iTunes 4.5 Released

MacRumors · 10:16 AM

Apple released iTunes 4.5 today.

The newest version of iTunes offers several new features.

- iMix - Share your taste. Publish your playlists
- Party Shuffle
- Printing - Creating Jewel case inserts
- Radio Charts - What's playing around the U.S.
- Movie trailers. Music Videos
- WAM - Convert WMA to AAC
- Apple Lossless - CD Quality Sound. Half the size.

iTunes now has over 700,000 songs in the iTunes Music Store.

BrianKonarsMac · 11:40 AM

so how do i print the jewel case insert?

JFreak · Apr 28, 2004, 09:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Macrumors

Apple Lossless - CD Quality Sound. Half the size.

somebody please confirm if this is really a lossless one and not a 1024k aac...

soosy · 09:30 AM

Plus now you can play on 5 Macs rather than 3. Way to go Apple for making the DRM LESS restrictive. Who'd of thought we'd see that?

EDIT: I discovered this in their press release:

"Honoring Apple’s commitment to discourage music theft while preserving fair personal use rights, the number of times a user can burn the same playlist onto CDs with iTunes is being reduced from ten burns to seven. Users can still burn a single song an unlimited number of times and listen to their music on an unlimited number of iPods."

What's the point when you can just change the playlist... this must be to keep dumb non-techie record execs happy. Mwah Ha Ha.

~Shard~ · Apr 28, 2004, 09:15 AM

Nice upgrade! Damn, I wish I had iLife '04 now... Looks like iTunes 4.5 gives me even more reasons to upgrade now! Damn you Apple...

Anyway, there looks like there are some cool new features in 4.5 - and I see WMA in there as well - very interesting! Well done Apple!

1macker1 · Apr 28, 2004, 09:17 AM

Way to go Apple, even though I erased all my WMA's.

MacManDan · Apr 28, 2004, 09:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Macrumors

Apple released - Apple Lossless - CD Quality Sound. Half the size.

Ack. and I JUST finished converting my entire collection to FLAC..
Does anyone know what kind of lossless file format this is? As the previous person noted, is it just a very high bitrate lossy format?

1macker1 · Apr 28, 2004, 09:17 AM

eh? you dont need iLife 04' to get iTunes!

Quote:

Originally Posted by ~Shard~

Nice upgrade! Damn, I wish I had iLife '04 now... Looks like iTunes 4.5 gives me even more reasons to upgrade now! Damn you Apple...

Anyway, there looks like there are some cool new features in 4.5 - and I see WMA in there as well - very interesting! Well done Apple!

russed · Apr 28, 2004, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrianKonarsMac

so how do i print the jewel case insert? o and first post

file>print as simple as that!

restiffbard · Apr 28, 2004, 09:18 AM

It's nice to not have to go to work today. W00t!

adamberti · Apr 28, 2004, 09:20 AM

Downloaded it, some observations:

First thing I noticed... Every song / artist /album in your library has that arrow to the right of it - and if you click on it, it searches the music store for that song. Interesting... Option Click goes to it in your library

"Windows Media Player 9 or later must be installed to convert unprotected WMA files" -> PC only I guess.

Printing covers is pretty easy - File -> Print, it gives you a preview. I had a playlist with about 55 songs, and it shows the first 25 on the print and then "and 30 more..." Plus it prints "Printed with iTunes" at the bottom. It even has a bleed, crop and fold marks!

This party mode thing... I was hoping to just put iTunes in Party mode, and someone could double-click on a song and it would be added to an 'on-the-go' type playlist. Cause thats what most people do, just double click on it, cause they want it. What this does it pick random music from your choice of a source (any playlist or library) and will show 0-100 upcoming songs along with 0-100 already played songs. If you have those selected to something more than 0, and you delete something in the playlist, it just adds another. If you have it at 0, you have to add your own songs. there is an option to play higher rated songs more often.

I guess the point is that you can have it choose from a playlist or your library and see whats coming up, remove something if you don't like it, or rearrage it, all without disturbing any existing playlist.

iTMS - I was hoping that based on the long load time it would say "Your country is now supported" (Canada) but no - Just a long load time for the first time. the one free song a week is cool, but you still have to have an account of course.

The iMix allows anyone to publish a playlist to iTMS - and Steve already has a playlist that is rated 5 stars out of 5 with 100,000 votes, and so it is at the top. You have to have an account to vote on an iMix

Lastly the movie trailers are cool, its an easy way to see new trailers and browse them - except that they still remind you you are in a store and there are things to buy (soundtracks).

All in all a decent upgrade, but nothing spectacular in my books, the only feature I may use is the party shuffle.

Enjoy the new toy.

And as a PS. there is a new iPod update:

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

Let the rumours begin "All models introduced before April 28, 2004" So what about the ones introduced after or on this date?

denm316 · Apr 28, 2004, 09:21 AM

A better DRM, I am surprised at that one, and the cover art thing is really cool, even though I dont print cover art it is still cool

Mac · Apr 28, 2004, 09:21 AM

This is good news! Especially WMA to AAC and Jewel case printing. I am so thankful that I recently switched and bought a 'heap' of Macs instead. Never regretted a minute.

