To follow up on Monday’s initial impressions of Connect360 version 3.31, specifically the following note I added after attempting to upgrade to version 3.33 which they released later that day:

Update: [Later in the day] It’s now been updated to version 3.33 and the change log notes that v3.32 was supposed to fix Mac OS X 10.3.9 support, but it still fails to launch on Emily’s G3 iBook running 10.3.9 with all the latest software updates. It (v3.33) also will not start media sharing on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.5.1. Doh!

I contacted them regarding those two issues and yesterday morning received emails back from them stating that they had released version 3.34 to resolve those issues. So, last night I upgraded both machines to Connect360 v3.34 and tested.

It now works on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.5.1, but still fails with an, “Unable to load Connect360,” error message on the iBook G3 running Mac OS X 10.3.9. I wholly expect that they’ll provide another fix or workaround for 10.3.9 shortly.

Oddly, the CHANGELOG file in Connect360.prefPane/Contents/Resources/ still only lists the following changes for the version 3.3x updates, but it’s obviously more for internal reference:

VERSION 3.32
- Fixes 10.3 incompatibility

VERSION 3.31
- Stability improvements

VERSION 3.3
- Added folder support for Movies
- Made Movies folder rescan interval configurable
- Fixed size of prefpane in OS versions earlier than Leopard (10.5)
- Fixed port sharing with MediaLink
- Fixed a little bug with the prefpane when ports are in use
- Improved activation system
- Fixed trial mode song counts
- Updated ffmpeg transcoder
- Added WMA audio streaming
- Improved stability for shoutcast streaming
- iTunes Library is now auto detected
- Improved networking code
- Improved support for multiple Xbox connections (3.31 really, pushed in)
- iTunes video playcounts are now updated too (3.31 really, pushed in)