iTunes 8 = Biggest **** up in a while

[DrLacero]

Seriously, did they not even think to make it system friendly, look at this:

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n92/General-Jazza/wts.png

A media player, minimized to system tray playing a track encoded at 192kb/s should not use up near enough 2/3rds as much RAM as WoW on full settings. Get your **** together Apple.

[Pyroka]

iTunes: Built for Apple where you can upgrade your RAM to stupidious proportions.

*hopes stupidious is a word*

[xxMATTGxx]

iTunes: Built for Apple where you can upgrade your RAM to stupidious proportions.

*hopes stupidious is a word*

Really? I didn't know 4GB was that stupid? Apart from the Mac Pro where you can have 10+. I heard there is a few problems with iTunes 78 on Windows but I can't test that.

[Zaub]

One vero sensible solution.. Buy a Mac ;)

[Blinger1]

One vero sensible solution.. Buy a Mac ;)
If you want to waist a crap load of money on a white computer...


Does anyone elses iTunes 8 get stuck on "installing please wait"?
It only loads up if i have my iPod connected :S

[Leetzgirl]

If you want to waist a crap load of money on a white computer...


Does anyone elses iTunes 8 get stuck on "installing please wait"?
It only loads up if i have my iPod connected :S

People like you start arguments :rolleyes:.


and, if it really bad, just go back to itunes 7 for now xD

[Recursion]

There were originally BSOD problems because Apple were using out dated drivers for iTunes, in turn making any Vista or XP systems BSOD.

[Leetzgirl]

There were originally BSOD problems because Apple were using out dated drivers for iTunes, in turn making any Vista or XP systems BSOD.


I stay clear of it then :P

[Recursion]

See why I don't use iTunes for Windows unless im syncing stuff to my iPod? :P

[Leetzgirl]

See why I don't use iTunes for Windows unless im syncing stuff to my iPod? :P

Ahaa, I been using GOM/VLC players to play all my media tbh.

Btw, any idea when apple said they gonna fix it?

[Blinger1]

People like you start arguments :rolleyes:.

And people like you cannot take the facts.

Does anyone elses iTunes 8 get stuck on "installing please wait"?
It only loads up if i have my iPod connected :S

[Agnostic Bear]

This is what the usage of a media player should be (I'm not trying to start a windows / mac argument, I'm just showing comparison):

http://jewbear.net/img/1221816494168.jpg

200mb is way too much, 5mb is a reasonable amount for playing tracks / browsing my library. That's minimized to my taskbar though, when it's not it uses 8mb which is very good. It's a 218kb vbr song I'm playing.

[James!]

I just use WMP, much faster :P

[GommeInc]

Creative Media Source only uses 19,420 K which is Creatives transfer, music and video program. It should be near that or between that and Windows Media Player.

Bad move for Apple I guess. I should uninstall my Apple stuff, the annoying update screen frustrates me!

[cocaine]

40,440k

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/42203545c9be9e2kk.png

[Recursion]

This is on my laptop, it has NO data in the iTunes library apart from 1 Vista sample song. Gotta remember it spreads it out over several services like iPod Service.exe

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/439374027970425Untitled.jpg

[Recursion]

FORUM LAG PLEASE DELETE.

[xxMATTGxx]

I thought I post to show you what it look like when I run iTunes 8 on my mac. (For the purpose of testing, not to like go OMG BUY A MAC. Because Im not like that. )

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9424/picture1hj8.png

[Recursion]

I thought I post to show you what it look like when I run iTunes 8 on my mac. (For the purpose of testing, not to like go OMG BUY A MAC. Because Im not like that. )

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9424/picture1hj8.png

Ill see what it is on my OSx86/Vista desktop when I can.

[Agnostic Bear]

I thought I post to show you what it look like when I run iTunes 8 on my mac. (For the purpose of testing, not to like go OMG BUY A MAC. Because Im not like that. )

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/9424/picture1hj8.png


I don't mean to dig or anything, but 55mb for a messenger, 377mb for a web browser?

[xxMATTGxx]

I don't mean to dig or anything, but 55mb for a messenger, 377mb for a web browser?

Yeah, Safari as always been like that but I like it :( And for Adium, yeah it uses a lot but like Safari I like it :P

[GommeInc]

Yeah, Safari as always been like that but I like it :( And for Adium, yeah it uses a lot but like Safari I like it :P
To be honest though, does it matter? :P That's what it is for afterall :P

[xxMATTGxx]

To be honest though, does it matter? :P That's what it is for afterall :P

Nope, I don't mind how much memory it uses to be honest. I had my computer for a while and its been doing great, so thats all what matters to me :P

[DaveTaylor]

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/985/captureza2.jpg

well it's your computer sorry :rolleyes:

[Technologic]

Itunes 8 is a **** up Took me ages to get it to work with my ipod and it turned out like hald the drivers were missing

[Jordy]

I cannot believe what iTunes 8 did to my computer, it was half way through installing and then it closed explorer.exe, which gets rid of the task bar etc, so I had to restart. Because I was only part way through installing iTunes 8 it decided it would take other things with it. It halted MSN from opening and it deleted all my Firefox saved passwords which as a result I had to use an old backup of Firefox with old cookies etc so it's a right mess now.