Thank you, Apple.

memphismac · Apr 28, 2004, 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Macrumors

- Apple Lossless - CD Quality Sound. Half the size.

So does this mean I should re-import all my stuff?

I just bought an iPod a few weeks ago and I've imported a little over half of my CDs. If space on the iPod is a consideration (and it might be later on), should I reimport in this lossless/half the size stuff?

Brian

Le Big Mac · Apr 28, 2004, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ~Shard~

Nice upgrade! Damn, I wish I had iLife '04 now... Looks like iTunes 4.5 gives me even more reasons to upgrade now! Damn you Apple...

Anyway, there looks like there are some cool new features in 4.5 - and I see WMA in there as well - very interesting! Well done Apple!

This will be a free download regardless of whether you have iLife 04, right?

1macker1 · Apr 28, 2004, 09:26 AM

I"m glad they finally did more with the video section. I was waiting on that.

srobert · Apr 28, 2004, 09:26 AM

BAM! "WAM - Convert WMA to AAC." Right into Microsft's genitalias. That's gotta hurt.

Frisco · 09:33 AM

Let the rumours begin "All models introduced before April 28, 2004" So what about the ones introduced after or on this date?"

I assume they already have the update?

robsworld · Apr 28, 2004, 09:27 AM

Can you conform this?

When I try to create a new account in the iTMS:
First I enter my .mac-account, than I must agree to the iTMS-license, but when I now press 'Agree' iTunes is crashing.

I am using iTunes from europe. Is this maybe a sign that iTMS-Europe will come very soon?

I have already posted that topic to a german forum and all the people there have confirmed this crashing!!!!!!!!!

How about you?

Greetings from Germany,
rob

encro · Apr 28, 2004, 09:27 AM

Some nice little additions to iTunes.

Some form of pitch control or time stretching would be fantastic in version 5.

Chopper · Apr 28, 2004, 09:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by memphismac

So does this mean I should re-import all my stuff?

I just bought an iPod a few weeks ago and I've imported a little over half of my CDs. If space on the iPod is a consideration (and it might be later on), should I reimport in this lossless/half the size stuff?

I have no idea (and yes, I know that I'm being zero help). Has anyone tried this yet, to see what the size is, in comparison to other formats (AAC @ 192, etc)?

dragula53 · Apr 28, 2004, 09:27 AM

wma on windows only

links to the music store from every song in my library.

the party shuffle is nice.

and cd covers.. cool.

idkew · Apr 28, 2004, 09:27 AM

you can remove the annoying arrows in the general preferences pane.

Chopper · Apr 28, 2004, 09:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Le Big Mac

This will be a free download regardless of whether you have iLife 04, right?

It was free for me this morning & I don't have iLife 04.

Klopsi69 · Apr 28, 2004, 09:28 AM

so do we have to download the whole thing just to upgrade at the moment?

?

Apr 28, 2004, 09:13 AM	#1
MacRumors macrumors bot Join Date: Apr 2001	iTunes 4.5 Released Apple released iTunes 4.5 today. The newest version of iTunes offers several new features. - iMix - Share your taste. Publish your playlists - Party Shuffle - Printing - Creating Jewel case inserts - Radio Charts - What's playing around the U.S. - Movie trailers. Music Videos - WAM - Convert WMA to AAC - Apple Lossless - CD Quality Sound. Half the size. iTunes now has over 700,000 songs in the iTunes Music Store. Last edited by Rower_CPU : Apr 28, 2004 at 10:16 AM.

Apr 28, 2004, 09:14 AM	#2
BrianKonarsMac macrumors 6502a Join Date: Apr 2004	so how do i print the jewel case insert? Last edited by Mudbug : Apr 28, 2004 at 11:40 AM.

Apr 28, 2004, 09:15 AM	#4
soosy macrumors regular Join Date: May 2002	Plus now you can play on 5 Macs rather than 3. Way to go Apple for making the DRM LESS restrictive. Who'd of thought we'd see that? EDIT: I discovered this in their press release: "Honoring Apple’s commitment to discourage music theft while preserving fair personal use rights, the number of times a user can burn the same playlist onto CDs with iTunes is being reduced from ten burns to seven. Users can still burn a single song an unlimited number of times and listen to their music on an unlimited number of iPods." What's the point when you can just change the playlist... this must be to keep dumb non-techie record execs happy. Mwah Ha Ha. Last edited by soosy : Apr 28, 2004 at 09:30 AM.

Apr 28, 2004, 09:15 AM	#5
~Shard~ macrumors Demi-God Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 1123.6536.5321	Nice upgrade! Damn, I wish I had iLife '04 now... Looks like iTunes 4.5 gives me even more reasons to upgrade now! Damn you Apple... Anyway, there looks like there are some cool new features in 4.5 - and I see WMA in there as well - very interesting! Well done Apple! __________________ My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. - J. Brotherton

Apr 28, 2004, 09:18 AM	#10
restiffbard macrumors member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia	downloading now It's nice to not have to go to work today. W00t!

