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Saturday, September 25, 2010, 01:25 pm
Apple releases iTunes 10.0.1 with Ping improvements, bug fixes
Apple this week released an update to iTunes, with version 10.0.1 adding the new Ping sidebar for easier access to the social networking service, as well as a number of bug fixes.iTunes 10.0.1 is available available for download for Mac OS X as a 84MB install, 71.54MB for Windows 32-bit, and 72.41 for Windows 64-bit.
"iTunes 10.0.1 makes it easier to share your favorite music with your friends on Ping," Apple said in its documentation. "You can now Like or Post about music right from your iTunes library."
"You can also easily see the recent activity of a selected artist in your library, or of all artists and friends you follow on Ping using the new Ping Sidebar."
The update also includes a number of important bug fixes, including:
- Addresses an issue where the picture quality of a video changes depending on whether the on-screen controls are visible.
- Resolves an issue where iTunes may unexpectedly quit while interacting with album artwork viewed in a separate window.
- Fixes a problem that affects the performance of some third-party visualizers.
- Addresses an issue where the iTunes library and playlists appear empty.
- Resolves an issue that created an incompatibility with some third-party shared libraries.
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Did They Put The Color Back In The Playlist Titles? I really miss the color. 
I still haven't fixed the bug where everything looks so gray.
Apple this week released an update to iTunes, with version 10.0.1 adding the new Ping sidebar for easier access to the social networking service, as well as a number of bug fixes....
It seems at first sight to replace my genius bar with a Ping bar and give me no option to return it. This is a shame since literally the *only* good thing about the Genius thing is the genius bar connection to iTunes.
Also seems to screw up a lot of my cover art.
I'm getting really sick of the crap they are folding into iTunes that doesn't give you the option of removing it. The "Genius mixes" (that I don't ever want to see but are un-removeable), jumping in your face every time you sync are bad enough, and they might want to fix the broken implementation of cover-flow first also.
I wish there was a serious alternative out there that wasn't going to give users more hassle than Apples implementation of iTunes does.
Colored icons - if you have a Mac there is an easy and fast hack to put the colored icons back. However, Windows users are out of luck, no hack that I know exist.
If you want the Mac hack let me know and I can post links. Or just Google 'itunes 10 colored icons' or something similar.
I don't mind the greyness. I actually like it. The less distraction the better. And this is where I have problems with 10.0.1: They implemented a "feature" which adds Ping-Options to the title that's currently playing as well as to the title that's selected. Oh boy, excuse my language, but Ping can go f*ck itself. I don't use time-consuming social media bs.
All I want is a distraction free music library, in which I can focus on listening to the music. But these times are over now with Ping all over. Glad, that Plex 9 is slowly getting usable (it arrived on 1st of september, still with lots of bugs and those get squashed day by day). If Apple continues to develop iTunes in this direction I'll say goodbye to iTunes.
UPDATE: here's how to get rid of the ping button: open terminal and paste the following:
defaults write com.apple.itunes hide-ping-dropdown -bool YES
Is anyone getting the occasional skip while playing music now? I can't see anything in Activity Monitor that is overloading my CPU.
I don't mind the greyness. I actually like it. The less distraction the better. And this is where I have problems with 10.0.1: They implemented a "feature" which adds Ping-Options to the title that's currently playing as well as to the title that's selected. Oh boy, excuse my language, but Ping can go f*ck itself. I don't use time-consuming social media bs.
All I want is a distraction free music library, in which I can focus on listening to the music. But these times are over now with Ping all over. Glad, that Plex 9 is slowly getting usable (it arrived on 1st of september, still with lots of bugs and those get squashed day by day). If Apple continues to develop iTunes in this direction I'll say goodbye to iTunes.
I am pretty neutral about the color icons. I think it"s less distracting, but makes it a bit harder to quickly find the tab I want. I totally agree with the ping comment.
Is anyone getting the occasional skip while playing music now? I can't see anything in Activity Monitor that is overloading my CPU.
Once again Apple does a brilliant job with one of their premier products. Maybe they can take the A-Team off the iPad for a few days.
I don't mind the greyness. I actually like it.
Of course you do. Sigh.
I hoped it was a bug but now after an update it seems that they did this on purpose. I find this very bizarre from the company that was so proud of how their utilities looked in coverflow when Leopard was introduced.
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Hi, I'm back from my banishment.
Still no color icons. I'll pass. I want my colored icons.