iTunes 7 problems

[willrob]

I'm using a Mac, so no taskbar, but I do use a utility called Xmenu which gives me quick access to apps. It's not that I can launch the toolbar myself, I would like iTunes to let it work the way it's supposed to: launching when G-Force is invoked. But it can't because it only launches if G-Force launches in a wondow, and iTunes forces it to open in full screen.

[juxtiphi]

I'm using a Mac, so no taskbar, but I do use a utility called Xmenu which gives me quick access to apps. It's not that I can launch the toolbar myself, I would like iTunes to let it work the way it's supposed to: launching when G-Force is invoked. But it can't because it only launches if G-Force launches in a wondow, and iTunes forces it to open in full screen.

I hear ya, I see a lot of people suffering needlessly while trying to use GF.

I realise we all have our fav player and want GF to work fine but, its not GF's fault that the people building these players dont have GF in mind when they rebuild.

if you want to enjoy GF then use the progam with another player until it all gets sorted out.

all I'm sayin is that if you want to use GF you can by using another player like winamp (no probs there !) or you can keep frustrating yourself by trying to using GF with itunes (which I dislike strongly) for some of the reasons you've pointed out and a bunch of other issues that have nothing to do with GF

[nuytsia]

all I'm sayin is that if you want to use GF you can by using another player like winamp (no probs there !) or you can keep frustrating yourself by trying to using GF with itunes (which I dislike strongly) for some of the reasons you've pointed out and a bunch of other issues that have nothing to do with GF

Or alternatively just use an older version of iTunes that does work with GForce. That's what I've done.

I've got a fair number of playlists, smart playlists, an iPod and Airport express connected to my stereo, so presently my frustration level isn't at a pitch (yet) where I'm going to dump all that and move to another system.
But I am investigating....

This seems to be a recurring theme. I start using a player, i get to like, they stuff it up and I then eventually move on to something else. What is it with music software?

[markofkane]

It depends on what version you are talking about. If it's 5 or below, you cannot purchase any more songs from itunes.

If the version you use works, great.

[nuytsia]

Ahhhh.... that is true, yes.
I tend to stick with CDs and loading to a file format I could play on most things.
I purchased a track once (an internet exclusive). About a month afterward I had a spate of PC hiccups had to reinstall windows three times over three months after which I wasn't able to listen to the track anymore.
DRM. Yuck!
No thank you.

[JayPro]

I hope this doesn't hijack the thread; but in my experience with the ongoing battle btween G-Force and iTunes, I find that 110% of the issues spring forth from the offices of Mister Jobs and the chaps who steward the operation of the iTunes application. It's bad enough that Andy has to cope with the seemingly unrelenting dorkiness/idiosynchrasies of all the Windoze players out there; but the ever-more evident tendencies on bahalf the iTunes-for-Mac folks to rob Peter/pay Paul vis a vis making the simplest of updates, corrections and bug-stomps must be maddening.

BTW: DRM issues, IMO horror stories all, seem to condense to the fact that some greedy-*** musicians and the behemoth labels they belong to are quite anal-retentive with the money that goes into how a series of notes, chords and guitar licks sound to their ears only. If a big enough revenue trick gets turned, they place a slue of completely inane copyright restrictions on the media and we wind up buying uneditable files. It's a miracle that iTunes hasn't changed their .99¢/DL policy at all. I call out this phenomenon...as well as the proliferation of boy bands, emo and the (sub)genres of gangsta/rapcore/crunk...as suspect number one in the death of rock and roll as I always knew it.

It's not...or it may never at all *have* been...as much about artitstic consensus as it is about corporate fiat.

[Orbstah]

maybe Apple just want Andy to make all his apps widgets rather than plugins?

[JayPro]

If that turns out being the case, surely the user-configurability aspects of SS products will change to some degree. For instance, would one still be able to script configs and save them from within the applet? And if so, where would the files/documentation for these be located?