Posted on September 19, 2006 in iPod by Ben Coleman1 Comment »

iTunes 7, not sure why I upgraded, nothing that exciting apart from the album art fetching feature.
Now I really wish I hadn’t – it crashed on me and I lost my entire library, got that back from a backup (once bitten, twice shy). Now it starts up, spends about 1 hour doing the gapless playback analysis bollocks again then crashes in a heap when I shut it down, meaning it goes through gapless shite again on next start and so on, ad infinitum. Don’t bother with version 7, at least 6 worked.

Update – luckily I backed up my iTunes library files prior to the upgrade; I’ve uninstalled 7 put 6.0.4 back on and copied over my backed up DB. It’s all working like a charm.

Posted on September 16, 2006 in iPod by Ben Coleman6 Comments »

iTunes 7 is out and it supports gapless playback. The bad news is this only works on 5th generation iPods (see this Apple support article). Boooo, the chances of this being rolled out to older iPods, somewhere around zero I’d guess.