Apr 28, 2004, 09:17 AM	#6
1macker1 Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: A Higher Level	Way to go Apple, even though I erased all my WMA's.

Apr 28, 2004, 09:20 AM	#11
adamberti macrumors regular Join Date: Jan 2003	Downloaded it, some observations: First thing I noticed... Every song / artist /album in your library has that arrow to the right of it - and if you click on it, it searches the music store for that song. Interesting... Option Click goes to it in your library "Windows Media Player 9 or later must be installed to convert unprotected WMA files" -> PC only I guess. Printing covers is pretty easy - File -> Print, it gives you a preview. I had a playlist with about 55 songs, and it shows the first 25 on the print and then "and 30 more..." Plus it prints "Printed with iTunes" at the bottom. It even has a bleed, crop and fold marks! This party mode thing... I was hoping to just put iTunes in Party mode, and someone could double-click on a song and it would be added to an 'on-the-go' type playlist. Cause thats what most people do, just double click on it, cause they want it. What this does it pick random music from your choice of a source (any playlist or library) and will show 0-100 upcoming songs along with 0-100 already played songs. If you have those selected to something more than 0, and you delete something in the playlist, it just adds another. If you have it at 0, you have to add your own songs. there is an option to play higher rated songs more often. I guess the point is that you can have it choose from a playlist or your library and see whats coming up, remove something if you don't like it, or rearrage it, all without disturbing any existing playlist. iTMS - I was hoping that based on the long load time it would say "Your country is now supported" (Canada) but no - Just a long load time for the first time. the one free song a week is cool, but you still have to have an account of course. The iMix allows anyone to publish a playlist to iTMS - and Steve already has a playlist that is rated 5 stars out of 5 with 100,000 votes, and so it is at the top. You have to have an account to vote on an iMix Lastly the movie trailers are cool, its an easy way to see new trailers and browse them - except that they still remind you you are in a store and there are things to buy (soundtracks). All in all a decent upgrade, but nothing spectacular in my books, the only feature I may use is the party shuffle. Enjoy the new toy. And as a PS. there is a new iPod update: 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 Let the rumours begin "All models introduced before April 28, 2004" So what about the ones introduced after or on this date?

Apr 28, 2004, 09:21 AM	#12
denm316 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Philadelphia	A better DRM, I am surprised at that one, and the cover art thing is really cool, even though I dont print cover art it is still cool __________________ -Dennis- MBA, iMac, iPod Touch and a Blackberry Curve...yeah its on Verizon and the 3G works EVERYWHERE "Live to Ride, Ride to Live"

Apr 28, 2004, 09:21 AM	#13
Mac macrumors member Join Date: Jan 2004	Way to go! This is good news! Especially WMA to AAC and Jewel case printing. I am so thankful that I recently switched and bought a 'heap' of Macs instead. Never regretted a minute. Thank you, Apple. __________________ Eternity is forever - and in heaven they truly use Macs - MacBook Core 2 Duo/2.0/1 GB/80 GB/SD - MacMini Core Duo/1.66/1 GB/80 GB/SD

Apr 28, 2004, 09:26 AM	#16
1macker1 Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: A Higher Level	I"m glad they finally did more with the video section. I was waiting on that.

Apr 28, 2004, 09:26 AM	#17
srobert macrumors 68020 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Montreal, Canada	BAM! "WAM - Convert WMA to AAC." Right into Microsft's genitalias. That's gotta hurt. __________________ Zapp: The alien mothership is in orbit here. If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.

Apr 28, 2004, 09:27 AM	#18
Frisco macrumors 68000 Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Nutley, NJ	Let the rumours begin "All models introduced before April 28, 2004" So what about the ones introduced after or on this date?" I assume they already have the update? __________________ Frisco Last edited by Frisco : Apr 28, 2004 at 09:33 AM.

Apr 28, 2004, 09:27 AM	#19
robsworld macrumors newbie Join Date: Jun 2003	HELP! iTunes is crashing Can you conform this? When I try to create a new account in the iTMS: First I enter my .mac-account, than I must agree to the iTMS-license, but when I now press 'Agree' iTunes is crashing. I am using iTunes from europe. *Is this maybe a sign that iTMS-Europe will come very soon?* I have already posted that topic to a german forum and all the people there have confirmed this crashing!!!!!!!!! How about you? Greetings from Germany, rob

Apr 28, 2004, 09:27 AM	#20
encro macrumors 6502 Join Date: May 2002 Location: bendigo.victoria.au	Some nice little additions to iTunes. Some form of pitch control or time stretching would be fantastic in version 5.

Apr 28, 2004, 09:27 AM	#22
dragula53 macrumors regular Join Date: Jun 2003	blah wma on windows only links to the music store from every song in my library. the party shuffle is nice. and cd covers.. cool.

Apr 28, 2004, 09:27 AM	#23
idkew macrumors 68020 Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: where the concrete to dirt ratio is better	you can remove the annoying arrows in the general preferences pane.

Apr 28, 2004, 09:28 AM	#25
Klopsi69 macrumors member Join Date: Apr 2004	so do we have to download the whole thing just to upgrade at the moment? ?

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