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3.9.4

 

Release Notes

Here you can see what changes have been made to iPod.iTunes. If you already have iPod.iTunes you can check it’s version by opening from the applications menu “About iPod.iTunes”.
Since version 3.6 iPod.iTunes has the ability to update itself and will notify you upon launch if there’s a newer version available. You can then choose to update to the new version with one click.


Version 3.9.4:

  1. •Song synchronization to iPod: Fixed a possible “The variable C54K is not defined” error.

Version 3.9.3:

  1. •General improvements.

  2. •Interface improvements:

  3. •When iPod.iTunes is launched with no iPod connected, you get additional direct step-by-step instructions how to avoid iTunes’ automatic iPod synchronization (which may delete content on the iPod you want to copy from).

  4. •Settings tab: Playlist Prefix: There is now one entry field for each sync direction. Previously one field showed the one of the current sync directions which could be confusing.

  5. •Synchronization: Manual copying: iPod.iTunes resizes the iTunes window in relation to the screen size.

  6. •A confirmation dialog for the Cancel button in case it was accidently clicked.

  7. •Under circumstances the “Sync” button did not respond when Return was pressed.

  8. •Some dialogs are non-modal sheets now. More to come.

  9. •The Log Display uses the better readable font Lucidia Grande.

  10. •...and many such small ones more...

Version 3.9.2:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.6.2

  2. •Version 3.9 broke compatibility with Mac OS 10.3.9. This release has been extensively tested with Mac OS 10.3.9.

Version 3.9.1:

  1. •iPod.iTunes 3.9 asks you for the email client Microsoft Entourage, even when not installed. This turns out to be an compiler bug on 10.5.2 (to which I’ve upgraded my development system). So Entourage support for the “Send Logfile” button in the Tools tab had to be removed. You need to attach the iPod.iTunes logfile manually if you want to send it.

Version 3.9:
This update is highly recommended for everyone as it fixes bugs and brings huge speed improvements. In more detail:


  1. •There's no longer the "Consider Unicode..." checkbox in the Settings tab, which was good for accuracy of international characters, but made synchronization very slow. iPod.iTunes now uses always Unicode, but without degrading sync speed. In fact, it’s now even faster than the previous plain text operations.


  1. The following is compared to version 3.8.1 with Unicode enabled, at the given OS version.
    The measurements do not consider file copying as this is limited by the speed of the iPod disk and cannot be improved.

  2. •Syncing 2200 playlist entries to an iTunes library with 4000 songs and no playlists present:

  3. -OS 10.4: iPod.iTunes 3.9 is 8x faster

  4. -OS 10.5: iPod.iTunes 3.9 is 13x faster

  5. •Syncing 10 songs from an iPod that holds 4000 songs to iTunes with 3990 songs in the library:

  6. -OS 10.4: iPod.iTunes 3.9 is 17x faster

  7. -OS 10.5: iPod.iTunes 3.9 is 45x faster

  8. •Syncing 2000 songs from an iPod to iTunes with 10 songs in the library:

  9. -OS 10.4: iPod.iTunes 3.9 is 1.3x faster

  10. -OS 10.5: iPod.iTunes 3.9 is 4x faster

  11. The numbers get even better with larger iPod/iTunes libraries. That is, because previous releases got exponential slower the more content was in iTunes / on the iPod. The speed is now quite linear.
    The numbers don’t mean that iPod.iTunes 3.9 is faster on Mac OS 10.5 than on 10.4 (I have not made such measurements). It was just that previous versions of iPod.iTunes where generally slower on 10.5 than on 10.4, therefore the factors are now higher for 10.5.

  12. •This release has been tested for speed and accuracy extensively with 10,000+ libraries (iPod and iTunes).

  13. •Circumvented a bug in Mac OS 10.4.x that could lead to wrong sync results with large libraries.

  14. •In very rare cases iPod.iTunes could hang during startup.

  15. •Many small improvements under the hood.

  16. •Some small improvements and some bug fixes for the user interface.

Version 3.8.1:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.6.1

Version 3.8:

  1. •Synchronization to iTunes: getting the iPod data is now magnitudes faster.

  2. •Compatibiliy for Mac OS 10.5.2.

Version 3.7.8:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.6.

