ITunes - Crashes and Simply Fails to Work
I just upgraded to the recent ITunes 6.0.1 (3) today. Its already crashed just navigating my song collection.
Twice, its also failed to play songs via my Airport Express even though I can ping it. A reboot of my airport express solves the problem. Fortunately you can do that remotely with the AirPort admin utility, as the Airport Express is behind a large TV and not accessible.
Now I just have to explain the workflow to my wife. I don’t quite get ITunes yet - I can’t figure out how to browse by album rather than song (although you can sort by album), so I can’t explain that part. But I can muddle through and select some songs to play, I am sure Lisa can too.
Then select the output as “Living Room” and play songs. If ITunes fails to connect, start AirportAdmin utility. Open Base Station. Click Restart. Wait about a minute. Try ITunes again. Its still simpler than hunting through a CD collection, right?
ITunes, like IPhoto, is a buggy app that crashes a lot. These programs are far more unstable than typical Windows Apps like Picasa or Media player. Grr.
Stuff on the Windows platform is just going to get more and more stable as products are written for DotNet. As long as Apple and third party developers keep down the Objective C path, their apps are going to crash a lot while Windows programs get more and more reliable.
To Apple: Itunes,IPhoto, and AirPort should just work. If they don’t, why ship it?