As both of my blog readers are already aware, I use iTunes for my music. I’ve been using it since I’ve had an iPod as it was the most logical thing to do. I’ve grown to really quite like it, and if you use dual monitors like I do, it’s quite nice to have open on one or the other monitor and just flick back to now and then.
I’ve been using Vista for a few months now, and initial reports said iTunes + Vista was not a good mix. There were various horror stories of iPods being corrupted, and iTunes generally not working. Whilst I’ve had issues with sound conking out, and general oddities, I’ve not had anything that serious. Apple still seem to deny any sort of support for Vista, but a few point releases of iTunes have been released since, and each version has gotten slightly better.
There’s one stupid, stupid bug that still afflicts me though. I can’t play any of my downloaded videos! I’ve got a few videoblogs I’ve subscribed to, and downloaded a few videos from the music store. If I try and play them, they get a few seconds in, then the video just sticks. I did some digging a while ago and it seems it’s some sort of odd incompatibility between SATA hard disks, and playing videos. If I copy the video to an IDE hard disk, or a network drive, it works fine! It’s totally nonsensical. Every new release of iTunes, I go try my videos again, but so far, it’s still not working.
So Apple, FIX IT!
Well, you could use Winamp with Scrobbler and ml_ipod plugins. That’s what I use and it works splendidly
Seems that Vista has lots of teething issues. Just glad there are plenty of people biting the bullet with the new o/s so the rest of us and dip in later and get a proper working build ;p