Version 3.7.7:

  1. •As the speed improvement (introduced in 3.7.5) is incompatible with very old releases of iTunes the minimum requirement for the version of iTunes is now 4.2.

  2. •Small corrections in the user interface.

Version 3.7.6:

  1. •Registering an iPod mini did not work when the name ended with “iPod”.

Version 3.7.5:

  1. •Synchronization of songs to iTunes (with or without playlists): getting the iTunes data is now about 75x times faster! The larger the iTunes library, the more notable is the effect. With an iTunes library of 10,000 songs, it took 3 minutes - now it takes 2-3 seconds (MacBook).
    The next releases will contain further speed improvements for the various synchronization modes.

  2. •Application startup was under circumstances unnecessary slow.


Version 3.7.2:

  1. •Compatibility for Mac OS 10.5.1..


Version 3.7.1:

  1. •Compatibility for Mac OS 10.4.11.

  2. •Mac OS 10.5: FileVault: iPod.iTunes refused to work. Fixed.

  3. •Under circumstances iPod.iTunes showed repeatedly the same message in the log window.

  4. •“Unknown iPod firmware 1.1.1”-message fixed.

  5. •Various quality enhancements. Should you see any problems, don’t hesitate to send the iPod.iTunes logfile (Tools tab-->Send Logfile), thank you!


Version 3.7:

  1. •Compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”

  2. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.5.

  3. •Playlist Synchronization: nothing was synchronized when the prefix was empty (bug introduced in the last version).

  4. •Fixed a problem during launch on Mac OS 10.3.9 with iTunes 3.0.1-5.0.1.

  5. •Various quality enhancements.


Version 3.6.5:

  1. •Please note: iPod.iTunes 3.6.5 is currently not Mac OS 10.5-ready. A compatible version will be released as fast as possible.

  2. •Completely rewritten the logic flow of all 8 synchronization modes. Bug fixes where inevitably.

  3. •Tools tab: As the development focus is currently on bug fixing and compatibility, it is now more easy to report a problem, should you see one. There’s now a "Send Logfile" button which automatically creates an email with the iPod.iTunes logfile attached.

  4. •There is no longer a ping-pong effect when synchronizing playlists in both directions with the playlist prefix option.

  5. •In the Sync tab, the connected iPod including it’s registration status is now shown.

  6. •The Cancel button is more responsive, especially notable with larger libraries.

  7. •Some small bugs in the user interface logic flow have been corrected.

  8. •Many other small enhancements and bug fixes.


Version 3.6.1:

  1. •For slower Macs with large iTunes libraries some functions have higher timeout values.


Version 3.6:

  1. •iPod.iTunes has now the ability to update itself, as soon a newer release is available. This is done with one single click, making it much more easy to update the application. So I can release more often fixes/changes as soon they are done. If an update is available, you are presented by a list of the changes between your current version and the new version.

  2. •Connecting/disconnecting iPods: No need to relaunch iPod.iTunes any longer to recognize an iPod.

  3. •Synchronization to iPod: A possible "No more space left on iPod"-message (when there was space) will no longer appear.

  4. •Mac OS 10.3.9: Fixed a possible problem regarding the recognition of the iTunes library file.

  5. •Some fixes regarding the program flow.

  6. •Various smaller changes in the user interface (mostly message texts).


Version 3.5.2:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.4.2.


Version 3.5.1:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.4.1.


Version 3.5:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.4.

  2. •Fixed a possible problem regarding the recognition of the iTunes library file.


Version 3.4.8:

  1. •iPod.iTunes now works with an iTunes library file which was originally created on a Windows PC. The error message was "Couldn't make a backup of the iTunes library file".


Version 3.4.7:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.3.2.


Version 3.4.6:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.3.1.


Version 3.4.5:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.3.


Version 3.4.4:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.2.

  2. •Added step by step instructions to create a backup of an iPod (see the application's Help menu).


Version 3.4.3:

  1. •iPod.iTunes now works if the user's account is encrypted with FileVault.

  2. •Synchronization to iTunes: Copying is stopped when the disk has only 250 MB left (previously 30 MB). This is because applications and OS X' virtual memory management sometimes behave badly when the disk is full.


Version 3.4.2:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.1.1.

  2. •An error "Target folder not found" happened when no preferences file existed.


Version 3.4.1:

  1. •Compatibility for Mac OS X 10.4.9.


