iTunes 6.02 Released: Includes QuickTime 7.0.4

Miscellaneous Ramblings....

Wednesday, January 11. 2006

iTunes 6.02 Released: Includes QuickTime 7.0.4

iTunes 6.02 has been released to add some additional features, some of which are:
  1. Sync Home Movies
  2. MiniStore (See Update#1 below)
  3. Includes QuickTime 7.0.4 (See Update#2 below)
  4. AirTunes Enhancements
Update #1 (1/12/05): It looks like Apple is sadly following the trend of some other companies in sending information (in this case, songs being listened to with iTunes) from the user back to Apple, without letting the user know. It seems that the newly added MiniStore feature is the culprit - turning it off (CTRL-Shift-M) seems to stop the flow of information back to Apple.
Check out this link for more info (Thanks Tim!).

Update #2 (1/13/05): It looks there might also be a problem with the QuickTime 7.0.4 update (that is bundled in with the latest iTunes). Users (both Mac OSX and Windows) are complaining about losing features in QuickTime Pro as well as having diffculty connecting to the Internet to play QuickTime movies. Evidently, there has been a patch released for the Mac OSX system, but none yet for Windows. :-(
Posted by Colleen Velo in Computers, iPod/iTunes Comments: (2) Trackbacks: (0)

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#1 - Tim Foreman said:
2006-01-11 15:13 - (Reply)

iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple?
A new version of Apple's iTunes for Mac appears to communicate information about every song you play to Apple, and it's not clear if there's any way to turn this off, nor what Apple's privacy policy is on this information.

You might want to look at this:

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/11/itunes_update_spies_.html

#1.1 - C Velo said:
2006-01-11 23:26 - (Reply)

Tim -- Thanks for the head-up :-) Reading more info regarding this, it looks like people have confirmed (via Ethereal network sniffing) that turning off the MiniStore does actually stop the communication of song information back to Apple.


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