ITUNES v7 any good?


I'm running ITUNES v6.something, and was looking forward to upgrading to v7, but early reviews of v7.0 were pretty grim. Seems like it was much slower to run, and very buggy. Are any of you running the latest v7.x (I think it's v7.2). How is it going? How does it compare? I'm actually holding off on upgrading to 2G nano because it requires the controversial v7.x.
Thanks,
Art
artmaltman

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I had some issues running iTv7 on an XP machine--most notably getting it to work with my Emu 0404 soundcard. Finally got a fix that worked, but it required some messing around in non-intuitive ways. That said, it does support multiple libraries, which, for me, is a huge help. I used to have duplicates of everything in my library--an AAC file for d/ling to my iPod, and an ALAC for listening at home. The problem was slower scrolling, etc as iT tried to deal with the volume of files. Now, I can shift-double click on iT icon, and it asks me which library I want as it opens... Pretty useful feature for me.
@Artmaltman: I'm not sure I'd characterize iT7 as slow and buggy. I think--quite rightly--that Apple got a lot of web-static about the PC version of iT7 as being released before it got debugged. I gather 7.1 and 7.2 are substantially better. After I got my initial kinks with the Emu worked out, iT7 has run fine for me... And, the multiple libraries are pretty useful.

@Warrenh: I've got a Nano and when I hit pause, then play, it continues the shuffle pattern its on... Why not just hit pause and then lock it if you are leaving it for a while? It still dims the screen, and it isn't playing anything, so it shouldn't have that bad an impact on battery life...