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iTunes 7.1 (Apple TV Support) and Quicktime 7.1.5
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The "sort" feature will come in very handy once you have yourTV hooked up.Just watch!
Could someone please explain how to use the new 'sort' feature(s).
This isn't a half-bad idea. I would think a simple way to implement it would be to allow ratings on artists and albums as well as songs. In iTunes, you could just sort "artists by rating" somewhere to get all your five-star artists at the top. I'm not sure how to expose that functionality on the iPod though.
Like I said, checkboxes in just the artist view or a Favorite Artists source in the source lists or something allowing you to select those artists. Then in the iPod you could get Playlists, Artists, Favorite Artists, Songs, Albums, Genres, Composers, etc and have it be something you can turn on and off in the Main Menu just like everything else.
Movies for other countries?
Someone at digg.com noticed that in the new Parental tab of the Preferences, there's a Ratings dropdown menu showing Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom and US.
They're guessing that this means iTunes movies will be coming soon to these countries?
Someone at digg.com noticed that in the new Parental tab of the Preferences, there's a Ratings dropdown menu showing Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom and US.
They're guessing that this means iTunes movies will be coming soon to these countries?
You'll be fine. You shouldn't need to worry about purchasing a new QuickTime Pro key until 8.0.
I am rather frustrated with the current ship dates. I have really been looking forward to this device. On one hand I want Apple to release a stable product. On the other hand, I want them to ship the damn thing already.
Looks like I can set how iTunes finds my artists and songs, so like the aforementioned Beatles, I can just type "BEATLES" and it will go there, instead of having to type "THE BEATLES", which iTunes did before, but now you can adjust perosnally for not only artist names but songs names and more.
Example: I have the Supertones in my Library, but their official name is "The O.C. Supertone" but I would never bother to scroll to "THE O.C..." because I just call them "SUPERTONES". iTunes even seems to auto-suggest taking out the "THE" in most things, even song titles (it's greyed out on the right panels).
Now, you can see that when I sort by artist, "THE O.C..." appears in the "S" section of artists, despite it's name.
This is how I take it to work. It might be kind of confusing, but definitely interesting.
Gotcha I don't know that I have much use for that, but ok. Maybe like Peace said, it will mean more with
tv. I'd still like to get the 'Skip when Shuffling' added to the view options, as it doesn't do me much good in the get info screen. If not a view column, how bout via right-click. And what is the Apple Sort Field right-click pop-up menu about?
I am assuming that Apple will be shipping the Apple TVs soon after this realease. Maybe tomorrow!!
What I would like to see is. While in the full screen cover flow mode an option similar to the browsing on the iPhone, with the track names on the flip side of the album cover. Sweet.
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Media mini
You mention this, but I've been wondering about AppleTV vrs Mac mini. For $300 more you can plug a full blown computer into your HDTV. Why stream when you can have right there on the HD?
I was thinking just last week that a full screen cover flow would nice, especially with my mini hooked up to my HDTV. I've also been thinking we are probably going to see more full screen interfaces to various applications. Now, add that concept to marrying a mini to a HDTV and there is a compelling product. Better than AppleTV because it can do full 1080p, you can add movie recording devices like Elgato, and add hard drives too.
The problem with the mini now is no HDMI connector and no HD-DVD / Blu-Ray option. I think the clincher will be if Apple adds an HDMI connector to the next mini revision. And if current rumors about new dispays are correct then this is a given. If they do, I expect a lot of people will opt for a miniTV solution over the AppleTV device. For a few hundred more, you can get much more.
So, I don't think we've seen the end of the AppleTV strategy. I still think a meda mini is a very real possibility. Intel's next integrated graphics chips are going to have dramatically improved graphics support. And add to that beautiful full screen interfaces to some applicaitons like iTunes, iPhoto, and others (Safari?) that would enhance using a computer in your living room.
now the apple tvs just need to ship..
You mention this, but I've been wondering about AppleTV vrs Mac mini. For $300 more you can plug a full blown computer into your HDTV. Why stream when you can have right there on the HD?
I was thinking just last week that a full screen cover flow would nice, especially with my mini hooked up to my HDTV. I've also been thinking we are probably going to see more full screen interfaces to various applications. Now, add that concept to marrying a mini to a HDTV and there is a compelling product. Better than AppleTV because it can do full 1080p, you can add movie recording devices like Elgato, and add hard drives too.
The problem with the mini now is no HDMI connector and no HD-DVD / Blu-Ray option. I think the clincher will be if Apple adds an HDMI connector to the next mini revision. And if current rumors about new dispays are correct then this is a given. If they do, I expect a lot of people will opt for a miniTV solution over the AppleTV device. For a few hundred more, you can get much more.
So, I don't think we've seen the end of the AppleTV strategy. I still think a meda mini is a very real possibility. Intel's next integrated graphics chips are going to have dramatically improved graphics support. And add to that beautiful full screen interfaces to some applicaitons like iTunes, iPhoto, and others (Safari?) that would enhance using a computer in your living room.
It's cute - but are we really goignto go through our huge libraries and set this data???
I was hoping they would add better podcast management, but nothing looks changed.
The new ipod check for updates date is annoying. I feel like I have to click something. Was better when I didn't care when it actually checked for updates...
No, it'll get artwork for anything you rip as well. Though it's database isn't always complete or correct.
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The artwork that iTunes downloads is way to low res. Think about it a second. Screen resolutions and screen sizes keep increasing. I'm typically putting 700 x 700 artwork in my tracks manually. why? Simple. On my MBP the artwork is pretty large. On my 24" widescreen @ 1920 x 1200 it still pretty good. Imagine what the artwork is going to look like in 3-5+ years?
New Ship Date for Appletv?
This guy Glenn on here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=870049&tstart=0
posted that his ship date changed to tomorrow----anyone else have the same thing?
He says in the post that the apple cust support person said it was on backorder, meaning they have shipped some of these but cannot keep up with the demand until mid march... annoying if true!
I want my I want my I want mytv!
This guy Glenn on here http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=870049&tstart=0
posted that his ship date changed to tomorrow----anyone else have the same thing?
He says in the post that the apple cust support person said it was on backorder, meaning they have shipped some of these but cannot keep up with the demand until mid march... annoying if true!
I want my I want my I want my
tv!
Right, I just didn't like the idea of adding a new checkbox for "favorites" when extending the existing ratings method to artists and albums would accomplish the same thing.
This is no indication TV isn't delayed. 7.1 is more likely the release to solve Vista issues and at the same time they did TV functions
TV isn't delayed. 7.1 is more likely the release to solve Vista issues and at the same time they did TV functions
iTMS artwork is typically 600x600 which means it's about 120 dpi for a typical CD. Some artwork is lower res 300x300 or 320x320, but most is already 600x600.
It's a bit of a fine balancing act, as you don't want your artwork to end up doubling the size of your songs, do you? Much of the 600x600 artwork from iTunes was already more than 1 MB, which adds a 33% overhead to many songs at 128 kbps.
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For all you Vista fans...
iTunes 7.1 resolves most issues, but there a few outstanding for Vista users
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305042
iTunes 7.1 resolves most issues, but there a few outstanding for Vista users
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305042