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Things To Be Excited For

2009-02-08T23:37:44-05:00

What is happening Saturday, huh?

Oh Apple

2009-03-11T21:50:08-04:00

Maybe because it’s indexing the library?

Oh Apple

2009-03-11T22:05:07-04:00

agree with Urby give it some time you just installed it.

Oh Apple

2009-03-11T22:11:03-04:00

Well, as the app seems way more responsive, saying that after having only played with it for 5 minutes or so and launches way quicker, i assume they keep more information in the ram now, so view switching performs faster, and searches come up with results much quicker.

just my 2 cents

Oh Apple

2009-03-11T22:15:14-04:00

They said it would be faster for large libraries, not use less memory. Flawed logic on your part.

Oh Apple

2009-03-11T22:21:15-04:00

iTunes DJ is a much better name for Party Shuffle.

Oh Apple

2009-03-11T22:50:59-04:00

They changed the name to iTunes DJ because now people can make and vote on upcoming requests and tracks. I think it’s pretty cool.

Oh Apple

2009-03-11T23:56:17-04:00

You are writing shite my friend, nothing you state is of any matter for the overall picture. This release is terrific, you need a new topic and this is not it.

Oh Apple

2009-03-12T00:52:29-04:00

i see no analysis here; “memory consumption” isn’t a static amount; beyond the comment that the speedup could have been achieved at a memory cost, the fact that it has just been launched for the first time could account for some of the difference (which is just over 5%), and the new features are another good reason for the difference

Oh Apple

2009-03-12T01:29:28-04:00

I’ve got a 20,203 track (58.1 days, 143gb) library and 8.1 flies now where 8.0.2 was incredibly sluggish. shrug How old is your library? Have you backed it up and built a new library from your old backups lately? Yeah, that’s a serious PITA with a large library like yours but you’d be surprised and how effective it can be.

Oh Apple

2009-03-12T01:55:05-04:00

You have no idea what sort of caching benefits have been made, for the increase in responsiveness, you almost always pay a penalty with increased memory use.

Also you have absolutely no idea what iTunes is doing, new songs may have been added or Apple Genius may be updating it’s cache.

In short you have no idea how iTunes utilizes memory, and have no way of telling whether this spike is machine dependent, temporary or indeed a symptom of increased average memory usage; You cannot truly understand this without lab tests and a full copy of the source code, neither of which you have.

These prelimary judgements are at best uninformed opinion, and are likely to be results local to your computer at a specific time.

Oh Apple

2009-03-12T09:15:10-04:00

13062 songs / 34.1 Days / 71.07GB

This has absolutely nothing to do with iTunes. That’s just how much music you have, and that number won’t change simply by upgrading iTunes.

121,312 KB

That’s how much space your library takes up. If you upgrade iTunes and the new version is able to find more album art, or more meta information, yes, the size grows, but it grows to help you.

While the difference in kilobyte usage is less than 10%

Do you know how much a kilobyte costs? You can’t even price it in cents. It’s hundredths of a cent.

the fact that the newer version is using more memory has me very puzzled.

It’s probably looking at your overall system memory and deciding how much to used based on that. If you have more available, it’ll load more of your library into memory to keep things fast. If you have less, it’ll probably load less. Regardless of how much it uses, what you need to look for is whether it seems to measurably slow down your system (like the old iTunes had a tendency to do).

Oh Apple

2009-03-12T09:29:52-04:00

Just thought I’d chip in and agree that you’re making stupid assumptions.

Memory isn’t speed.

Having more data in (fast) memory may be faster as it doesn’t have to be read from the (slow) disk.

And 6MB is hardly much to worry about.

Oh Apple

2009-03-12T11:58:55-04:00

I happen to have a very large library

167131 songs, 513.7 days, 1328.26 GB

and can tell you that things are somewhat less sluggish than they used to be. Rather than things being faster my sense is that things feel faster since the UI is more responsive while waiting for UI updates, filtering and so forth.

Oh Apple

2009-03-12T15:07:05-04:00

I’m not sure what Apple considers to be a “large” library, but I’ve got about 400 GB of music and about double that in video. I find that it takes much less time to open. In fact, I’d guess that it’s less than half the time.

Annoying Gmail Notifier Beep

2009-03-17T16:09:37-04:00

Brilliant. That beep was a surprise. I have used Gmail 4 years and since I have vista now it was annoying. Thanks

Annoying Gmail Notifier Beep

2009-05-23T05:08:40-04:00

woo! thank you so much. I just installed it and had headphones on and it scared the s**t out of me… :-(

Annoying Gmail Notifier Beep

2009-07-28T14:25:24-04:00

Thanks! No more having the crab scared out of me!

Annoying Gmail Notifier Beep

2009-08-26T12:46:34-04:00

Yes! would add that you have to go to Control Panel, System to find Device Manager in XP. that beep was truly frightening.