iTunes on Vista is Busticated

I confirm the reports that iTunes doesn’t fully work on Vista. None of my iTMS purchased music works. iTunes will request that the computer be authorized, says that authorization was successful, then not play the track. This has caused a bit of friction in the household since I purchased the soundtrack to Curious George off of iTunes and my four year insists on listening to it.

I don’t get why Apple isn’t ahead of this. Granted they are probably not the biggest fans of Vista, but it’s not like they haven’t had the final Vista bits in their hands for months. Yeah, Vista just shipped to consumers last week, but it has been in the hands of corporations and more to the point, developers, since November. I’d assume that Apple has at least one MSDN subscription for the iTunes team. I really wonder if they let iTunes fall on its face to try and make Vista look bad (keyword being ‘try’). Shame on Apple for this one.

Update: Lifehacker just posted a link to a utlity to supposedly fix your library. I’ll definitely have to give that a shot tonight.

Update #2: It worked.