Indicative of poorĬode quality assurance. when you run it and click on “About” it shows version 5.31.
InĪddition, the site shows version 5.32 for download for Mac.
The trial only works for 50 songs and unfortunately that’s not long enough to see technical issues such as frequent crashes.
The clock is ticking and I’ll update tomorrowĪs it stands right now, it’s not worth $25 without some bug fixes and dedicated support for users who purchase the program. They say there’s a 24 hour turnaround time. So not being able to even register to post a question about my problem, I was left to use their “billing issue only” webĬontact to tell them my forum and product issues.
Those kinds of errors are a backend issue and not aĬlient problem. Step two: Click ' Library ' and choose a playlist on the left sidebar. I tried to register in the forum and got repeated “database” errors. Step one: Open up iTunes on your computer and select ' Music ' selection. You’d think purchasing the program would give you access to a different level of support, not. I have fiber to my house and run sustained D/L speeds of about 4MB/sec to my 2.4Ghz, 4GB ram MBP. It takes almost a second per song and with 5000 songs, it’s not just a quick process even if it doesn’t crash. It uses a proprietary server to compare the updates to and operation is slower than I would have expected. My system is relatively “clean” and my MBP is only a few weeks old. I’ve had quite a few crashes and freezes. While Fixtunes does have some nice features and configurable options, I don’t believe it’s ready for “prime time” on OS X 10.5 at least. I recently purchased Fixtunes for iTunes and started processing my library of about 5,000 songs. Hope that helps you out! If you’re running an earlier version of iTunes, it’s definitely time to upgrade! Now the bad news: Less than 50% of my 400 CDs matched sufficiently well to be given cover artwork from the iTunes Music Store. It’ll give you some sense of progress, though:įinally, when it’s done, the album cover browser is far, far more visually interesting: It’ll take a good long while to get all the covers, especially if your collection is like mine, with over 400 different CDs in my library. Select Get Album Artwork and you’ll promptly be asked:Ĭhoose “Get Album Artwork” and find something else to do. You can see I’ve already highlighted the key choice too. Right click (e.g., Control-Click) and you’ll get the following pop-up menu: Now, choose Edit –> Select All and every single track will be highlighted in your entire library.
Problem is, that’s not so cool if your album covers all look like this:īoring, eh? Here’s the really GREAT news, however! Switch to the center view, what I think they call “grouped view” and you’ll see this: There are now three different “views” you can choose, one of which really does look just like the modern digital Wurlitzer, with a ‘flippable’ library of album cover art. I’ve been poking around with Apple’s new iTunes 7.0 release and also think it’s darn cool what they’ve added.