[Michael Johnston]

Today Apple pushed out the first update to iTunes 9, version 9.0.1. The most prominent change since iTunes 9's release can be seen in the behavior of the green maximize button. In iTunes 9, the maximize button no longer switched iTunes into miniplayer mode and required users to option-click the button instead. This latest update reverts the button to its previous behavior.

In addition to this welcome change, the update also "resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store" and claims to improve overall performance in the app. Issues where iTunes may become unresponsive or unexpectedly quit should also be resolved in this update, at least to some extent.

Genius will now automatically update for users who haven't already seen the Genius Mixes and show them once the update has completed. Also fixed is a bug which caused multi-disc albums to sort incorrectly, which I actually ran into.

The update is available now via Software Update and from Apple's website.

[foamysking]

this also fixes the mixed up order podcast displaying on the iphone

[Michael Johnston]

Originally Posted by foamysking

this also fixes the mixed up order podcast displaying on the iphone

That's interesting. I didn't realize iTunes was responsible for sorting stuff in the iPod app.

[foamysking]

Well it appears that itunes was given more influnace over the ipod app sorting after iphone os 3.0. I just furgured out it was itunes 9 causing the issue on monday when i plugged my phone in to a mac running itunes 8 and after talking to itunes 8 the sorting went back to the correct order on mp iphone.

Itunes 9.0.1 disabled smart playlists syncing under the Podcasts section for my iphone
it wasnt working correct before but did they just kill it all togeather?

[Michael Johnston]

I sync a few podcasts via smart playlist without issue.