Today at Apple's "Let's rock and roll" event in San Francisco, they officially announced the updated iTunes, releasing version 9. iTunes 9 comes with Genius Mixes, with more than 54 billion songs to choose from, helping consumers find new music that relates to current library. Apple also announced Genius DJ built into iTunes 9 that seeks out songs and creates a playlist for endless possibilities, great for parties.
iTunes 9 also improves syncing with devices, for your iPhone and iPod Touch. Users can sync by artists, playlists, genres, and more possibilities. Apple also announced that iTunes now offers Home Sharing, allowing users to copy songs, movies, TV shows and more, for up to five computers around your house.
iTunes 9 comes with a built in application sorting feature for the iPhone and iPod Touch, allowing users to customize the layout of their device directly from their computer, without having to painstakingly move dozens of applications and games around. The built in feature should make users organize their devices a little easier.
Users will also be able to share what they are listening to or watching via Twitter and Facebook.
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Last edited by 0sm3l on 09 Sep 2009 - 18:25
Heh, don't hold your breath for this in any mainstream music service.
Too much work/bandwidth for too small demographies.
^ if the demographies are too small, the bandwidth is not that high. Besides, they sell movies too, which are a lot more bandwidth-hungry.
But IMO 320kbps~ish lossy is perfectly fine
OTOH, if you think you hear a difference between 320 kbps mp3 (or heck, even 256 kbps) and FLAC, it's very very likely placebo.
But IMO 320kbps~ish lossy is perfectly fine
Oh, you misunderstand me. I meant that few want it. You don't hear major outrages about lacking FLAC on iTunes. So there's a small demography who *wants* it. But since we're talking iTunes here, if that was offered to all iTunes users across the board, that would be a huge cost for a small want.
so when you change from your iPod, and yoru locked in files, you can convert them into a new more modern lossy format with same or better quality and better compression. or you can transcode without quality loss to MP3/WMA/AAC when you move the song to your device, whatever the device is. handy with the hardware accelerated auto transcoding built into 7 for example.
I don't think they're that fast lol.
Im running it under Windows 7 Professional and it runs fine.
Had to reboot to install it, close both Word and outlook for it to install correctly.
Had to reboot to install it, close both Word and outlook for it to install correctly.
really? I didnt have to reboot or close anything (other than itunes, though it didnt ask me to i just closed it anyway for obvious reasons)
Runs ok.. not so smooth.. thought they would make it as efficient as safari was... but its still looks dam nice.. and the options are great.. love the new UI..
Not true.
It's true that Windows 7 isn't official released through the retail channel yet. However that isn't the only channel. Theres Technet, MSDN, MSDN AA, Volume License and Beta Participants. All just as legitimate as retail.
Any word yet if they've including updated drivers for older iPods on Win 7 yet? With the drivers that came with iTunes 8.2, the iPod would show up in windows for a split second after connecting, and then it would disappear almost immediately, like it was being auto-ejected.
Last edited by TCLN Ryster on 09 Sep 2009 - 21:36
After testing, the answer to that question is a resounding YES!. Looks like iTunes 9 now fully supports Windows 7 from what I can see. iPod Video and iPod Shuffle first gen now work 100% on Windows 7 64bit.
It's true that Windows 7 isn't official released through the retail channel yet. However that isn't the only channel. Theres Technet, MSDN, MSDN AA, Volume License and Beta Participants. All just as legitimate as retail.
Any word yet if they've including updated drivers for older iPods on Win 7 yet? With the drivers that came with iTunes 8.2, the iPod would show up in windows for a split second after connecting, and then it would disappear almost immediately, like it was being auto-ejected.
Yes, true. Official release = retail release in this case.
Don't expect to see 3rd party win7 branding until October.
- http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_7_overview.html . Do you see it there too?
OH MY GODZ¡¡¡¡ it must be october!!! by the time windows 7 releases it will be almost christmas!!
They're not idiots. They know windows 7 is out there. The "compatible with 7 program" has been around for quite some time already. Do you think vendors dont work with windows7 until after the release? Come on. They've been working on it since before the beta.
