iTunes 2.0.3!!

[simX]

Woohoo! iTunes 2.0.3 update available for Mac OS X users through the Software Update pane, and for OS 9 users at Apple's web page. 2 things I REALLY like about this update:

1. You can now have auto-synching even while choosing which songs to autosynch. You know the little checkboxes in the music library? Now, if you have certain songs unchecked (and this feature turned on -- just go to iPod prefs -- the little button next to the equalizer when you have the iPod selected in the source list), they will not be transferred to your iPod, even if you have auto-synching selected! I sent Apple a feedback telling them to do this, and I guess they listened (or thought of it themselves )! Very handy feature!

2. When you press the green maximize button, the contents of the iTunes window appear MUCH more quickly. Kudos to Apple on this minor update, because it's a good one!

[JB Cheong]

Woohoohoo!

iTunes 2.0.3 has support for more international languages including simplified and traditional chinese!

[scruffy]

This is probably playing with fire, and way more hassle than it's worth and all, but - I looked at the new iTunes, and thought '26 Megs for an mp3 player? that's ridiculous'.

I had a look at the package contents, and each language accounts for slightly over 1 MB of disk space. So, I trashed all the languages I wouldn't need, and it's down to an only slightly bloated 9 MB... I guess Apple assumes disk is cheap, and what the heck are Mac users going to use disk space for anyway?

[AdmiralAK]

How many languages are there ? (the 7 standard ones ?)

[WoLF]

im going to do that right now

[01000111]

First of all why should I have to reboot for an iTunes update? Secondly I've noticed other things that are odd. I went to rename a file and changed the filename extension and it asked me if I was sure I wanted to do that. Before the update it never asked me that before I installed itunes.

I went to the finder preferences and checked "Always show file extensions" and it stopped asking me if I really wanted to change file extensions every time I renamed a file.

Has anyone else noticed anything else that the iTunes install changed. Non iTunes things especially.

--glen

[blb]

The reason for the reboot is it updated the iPod driver kernel extension (/System/Library/Extensions/iPodDriver.kext).

lsbom /Library/Receipts/iTunes2.pkg/Contents/Resources/iTunes2.bom if you want to see every file it installed; everything but the iPod driver went into /Applications/iTunes.app.

One thing it definitely fixed is the screen saver/monitor energy saver problem; these now kick in if iTunes is playing.

[Chris]

Unfortunately it broke iTunes Tool 1.4.2 but this will hopefully be fixed in an update in the near future.