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Alexia · Sep 12, 2006, 08:47 PM

Has anyone else checked out iTunes 7 on Windows XP? If you use any program that uses the sound card, iTunes 7 will begin to stutter and skip forward in songs. Not all programs will cause this behavior.(Such as Nullsoft Winamp, but it has its own audio out drivers.)

mdc · Sep 12, 2006, 09:30 PM

It played fine on my Windows XP pc at work. I have software that I can make phonecalls through my pc and I used that all day along with iTunes 7 and it did not stutter.

analogika · Sep 12, 2006, 09:52 PM

Sounds more like an audio driver issue on Windows.

imitchellg5 · Sep 12, 2006, 10:08 PM

Works fine on Xeon 3.00GHz with SP2 and 2 Gb DDR2.

webmonkie · Sep 12, 2006, 10:16 PM

Same thing here on my HP Xeon 3.6GHz workstation.

Alexia · Sep 12, 2006, 11:47 PM

Originally Posted by analogika

Sounds more like an audio driver issue on Windows.

The audio drivers check out fine, unfortuneately. I even updated to the latest drivers that claim to have more support for audio codecs.

Everything is fine on the generic onboard sound card my laptop.

DamnDJ · Sep 13, 2006, 12:07 AM

Having the same problems here. Using Logitech Z640 5.1 speakers with coax connection and external decoder.

Alexia · Sep 13, 2006, 12:22 AM

Originally Posted by DamnDJ

Having the same problems here. Using Logitech Z640 5.1 speakers with coax connection and external decoder.

What sound card are you using?

Alexia · Sep 13, 2006, 06:46 AM

I just downgraded to iTunes 6 last night, but it kept the Quicktime 7.1.3 installation. As expected, iTunes 6 runs great, but Quicktime 7 shows the same problem. What ever they did to play back in the 7 series of iTunes and Quicktime has broken them for some customers.

Hi I'm Ben · Sep 13, 2006, 07:56 AM

I had a number of problems with the PC versionf of iTunes.

First, the damn thing would not update my iPod and when playing audio from my input source on my computer my iTunes started to mess on it's audio and play music that sounded like a evil robot speaking.

vapspwi · Sep 13, 2006, 04:09 PM

I've found a number of bugs/strange behaviors in iTunes 7 under XP.

1. After installing iTunes 7, if I move the iTunes folder out of the root of the Start menu (delete it, move it to a sub folder), the next time I start iTunes it runs a little "mini-install" first and recreates the Start menu, desktop, and quick launch icons. That's VERY annoying.

2. Sometimes when I start iTunes, it comes up as two windows (one for my local library, and an extra window for the iTunes store, or for Podcasts, etc.). When I click on the link for the extra window in the regular iTunes window, the extra window disappears.

3. iTunes is still really slow to launch (P4 3 GHz, 1 gig of RAM, running XP Pro).

JRjr

Alexia · Sep 14, 2006, 07:04 PM

Here is a visual on what happens.
http://www.nonamestudios.com/itunesbug.avi

00:03 - Music starts in Quicktime.
00:08 - Music starts in iTunes, Quicktime immediately begins to chop.
00:10 - Quicktime absolutely cuts out and dies.(Program is still running.)
00:11 to 00:17 - iTunes playback is unstable and sounds to be skipping.

TheoCryst · Sep 14, 2006, 07:32 PM

My friend's HP laptop has a lot of the same music as mine. When we had iTunes "Get Album Artwork", mine found about half of the albums, while hers found at most 2 or three (out of almost 400 albums). Anyone else seeing this in Windows?

brokenjago · Sep 14, 2006, 08:31 PM

Oh man, this thing is a massive memory hog on my machine!

It's using 215 MB right now!

Jesus! That's like a 4 fold increse!

OwlBoy · Sep 14, 2006, 10:19 PM

My brothers PC is having issues with iTunes 7 too. It appears to be the most common problem, Audio stuttering and skipping and speeding up when the computer does other intensive things while running iTunes.

If anyone hears of a solution or more info, please post here!

-Owl

vapspwi · Sep 14, 2006, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by TheoCryst

My friend's HP laptop has a lot of the same music as mine. When we had iTunes "Get Album Artwork", mine found about half of the albums, while hers found at most 2 or three (out of almost 400 albums). Anyone else seeing this in Windows?

That's probably not a bug, it's just a factor of the album art server being overloaded with everybody trying out the new features. If you let it run multiple times, or run it in the middle of the night, or wait a week or two, you'll probably have better luck.

(You can also manually tell it to "get album art" for a particular album in the album art list view - Tuesday night, sometimes if I did that like 10 times, it would eventually connect and download the artwork.)

JRjr

TheoCryst · Sep 14, 2006, 11:23 PM

Originally Posted by vapspwi

That's probably not a bug, it's just a factor of the album art server being overloaded with everybody trying out the new features. If you let it run multiple times, or run it in the middle of the night, or wait a week or two, you'll probably have better luck.

(You can also manually tell it to "get album art" for a particular album in the album art list view - Tuesday night, sometimes if I did that like 10 times, it would eventually connect and download the artwork.)

JRjr

Yep, you win. She got lucky today and managed to pull a few dozen covers. I guess we'll just keep trying/waiting. Thanks!

mabaker · Sep 15, 2006, 05:20 AM

Well, it seems the verison 7.0 is REALLY buggy. The playback problems seem to be all-present now. I expected better from Apple.

tsburke · Sep 21, 2006, 08:40 PM

Updated to iTunes 7 on XP. It works fine on my page, but on other family members pages it stutters and skips. Sounds like I may need to go back to 6 on the whole machine. I will let you know if that cures it.