Dispatches from Maine

Just another person of little note writing about ordinary things. That I reside in Maine is icing on the cake.

08 September 2005

iTunes 5.0 Upgrade and Podcasts

It seems like each time I upgrade my iPod firmware or the iTunes application, there is some terrible consequence. The last firmware upgrade scrambled my play count and ratings on the songs in my library. I had to start over with no play counts and no ratings, which screwed up a number of playlists.

This time after upgrading from iTunes 4.9 to iTunes 5.0 I found my podcasts directory was empty. The forum at Apple has a useful customer suggestion involving dragging around playlist. Now I admit the problem was not too severe and the features and look of the new iTunes is excellent, BUT how about getting that QA department in gear, Apple? I work in software development so I realize development misses problems and QA misses problems and usually some number reach the customer. The podcasting feature is the newest hot feature of iTunes, so I would have expected it to recieve a little more QA attention than it apparently did.

Better luck next time.

PS. The iPod Nano is h-o-t hot!

3 Comments:

At 02 October, 2005 09:52 , Blogger TrĂ©e said...

I feel your pain. I just upgraded to 5.0 and about one third of the songs in my library have screwed up play counts. The numbers are several digits long and negative something like -187493. Very odd.

 
At 06 October, 2005 16:53 , Blogger Christian Ratliff said...

I just updated to 5.0.1 this morning and it, once again, lost all of my podcast entries. I hope this is not the start of a pattern.

 
At 13 October, 2005 10:21 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

If your play counts are messed up, view your entire library, then sort by play count. Select all the songs with messed up play counts, right click (control-click) them and select "reset play count".

 

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