MediaMonkey and iTunes 9

MediaMonkey 3.1.1 is not compatible with today’s release of iTunes (version 9). If you use MediaMonkey and you have upgraded to iTunes 9 then you will notice that it crashes at startup complaining about d_iPhone.dll. I am guessing that this is because of an updated interface from Apple. If you don’t use MediaMonkey to sync with the iPhone then you can follow the steps below to get MediaMonkey to work again.

Make sure MediaMonkey is stopped (i.e. close the error dialog box).
Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Program Files\MediaMonkey\Plugins. This might be C:\Program Files (x86) if you are using a 64-bit version of Windows.
Move d_iPhone.dll from this folder to some other place (maybe the Desktop or trash if you don’t use an iPhone).
Restart MediaMonkey.

It should start working once that DLL has been removed from the MediaMonkey folder. Obviously, this is a temporary fix and I am sure that the MediaMonkey team will be releasing a fix for this issue soon.

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can confirm that MM plugins are C:\Program Files (x86)\MediaMonkey\Plugins

This does work if you have uninstalled and reinstalled and only crashs when starting.

Thanks for this temp fix

PS curious to see how many people are about to visit this page.

Thanks for the confirmation.

In two days this page has had about 420 page views. I am sure this will continue for at least a little while as more people upgrade to iTunes 9 :)

Thanks for an awesome post. Was almost desperate..tried reinstalling Itunes / MM etc. Finally found the solution now!

Thanks for this fix! it worked....:-)))

It's running perfectly now!

ooooooohhh Thank You! I was ready to throw my computer after upgrading to gold thinking that would fix the prob! You are the BEST!

After I removed the d_iPhone.dll file I can't play any m4a files.. I could play them without any problem before I removed the d_iPhone.dll file.. -But then I had the same crash problem as everyone else inhere.. -any idea??

Works great - bad karma to itunes!

As with everyone else..THANK YOU.
I had assumed it was becuase of the itune upgrade as I had used MM shortly after it.
It's great that somneone took the time to share the fix.
I hope I can contribute something back sometime in return.

Thanx so much for the help. I was at the stage of re-installing Windows.
God, I love my iPhone, but so despise iTunes.

My first go at MM and it breaks. Thanks for this fix.

Had no idea what the issue was being my first experience with the app. Thought it might have been a dud.

Figured it may have been a conflict with iTunes since I just loaded that as well. Just as well as you wrote this.

Apparently MM are aware (http://www.mediamonkey.com/news/2009/09/15/itunes-9-0-iphone-3-1-support-update/). Hopefully this is resolved soon.

Thank you so much,

doing this slowed down MediaMonkey response times greatly, but slow response is MUCH better than no response and needing iTunes again

Thanks so much for the fix

Was not going to install itunes 9, since I'm running Win7 RC, and waiting for the final. I did, and surprise! Thanks so much for blog. Take care!....

Thanks so much! It worked perfectly!

Sorry, my host and gmail is having issues with emails that normally let me know of new comments so I didn't know of your comments. Anyways, I will keep an eye and try to reply back ASAP.

Thanks for the help solved the problem right away.

Thank you so much!!! As soon as media monkey stopped working (during the Itunes update), I suspected it was something itunes did....

I was going to uninstall itunes, but did a google search first and found your solution.
THANK YOU for posting this.

Thanks a lot

Worked perfectly! Thanks!

I have the same problem. Reinstalled the m4a stuff and also quicktime, still no go. Any help?

This works great. Typical iTunes messes up your computer but I have to use it as I have a new iPhone 4.

Thanks for the fix! Apple sucks, quit breaking other products!

Thank you. MM is working thank goodness. Thought Apple had gimped MM because itunes is inferior!

I had the same issue... but now it's working again with this tip. THANKS!!!

I had the same problem with mediamonkey after a quicktime update. And I even do not have an iphone. Bloody Apple people. We should sue them!

Thanks Dude,

MM is working now. I wonder why there is no update for Media Monkey

They actually acknowledged the issue and started working on the fix pretty much immediately. They haven't released a fix because they need time to sufficiently test the fix.

Here is the announcement: http://www.mediamonkey.com/news/2009/09/15/itunes-9-0-iphone-3-1-support-update/

you are a life saver, my beloved media monkey is back, yessss.

Thanx!

Man, really appreciate this. I uninstalled Itunes several times and media monkey as well. Would've killed my damn self if I didn't come across this info-Thanks again man

Thanks. Hehe, I am glad I saved a life! =D

i almost gave up and deleted mediamonkey!
(actually i reinstalled it three times...)
thanks~

Thanks For Great solution.

Thanx Boss, worked perfectly!!!

I was getting this error despite not having itunes installed. I had however recently installed quicktime. So it makes some sense the issue is actually with the newer version of quicktime. The "fix" still worked for me.

Jason, I am glad that this worked and thanks for reporting that this might also be related to Quicktime upgrades. It is interesting because I wouldn't have thought that Apple would include this library with Quicktime.

I also don't have itunes or an iphone and hadn't thought of quicktime at all! One question, all these posts are from 2009, is there still no fix for this?!

Thanks! Down with the itunes!

You saved me from having to learn to like a new music library. Thanks.

I don't have itunes on this machine but I recently installed qt for avi's - MISTAKE!. Thanks for the fix

this works nicely...good job dude!!

You beauty. glad I came across this post as I was getting really frustrated. Now, can you fix Google Earth crashing my graphics card. I'm off to check out the rest of your site for answers.

Thanks so much! this works!

This works great. Typical iTunes messes up your computer but I have to use it as I have a new iPhone 4. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks, iTunes 9.2 broke my MM installation. This fixed it - I'm running version 3.2

AWESOME. THAT FIXED IT YOU ROCK!!! Thanks for the fix.

Your fix worked for me. Thanks!
(Running W7 - 64bit - no iTunes but recently updated QuickTime)

Worked perfectly, thank you so much.

No more iCrap for me.

Like a few posters on here, first time giving MediaMonkey a shot. Glad to know I didn't install a dud or faulty program. Thanks for the quick fix!

Wow, thank you so much for the fix-it blog. Got my Media Monkey back up and running. Dumb iPhone plugin!

Awesome. Even now this fix worked perfectly. Thanks :)

Thank you! That worked! T

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