iTunes 5.0 for Windows failing for some users |
The iTunes 5.0 upgrade for Safari Mac (doh!) installed for me without a hitch. I haven’t upgraded the PC version yet and it seems like a good thing. Several users are reporting the iTunes 5.0 upgrade for Windows is failing, writes Jeremy Wagstaff:
It scares me because we don’t yet grasp how fragile our music collection has become. Before we had a pile of CDs we could always go back to if our tapes, MP3s or burned CDs gave up the ghost. Nowadays our music collection may be just in the form of MP3 files, and what happens to them if something goes wrong?
This is the primary reason I haven’t jumped aboard the buying DRM music online gig. Still haven’t bought a single iTunes track, in fact, although I’m being tempted by Madonna’s entire library recently being released to iTunes.
I’ve bought no more than three or four tracks (see, I can’t even tell you exactly) from all online music stores combined. And no, I’m not out pirating music, rather I have subscribed to various services that let me stream the music in whole (Rhapsody, Napster, Y! Music) so I can see what CDs are good so I can buy them. And then there are artists that I’ll buy their new CD even if it sucks like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden; yeah, I’m a metal head. Currently I’m not subscribed to any of those music services either.
I’d rather have the hold-it-in-your-hand CD than almost any digital file. This assumes the CD can be purchased, which unless you hit some of the import dealers can sometimes be a chore. Yeah, I suppose I could buy and then burn but that seems like work and then I’m missing out on the CD inserts (I haven’t seen printouts for those, but have seen cover art that can be printed). Also, often times new CDs are coming packed with extra goodies like bonus DVDs which don’t come with the online downloads.
I was a bit surprised to hear Steve Jobs say that the average iTunes user has bought 60 songs and that they sell $1.8 million in songs every day. Wow. I guess people like me are keeping the average down.
So now I wonder about you? How many songs have you bought online? More than 60, less than 60? Zero?
Did this post make you go hmm?
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I’m a Napster to go subscriber and am very happy with it (except for no Madonna or Eagles or Led Zeppelin), but then I alreadu OWN all of Madonna on CD and recently completed my Eagles collection. Just a fe more for Led Zep…
I went ahead and installed iTunes 5.0, just haven’t run it yet… I never really liked iTunes, too idiot proof. I WANT to customize my settings and don’t want a stupid program thinking it knows what I want…
Comment by FranciscoIV — September 13, 2005 @ 9:19 am PST
I’ve bought more songs than I ever thought I would using iTunes, so I’m in the over 60 camp. On another note, I’ll put a trackback to this entry of yours on my blog and we’ll see if that has any effect on memeorandum.
Comment by Warner Crocker — September 13, 2005 @ 10:52 am PST
Problems With New iTunes
I linked to Michael Hyatt’s post about this the other day. Apparently this is turning into a big deal. The new version of iTunes seems like it was let into the wild a bit too soon and will cause some
Trackback by Life On the Wicked Stage: Act 2 — September 13, 2005 @ 10:54 am PST
Thanks Warner. I just noticed at 2pm ET, a couple hours after making this post, memeorandum finally included the link from my blog in the discussion breakdown. This was after your trackback, so maybe it takes multiple links for a source to show up? Either that or the tech meme bot is only programmed to hit this blog once every couple hours. A lower priority bot, if you will, depending on update source. Fascinating if that’s the case. I’ve also noticed that Scoble’s “Announcing Memorandum…” post has been the top headline for several hours now. Maybe this is why Scoble likes it so much, because it will show him in big text for hours?
Seriously, I would expect some PDC 2005 posts to be hitting the tech meme by now … but not much there yet.
Comment by TDavid — September 13, 2005 @ 1:03 pm PST
[…] However, the story I wrote in the last entry and linked to regarding the iTunes 5.0 Windows upgrade problems still hasn’t show after 30 minutes of linking and trackbacking in, so I’m not sure how long it takes for the tech meme algorithm to grab trackbacks or linking-in permalinks. It might use other ping sources like Technorati or aggregators like Feedster or IceRocket, rather than visiting the blogs directly. That will leave sources out of sync as evidenced by this test. Then again, nobody has linked to my story, so maybe that’s what triggers the tech.memeorandum page, which would leave it less open to trackback spammers (a good thing, of course). I see new stories/blog entries on the main tech meme page as recent as “10 minutes ago” but the tech meme official blog notes “added in real time” and page updates every five minutes. […]
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