iTunes 7 sucks period
I installed iTunes 7 on XP Professional (that is an oxymoron, I know) and it worked fine for a few minutes.
That's when I tried to use it via Remote Desktop (I play music from a server in another room). Then it crashed with the dreaded "Unknown error 0x666D743F". This was an evil omen (note the 666 in the error code). A couple of quick Google searches and I then realized my error, iTunes 7 wasn't really tested to play MUSIC!!!
I was lead to this post. This seems to indicate that my problem was that when you try to bring the audio to a local computer, iTunes (and Quicktime for that matter) barfs with the 0x666D743F error. After a further read it also indicates that 24-bit sound cards may exhibit the problem as well. A little more digging indicated that there is no repair coming soon (and/or Apple is more focused on the new video iPod) so the only fix was crystal clear. That's right, downgrade. This seems to be the only sensible thing to do.
To bad Apple, things were looking pretty good.
That's when I tried to use it via Remote Desktop (I play music from a server in another room). Then it crashed with the dreaded "Unknown error 0x666D743F". This was an evil omen (note the 666 in the error code). A couple of quick Google searches and I then realized my error, iTunes 7 wasn't really tested to play MUSIC!!!
I was lead to this post. This seems to indicate that my problem was that when you try to bring the audio to a local computer, iTunes (and Quicktime for that matter) barfs with the 0x666D743F error. After a further read it also indicates that 24-bit sound cards may exhibit the problem as well. A little more digging indicated that there is no repair coming soon (and/or Apple is more focused on the new video iPod) so the only fix was crystal clear. That's right, downgrade. This seems to be the only sensible thing to do.
To bad Apple, things were looking pretty good.
posted by Brian Sparling | 9:23 PM
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