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November 6, 2007 3:02 PM PST

iTunes 7.5: Updated, but who cares?

by Seth Rosenblatt
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(Credit: Apple, Inc.)

Apple's omnipresent media player iTunes has quietly upgraded to version 7.5 for both Windows and Mac. There's no grand new interface, no code-scrubbing to make the Window version load quicker, and certainly no support for Linux users. There's not a lot to bother with, period, unless you're a Old World iPhone customer.

The biggest change is that iTunes now supports international iPhone activation, in preparation for the iPhone landing on European shores later this week. There's also support for a new music game called Phase, but that's just back-end mumbo-jumbo: running the game still requires buying it first. The iPhone tab in Preferences has been changed to Syncing, and lets users adjust synchronization settings for iPods as well as iPhones. Latest-generation iPod users get a battery meter in the nav next to the connected icon, and besides an assortment of bug-killing and security hole-fixing, th-th-that's all, folks.

Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2. You can follow him on Twitter.
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Apparently not you...
by pugscanfly November 8, 2007 7:34 AM PST
always nice to read enthusiastic informative articles. Wow...why bother man. One
word...Prozac.
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Wasn't that exciting an update
by BetterthanurX November 10, 2007 10:27 AM PST
I can understand the author. iTunes 7.5 upgrade was afterall just....meh
I found one cool thing about it....
by jamesjimmy23 November 10, 2007 2:54 PM PST
When you plug in your iPod to charge it, it now shows a charger icon in the menu to the right to tell you if your ipod is still charging or is fully charged. That's somewhat handy I think.
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No thanks!
by zotje November 12, 2007 3:45 AM PST
I dumped Itunes off my windows box. If they can't make this app load any faster, it's got to go. The bigger my music collection gets, the worse the lag gets. I just loaded winamp..and yep, it handles my ipod just fine, even letting me create smartlists...and it loads in 1 second!!!
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