Apple patches issues with iTunes 7.1.1 release

Apple Inc. on Friday afternoon released a minor update to its iTunes jukebox software to address a handful of minor issues that have surfaced within the release of iTunes 7.1.

"iTunes 7.1.1 addresses a stability issue and minor compatibility problems in iTunes 7.1," the company wrote in a brief set of release notes accompanying the software.

The maintenance release is available from the Mac OS X Software Update mechanism and has also been posted to Apple's support site as a 28MB download for Macs and a 36.1MB download for Windows PCs.

Apple did not say whether Friday's update addresses any of the persisting incompatibilities between iTunes and Microsoft's new Vista operating system.

Earlier this week, the Cupertino-based company released iPod Reset Utility 1.0 which allows owners of its first- and second-generation iPod shuffles to restore the players back to their factory settings.

The reset utility is available for both Mac and Windows.

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35 Comments

alpich

said about 17 years ago

I hope it fixes the lost library issue I have had twice since the last update.

jeffdm

said about 17 years ago

I can't help but think that this was a fix for a poorly tested release. Apple did similar quick patch with Final Cut Pro recently where 5.1.3 broke much of the plug-in architecture, and 5.1.4 was released a week later. Previous updates of iTunes caused problems such that they needed to do a x.x.1 patchin a week or two, if it was so easy to find and fix, why did the flaw make it out? The quick release is somewhat good for Apple, but an indictment of the QA work done too.

zandros

said about 17 years ago

This patch did not fix the problems with a blurry scrollbar in coverflow mode on my MacBook. Do anyone else have this problem?

ci0002

said about 17 years ago

This patch seems to have fixed a certain background scratchiness which had developed in my iTunes. BUT is did not install well, had to be forced quit. Seems ok