Updates For All Flavors: iTunes 7.5 & QuickTime 7.3

Run Apple Software Update in OS X (Tiger, Leopard, and Panther) or Windoze (XP SP2 and Vista) to get the new versions. Or go to Apple Downloads for direct downloads.

About iTunes 7.5
iTunes 7.5 features the ability to activate iPhone wherever service is offered and support for Phase, a new interactive music game designed exclusively for iPod nano (third generation), iPod classic, and iPod (fifth generation). This release also includes bug fixes to improve stability and performance.

About QuickTime 7.3
QuickTime 7.3 addresses critical security issues and delivers:
- Support for iTunes 7.5
- Updated support for creating iPhone-compatible web content
- Updated JavaScript support in the QuickTime Web Plug-in
- Numerous bug fixes

This release is recommended for all QuickTime 7 users.

For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798.

 

I've heard that iTunes 7.5 improves Cover Flow performance. I hope so, it lags quite a lot on my 1 GB RAM MacBook.

And I demand you write "Flavour" in respect to the British, Canadians and Australians!

 

LOL! "Flavour" huh? In the words of Ali G, "Respek!"

I heard that about Cover Flow too. That was probably one of the many things Apple meant with their ambiguous description, "includes bug fixes to improve..." blah blah blah.

 

Thanks for the heads up!

Also, cover flow performs great on my current desktop, which is now four years old with no upgrades.

 

Ahh very good. Downloading now!

 

Just updated to iTunes 7.5...Cover Flow does seem to "flow" faster...but it still eats up tons of RAM that I can't spare (not much to go around with 1 GB).

 

OK I don't notice any improvements with Cover Flow in iTunes. If anything it's worse. Memory usage is a bit ridiculous, check the difference between Cover Flow View and List View. Where is iTunes 7.5.1??? Hurry up Apple!!!

Cover Flow View


List View

 

In coverflow, all artwork is loaded into the RAM for quick accessing. Did iTunes hit RAM this much in the previous versions? I never bothered to check.

 

I still have yet to find a big reason to use iTunes. I just don't like it that much. I thought adding in ogg support via the xiph QT plugin would help, but I still don't like it. This just adds to my dislike of iTunes.

Play ftw

 

I have about 2 GB of music (yeah, not much, I know), and all have album art. iTunes Cover Flow eats up like 550 MB of my 1 GB of RAM.

 

I've got around 40Gb music and all the album art. Cover flow on my MBP only keeps up if I flip through very slowly, and on my ipod classic it is hopeless... even the album view in list view lags a little - now I know why!

So I need them to release an ipod classic with 4gb RAM

 

Looks interesting, but it doesn't work in Leopard. Try to open the program and it quits immediately with no error message.

 

I find that when just listening to music, eg not flipping through albums whilst in cover flow, it doesn't take up any more RAM than list view, around 150-175mb but if I scroll through all of it it peaks at about 250-300mb RAM usage. This is with 6 and a half gigs of music.

 

huh... with 10 gigs of music, my itunes uses ~134mb or so of "real" memory and 500 mb of "virtual" memory. When I am aggressively flipping through albums, I get up to about 400-500 of "real" mem and about 700 megs of "virtual" memory.

Coverflow has HUGELY improved in my case. It still does stutter some. Then again, out of the 150 or 200 album covers I have, probably 40 of them dont' have actual artwork. That may make little or no difference, I'm not sure.

 

Well it's hardly scientific (the numbers change a fair bit in the time it takes to move the mouse and take the picture) but here's frantically flipping through cover flow before the update:



And after:



Same % CPU but the RAM usage does seem a little lower.

 

Grab (default screenshot app) has a built in timer function, I think it's a 5 sec delay.

 

Screenshot Plus

I'm still waiting for iTunes 7.5.1 ... and OS X 10.5.1. And where is 10.4.11 for that matter?