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03Sep
What's new in iTunes 8?
32 CommentsA new source comes forward w/this info: (this is consistent w/everything I've heard)
What's new in iTunes 8
iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together. Genius also includes Genius sidebar, which recommends music from the iTunes Store that you don't already have.
With iTunes 8, browse your artists and albums visually with the new Grid view; download your favorite TV shows in HD quality from the iTunes Store; sync your media with iPod nano (4th generation), iPod classic (2nd generation), and iPod touch (2nd generation); and enjoy a stunning new music visualizer.
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Reader Comments (32)
Lame updates. Grid view? Is that the same as Zune view? What is really annoying is how people talk about these subtle updates from Apple like they are world changing events that will completely revolutionize their lives. In reality, they are just some lame updates to a media player.
Steve Jobs, save me from your followers!
Apple are so modest. I question the abhorent repeated use of the word 'Genius'
and hopefully an iPhone update as well.... i'd love to stop whining about keyboard lag
As a huge Pandora fan, I really like the idea of Genius playlists. I hope that pans out.
I'm more interested in the trippy visualizations you were talking about
@greg_Morriss
haha. exactly.
Seriously, howcome the first three comments are silly complaints? Who cares what Apple cares to call its services or employees? IMO, the big thing isnot a new view option or iPod updates but that we will soon be able to download HD TV shows and hopefully movies. It's nice to see that Apple finally worked that deal put with studio execs.
kevin do you have any downloads? and i saw you on g4 /techtv before and you showed how to change what your cellphone name shows up on a persons caller id. i was wondering how you do that
I really hope that this is going to be a major overhaul for iTunes. Its the part of Apple's software that I can't stand. It's unintuitive even when compared to Windows Media Player, and that's sad.
Forgive my stupidity but is the availability of HD content new to the apple store? I don't get a lot of TV shows from there, mostly just Rev3 podcasts :)
I like the idea of the grid view, and the Genius playlists sound like a cool idea. Thing is, whenever there's a new feature which requires iTunes to scan my entire media library, it takes forever! I can't even imagine how long it would take for someone with a large iTunes library (especially those people on Gizmodo claiming to have half-million-song libraries). I only have 8000 songs in mine and it simply would take too long to scan my library for me to implement it.
I would love to see Last.fm integration (long shot), a way of separating Videos from Movies (IE – things that I might have made, trailers, things from YouTube, etc. from feature-length films), and something to speed up the iPhone/iPod touch backup. Also, some UI tweaks to make it look like it belongs in Leopard would be nice (look at the folders and playlist icons in the sidebar).
Oh, and before I find it necessary to put my flame suit on, I own two Macs and have owned several other Apple products, and would be considered a fan of them.
I think before they try to release new features, they should release bugfixes for the itunes amd ipod and iphone firmware first. Why pay for 3rd party apps when they keep on crashing? I love apple so apple please love your loyal followers back by giving us nonbuggy softwares.
please let it have network sync for iPhone.
I am just hoping that my podcasts play counts will work. Every time I sync my iphone my previously played podcasts show as if I never played them. This very annoying.
Any word on a music subscription service in iTunes? DO TELL.
Hah! I just want Apple to make the product less bloated and sluggish. It could just be my Windows version however. More finite syncing options would be killer as well. I do like some intelligence behind a product as well. Genius sounds like it has the potential to be something great.
Thanks for the DL Kevin!
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What a disappointment. Looks like more features and no bug fixes. IBloat 8.0 indeed.
I hope that they really get rid of all the bloat so iTunes actually starts up in a reasonable amount of time
Hey Kevin,
Is that true that the Beatles are coming to iTunes?
"What is really annoying is how people talk about these subtle updates from Apple like they are world changing events that will completely revolutionize their lives." - Mark Haines
No Mark, what is really annoying is how Apple haters talk about Apple users talking about subtle updates that will revolutionize their lives when, in fact, they aren't talking that way at all.
Troll Different.
P.S. I seem to recall all the Zune faithful raving about gapless playback and smart playlists in the last Zune software update, when those were features that had been available in iTunes/iPod for quite some time.