Itunes 11 could be so much better

like why didnt apple give an option to add the mini player to the notification center instead of having just a small player that just gets in the way

This seems to be the way things are going with Apple now... expect less from updates and read more comments from other users before committing to an update.
If you'd like to go back to the old version like I did, you can read how to here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=16400819&postcount=6

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Am I missing something? Spotify could be so much better!

Hi folks, New Spotify user here. Initially when my friend first took out his tablet with Spotify and we were all passing it around I was really impressed, however now I've got an account myself I've started to notice a lot of really surprising shortcomings and after perusing these forums it looks like that has been the case for years... in fact in a few cases it sounds like Spotify has actually taken away functionality from us! Anyway, below are a list of my gripes with the software, if there are ways to get around them that I should don't know please let me know, as I said I'm still fairly new to this. Dragging Albums & Artists in to Playlists - Click 'Albums' under 'Your Music' and drag one of them over a playlist, you'll notice initially the icon is a cross to suggest you can't do that... a few seconds later that will change to a + to say OK that's fine. Let go to drop the album in there are there and the whole application freezes while it adds a couple of songs to a playlist... Then you find that it hasn't added the songs from that album that you have added to your collection but the ENTIRE album... this is wrong in my opnion, only the ticked songs should be added. Worse still if you try and do the same with an 'Artist' in your library it will just freeze up and do nothing at all.Filtering Playlists - I've seen elsewhere on the forums that used to be possible... and that Spotify removed it about 2 years ago and have just never put it back... how is that acceptable? You can do it on the Android app but not the Desktop one?!Can't Hide 'Friends' Panel - Hurray for social crap As far as I can tell you can no longer close the 'Friends' panel on the right-hand side of the desktop application which is pretty annoying as it is completely broken (rarely, if ever tells me what my friends are actually listening to).Adds Duplicates to Playlists - For a while I thought this user error but dragging songs (or even right-click and Add to Playlist) occasionally, for no reason at all, just adds the song to the playlist twice... annoying.No Tags or User Genres - How, in one of the most popular music players in the world, is there not the functionality to add tags to your music or at least put them in to user-defined genres. Instead all I can do are playlists? Really? I've seen this mentioned on the forum previously, I don't know if it's something they are working on but it's long overdue.Combining Local Music in Song List - So the only way to listen to all my music, as I understand it, is to drag all my spotify songs in to a Playlist and put all my Local songs in that playlist as well... OK... the problem with this is then I have to add every song I ever add to my collection to that playlist as well and as I've already said it decides to add duplicates when it feels like it so it will be a pain in the arse to manage effectively.No Smart Playlists - If you've ever used iTunes you'll know one of the few good things it does is allow you to create smart playlists by just creating a few rules to determine what types of songs to add to the list... this is sorely lacking in Spotify. There's so much I love about Spotify but why are they developing this video crap when they could be making their apps in to the best music player out there? Right now even iTunes has more music playing functionality and options for the user than Spotify does... This time next week Apple's streaming service will be released and if it streams as well as Spotify (which it undoubtably will) and works through iTunes (a vastly superios music player than Spotify for the most part) I would seriously consider leaving Spotify for Apple.

Hello: I have went through all your points using the 1.0.8 app version and a Win 8.1 64 bit machine. All points other than 5 and 7 which are Idea requests, everything runs like it should. I can drag and drop content without any doubles being added. I have search filtering in playlists. I can play music from all sections of my account, even content not added into a playlist. I can hide friends feed just fine. I will contend there is a slight delay with dragging and dropping content into playlists and when a user system registers the movement within the Spotify app, but it is maybe a 1 or 2 seconds longer than before on the Spotify 0.9 desktop app. I probable will avoid Apple music on personal reasons, I have already checked out the free limited skipping of the radio stations, not that much different from Pandora to be honest. I am not actually a fan of how they have behaved the last few years, and their recent dealings with the music labels to try and undermine free Ad trier music streaming access. In fact I have found Apple lately to having behaved arrogantly and with disdain for the free market system, because they where unable or unwilling to actually create a free ad trier streaming music access to compete. I am not all that big on Internet radio to be frank, I haven't touch my Pandora account in about 2 years now, so Apple is not offering me anything I do not already have access to between Spotify, Youtube, and the occasionally album I can only find at Rdio only. I am set and happy.

