ITunes 7.0.2.16 - It hasn't fixed my playback issue(s). Your experiences?
A little recap of my iTunes 7 story:
-I went from iTunes 6.0.5 to iTunes 7.0.0.70 ("updated my library," analyzed gapless playback and indexed my album art) and got video slowdown (100% CPU) and horrible playback stuttering as the main issues, amongst others.
-Upgrading to iTunes 7.0.1.8 lowered the system resources a bit, but audio still skipped (though no longer distorted) and the playback bar never finished in playlists with repeat/shuffle turned off--the last song in a playlist would play, but iTunes won't end it once it reaches -0:00 remaining. iTunes also sometimes stopped playing back music entirely, staying put at 0:00 and requiring a reboot.
Here's my deal with iTunes 7.0.2.16 so far:
While installing iTunes 7.0.2.16, it wiped out and re-installed QuickTime 7.1.3 (just like the iTunes 7.0.1.8 installer did) as well as break all my QT + iTunes shortcuts.
Upon opening iTunes and clicking "Agree," it updated my library again in the same way it updated with the first-time launch of iTunes 7.0.0.70. Took quite a while to finish, and I thought the application hung for a couple of moments.
After a few minutes of usage alongside Firefox and other applications, I can say that in my case, the new version of iTunes has NOT fixed my playback-skipping issues and video playback slowdown that I first encountered with iTunes 7.0.0.70, but a few UI bugs are done with:
-Party Shuffle works as intended now.
-The 0:00 issue with tracks not finishing has disappeared. FINALLY!
-Cover Flow no longer refreshes artwork in its pane when playing a new song in that view.
-Checkboxes seem to work again in the Podcast library.
Minor bugs left besides playback performance: The visualizer only plays back in large size, no matter what size is chosen in Preferences. There's still a graphical glitch with the menu bar when stopping an enhanced podcast, and double-clicking an album cover not in focus in Cover Flow causes the animation to start from the beginning.
How's iTunes 7.0.2.16 for the rest of you? I might have to try that 48kHz/16-bit QuickTime tweaking again and see if it brings any luck.
A small update from my first post here since this topic's getting bumped - here's my temporary workaround with playback in iTunes 7.0.2.16, and it's worked:
Upon opening iTunes, play a track and don't let it stop. Just, whatever you do, keep some form of audio playing at all times (music/podcast/audiobook) without pausing or stopping it. Then, go about your regular multi-tasking routine and it shouldn't skip. Again, iTunes should always be playing something; don't let a playlist finish without "repeat all" turned on, for example.
If you need to turn off the music for a moment, just mute the volume in iTunes (drag the volume slider all the way to the left).
I find this to be the only workable solution for me until the next iTunes revision comes out - playback has been perfect about 100% of the time. Hope it works for you! Lemme know if it does.
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