iTunes 7.5 - don’t do it.
If you haven’t already upgraded, think twice about it. On my work PC it was fine, but on my home machine it has eaten its own arse. I’m trapped in a cycle whereby any of these actions:
- trying to start iTunes
- trying to repair iTunes installation
- trying to uninstall iTunes
- trying to reinstall iTunes
produces the error message: “iTunes cannot run because some of its required files are missing. Please reinstall iTunes.”
Which means I’m fucked. This thread on Apple’s support fora claims to have the answers, though nothing has worked for me yet including removing Quicktime 7.3 (I uninstall it, then try to install 7.2 and get told that a newer version is still installed. Yes, I rebooted. Yes, I did an MSI search.)
So in case you were wondering where the next podcast is, it’s on hold until I can fix this. Yes, I could use Winamp or similar to listen to tracks for the show but that’s just ignoring the problem rather than fixing it.
Bollocks.
–c.
UPDATE 12.15pm: Sorted it now. Did the same as mentioned above and in the support thread, but this time managed to properly excise QT7.3. Reboot, install QT7.2, iTunes now works. One problem remains though - I bought a little piece of shareware to sync my MP3 player with iTunes, and that now will not work. Heigh ho.
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I gave up on shiTunes some time ago and now I use MediaMonkey on windows or VLC on OSX. Feckin’ turd-riddled piece of bloatware.
Apple really cocked up on this one. They released a firmware update for the 5th gen ipod yesterday, that if you use windows an not itunes 7.5 you can’t see any content on the ipod. Updating to 7.5 fixes it apparently.
There’s also a few bugs in OSX 10.5 that should have been ironed out, though most of these are 3rd party. Still something like Adobe CS3, one of the major reasons people use mac, you would have thought would have been tested more thoroughly!.
It seems to me they’ve been concentrating too hard on rolling out the iphone (which although isn’t perfect is rather tempting).
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