While updating iphone, itune gave me error of 1015 which tells that my iphone is much better than from which that i am updating. But now my iphone is still in restoring mode how i can resolve this problem.please tell me

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I just had the same problem with my iphone, only thing i could do was completely restore factory settings, lost a bunch of pics and contacts in the process... hope you have better luck than me

Hello, Honestly I just updated my 4s and my iPad 3 to iOS 6 and when try to press on the Music app or the iTunes app it says "cannot connect to iTunes Store" Could you please help me with this thank you so much, Charbel from Lebanon

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Videos look awful in iTunes, much better in Quicktime Player

I was, just as many others, deceived by the quality of video clips bought on iTMS (I started with the beautiful Love Profusion, by Madonna, and M.Jackson's Thriller).
The picture appeared in particular pixellated in sull screen, this for many videos.
(and the interface is so stupid : why do you have to play a clip in order to be able to switch to full screen, except maybe to keep Quicktime Pro's full screen in QT Player option alive ?)
Then I just remembered how my videos played beautifully in Quicktime Player, and often awfully in iTunes, since iTunes 4.9.
So I tried them in Quicktime Player (I have a 7.0 Pro license). (select in iTunes, command-R, command-O, command-F, you're done)
They look much much better.
And same goes for my non-iTMS videos, even after being converted to the iPod-friendly format with Quicktime Player.
I just remember reading from a member of the iTunes team how quick it had been to add video capabilities to iTunes (since 4.9 I think).
Maybe it was dine a bit too quickly.
I just thought it would have been fixed BEFORE the release of a video-capable iPod and the sale of video clips on the iTMS.
I now hope that on the video capable iPod (waiting for mine), these videos look more like in QT Player than like in iTunes Mac.
It looks like iTunes 6 forgets to or cannot do H.264 post-processing correctly. By the way, this post-processsing is part of the standard specification, according to Apple's technology brief
(http://images.apple.com/quicktime/pdf/H264TechnologyBrief.pdf), which means that the encoding process takes into account the de-pixellization done in post-processing (unlike divx for example, if I understand correctly), and that iTunes decoding is not even compliant to the H.264 standard.
Having such a bad, broken video player as iTunes 6 for both quality and ergonomy (at least on Mac) is SO STUPID.
I hope someone fixes the quality issue very quickly (Itunes 6.01?). If this person had time to make a "not as stupid as it is right now" interface for playing videos, that would make me happy again.
If anyone can confirm if this is a Mac only, or Mac WIndows issue, I'd be glad to know.

I do see a slight difference in quality between an .m4v file (purchased from the iTunes Music Store) when played in iTunes and QT player. If freezing at a specific frame, you can definitely notice the iTunes software seems to blur things and is less sharp (colors more dull, less pronounced).
As far as the interface is concerned for viewing videos inside of iTunes, the only real concern I have is the performance. QT player resize/scrubbing is much more effective.

ITunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (13014)

Ysterday I bought a brand spanking new Acer Aspire 7551 laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium and installed the latest version of iTunes (64 bit) on it.
I started iTunes with great anticipation because I so looked forward to syncing my iPhone with my Very Own Laptop.
Alas, iTunes did not start. Instead I received a message "the itunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (13014)." Much Googling and reinstalling later the problem remains.
I have already deleted the genius files and rebooted several times. All to no avail. If anyone can propose a solution, I would be most grateful. Needless to say, I'd be happy to post any further info that can help to solve this problem.

Okay fixed my own problem. I don't know how or why, but it appears that I lost permissions for my iTunes folder in documents and settings. It took some messing with file permissions to get access to delete it, but I finally got it.
Once it was gone, no more issue. iTunes launched, created a new iTunes folder, and good as new.

My palm calendar wont open after Lion download. Palm is so much better than ical, is it not going to work w/ Lion?

Palm calendar won't open now that I've downloaded Lion. Palm is so much better than ical. Is there a fix?

