iTunes for Windows...NOW AVAILABLE!!

[LightPhoenix]

Don't start yet. McDonalds says "there are no agreements to announce, so anything else is pure speculation." http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/031106/1251001388_1.html

Yeah, I read. I'll have to keep my fingers crossed for a Wendy's/iTunes deal.

 

[Maraxle]

I downloaded it, used it, and liked it a lot... but then I noticed what else it did to my system. First of all, even though I specifically told it not to, it associated some of my media types with QuickTime. That didn't make me too happy, but was a 5 second fix. The part that really bugs me is what it does to your cdrom drivers. If you look in the task manager, you'll see something running called gearsec.exe. There's also a new driver associated with all of your cdrom drives. It's because of the GEAR software that iTunes uses to burn cds. Why this has to be running all the time, eating up resources, is beyond me. Everything else I have can burn using the standard ASPI drivers that are already there without adding new drivers. Also, there's some iPodService.exe, or something like that, that runs constantly. I had to disable it in the Services dialog. Plus, iTunesHelper.exe.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I think it looks cool, and works well, but I don't like when programs install extra things that I don't want or need. So, I ended up going back to my restore point from right before I did the installation.

 

[Dimwhit]

I downloaded it, used it, and liked it a lot... but then I noticed what else it did to my system. First of all, even though I specifically told it not to, it associated some of my media types with QuickTime. That didn't make me too happy, but was a 5 second fix. The part that really bugs me is what it does to your cdrom drivers. If you look in the task manager, you'll see something running called gearsec.exe. There's also a new driver associated with all of your cdrom drives. It's because of the GEAR software that iTunes uses to burn cds. Why this has to be running all the time, eating up resources, is beyond me. Everything else I have can burn using the standard ASPI drivers that are already there without adding new drivers. Also, there's some iPodService.exe, or something like that, that runs constantly. I had to disable it in the Services dialog. Plus, iTunesHelper.exe.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I think it looks cool, and works well, but I don't like when programs install extra things that I don't want or need. So, I ended up going back to my restore point from right before I did the installation.

I never noticed that. It is kind of annoying. It think it's partly because of the basic differences between the Mac OS and the Microsoft OS. But I'm not a programmer, so I really don't know why they did that. Other than the fact the Apple has always catered to the basic computer user, so they have all those processes running in order to be available as soon as someone needs them.

I don't recall this being the case on my Mac, but I've never looked.

 

[Henry]

I never noticed that. It is kind of annoying. It think it's partly because of the basic differences between the Mac OS and the Microsoft OS. But I'm not a programmer, so I really don't know why they did that.

I have the strong feeling it's how they control the musci distributions - remember what you said about not being able to burn but X numebr of times before having to change something? They likely use their own drivers to ensure it.

 

[Aeolius]

10% off iPods and iPod accessories. Today (11/28) only.

http://www.apple.com/store

 

[Psionicist]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34141.html
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.p...3&mode=thread&tid=107&tid=141&tid=187&tid=188
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12845
http://www.nanocrew.net/blog/

You can really do the same with advanced CD-burning software but still interesting.

 

[Lalato]

Hmmm... The resulting file is completely unplayable on iTunes. Apparently you have to re-wrap it with mpeg4 before iTunes will recognize it.

I'm not saying that this isn't an interesting development, but it seems like too much of a hassle to be worthwhile. It also seems too simple for Apple to be able to "close" this loophole with a software update to Quicktime.

There is also another similar piece of software called MyTunes that does something similar.

 

[Aeolius]

AOL members get access to iTunes Music Store

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/12/18/aol/