Apple Releases iTunes 10.0.1 With Ping Sidebar and Bug Fixes
Following changes to the iTunes Store terms and conditions yesterday that referred to a "Ping Sidebar" for Apple's music-focused social networking platform, Apple has now released iTunes 10.0.1 to enable the new feature and distribute a number of bug fixes.
iTunes 10.0.1 makes it easier to share your favorite music with your friends on Ping. You can now Like or Post about music right from your iTunes library. You can also easily see the recent activity of a selected artist in your library, or of all artists and friends you follow on Ping using the new Ping Sidebar.
This release also provides a number of important bug fixes, including:
- Addresses an issue where the picture quality of a video changes depending on whether the on-screen controls are visible.
- Resolves an issue where iTunes may unexpectedly quit while interacting with album artwork viewed in a separate window.
- Fixes a problem that affects the performance of some third-party visualizers.
- Addresses an issue where the iTunes library and playlists appear empty.
- Resolves an issue that created an incompatibility with some third-party shared libraries.
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Really do not like this application.
I did notice that iTunes 10 shaved off about 20MB vs. iTunes 9 (Windows version). I still wonder what got trimmed down...
While this was one of my biggest complains about Ping (you can't like your own music), it also annoys me to have giant Ping buttons all over iTunes.
If you've got Ping turned off do they all go? I really don't want Apple forcing me to share stuff. I know they want us to share links to the iTunes store but it's our music and we should be able to enjoy it without be judged by our friends.
Sadly, the drab gray icons are still there.
Leave them feedback. I did. Hopefully, the colored icons will make a return as at least an option in 10.1.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
I'm going to be sure and keep a separate set of iTunes 9 libraries from now on. The only bad part is I have to be careful to not run iTunes 10 without holding the key to select a different library or it will "update" the 9 library automatically without asking (making me restore it from backup) and thus making it useless once again with iTunes9. It would be nice if OSX would see them as separate programs and thus they could select their own last used database, but alas Apple assumes all their releases will be golden and thus it's not needed just like a power or reset switch wasn't "needed" on Apple TV (like it never hangs or crashes and thus never needs to be reset easily...that's why I've had to pull its power cord about 100 times since buying the thing 3 years ago :rolleyes: )
Apple, why are you so suck on some of the important details?
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