The Apple world is buzzing about what is coming down the pipe this Tuesday. Expected to be launched or announced in a couple days at their Let's Rock event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco on September 9 at 10:00 a.m. are:
- iTunes 8
Kevin Rose has been Twittering and blogging this week about new visualization features being added, but in addition, Apple is expected to add a "Genius" feature which automatically builds playlists from songs in your library that have similar features, like a Pandora for music you already own. Of course, Genius also includes recommends music you don't already have and lets you purchase it from the iTunes store, via a handy sidebar. Also expected to be added are HD movie downloads, and a new Grid view that is speculated to be similar to the view used by the Zune desktop software. - iPhone 2.1
Doesn't it seem like only a couple of months ago we were excited about 2.0? Well, Apple is already set to release a significant upgrade. The most talked about feature expected to be included is a Push API, which will allow developers of third party applications to deliver updates to the iPhone without the user actually being in the application. This is expected to be a huge boost to IM software on the platform, as well as numerous other applications. Apple is also including additional features that were not even released to developers, which as of yet no one seems to know what that will be. One can always hope for copy & paste. - 4th Generation iPod Nano
Are you a big fan of the fatty Nano? Well, you better hurry up and get yours quick because it's expected to be replaced with a taller, more slimmed down version (think Zune 4/8) that you'll turn on horizontal to view video content on. Engadget has a "spy" photo.
Of course, with Apple, all of this is speculation and in the end it could just be a giant ploy to have a party to take attention away from the upcoming "its not a laser" mouse
product from Microsoft.
Duh...
I agree, my fear though is the added features will just make it worse.
iTunes is only ever "improved" when there are new products for Apple to sell (read: more useless crap gets added) - the core functionality continue to degrade, to the point where I find it too much hassle to load it up when I want to play some music.
iTunes is only ever "improved" when there are new products for Apple to sell (read: more useless crap gets added) - the core functionality continue to degrade, to the point where I find it too much hassle to load it up when I want to play some music.
Indeed. Hopefully someone will crack the iPod Touch v2/iPhone 3G database hash so I can finally obliterate this piece of crap from my computer.
iTunes is only ever "improved" when there are new products for Apple to sell (read: more useless crap gets added) - the core functionality continue to degrade, to the point where I find it too much hassle to load it up when I want to play some music.
At least they fixed the x64 burning issue.
Wouldn't use Itunes myself in a million years, but I sure have blown it off a lot of systems!!
iTunes is only ever "improved" when there are new products for Apple to sell (read: more useless crap gets added) - the core functionality continue to degrade, to the point where I find it too much hassle to load it up when I want to play some music.
I agree. I wouldn't even care, except for the new iPod classic doesn't work well with anything but iTunes. Had I known that ahead of time I would have never purchased one.
You couldn't have demonstrated Apple's exact target market more perfectly.
Features? Who cares
Appearance? Who cares
Price? Who cares
Necessary? Who cares
Newer version from Apple? OMFG LOLZ HERE'S MY PARENT"S CREDIT CARD, STEVE!!!!! RUSH DELIVERY PLEASE! LOLZ! I AM SO FTW!!
No wonder slightly newer versions of everything Apple make Neowin's front page.
I thought I had read something about there being much larger hard drive based versions coming out, but then I couldn't really find anything when I was writing this. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I love it and i've never had an iPod with the signature steel back so its a novelty for me
Oh sorry... I was dreaming!
and they are releasing iTunes without QuickTime, MobileMe and software updater...!
Dreaming is free, isn't it?
the thing i hate the most about iTunes is that with every new version they mess with the database formats and versioning, so windows applications that can sync iPods must update their software just to support the new database.
I think they will loose iPod Nano clients with their new design. i really love the size and form of the 3rd Gen.
I would also love to see MULTITASKING... why this isn't allowed on the iphone is beyond me.
I also wonder what other software they will try to sneak onto our computers this time around.
i heard there will be live video streaming this time. can anyone kinda confirm that? =)
hopefully they fix the random app crashes in 2.0.2... cant use mail anymore...
I think the number is 40,000 songs on a 160GB iPod Classic? Even with movies... that hard drive is more than enough.
I think the number is 40,000 songs on a 160GB iPod Classic? Even with movies... that hard drive is more than enough.
too right lol, carrying a/several weeks worth of music is a bit odd.
I think the number is 40,000 songs on a 160GB iPod Classic? Even with movies... that hard drive is more than enough.
Speak for yourself.
You don't need 40GB of music (unless you didnt have access to your computer for a long time if you were traveling or something)... but it is very conveinient in every circumstance, being able to choose what you want when you want without the hassle of preselecting all the music you want to listen to before hand all the time and having to update your mp3 player... also remember it plays videos too, if you have a series of a tv program on one it can soon rack up space.
Like you also mention its nice to have the space to carry around large files too... sure you can buy an mp3 player and a hard drive.. but who wants the hassle of carrying around both? Its partyle the same reason some people don't want to carry around another phone that is far cheaper than the iPhone and an mp3 player... I hate having all sorts of stuff to carry around.
b) You save time and effort of having to sort through literally thousands or tens of thousands of songs to build up playlist. If you later want something else you have to manually chop and change tracks.
Of course noone on any given day needs 160GB of music, but it's convinient. Also for those that make use of video on the iPod storage is also important.
Edit: Recently I lost my pc copy of my music because a hard disk failed and at the time the system was only a few weeks old and I was literally a day or two out from setting up my redundancy server to handle backups (due to other commitments I hadn't had time to do it up intil that point). Because I had my entire collection I could use a 3rd party program to re import my entire collection which was in essence backed up to the iPod. Had I only had a fraction of my music on the device I would have been forced to re-rip maybe 300+ albums.
Oh really? I have over 300GB of music.
Seems to me this version won't only slow down your system, but totally kill it! nice
Itunes is such a great piece of software... I would say it is very resource oriented....
bleh
visualization features? Thats the top of the list? Does anyone actually use visualization?
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