iTunes 8.1 out there

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iTunes 8.1 is out.  Go get 'er.  We've heard many reports of significant snappieness™

iTunes 8.1 is now faster and more responsive. You will enjoy noticeable improvements when working with large libraries, browsing the iTunes Store, preparing to sync with iPod or iPhone, and optimizing photos for syncing.

In addition, iTunes 8.1 provides many other improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Supports syncing with iPod shuffle (3rd generation).
• Allows friends to request songs for iTunes DJ.
• Adds Genius sidebar for your Movies and TV Shows.
• Improves performance when downloading iTunes Plus songs.
• Provides AutoFill for manually managed iPods.
• Allows CDs to be imported at the same sound quality as iTunes Plus.
• Includes many accessibility improvements.
• Allows iTunes U and the iTunes Store to be disabled separately using Parental Controls.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Comments (19)

Any idea if the front row update fixes the cover art problem when streaming videos from other computers?

Anyone else have a problem opening iTunes after the update?

"The iTunes application could not be opened. An unknown error occurred (13008)"

Check to see if you are opening the old copy of itunes on your computer.

iTunes opened fine for me after the update. It seems much quicker too. Especially when scrolling through all my music.

Any idea what "importing CDs at the same resolution as iTunes Plus" means? You can already import as 256k AAC.

If anyone does run into the 13008 problem, all that is necessary is to move the "iTunes Library", "iTunes Library Extras.itdb" and "iTunes Library Genius.itdb" files to a temporary folder, start iTunes, quit iTunes, then replace the "iTunes Library" file with the original. Works great now.

Which new feature do you like?
None? OK then, carry on.

And do I like you? No why? Because you are an idiot!

We've been playing with the DJ feature in our office all morning. It's pretty cool with the Remote app on the iPhone.

Scrolling my Lib seems faster, but opening Info for the current song takes much longer. I even get the beachball.

My bad, it's just that one song that's having problems. Don't know why though, it doesn't have any pictures or lyrics

What is this ? A complete new feature or just something I do not know and obviously never missed ?

When will iTunes be able to mangae albums in a more comfortable way ?
When you purchase an album it is displayed in one line in your cart and you can expand/collapse the whole album to see/hide each single title.
When will they implemnt this for the own libary ???
When having a lot of complete albums your libary list gests endless long......

Snappier on my G5 PowerMac and new Mac mini

If you deal with large files DO NOT UPGRADE! I listen to 6 hour files around 350MB daily, and since the upgrade it takes 1-3 minutes for them to start playing. I get the beach ball and itunes completely locks up. If I pause it...and play it again, I have to wait all over again. This is awful.
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maybe because it does not like you!

I was really hoping they'd have sorted the 5.1 surround sound toggle out with this update. But I still can't play Lost Season 5 through my digital audio with the full digital stream. Sound still goes dead when I toggle the surround sound option.

They shouldn't advertise 5.1 on iTunes f you can't play it back using 5.1.

After upgrading to 8.1 my earphones did not work on my MacBook Pro.
Restart fixed it !

mutch slower after upgrade, with every song i try to play i get the beach ball :-(