Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: itunes, 9, lp, extra, iphone | Themes: Digital Entertainment, Audio/Video Players
Yes, rumors of the Facebook and Twitter integration were true.
Today's Apple event brought with it new iPods, and to power all the new hardware and features is a new iTunes. Hitting version 9 today, the latest Apple media software brings with it a slew of new features.
Those who love music and opt to buy full albums can enjoy iTunes LP, which basically packs in additional materials on top of the music tracks, such as liner notes, videos, photos, artwork and other things.
"iTunes 9 is a great iTunes release, with innovative features that make using iTunes better than ever and iTunes content richer than ever," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "iTunes LP, for example, lets artists share more of their creativity with fans and gives music lovers the feeling of being immersed in an entire album with art, lyrics, liner notes, photos and videos."
A similar sort of thing is available for movies as well, called iTunes Extra, which include extras much like the special features on DVDs.
iTunes 9 also introduces Home Sharing, which lets you transfer music, movies and TV shows among up to five authorized computers in your home. Those sharing a home network can now view up to five iTunes libraries and import their favorite content directly to their own libraries. Apple said that it has also improved its Genius music shuffling feature.
Those who upgrade to iPhone OS 3.1 will also have more advanced syncing options, such as being able to organize apps as how you want them to appear on your iPhone using drag and drop (finally!).
iTunes 9 is available immediately as a free download at www.itunes.com.
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Cool. I could care less about facebook and twitter being added in. The sharing thing is nice.
4 or more apple articles in one day? Is someone getting paid? The iPod etc articles could all be in ONE post!!!
Is someone getting paid by apple?
4/5 apple articles in one day? You could have posted the realted iTunes and iPods etc articles in ONE post
Looks great! The UI looks better.
4 or more apple articles in one day? Is someone getting paid? The iPod etc articles could all be in ONE post!!!
It was a big apple announcement day. You guys need to quit whining. Go somewhere else.
More Apple news = more opportunities to bash Apple.
Shame that the iPhone/iTunes *still* does not respect exif orientation tags. Steve Jobs just does not get photos.
itunes is the crappiest piece of proprietary software i have ever used. most people probably still dont know that you can manage your ipod with alternative (better) software!
^^^ you can??!!!
^ of course, take your pick!
mediamonkey, songbird, amarok, rythmbox, sharepod... to name a few.
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songbird and rythmbox don't even come close to iTunes. The other's may be good but those two definitely aren't, I've used them extensively for beta testing in songbirds case, and I'm using Rythmbox atm for all of my music since I'm using Ubuntu until i get Win7 (and money
itunes is the crappiest piece of proprietary software i have ever used. most people probably still dont know that you can manage your ipod with alternative (better) software!
Couldn't agree more!
I like winamp. You can sync an ipod with it, plus it comes with Milkdrop 2 the best visualization program ever.
Couldn't agree more! I like winamp. You can sync an ipod with it, plus it comes with Milkdrop 2 the best visualization program ever.
While I agree songbird wasnt all that great during alpha and beta stages, its made large leaps in terms of usability and performance since. (try and get anything other than mp3 or aac working itunes
The whole point even if apple wants to try and lock in its consumers, you will always have a choice.
/flail... look at post above quoted
WOW I wish I knew that earlier!!
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"iTunes 9 is a great iTunes release, with innovative features that make using iTunes better than ever and iTunes content richer than ever," said Steve Jobs.
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You morons! Steve SAID SO! And we all know he is always right...
it does not matter that your music from ipod can disappear, that itunes is a resource hog, that its "synchronisation" is rather gay, that it's not multithreaded, that it installs 2 or 3 useless services on the PC, that it bans Palm Pre, and that you actually NEED it (coz Steve said so) to use the bloody ipod... thanks god other people found itunes as annoying as I did when I got my first ipod as a gift so they wrote USEFUL applications to support apple's player... Then again - I've stopped using ipod long time ago so all these apple news - are just for you guys... enjoy useless news about useless products from useless company that want to screw you
I always try the new iTunes versions... but they always come off as clunky and poorly integrated, on Windows machines at least. It does annoying things like freeze the desktop momentarily when you drag and drop large blocks of files, and the way file selection works is non-standard (maybe the way Mac's select files). I organize my music library by subdirectory in addition to tag and there's no provision for folder based sorting (basic features missing).
iTunes 9 automatically organizes its library that way (by folders). Go check it out.
I don't really don't see big differences in the new itunes version,
but the home sharing really is good, since i've been too lazy to figure out another way.
^^^^
copy the itunes folder between the two pcs????
well the recently added songs don't get on the 2 pc's, and I'm too lazy to add them on both every time I get a new song
Organize is good and so is drag and drop.