Abandon Ship - do not install iTunes ver 7!!!

Loading shells into her "Rant Shotgun (tm)"

I have gone back to a restore point in windows

I have tried to reinstall ver 6 about 6 times

I have had to try to reinstall quicktime at least 4 times

I finally got ver 6 to reload and all the music and posdcasts were gone!

I will have to work on this more later.

If Tom was mad at what he just went through - this trumps all of that!

Forget me buying any of those cute little new iPods for my grandaughters now!

After reinstalling ver 6 of iTunes, it complained that the iTunes Library file was created by a later version. In Skype chat, Santiago recommended going back to the backup that the install of ver 7 should have created.

I tried that but it didn't work.

However I had a backup of BOTH of the iTunes Library files on a file server (of sorts) I use just for backups. After copying BOTH of the iTunes Library files down from the file server backup location I have all my music back (as of the last backup) and all my subscriptions to the podcasts.

Now all I need to do is check the music against my download records to make sure I have it all and update the podcasts and I am back to where I was before all this started.

Now the old iTunes does not play anyting either.

This is what caused me to go back to ver. 6.

I click on a song or a podcast, and hit the play button and it just sits there.

*SIGH*

what a mess.

I'm not trying iTunes 7 until I have to.

check My Documents/My Music/iTunes/Previous iTunes Libraries

That should contain the file for your old ver6 library, just use it to overwrite the one created by ver7, then when you run 6 it should have your old library there. Don't quote me though cuz i chose the other route, i fiddled with ver7 until it worked. Lowered my quicktime settings to 16-bit instead of 24-bit, but now here is the really annoying thing. When MSN Messenger makes a sound for an alert, iTunes starts gettin garbled again, if i hit pause for about 2 seconds and start playing again its fine....what a pain.

:: watches all the Buzz villagers run through the town square screaming with rage and chaos ::

sounds like I tunes needs to be referred to as Jank Tunes.


and in closing.. FM TUner...in the Ipod.. I want.

Installed on my Mac Mini pretty quick. I can flip through the titles OK but still can't get album art. I even broke down and established an account just so I could get the art. Do I need to donate blood, too?

Now They are down! mmmmmmmm jankilicios!!

Go WMP11!!
Go Zune!
Go TiVo!

Go WMP11!! <--AACK!
Go Zune! <--DEAR GOD NO
Go TiVo! <--yeay, GO TIVO!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>Go WMP11!! (can't)

>>Go Zune! (<cough> Gigabeat)

>>Go TiVo!

Who is crazy enough to spend $800 on a series 3 when most cable providers include a DVR these days? For that much money, I'll somehow find a way to survive without a TiVo feature or two (PS Replay TV was always better). TiVo is the walking dead.


-Kevin S.

HDMI, dual cablecards, I wouldn't rush into declaring it dead, give it a little time to agonize at least

To be honest, I thought Tivo was dead a couple of years ago and then they managed to breathe some life back into their company for a while.

But honestly, with Media Centers and the impending Mac iTV (or whatever the name ends up being) and cable companies giving away HD capable DVRs with the service (I DVR HD-quality stuff all the time) unless they get some sort of Comcast or Time-Warner partnership again, they're really pretty much gone.

Admittedly, my Comcast (now Time-Warner) DVR SUCKS and I would prefer the Tivo but is it really hundreds of dollars more to gain an added convenient feature or two? Not really and I'm pretty sure that most consumers feel the same way.

-Kevin S.

iTunes 7 and 5G v1.2 installed without problems. Actually like the new iTunes. However, when I try to play any of my downloaded (and I tried re-downloading) BOL 'casts, my iPod REBOOTS! What's up with that?!? Anyone else have this issue?

Same thing here - when I try to play today's episode or Cnet Daily news, my ipod reboots. I'm able to play some podcasts but not Buzz Out Loud.

I can't start a BOL without getting a reboot and after listening to a Security Bites it rebooted right at the end. I'm lucky enough to have a shuffle so will settle on that til I can do a backup and restore. Worst case I'm returning the darn thing and getting a refund and will buy another mp3 player. This is a huge disappointment.

After reading around the web about this problem, I finally came across a post that fixed my problem.

Basically, I had to adjust the audio output settings in QuickTime. Under QuickTime Preferences, I clicked the Audio tab and set the rate to 96 KHz and size to 16 bit (I have a Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic card). After clicking the Apply button, I restarted iTunes and my audio files played correctly.

Other people report getting different settings to work on different cards. Just be sure to apply, then quit and restart iTunes for the changes to kick in.

Using a USB headset for playback? Hearing garbled playback for the first time *ever* since you installed iTunes 7.0?

Don't fret. Unplug the USB headset, then plug it into another USB port. Windows XP will see the headphones again, load the drivers, and clear up the garble.

Least it did for me. This was the very first time I'd ever had playback problems with these great headphones or the playback drivers for 'em -- but unplugging and plugging back in fixed it with no other tweaks needed.