iTunes 7.0.2 Special Report: Release notes

On October 31st 2006, Apple released iTunes 7.0.2, an update to the popular music, movie and other digital media player that hopefully resolves some of the lingering issues extant in iTunes 7.0.1.

The traditionally cryptic release notes for this edition state that it:

"adds support for the Second Generation iPod shuffle and addresses a variety of stability and performance issues found in iTunes 7 and 7.0.1."

The update is available as a 25.5 MB standalone download.

Problems with this release? Please let us know at Late-breakers@macfixit.com.

For further coverage, see our iTunes 7.0 special report.

Index:

• Album by artist and year do work with iPod
• Audio distortion
• Crashes/quits while library is updating -- fixes
• Installation problems -- fix
• Language/country erroneously switched
• Long playlists, problems
• Playback problems (songs, videos will not play)
• Permissions changes in this release: Explanation
• Re-launches (uncontrollable)
• Podcasts stored on iPods not displayed properly in iTunes
• Release notes
• Reverting (downgrading) to iTunes 6.0.5
• Screen re-draw problems
• Slow podcast, media downloads
• Video stuttering: pauses, skips, etc.
• Volume Logic still incompatible

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