Is iTunes 7 worth it?

Hey everyone,
I currently have iTunes verision 6.0.1.3 on my computer with Windows XP. I had difficulty with iTunes the last time I made an upgrade and was wondering if the upgrade to 7 is worth it and relatively trouble free. Thanks for your input.
- Teddy

One more reason which I posted on a separate thread:
They have changed the podcast/ipod synch behavior. In v6 when you listened to part of a podcast the podcast would stay on the ipod until it was finished. Now it is marked as "played" and removed. This is incredibly annoying if, like me, you don't always finish a podcast in one listening period.
You can see this in that the podcast has no blue dot to indicate that it has been played. But the play count stays empty since it wasn't completely player.
C'mon Apple, either fix this and make podcasts work like every other piece of content or give me back the podcast synch option for "synch only checked items" which exists for music but not for podcasts.

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Don't Do it. Stay with wat you got, it works.
iTunes 6 has messed up more windows computers than can be easily counted, the outraged posts on these discussion boards are only the tip of the iceberg so to speak.
I had the older iTunes, it worked great!
But now, on my laptop iTunes 6 acts like some trojan program, trying to make connections to the internet when it's not supposed to do that. When it can't connect, it hangs, and you can not even end-task the dead zombie program.
Nothing else was changed, so it's not a Windows issue.
iTunes 6 will not allow Windows XP Home Ed. to even reboot properly, and no, the combatability mode (Windows 2000) didn't fix it.
I don't know what they did, but iTunes 6 does not seem as stable as the older iTunes.
So, my advice is if you can, Wait for iTunes 6.1 when they have had time to clean up all the problems. And you might wait on getting a video iPod, too. Being first is not always good!
I look forward to Apple's updates.
I've enjoyed iTunes from the start, and it seems each major revision runs into some bugs that need working out, before they get it running smoothly.
Maybe the programmers were forced to rush delivery of the new iTunes with Video? Meeting short deadlines can be very stressful.
I bet everybody has been working very hard to make the major changes to iTunes and the iPod. I know writing software isn't easy, everything has to be perfect!
I just wish Apple would post a small link to download the older versions, so all the people who have now have damaged windows computers could roll-back to the older iTunes and enjoy their music and shop at the music store again.
Good luck to all the programmers, debuggers and QA guys, thank you for making iTunes even better!

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I have an old itunes card. NEVER used. Worth $50, Scratched off the grey part and most of the code numbers scratched off, too. Now what? Hate to lose $50. Sorry, new to this type of help and not too itunes savvy

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Well let me go over the list again, in order to see if I can replicate some of your problems or have come across them.
1. Smart Playlists based on play count or play date/time will no longer work.
-Me, I am just a music lover, I dont care about play/date time, play count etc, I have never checked play count and couldnt care if smart playlists or these features worked or not. So, personal case for you. No big deal to me. Most of my friends and family dont even know what a smart playlist is. lol
2. Playlist order doesnt work.
-I have been using Match for a while and have not been able to replicate this problem at all. Every playlist I have ever created, even a 667 song playlist, has always stayed in the exact order I created. Personal problem for you. No problem for me.
3. You state some of your songs simply wont play.
-Again that is very personal, it is highly dependent on exactly what songs are matched and uploaded to itunes.
In my case, I havent been able to play every last one of my thousands of songs, but I have not been able to replicate this problem, not once. All of my music has played flawlessly. Personal Problem for you. No problem for me.
4. Bowdlerized? LOL
- ???? Personal ?? LOL
5. Cellular Data needs to be disabled or you will incur incredible data charges.
Another personal problem, for me, I have UNLIMITED DATA plan with AT&T, and since owning match
even my last months usage did not go over 800 MB's. Before Match I was at about 540 MB's per month. The trick is to download the majority of the stuff on your wifi, if you are going to spendign a lot of time downloading. Than download the odds and ends on 3g. So,I did incur very small increase in the grand scope of things, yet I still keep my 3G always enabled on my ios devices. Personal problem for you. Me, no problem at all.
6. Dont disable cellular data. Just use it sparingly.
7. as far as some songs not playing without wifi, still never happened to me not to mention there ie no way to tell if that song has been hard dowloaded to your phone. the screenshot showw airplane mode, clickibg on a song withkut an internet connection will un doubtly create that error if it has not been hard downloaded. remember, this is not a streaming service this is a store and download service. personal problek for you. not for me.
8. You say that you will be spending all your time deleting and trying to fix things on your device.
i highly disagree with this, because for me PERSONALY i have thoroughly enjoyed having the ability to download and/or delere my songs on my phone anywhere and everywhere. it works great for me. again a personal problem.
i think i can stop here bc i think i provedcmy point. my point is some people will be happy with the service and soke will be dissapointed. it is highly unique and personal experience. bob.os you my friend are a power user that expectsca highly refined service which i understand and agree with. for a guy like me that just wants to listen to alice in chains at work and doesnt care about anything but havibg music in the cloud that works, thats me.
ps- i dont think i wouldve posted this if you had included a positive side of match in your list.

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I've been using iTunes 5.0.1 since it was released, then here comes iTunes 6. I had thought that an upgrade to version 6 might be necessary for the new video content, yet as far as I can tell, it is still possible to download the new video content from version 5.0.1's Music Store. From first glance, every thing advertised in version 6's new feature list seems already possible in 5.0.1. Is there any incentive in downloading this new version? Thanks!

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Going forward, I think Apple needs an iCoud/iTunes Match 'System Status Page' that users can check before they undergo big uploads at home.. Dropbox and many other Cloud-Based Services do that and I think Apple could certainly benefit from cluing in their customer base in Real Time.
http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/
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I spent 2.5 hours on the phone with Apple and they were stumped. We tried everything!!! uninstalling itunes, updating "usb mass storage" drivers, etc...
I have an ipod touch 16gb, Gateway computer using Vista, and my computer recognized the ipod but itunes didn't start up when I plugged it in and it was not recognized in itunes.
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Hey all,
I recently had to restore my laptop to factory specs, which meant I had to remove and re-install my itunes. I made sure before I restored it to back up all my itunes music folder and database/library files to an external hard drive. As I have over 11,000 songs in itunes (~60gb worth), this process took several hours, but I felt sure everything was backed up and I was good to go.
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Here is an article that covers how to get varying types of media from your iPhone back to your computer:
iTunes: Transferring media from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1209
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I'm from the U.S. but I travel a lot & have friends overseas. I just got as a gift an iTunes card worth 25€ (euros) but my account is tied to my U.S. credit card and, of course, I therefore pay for all my stuff in U.S. dollars. Will the 25€ be somehow converted to its value in USD or will it somehow mean I pay European prices for purchases? What are the caveats here?
If needed, I can sell this gift card here & use the money to buy a U.S. card.
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Can no longer transfer music to IPod. ITunes attempts the transfer then gives message 'The IPod cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (-48)'
Any suggestions?

Hello Mark,
And welcome to Apple Discussions!
Try this:
1. Plug in your iPod and close iTunes.
2. Go to "My Computer". Click on the iPod drive once. Go to File, and then click Properties.
3. Go to the Tools tab. Under "Error Checking", click Check Now.
4. Check both boxes. One says "Automatically fix file system errors" and the other says "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". Place a check mark next to each of these options and hit Start.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1539
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b1961 wrote:
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