Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday unveiled iTunes 4.5, a new version of the company's music jukebox software that contains many new features. Included in the new version is iMix, Music Videos, Video Trailers, a new lossless audio codec, free weekly downloads and Radio Charts. According to information posted on Apple's Music Store early Wednesday morning, iTunes users now have access to a free downloable single, which will be made available every Tuesday.
New Features
Download: iTunes 4.5
News source: MacCentral
News source: Apple | iTunes
New Features
- iMix Post and email songs in your playlists for everyone to see. Rate iMixes from other music lovers to drive them up or down the charts, and discover new music at the same time.
- Music Video Section With a total of 72 videos, users can watch the video of a song and below the video purchase the song while they watch. Movie trailers have made their way from Apple's QuickTime to iTunes in the new release, as well.
- Radio Charts will track the most played songs in more than 1200 stations across hundreds of cities nationwide, according to Apple.
- Lossless Encoder Use the new lossless encoder to import music from CDs and achieve sound quality indistinguishable from the original, at about half the original file size. Plays in iTunes and on iPod.
- Automatically convert WMA to AAC. Convert the music you saved in Windows Media Player (unprotected WMA files) to AAC format.
Download: iTunes 4.5 News source: MacCentral News source: Apple | iTunes
pulled, rude comments, shit story. Not worth the hassle.
Here: iPod Update 2004-04-28 supports all models of iPod and iPod mini introduced before April 28, 2004. This update is required to take advantage of new features in iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store.
Changes for iPod without a Dock connector
Compatibility with iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store
Improved playback performance
Changes for iPod with a Dock connector and iPod mini
Compatibility with iTunes 4.5 and the iTunes Music Store
Improved playback performance
Support for the Apple Lossless Encoder, to enable compressed music encoding at high quality
Unless your editing music with something like cool edit pro no music program should need that much memory.
Winamp 5 is bloated? right now mine is taking 5 megs (but I'm using a classic skin).
Memory Hogs usually = Processor Hogs as well. Which really isn't a problem unless you want to listen to music while you play some processor intense game.
So give me my Winamp. I'm a computer user who wants a really flexable media player. And winamp gives me complete control of what I want (not to mention, Milkdrop and controllability w/ my cordless gamepad
all of this is just a matter of opinion. And opinion's are like assholes, everyone's got one.
iTunes is a burden on any computer, gig of memory or not. Takes too long to load, etc, etc... I want my music player to start in a less than 5 seconds. Oh, and I don't have a crappy computer, 512 ram, 2.2 gig
The version of Sidekick I use is 1.2.
Here's the link for everyone: Multi-Plugin v.52
Last edited by 3530 on 29 Apr 2004 - 02:57
Ummmm... That board is in Hebrew...
On another note: all you need to do is load that hebrew IPB, then copy the original link and it will download.
I like the new features, but this version seems to be using twice as much memory on my computers
(33mb up from <16mb)
Last edited by 24327 on 28 Apr 2004 - 17:56
QuickTime 6.5.1 delivers many important updates, including:
- Apple Lossless Encoder, a new lossless audio codec that retains the full quality of uncompressed CD audio while requiring only about half the storage space.
- Significant improvements to AAC encoding, resulting in high-quality sound over a full range of audio frequencies.
- Enhanced support for iTunes and other QuickTime-based applications.
Also, it's annoying how you can't share music with people who are using earlier versions.
It's not anything serious, in any case. I'm still using iTunes as my primary player.
Hehe, oops. Didn't read the iPod updates close enough
Muhahahah
Typo!!!!
Times you can burn from playlist to cd reduced from 10 to 7.
Fairplay doesn't work.
Power to that DRM!!!!..............
Edit: Problem solved! Reason: iTMS is currently down.
Last edited by 12702 on 28 Apr 2004 - 19:51
Total: less than 5 minutes.
Last edited by 12702 on 28 Apr 2004 - 20:01
EDIT: It updated, sweeeeeet. so is this basically the new firmware, like 2.1
Last edited by 35274 on 28 Apr 2004 - 21:19
I haven't used my iBook much lately, too busy doing Linux boxes ^_^;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/m...sic/3665765.stm
The only thing they didn't do that I want them to was enable the ability to move the song name category (ie. Song #, Artist, Album, Song Title).
Last edited by 11680 on 29 Apr 2004 - 22:06
"oh dear. thanks for introducing us windows users to itunes. if it didn't use quicktime as backend i suppose i'd be way faster. oh and nevermind the fact that itunes 4..5 removed all my cdroms without asking me. thanks for that too. i'm back to ye good ole winamp 2.9x."
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