Apple releases iTunes 7.7
If you haven’t heard (and really, by now you should have), Apple released this new fangled thing called the iPhone 3G. Not sure if it’s hit the major markets of if any of them have sold… Anyways, the bigger news in the digital market is that iTunes 7.7 was released, and PLEASE hold your applause.
Now then… iTunes 7.7 does offer some nice new improvements. It adds the capability to sync with your iPhone 3G along with your newly updated iPhones and iPod touches with 2.0 firmware. It also adds functionality for remote functionality on your iPhone or iPod touch that allows you to control your iTunes library anywhere in your house that you have a Wi-Fi signal. I’ve used the Remote app (along with a bunch of other iPod touch apps which I will discuss that are relevant to music) and I have to say it is, by far, the easiest app I have used. Open Remote, open iTunes on your computer, and sync. But we’ll do a review later on.
If you haven’t already, you can use Software Update to update iTunes to the latest version (on both Mac and Windows) or download the latest version from here.
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What I hate about iTunes software is that it doesn’t allow you to create different profiles for multiple iPod users (Or maybe it does and I just haven’t figured it out yet.) See I have an iPod classic 80gb and my wife has a nano 4 gb…yewah, not fair right. Well everytime she add music and want to sink it she has to unselect the thousands of songs I have selected in order to sync her new music and same for me. Everytime I want to add music on the same computer I have to select all and then unselect her stuff. I don’t want Liona lewis or Madonna on my iPod and sometimes I miss unchecking those things. So now we have another computer that I use and I have to sync on that computer…it’s a pain in the butt. Any suggestions?
What about creating separate playlists and having iTunes set to only synchronize those playlists to the respective iPods? That’s the easiest route to go, really. You can set up multiple playlists to sync to each iPod still, you’d just have to check the songs that you want in each playlist.
I bounce all over the place with my iPod so playlists are kind of out of the questions when wanting to listen to a specific album, I have over 5000 songs on my iPod and my wife has significantly less than that so it’s kind of hard and time concusuming to create the multiple number of playlists that I would have to create. the easiest way that I can think of is to keep her songs on the desktop and mine on the laptop and only sync mine with the laptop and hers on the desktop.
You can still sort through the songs by album or artist even if you have a playlist. iTunes puts the songs on your iPod and still allows you to sort through the songs, not just through the playlist. But having separate iTunes installations on different computers can help out a lot.
Hey how come you can sort your music by artist on itunes but not on your ipod? what’s up with that??