Itunes 5

gservs_karl · 8th September 2005

Comment on it???

Personnaly, im not to sure about the new colors :S

luke · 8th September 2005

Just done the update now...

I've not found anything wrong with it so far, I like the Lyrics option in the song information!

Provida · 8th September 2005

I installed it yesterday, it seems remarkably like iTunes 4 but with the added podcast feature. Which I doubt I'll use anyway.

Jake

luke · 8th September 2005

The Podcast feature was there before version 5, it was on the Mac version anyhow.

alexcf · 8th September 2005

Apparently, there's some dodgy syncing with Outlook for Contacts and for the Calender.

InteliServ · 9th September 2005

Any way to skin it on the mac? Dont like the new look, much prefer version 4.

gservs_karl · 9th September 2005

All i can see that they added is...

New look
Outlook?Contacts for windows
Parental Controls
Smart Shuffle
And Lyrics
Search seems better as well

InteliServ · 9th September 2005

:S I'm sure i'll grow to love it. Just done a software update check again, seems there is a new itunes phone driver, I take it this must be for the new phone apple/motorola are releasing. Would be nice to see one, wont be anything as good as a normal ipod tho IMO.

luke · 9th September 2005

I didn't notice much of a change look wise, but... i often have it minimized and use KeyTunes for changing track with key shortcuts.
I do like how it shows the time elapsed and the time remaining at the same time, most players you can only view one or the other.

Provida · 9th September 2005

Thinking about it... no difference at all in how it looks when using FoxyTunes in Firefox!

Andrew · 14th September 2005

I personally dont like Itunes, it seems a tad bloated for what it is. I only installed it to upload songs to my ipod, which I found you can do via a winamp plugin.

fusion · 15th September 2005

talking of itunes, slightly off topic here.. but I have a creative zen with that crappy mediasource thing and its SOOO useless... anyone else hate it as well? Its just so badly designed with no decent features in it at all..

Provida · 15th September 2005

Gah! iTunes5 and the iPod Shuffle that I won (which was the reason I installed iTunes in the first place) decided not to talk to each other last night.

I wasted one hour of my time troubleshooting a music player and a jumped up USB memory drive.

Karl · 19th September 2005

iTunes 5 isn't as bad as v4, v4 was serious bloatware and was slow as anything, v5 seems like it's been on a diet.

jmaskell · 20th September 2005

I havent been using iTunes for long (couple of weeks when I got my iPod Photo) so havent really noticed much difference but iTunes 5 just seems to be a bit more "sleek" than iTunes 4 was.

I do like the added support for PodCasting though, especially as I've already got myself subscribed to a few Podcasts.