I miss Palm Desktop for Mac. The integration of contacts, to-dos, notes, appointments, etc. was great. I stopped using it about a year ago when I finally sold my Palm Tungsten T and purchased and iPhone 4. iCal etc. work fine for me, but they're not as good as Palm Desktop was.
I also miss Graffiti 1 handwriting recognition. I could write with it as fast and flawlessly as I can write longhand on paper, and nearly as fast as I can type. It was the best for meetings and interviews, since I could write without having to look at the screen. iOS has nothing that comes close; I've gotten used to the onscreen keyboard but it's slower, I make far more mistakes, and I have to keep my eye on the screen while typing.
As others have pointed out, Palm Desktop was written for PPC processors. Lion does not include and cannot run Rosetta, which is the emulation environment which allowed Intel processors to run PPC code. So Palm Desktop will not run on a Mac running Lion.
I was syncing to my Palm Tungsten T under Snow Leopard (and using Palm Desktop) with no troubles at all. There are third-party sync options available, but they're all kludgy and unreliable compared to Palm's own syncing. Again, though, the Palm software for syncing was written for PPC processors and so won't run on any Mac booting into Lion.

N95 Firmware which is much better?

Im just new here and im being careful..which is much better firmware ? v20 or the latest which is v30? thanks for those who will help
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17-Dec-2008 10:47 AM
steleece wrote:
Just by searchin the net, i seen that most people had been able to update there n95-1 to V3 via NSU but when I try there is no update. Ive seen a lot of people saying that v3 is much better and come with rotateme etc..
There never was a V3. The very first firmware version for the N95-1 was V10. Then there were V11, V12, V20, V21 and the latest is V30. There was a V31 released a few weeks back but it was removed almost immediately.
If you can't update to V30 it could be because of either or both of these reasons:
1) You live in a part of the world for which the updated version hasn't yet been translated. For each model there are multiple product codes, each one for a different area and/or mobile network operator.
2) There is an update available for your part of the world but you have a phone supplied by your operator who hasn't yet approved it. Read this page.
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"iTunes application could not be opened"

I get the message "iTunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (-51)" every single time I open iTunes now. The application worked fine when it was version 5.0, but everything went south after 6.0 then 6.0.1, it hasn't worked since I downloaded version 6.0 . I have tried removing the receipts, I have tried removing the libraries, repairing the disk and verifying and repairing the disk permissions, and it has not worked. The installation of the upgrade appears to go well with the "Installation Succesful" after everytime, and everytime I open iTunes, I get the License Agreement, which I always agree to, but really, does ANYONE have any idea what the fudge is going on in my iBooks tiny little mind?! On an unrelated topic, iPhoto also does pretty much the same thing...........................

I have taken a lot of time and I have now managed to roll back to version 5.0.1, and everything works great now, never again am I going to download iTunes 6.0.1!!!!!!

QuickTime Player Sounds MUCH BETTER!?

I downloaded a YouTube video, mp4. By chance the original download was still on the desktop so I hit play -- AND IT SOUNDED GREAT!
Then in iTunes I played it and it was very MUFFLED in comparisson.
I turned off the equalizer but still the QuickTime Player version sounded much, much better!
I never had compared the sound quality of the videos like this before, it was just a 'by chance' accidental discovery...
Is there anything I can do to make iTunes sound more like my QuickTime Player?

Thanks, sberman, that's a good commons sense suggestion...and I had previously tried that.
I HATE to admit this but it might have been my sound settings. The volumn on iTunes was only half way.
Now after turning iTunes up full volumn and setting Get Info on the song to be as high as possible, it sounds - more or less -- just like the QuickTime Player....
Oh well.....sometimes things are as simple as that.

Using audio convert to make MP3 much bett

Hello,
Does anyone here using Audio converter - software provided along with A2ZS?
Well, i played with it last night and found something, still something not clear about it.
Im sure a lot of us here do store MP3 or WMP sound tracks on our hard dri'ves. I dont know how the sound to be compressed to be stuffed in our moderate hard disk size, some though, and this means quality of the sound tracks were much degraded. Dont know if it's correct to say it but let assumes it is.
Now, with this Audio Conveter, the source format (MP3 or WMP..usually played at 92kbs) will be easily converted to 96/24bit - WMP Lossless format for 2 channel or 5 channel at a huge sound track, about 0 times larger in size compared to the source format, there are still other destination formats i have tried but this giving the largest size sound tracks after converted, I guess so!
It could be that the Audio Converter has restored all the properties before being compressed back to its original state and that makes it big size, pls anybody correct me!
I played with it kind of late at night so not yet test the sound quality after convert, will try later. But anybody could tell how much the sound will be improved after being converted from WMP/MP3 (Source format) to WMP Lossless (destination format), compared to CD original state? Will the WMP Lossless be better or worse than the WMP Pro option?
If this is improving sound quality, it's worth investing money to buy an extra 80gb hard dri've, 'cause this eat up a lot lot of disk space! Dont you guys think so?
Thanks a lot