It also did numerous other things to the computer and deleted it's self. I had to boot in safe mode and system restore. It's a shame no one else produces a decent music player with decent software cause atm I feel I've got no choice but Apple. Damn monopoly's!!

All Mac users say iTunes works better on Mac, which is most probably true but imo they should treat Windows users equally, if not better as if it wasn't for them supporting Windows users the iPod would be nothing.

[Technologic]

I wouldve kept using tunes 7 but then i remebered the previous version of itunes just stops working after a while if you dont upgrade >.> it's happened with the past 3 versions ive used

[GommeInc]

I cannot believe what iTunes 8 did to my computer, it was half way through installing and then it closed explorer.exe, which gets rid of the task bar etc, so I had to restart. Because I was only part way through installing iTunes 8 it decided it would take other things with it. It halted MSN from opening and it deleted all my Firefox saved passwords which as a result I had to use an old backup of Firefox with old cookies etc so it's a right mess now.

It also did numerous other things to the computer and deleted it's self. I had to boot in safe mode and system restore. It's a shame no one else produces a decent music player with decent software cause atm I feel I've got no choice but Apple. Damn monopoly's!!

All Mac users say iTunes works better on Mac, which is most probably true but imo they should treat Windows users equally, if not better as if it wasn't for them supporting Windows users the iPod would be nothing.
What's wrong with Creative? A good program for music is SongBird. I recommend it :P Shame it doesn't work with iPods. Apple seem to have messed up big time with iTunes... So did the programs get removed with iTunes or did it halt them?

[Jordy]

What's wrong with Creative? A good program for music is SongBird. I recommend it :P Shame it doesn't work with iPods. Apple seem to have messed up big time with iTunes... So did the programs get removed with iTunes or did it halt them?Yeah it just halted most other programmes and deleted iTunes and Quicktime.

[GommeInc]

Yeah it just halted most other programmes and deleted iTunes and Quicktime.
How's that even possible :S Is that on Vista or XP?

[Jordy]

How's that even possible :S Is that on Vista or XP?Vista. I can't understand it myself but iTunes has mucked around for me on updates before and I'm very confident iTunes messed them up, especially since it decided to delete it's self and a system restore solved it.

Creative don't do players over 30GB though :(

[GommeInc]

Vista. I can't understand it myself but iTunes has mucked around for me on updates before and I'm very confident iTunes messed them up, especially since it decided to delete it's self and a system restore solved it.

Creative don't do players over 30GB though :(
They do one for 32GB lol :P

I forgot Creative stopped making huge players, the new Zen X-Fi is excellent :D

[Recursion]

Mines ok actually:

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/18052269bc20439Untitled.jpg

[DaveTaylor]

I cannot believe what iTunes 8 did to my computer, it was half way through installing and then it closed explorer.exe, which gets rid of the task bar etc, so I had to restart. Because I was only part way through installing iTunes 8 it decided it would take other things with it. It halted MSN from opening and it deleted all my Firefox saved passwords which as a result I had to use an old backup of Firefox with old cookies etc so it's a right mess now.

It also did numerous other things to the computer and deleted it's self. I had to boot in safe mode and system restore. It's a shame no one else produces a decent music player with decent software cause atm I feel I've got no choice but Apple. Damn monopoly's!!

All Mac users say iTunes works better on Mac, which is most probably true but imo they should treat Windows users equally, if not better as if it wasn't for them supporting Windows users the iPod would be nothing.
If it removes explorer.exe simply ctrl alt del and go File > New Task > explorer.exe, not exactly hard is it :|

[cocaine]

If it removes explorer.exe simply ctrl alt del and go File > New Task > explorer.exe, not exactly hard is it :|

yeah but most people wouldn't know what else to do when their taskbar disappears..

[Jordy]

yeah but most people wouldn't know what else to do when their taskbar disappears..Well I do now anyway ;)

+rep DaveTaylor

[Con]

oh if it's a load of crap i'm glad I cancelled the upgrade this morning :P

[Decode]

iTunes 8 is using 60MB for me :(

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/app-711435985292231729.png

[xxMATTGxx]

I'm pretty surprised iTunes is messing up their system, I can't test it. But when I have a chance downstairs, I see if it does anything "Odd".

[Flisker]

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/993946d3cc98af1wtmitunes.JPG (http://www.tehupload.com/share/7549)

mine is normal really, I only use iTunes and nothing else. iTunes has NEVER BSOD'd on me.

[Janet Snakehole]

Wow, I never actually realised this.

[Pyroka]

iTunes 8 secret:

In iTunes 8, they actually downgraded the volume limit on iPods to obey new European laws about MP3 players. Not even kidding, iPods are well quieter when they go onto iTunes 8.

[Recursion]

Not for me... :S

[Monopoly]

I'm surprised you're all having so many problems with it.
I download it as soon as I heard about it and have no complaints.