Version 3.4:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.1.


Version 3.3.8:

  1. •Settings: The option to choose the iTunes Library Location has been removed as iPod.iTunes reads it now correctly regardless of the used system language.


Version 3.3.7:

  1. •Under circumstances an iPod could be recognized as an iPod shuffle.

  2. •An error on launch happened when the iTunes version was less than 7.


Version 3.3.6:

  1. •Some small changes for the user interface.

  2. •Some small changes in the documentation regarding terms in iTunes 7.x.


Version 3.3.5:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.0.2.

  2. •When the iPod's disk mode was off an "Error 191" could appear.


Version 3.3.3:

  1. •Compatibility for Mac OS X 10.4.8.

  2. •Playlist Synchronization: The categories "Music", "Movies", "TV-Shows", "Podcasts", "Audiobooks" and "Party Shuffle" are no longer recreated as extra playlists in the target.


Version 3.3.2:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.0.1.


Version 3.3.1:

  1. •Synchronization to iTunes: Checking the iTunes library for disconnected songs: On slow Macs with a large iTunes library a timeout error could occur.


Version 3.3:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 7.0.

  2. •Improvements for the copy routine.

  3. •Small interface changes.


Version 3.2.6:

  1. •Synchronization to iTunes: checking the iTunes library for disconnected songs (introduced in 3.2.1) did not work in the release version.


Version 3.2.5:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 6.0.5.

  2. •Compatibility for the latest iPod firmwares that came with the iPod Software Updater 2006-06-28.


Version 3.2.2:

  1. •Compatibility for Mac OS X 10.4.7.


Version 3.2.1:

  1. •The amount of duplicates in the synchronization source is shown.

  2. •Synchronization to iTunes: iPod.iTunes informs you if the iTunes library contains disconnected songs.

  3. •Synchronization to iPod: changes in the progress bar display.


Version 3.2:

  1. •Compatibility for Mac OS X 10.4.6.


Version 3.1.8:

  1. •Compatibility for the latest iPod firmwares that came with the iPod Software Updater 2006-03-23.


Version 3.1.7:

  1. •On Intel-Macs a harmless but annoying "Error -1762" could appear.


Version 3.1.6:

  1. •Compatibility for Mac OS X 10.4.5 on Intel Macs (which is slightly different than 10.4.5 on PPC Macs).


Version 3.1.5:

  1. •iPod.iTunes did not run under Mac OS 10.2 - 10.3.8 (broken in version 3.1.2 when it became a Universal Binary). Version 3.1.6 for Mac OS 10.2-10.3.8 is a separate download and can be downloaded here.

  2. •Compatibility for iTunes 6.0.4.

  3. •Synchronization: In iTunes 4.0.1 synchronization failed when the library was empty.

  4. •Synchronization to iPod: When the file name contained Unicode characters copying failed.

  5. •Synchronization to iPod: When the iTunes library contained radio stream entries copying failed.

  6. •Synchronization (manual copying): The applications window position was not correctly set under circumstances.

  7. •The applications window position is saved in the preferences now.


Version 3.1.3:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 6.0.3.


Version 3.1.2:

  1. •iPod.iTunes is now a Universal Binary (running native on PPC/Intel-based Macs).

  2. •Compatibility for Mac OS 10.4.5.

  3. •Synchronization to iPod: when "Consider Unicode" was enabled an error occurred.


Version 3.1:

  1. •Compatibility for the latest iPod firmwares that came with the iPod Software Updater 2006-01-10.


Version 3.0.3:

  1. •Compatibility for iTunes 6.02 and Mac OS 10.4.4.


Version 3.0.1:

  1. •Adding missing songs from iTunes to iPod: Audible files have not been transferred.

  2. •The playlist prefix for the sync direction "To iPod..." was not saved in iPod.iTunes' preferences file.


Version 3.0:

  1. •Synchronization in two directions: Beside synchronization from iPod to iTunes you can now also synchronize from iTunes to iPod. This is helpful if you want to:

  2. -synchronize to a foreign iPod which is not linked to your iTunes library (without deleting content on it or touching the link).

  3. -synchronize to a linked iPod (without deleting content on it as iTunes' own synchronization does when content on the iPod is no longer in the iTunes library).

  4. •Many small changes in the user interface.

  5. •Various small improvements and bug fixes.