itstuantran wrote:
hi Singo,Thanks for your reply, so what the heck is it created for? I dont understand how people spent time and money for something that is not working at all!!! Or they just think that stuffing alot of things in the applications package would make the users feeling better, though it's useless!
The converter is just a program to help convert to another format or reduce the bitrate(file size). Some people prefer to use only mp3 and not wma and here's where the program come in use. You got to understand programs better before making such comment.

I am trying to open my iTunes on a Windows XP laptop and get the error message 42404 "iTunes application could not be opened. Please repair or reinstall QuickTime". I did that and it did not help. Any ideas?

I am trying to open my iTunes on a Windows XP laptop and get the error message 42404 "iTunes application could not be opened. Please repair or reinstall QuickTime". I did that and it did not help. Any ideas?

Let's see if a more rigorous uninstall/reinstall procedure gets us past that, nancy. See the following troubleshooting document:
Removing and Reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows XP

Itunes wont open, I get "itunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (-50)"

I'm on Windows 7 - using itunes daily without problems and suddenly itunes wont open, I get "itunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (-50)" The only thing I can think is I think there was a download in progress when I shut down the computer.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalled, but I get the same thing. I tried clearing the itunes folder and reinstalling, same thing. help!

Doublechecking. When you did the complete uninstall, were you using the following document as a guide?
Removing and reinstalling iTunes, QuickTime, and other software components for Windows Vista or Windows 7
(If damaged program files are involved here, a standard install might not remove them, and a reinstall might not then replace them. So the Verify iTunes and related components are completely uninstalled section is an important step.)

The iTunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (-50)

Today, I downloaded the latest version of Itunes.
When it finished installing it came up with the following error:
"iTunes was not installed correctly. Please reinstall iTunes. Error 7 (Windows error 127)". I have uninstalled iTunes, and all related Apple software and re-installed iTunes several times and still I get the same error.
I contacted Apple support and was sent two emails. One detailing what needed to be uninstalled and then a web site to go to where I could download and install Microsoft's latest .NET Framework, which apparently was the root cause of the problem.
I did as instructed:Use the Control Panel to uninstall iTunes and related software components in the following order:
1.iTunes
2.QuickTime
3.Apple Software Update
4.Apple Mobile Device Support
5.Bonjour
6.Apple Application Support (iTunes 9 or later).
Restarted the PC and then downloaded the latest version of Microsoft's .NET Framework - version 4.
Restarted the PC again and received a strange message from some Apple application I have never heard of stating "CoreFoundation.dll file is missing".
I GOOGLEd the message and found out I also needed to unistall another Apple application called MobileMe. So, I did this and restarted the PC again!
I then downloaded the latest version of iTunes, again.
Now I'm getting "The iTunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (-50).
From checking through GOOGLE, I believe it's something to do with user accounts and iTunes not being able to find the music folder???? But the answers I found all relate to Windows 64 pit PC's.
I am running Windows 7, 32 bit on a Sony Vaio laptop.
I cannot get support from Apple as I don't own a MAC. But I do own an iPhone but it's out of warranty.
HELP !!!!
Can anybody please help me?
Thx

If you go to the web page "http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1923" and follow the "Verify iTunes and related components are completely uninstalled" it does the trick. There are few other folders and files that alos need to be deleted!
iTunes is now working.

How do i resolve my itunes from saying " The itunes application could not be opened. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation."

Everytime i click to go to my itunes, the message "The Itunes application could not be opened. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation." pops up. I have tried my best to fix it by adding another account to my computer and setting that one as the administator and mine as the regular user. When i did that the itunes worked on both, but when i changed my account back to administator and the other account to the regular user my account didnt work but the other one did. I also tried to uninstall and reinstall itunes. This message popped up when i tried to update the itunes to the newest one. And still it wont go away. Can someone help me please. Thanks!

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