Using iTunes on a new Vista notebook?

I wondered if anyone else has installed iTunes on one of the HP notebooks that were preloaded with Vista?

I've been using iTunes extensively on my desktop for the last 2 years and I've never used Windows Media Player. So I installed iTunes today but not my music library.

It seems to be working fine with the 30 mp3s that I had already put on the laptop. But I noticed that the HP remote had no effect on it, and I don't think the volume pads above the keyboard did either.

Has anyone experimented much with it?
Do both QuickPlay and the remote work exclusively with Windows Media Player? That would be sad!

 

Mine works but it has to be maximize, it wont work its if its minimized or if you are viewing a different window. Volume works too but it controls the whole system volume, not the Itunes volume.

 

The HP remote and the blue buttons both do the same thing. By default I believe they only work in Windows Media Player, but there is an option to make them work in Winamp, another music player.

If you have a player that can map buttons, try mapping your media buttons/volume pad to their relevant functions within the program.

 

My Quickplay buttons and remote work fine with iTunes in Vista... though I miss being able to reassign the button controls like you could in XP. iTunes has to be the active application, though, for the controls to work. If you're working in another app the buttons do nothing. If you bring iTunes to the foreground, the buttons and remote work fine.

BTW, to the OP, when you import you music library to your notebook, before trying to use any purchased music, go to apple's website and get the Vista fix, otherwise you'll have issues activating purchased songs on the new PC. They keep saying a fully Vista-compatible version is coming soon, but for now things work decently well.

Edit: If you use iTunes a lot, and have room in your Vista Sidebar, there's a really cool gadget at http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=609eb808-42e4-4c82-897a-ceeae4a074bd&l=1 that shows the song/artist information, artwork (if you use it in full mode), and lets you control playback from there.

 

I believe the ability to edit quicklaunch buttons will be fixed in a later release of the QL buttons. I was digging around the HP folder on my machine and found a help file that explains how to program the button, but the actual editing program doesn't seem to exist yet.