000-song library is definately faster and zippier than it used to be, but it's still not as fast as say scrolling through a website in Safari. Still a nice improvement.
[QUOTE=JeffDM;1389077]What is special about the iTunes Plus encoding that iTunes couldn't encode before? I thought it was 256kbps encoded constant bit rate, and the program already had that for a long time. The only thing I can think of is that it's now a pre-made setting that's in the drop-down list instead of something that you manually enter as a custom setting.
iTunes 8.0.x offered 256 encoding as a option called "Higher Quality 256K" but the user had to manually change the setting from the prior default, High Quality 128K. iTunes 8.1 now sets the default to 256K, but calls it iTunes Plus instead of Higher Quality 256K. So it is not really a new feature, just a new default setting and name change.
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It's the old Party Shuffle paired with Genius to make it more intelligent instead of having you setup a playlist ahead of time.
Ah...
Obligatory... But is it snappier???
iTunes Store seems snappier...!
The release notes indicate better performance with large libraries and I was wondering if anyone has applied this to a large library yet and given it a test drive. Are the improvements supposed to be related to speed, stability, or maybe dealing with spontanious corruption? I'll probably wait until this weekend to upgrade since I don't want to risk the stability of my library until I'm sure it won't hose my system.
What is special about the iTunes Plus encoding that iTunes couldn't encode before? I thought it was 256kbps encoded constant bit rate, and the program already had that for a long time. The only thing I can think of is that it's now a pre-made setting that's in the drop-down list instead of something that you manually enter as a custom setting.
Good.
I'd say this was overdue.
In 8.1 there is a new iTunes Plus option is the import seeting drop down, it is the new default. It appears to the 256mps, VBR.
After updating to iTunes 8.1 and updating the Remote App to 1.2 I can no longer get my iTunes to see my iPhone 3G. It syncs just fine and mounts in the device list like normal but when trying to connect to my iTunes Library through the remote app when it presents the 4 digit pass code, thats as far as it goes. iTunes never gives me a place to enter that pass code.
It might seem like an obvious question, but are you on the same wifi network?
It might seem like an obvious question, but are you on the same wifi network?
I have exactly the same problem as FlashmanBurgess, and all of iTunes diagnostic tests confirm network connectivity is OK. (Remember he said the passcode is accepted by iTunes, proving LAN connectivity).
It just does not get to the final act, which is finding the library.
Anyone else with a similar problem?
It might seem like an obvious question, but are you on the same wifi network?
Unlike your issue, FlashmanBurgess, when I enter the remote passcode, iTunes tells me "Your remote is now able to control iTunes", but the same as you, my iPhone tells me "could not find library"
Obligatory... But is it snappier???
From the start of the article:
iTunes 8.1 (65.4 MB) "is now faster and more responsive," Apple says.
Apple wouldn't lie, would they?
Anyone know of a script for the first issue?
What is iTunes DJ and friends requesting songs? How does this work?
It allows you to view a DJs music catalog and it allows you to request songs right from your iPhone or iPod touch, it's like if you where to walk into a store and if they got iTunes DJ enable you could just request for songs instead of listening to all the crap they got, pretty cool i'll say.
it's gonna take time i don't have to sort that out. thanks apple.
but you've got time to read and post on AI?
It might seem like an obvious question, but are you on the same wifi network?
Yes. Only one network in the house.
Can anyone on the older iTunes check to see if this is an iTunes store thing, or just a version 8.1 thing? There were still a whole bunch of tracks I wanted to upgrade, but I was waiting on them for budgetary reasons. I know Apple said that offer could end at any time, but I'm hoping it's just an upgrade thing and perhaps I can downgrade back to the previous version of iTunes to grab those last tracks and albums that I wanted.
Yikes! After upgrading to 8.1, I noticed that I can no longer upgrade songs and albums to iTunes Plus format.
Never mind. The option is back. Must have been some upgrade bugs with the store interface that needed to be worked out.
It's the old Party Shuffle paired with Genius to make it more intelligent instead of having you setup a playlist ahead of time.
Ah...
My mistake, it's considerably more involved than what I stated.
From the start of the article:
Apple wouldn't lie, would they?
Scrolling through my 6000-song library is definately faster and zippier than it used to be, but it's still not as fast as say scrolling through a website in Safari. Still a nice improvement.
And the iTunes store is quicker as well indeed.
iTunes 8.0.x offered 256 encoding as a option called "Higher Quality 256K" but the user had to manually change the setting from the prior default, High Quality 128K. iTunes 8.1 now sets the default to 256K, but calls it iTunes Plus instead of Higher Quality 256K. So it is not really a new feature, just a new default setting and name change.