Comments on: iTunes 5.0 is PowerPC http://theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/ TheAppleBlog, published by and for the day-to-day Apple user, is a prominent source for news, reviews, walkthroughs, and real life application of all Apple products. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:31:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Gareth Potter http://theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3431 Gareth Potter Fri, 09 Sep 2005 23:32:58 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3431 I've been crying-waiting-hoping for a Cocoa iTunes for ages. I'm still running iTunes on a 400Mhz iMac, and bugger me it can be slow. iT5 has improved matters somewhat, but it's still a Carbon whore at heart, and as such, not as slick as it would otherwise be. I've certainly gotta agree with the people on here who are pointing out that it would be an incredible waste of bandwidth (and time, etc.) getting people to download a UB installer. As so few people have the appropriate kit yet (and even fewer are running it on kit made by Apple :P), I fail to see the point. In any case, porting iTunes is going to take a while, and as we're not going to see x86 kit on sale for the best part of a year yet, that's a year which Apple can (perhaps) put to good use Cocoa-ising the app. Given, though, that I am sure they have more important things for developers to be doing (if Rosetta is as good as reports suggest), then it will be a long while before we see a Cocoa iTunes UB. But I can dream. It would make such a difference to this dear old iMac... Gareth :D I’ve been crying-waiting-hoping for a Cocoa iTunes for ages. I’m still running iTunes on a 400Mhz iMac, and bugger me it can be slow. iT5 has improved matters somewhat, but it’s still a Carbon whore at heart, and as such, not as slick as it would otherwise be.

I’ve certainly gotta agree with the people on here who are pointing out that it would be an incredible waste of bandwidth (and time, etc.) getting people to download a UB installer. As so few people have the appropriate kit yet (and even fewer are running it on kit made by Apple :P ), I fail to see the point.

In any case, porting iTunes is going to take a while, and as we’re not going to see x86 kit on sale for the best part of a year yet, that’s a year which Apple can (perhaps) put to good use Cocoa-ising the app. Given, though, that I am sure they have more important things for developers to be doing (if Rosetta is as good as reports suggest), then it will be a long while before we see a Cocoa iTunes UB.

But I can dream. It would make such a difference to this dear old iMac…

Gareth :D

]]> By: shana http://theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3432 shana Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:07:56 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3432 John - yes, the speed is fantastic, isn't it? unfortunately, it downloaded all my purchased music again. so now my library is a third again as large, and filed strangely to boot - so i can't sync my vintage iPod until I clear all the double files off! John - yes, the speed is fantastic, isn’t it?

unfortunately, it downloaded all my purchased music again. so now my library is a third again as large, and filed strangely to boot - so i can’t sync my vintage iPod until I clear all the double files off!

]]> By: engpjp http://theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3433 engpjp Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:31:28 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3433 "BTW, did anyone else notice that you can drop MPEG files into your iTunes library now?" Could you be more specific? I know that PDF files show up in iTunes, of course, so extra details - possibly song lyrics or the booklet included with some albums - could be immediately accessible. But it would be nice if they, and MPEGs, are somehow directly connected to the relevant song/grouping - is that doable? It would certainly be good if the pictures didn't necessarily be bloating the music files. Furthermore, one should be able to have more than one picture associated with one or more songs, albums/groupings ... or playlists! (the latter a built-in option in the screen saver preference panel). So how does one connect an MPEG dropped into the iTunes library with a song? “BTW, did anyone else notice that you can drop MPEG files into your iTunes library now?”

Could you be more specific? I know that PDF files show up in iTunes, of course, so extra details - possibly song lyrics or the booklet included with some albums - could be immediately accessible. But it would be nice if they, and MPEGs, are somehow directly connected to the relevant song/grouping - is that doable?

It would certainly be good if the pictures didn’t necessarily be bloating the music files. Furthermore, one should be able to have more than one picture associated with one or more songs, albums/groupings … or playlists! (the latter a built-in option in the screen saver preference panel).

So how does one connect an MPEG dropped into the iTunes library with a song?

