Late last night I installed iTunes 8.1 when it showed up in Software Update. Now I’m wishing I’d stayed on version 8 as a horrible pre-v8 bug has reared it’s ugly head once again.

A simple action such as clicking on a song to play will make iTunes hang, crash and then get itself into a loop where it continually re-opens as you attempt to Force Quit. Even when iTunes is happily open and you simply try to quit or shut down the Mac, it keeps on re-opening meaning it interrupts any attempt to shut down your computer. Very frustrating.

It seems there are many others experiencing the same issue if the threads over at Apple Support Discussion Forums are anything to go by. If the new features aren’t something you desperately want then I’d recommend holding off installing iTunes 8. Let’s hope Apple fix this annoying issue quickly.