Reverting to itunes 7.7 from 8

I've been plagued by the dreaded audio drop outs when streaming to an airport express since upgrading to itunes 8 and have come to the conclusion that i really need to revert to itunes 7.7, but I seem to remember reading that there had been a structural change to the database in itunes 8.0 that made this difficult. Whilst I know I could reinstate my archived itunes files I have imported a lot of albums since upgrading and therefore the old database will be well out of date.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to downgrade itunes in this circumstance? Alternatively has anyone managed to get around the audio drop out problem in v8. (I am streaming using the optical out from an airport express).

I have Windows Vista myself and have no idea how to check and see what ITunes version I have to begin with. Do you know how to check? Also I noticed that the Update states 8.2 for MAC. Will we even be able to download it?
Now the BIGGIE....when for 3.0? What are they waiting for!!!!

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How do I revert to iTunes 11.0 or earlier?

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I have tried to restore the individual files of iTunes 11.4 from time machine with no success. On an apple support call they mentioned to do a full system restore from the time machine backup thru the OS X Utilities. Unfortunately for me I hadn't done a recent backup before accidentally updating to iTunes 12.0.1.
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The answer from apple support was learn to like iTunes 12 otherwise we can't help you.
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HT1923 How do I uninstall itunes 11 and revert to itunes 10?

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How do I uninstall itunes 11, which I find a chore to use, and revert to itunes 10? Is it possible? Or should I just get on with it?
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The main differences between iTunes 11 and earlier versions are the loss of coverflow and ability to have multiple windows open.
In Windows, you can restore much of the look & feel of iTunes 10.7 with these shortcuts:
ALT to temporarily display the menu bar
CTRL+B to show or hide the menu bar
CTRL+S to show or hide the sidebar
CTRL+/ to show or hide the status bar (won't hide for me on Win XP)
Click the magnifying glass top right and untick Search Entire Library to restore the old search behaviour
Use View > Hide <Media Kind> in the cloud or Edit > Preferences > Store and untick Show iTunes in the cloud purchases to hide the cloud items. The second method eliminates the cloud status column (and may let iTunes start up more quickly)
If you don't like having different coloured background & text in the Album (Grid) view use Edit > Preferences > General and untick Use custom colours for open albums, movies, etc.
With iTunes 11.0.3 and later you can enable artwork in the Songs view from View > Show View Options (CTRL+J) making it more like the old Album List view
View > Show View Options (CTRL+J) also contains options to change the sorting of grid based views
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If you feel the need to roll back to iTunes 10.7 first download a copy of the 32 bit installer or 64 bit installer as appropriate, uninstall iTunes and supporting software, i.e. Apple Application Support & Apple Mobile Device Support. Reboot. Restore the pre-upgrade version of your library database as per the diagram below, then install iTunes 10.7.
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Seriously: How to revert to iTunes 6 safely?

Somebody knows how to revert to previous version? Sincerely, I don´t like videos, I have no time to fight with all the bugs of the new version, and I want to return to the working one. I can save my home folder, restore a complete backup of last week to get the application, and then restore the home folder but, that will work? Or the iTunes library files, updated by version 7 will not work with 6 anymore?

If you want to revert to iTunes 6:
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• Trash the 'iTunes Library' file in ./Users/Username/Music/iTunes
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Edit:
I tested the above procedure only to see if it possible to revert to iTunes 6 in case of trouble. I don't experience problems with iTunes 7 on my system.
17' iMac 800 MHz, 768 MB RAM, 200 GB HD, DL burner Mac OS X (10.4.7) iTunes 7.0
Message was edited by: macmenno

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20) Open the Local Settings folder. Open the Application Data folder. Delete the iTunes folder.
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23) Select Folder Options from the Tools menu. Select the View Tab. Select "Do not show hidden files or folders". Click OK.
24) Restart the computer.
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I have my mums payment details on my itunes account, but i bought a £15 itunes voucher today from the shop and put it on my phone.. but it wont let me buy any apps becouse it keeps going to my mums payment details. can someoe help me with this

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First, I searched the forums (parameter: "itunes") and didn't see this addressed.
Second, I searched the web (using multiple parameters), and didn't find an answer on point. I saw discussions about moving the iTunes library (well, media files) to another location (but same computer) and discussion about manually copying everything (with warnings about ensuring that the volume name and path are exactly the same, or else it's totally messed up).
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1449
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1329
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1203
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Whenever I want to listen to my music, all I can readily play are the tunes on my C drive.
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I say that because I'm guessing that my iPod (4th gen) is only capable of importing from one library?
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Seems I've over come what is something I'd hoped/expected iTunes would be capable of (ie; reinitiating the pathway for external HD music files when their drive letter is the only thing that changed).
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