]]> By: Martin 'MC' Brown http://theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3435 Martin 'MC' Brown Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:14:32 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3435 Actually, I'm surprised that more people are not interested in the fact that Apple's key application (for without iTunes, we'd have no iPod) is not yet a UB. I can't believe - as steve suggests - that Apple are not working on an Intel version in time for the new release, and I am very surprised that they didn't use this opportunity to produce one. That was the point of the article. That said, it took Apple a long time to migrate some of their applications and even core components to the PowerPC platform when they moved from Motorola 68K, so I guess we could have to wait... Actually, I’m surprised that more people are not interested in the fact that Apple’s key application (for without iTunes, we’d have no iPod) is not yet a UB.

I can’t believe - as steve suggests - that Apple are not working on an Intel version in time for the new release, and I am very surprised that they didn’t use this opportunity to produce one. That was the point of the article.

That said, it took Apple a long time to migrate some of their applications and even core components to the PowerPC platform when they moved from Motorola 68K, so I guess we could have to wait…

]]> By: Martin 'MC' Brown http://theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-27895 Martin 'MC' Brown Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:14:32 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-27895 Actually, I'm surprised that more people are not interested in the fact that Apple's key application (for without iTunes, we'd have no iPod) is not yet a UB. I can't believe - as steve suggests - that Apple are not working on an Intel version in time for the new release, and I am very surprised that they didn't use this opportunity to produce one. That was the point of the article. That said, it took Apple a long time to migrate some of their applications and even core components to the PowerPC platform when they moved from Motorola 68K, so I guess we could have to wait... Actually, I’m surprised that more people are not interested in the fact that Apple’s key application (for without iTunes, we’d have no iPod) is not yet a UB.

I can’t believe - as steve suggests - that Apple are not working on an Intel version in time for the new release, and I am very surprised that they didn’t use this opportunity to produce one. That was the point of the article.

That said, it took Apple a long time to migrate some of their applications and even core components to the PowerPC platform when they moved from Motorola 68K, so I guess we could have to wait…

]]> By: Pwoli http://theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3434 Pwoli Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:05:46 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3434 Actually, the article is interesting, and your post has no point to it. Actually, the article is interesting, and your post has no point to it.

]]> By: SuperMatt http://theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3436 SuperMatt Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:40:41 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3436 Why not just entitle this article "I've got a Mac-Intel developer kit and you don't. Ha!"? There seems to be no other point to it. Why not just entitle this article “I’ve got a Mac-Intel developer kit and you don’t. Ha!”? There seems to be no other point to it.

]]> By: axl http://theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3437 axl Fri, 09 Sep 2005 10:16:52 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3437 Who cares if iTunes 5 is UB? It do not contain anything that developers have to use to develop UB versions of there apps. A UB version of iTunes are going to be there form day one so why care? Get real... Pointless article... Who cares if iTunes 5 is UB? It do not contain anything that developers have to use to develop UB versions of there apps. A UB version of iTunes are going to be there form day one so why care?
Get real…
Pointless article…

]]> By: steve http://theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3438 steve Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:22:07 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3438 ITunes is still the old OS 9 app SoundJam, and it isn't built in Cocoa, its built using PowerPlant. So making it universal is not easy at all. Same goes for DVD Player. They may currently be working on a Cocoa version. But I doubt it. If the emulated behavior is acceptable I would think they won't throw away so much code. ITunes is still the old OS 9 app SoundJam, and it isn’t built in Cocoa, its built using PowerPlant.
So making it universal is not easy at all. Same goes for DVD Player.
They may currently be working on a Cocoa version. But I doubt it. If the emulated behavior is acceptable I would think they won’t throw away so much code.

]]> By: John C. Randolph http://theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3439 John C. Randolph Fri, 09 Sep 2005 01:34:59 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2005/09/08/itunes-50-is-powerpc/#comment-3439 BTW, did anyone else notice that you can drop MPEG files into your iTunes library now? They play in the "Album Art" pane, or in a separate window if you control-click on the image. -jcr BTW, did anyone else notice that you can drop MPEG files into your iTunes library now? They play in the “Album Art” pane, or in a separate window if you control-click on the image.

-jcr

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