The Safari 4 team appears to now be far ahead of the iTunes team, but the sad truth is, they should be at the same level.
Last edited by Calum on 09 Sep 2009 - 18:39
The Safari 4 team appears to now be far ahead of the iTunes team, but the sad truth is, they should be at the same level.
It has made use of the Windows 7 taskbar APIs.
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9140/itunesvy.png
Each to their own
Interface consistency is one thing where MS slip up and it's what I admire about Macs.
http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/9140/itunesvy.png
Thanks guys
Really? Billion? Pretty hard to imagine that.
edit: Didn't see someone already mentioned it, sorry.
Not any more it seems.
Is it more laggy than iTunes 8? I know that the speed had improved from earlier releases... If 9 is laggy again, I might hold off...
Yeah, I took the jump and it seems very responsive. The only issue I have is that I have it set to minimize as a toolbar in the Windows Vista Taskbar, and apparently 9 breaks the "Maximize" button... That kinda sucks... LOL I really hope they fix that soon...
I would assume it's because iTunes is the most popular and widely used media player/digital distribution platform. It only makes sense that Palm would like to allow music syncing via iTunes instead of creating their own software specifically for that.
What basic functions does iTunes lack?
Much faster, something it's been needing for a long time.
Can't say I've ever found myself using jumplists apart from once or twice with Word for recent documents.
The UI is horrific, but it's much faster at switching from Music to Movies and such, I must say.
If they made the new UI optional, this would be a pretty awesome update.
There are some cosmic chances, but nothing great.
Since they have switched most of their apps in Snow Leopard to Cocoa, I would think iTunes 9 is Cocoa, thus is much faster than before (which is very easy to beat
In Windows Task Manager with Win 7 x64 it still shows the following:
iTunes.exe *32 121,752 K iTunes.
Should be up now I think?
I think that only works from things you're browsing in the store, not your actual collection.
Agreed.
And yet here you are feeling the need to add a post to this thread full of "hype".
Are you saying that his/her opinion is less important due to the fact that that user doesn't like this software?
I believe everyones opinion counts here.
I personally find it to be bloated but I'll still use it.
I believe everyones opinion counts here.
I personally find it to be bloated but I'll still use it.
Not saying that at all. Just pointing out the hypocrisy of his/her post. Complaining about the hype, and contributing to a thread full of "hype" in the same sentence.
And for the record, after using it for about an hour, I'm finding iTunes 9 a vast improvement over iTunes 8 on my Windows 7 PC. Much less laggy, the theme has been tweaked and looks nicer, and they finally fixed the scrolling issue with mouse wheels (ie. now it actually does scroll as you roll the wheel rather than having to spin the wheel several rotations to get it to scroll). Oh and I LOVE the ability to re-arrange the icons on my iPhone from within iTunes now. Very handy.
While this isn't the first 64-bit iTunes, you had to install it manually before (especially if, as usual, you were using IE x32 to navigate to the download page).
Not to mention, why the heck are the play controls in the upper left? Those things should be at the bottom, at least in the Windows version where everything (ie., taskbar and start menu) defaults to bottom-oriented. Not to mention the controls even on an iPod are physically on the bottom of the face... just seems more natural.
Anybody else having this problem???
They got rid of the 'Shopping Basket' though, which has slightly annoyed me!
My one single wish is that they would use a large icon for Windows. It puts one on your desktop without asking and has the audacity to be smaller and uglier than everything else.
Really.... ??? Guessing that should be million, which even then is a LOT.
Think of how many songs you know... I mean really know, if you heard them.
Most people would be able to recognise MAYBE a few thousand songs.
Are there really 54 BILLION songs in existence.
And if so... I want to see pics of the server farm that holds them all... all 54 BILLION, just waiting for the off chance that song 37,546,367,911 gets purchased... LOL
has jumplist tasks
and play buttons on thumbnail preview
It's not :/
Apple really need to make a new UI this one gets boring after how many years
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