Hi Holly,
You realize that you're making me download more stuff from the iTunes
Store just to answer your questions, don't you <smile>? Download
information no longer seems to show up in the player status area.
(This is the area of the iTunes app that you reach by doing a VO-Up
Arrow twice from your library's songs table to display title of
currently playing/paused track and it's elapsed time.) You still get
the information about the number of tracks being downloaded if you
have selected "Downloads" in the source table, and now when you VO-
right arrow from the source table after you stop interacting you'll
reach buttons for "Pause Download" and "Resume Download (dimmed)" as
long as the download is proceeding. However, you no longer get
progress bar information in the player status window. If you choose
the target library for the downloaded content in the source table of
iTunes, then you also get information that the download is
proceeding. I've only tried this with TV shows (in the Free section)
so I would have enough time to track signs of a download.
The other thing that is really different is that the podcast
preferences for how frequently to check the feed are no longer in the
iTunes preferences menu. Instead, when you select a podcast
subscription in the Songs table and VO-right arrow there are now
buttons for "Unsubscribe", "Settings", and "Refresh". The "Settings"
popup button lets you specify your podcast subscription preferences
for each subscription. You can either use default subscription
settings, or separately configure how often you want to check the feed
and what rules you want to maintain for keeping the podcasts.
Cheers,
Esther
On Sep 10, 2008, at 2:31 AM, Holly Anderson wrote:
Hi all. I'm still riding high after yesterday's event. Isn't it
awesome, itunes store and talking ipods. really beyond what I
expected in my wildest dreams. Anyway, I noticed that the downloads
window in itunes 8 still doesn't show any information. I wonder if
this was overlooked, or is there just something I'm missing. Has
anyone else gotten it to work? A tiny thing, but I was just curious.
Holly
