It's not that difficult to solve, you just cache things. Most of the time people will be listening to the same songs on the same devices. The odd time that you are elsewhere, you'll probably only want to listen to a small amount of music.
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Apple Teases 'Exciting' iTunes Announcement Tomorrow
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It's not that difficult to solve, you just cache things. Most of the time people will be listening to the same songs on the same devices. The odd time that you are elsewhere, you'll probably only want to listen to a small amount of music.
- iTunes re-write/new features: Not really likely as 10.1 just came out.
- 90-second song previews: yes, but is it really a big deal?
- The Beatles on iTunes: I love the Beatles, but most people that care would've got the remastered CDs last year.
- Streaming/subscription service: Likely, but we probably would've heard from some loose lipped record execs.
- 90-second song previews: yes, but is it really a big deal?
- The Beatles on iTunes: I love the Beatles, but most people that care would've got the remastered CDs last year.
- Streaming/subscription service: Likely, but we probably would've heard from some loose lipped record execs.
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In Really small print at the bottom of the page
"oh yeah sandy bridge MacBooks"
In Really small print at the bottom of the page
"oh yeah sandy bridge MacBooks"
I don't care, and am not really excited. if Apple will announce 1080p HD content for movie, TV shows, then I will buy it. but I don't expect since Steve doesn't seem to be interested in getting that. whatever itunes update is, I don't care.
Has to be something that affects all countries and bigger than 90 second previews. I would bet on cloud streaming of music library at a minimum.
+ Cloud based streaming of music library / iTunes cloud
+ 90 second previews
+ iOS 4.2 launch / AirPlay
As far as what they will do to demo the event maybe they fire up a quick internal keynote or just a pre-recorded walkthrough of the features. Surprised that there is no Jobs keynote of iTunes cloud though.
+ Cloud based streaming of music library / iTunes cloud
+ 90 second previews
+ iOS 4.2 launch / AirPlay
As far as what they will do to demo the event maybe they fire up a quick internal keynote or just a pre-recorded walkthrough of the features. Surprised that there is no Jobs keynote of iTunes cloud though.
Here's a couple of my thoughts, most are probably listed somewhere below!
90 second previews for the rest (or most) of the World
iTunes Cloud, store local and via the cloud, so I can see all my songs pretty much wherever
iTunes Wireless iOS Sync, finally sync without wires!
Maybe something about Ping & Facebook
Finally, maybe a subscription service. If it could work like Spotify in the UK, then it would be good, personally.
90 second previews for the rest (or most) of the World
iTunes Cloud, store local and via the cloud, so I can see all my songs pretty much wherever
iTunes Wireless iOS Sync, finally sync without wires!
Maybe something about Ping & Facebook
Finally, maybe a subscription service. If it could work like Spotify in the UK, then it would be good, personally.
Yes, you can cache, assuming you listen to the same music over and over. At the end of the day, there's not much point in the 'cloud' if your using the same device. May as well sync from your 'home machine'.
I wonder if this textured gradient background on apple.com has some significance. I can't remember the last time the background wasn't solid white, black or gray.
http://images.apple.com/home/elements/gradient_texture20101115.jpg
http://images.apple.com/home/elements/gradient_texture20101115.jpg
Well if it is a cloud based iTunes...I would LOVE that...however if and only if they also allowed purchased videos too. If it's music only--I wouldn't use it that much.
Wifi syncing would be awesome...but I fear that they won't do that because it may harm sales of computers?
Crossing my fingers for Cloud based iTunes with access to video purchases....with the added bonus of wifi syncing!
Wifi syncing would be awesome...but I fear that they won't do that because it may harm sales of computers?
Crossing my fingers for Cloud based iTunes with access to video purchases....with the added bonus of wifi syncing!
Lol I was going to make a thread about this too
Anyway, this is a nice change of homepage. The MBA one was getting outdated and boring...
Anyway, this is a nice change of homepage. The MBA one was getting outdated and boring...
And most people still want to do things without a required active internet connection.
On top of that, an iTunes cloud won't serve up any content people have added to iTunes outside of their purchases from Apple. Apple certainly won't be letting people store music and movies that they've ripped on their own on the servers.
The benefits are still there though.
Buy an album on one computer and it's synced to your other computers automatically.
Want to listen to your music library at a friend's house? Just sign in to iTunes and you can access all of your music.
We all have different listening habits. When I travel, I like to have multiple, extensive playlists of things I haven't heard recently. "Caching things" in the way you describe wouldn't help me at all.
For that matter, although I have a fairly extensive music collection, it is all based around physical media that I purchased and have ripped for my own use. "Unlocking" songs obtained via the iTunes store would be similarly pointless from my perspective, because I have never purchased a single song from the iTunes store, and have no plans to do so.
- M.
weird mixup of cities' names translations on the german site...
german - spanish - french - german...
it appears that the event will start at 16:00 GMT+1... sigh..
Yes. Nice finding. And the language of the name never fitted to the area. Funny.
But they corrected it in the meantime (obviously reading MacRumors), have a look at
http://www.apple.com/de/
Just for the records: The original and complete German/Austrian site of about 18:00 MEZ/CET:
Who says you can't cache your entire library - i.e. have it all stored on your computer or iPod?
That point I agree on. If this only works with iTunes Store content it's a good move, but it's something that they should have offered when the iTunes Store launched. Being able to download something twice isn't revolutionary.
If they do have a cloud based version of iTunes, users would still be able to download the files as well, right? Otherwise, there would be no way to get music on all the iPods that don't have wifi, not to mention any listening on any device when you don't have a connection available.
Cloud would likely only be for files you bought from iTunes, and streaming would have to be an additional feature, not taking away the ability to download songs you buy (although if there's a subscription model, I could see that being streaming only, but that seems unlikely since it would leave out all the regular iPods out there).
Except that it's already announced and has nothing to do with iTunes. Not to mention that there would be no reason to advertise the app store on the iTunes store where it also shows up for Windows users.
It's "tomorrow is another day", no "just".
Cloud would likely only be for files you bought from iTunes, and streaming would have to be an additional feature, not taking away the ability to download songs you buy (although if there's a subscription model, I could see that being streaming only, but that seems unlikely since it would leave out all the regular iPods out there).
Except that it's already announced and has nothing to do with iTunes. Not to mention that there would be no reason to advertise the app store on the iTunes store where it also shows up for Windows users.
It's "tomorrow is another day", no "just".
I read it on the internet so it must be true.....
iTunes is going to have a Karaoke mode that allows you to search for friends singing on the Microsoft search engine and apples social networking service. It is called Sing-Bing-Ping, great for your vocal stylings of the band Wings
Still no Beatles tho
iTunes is going to have a Karaoke mode that allows you to search for friends singing on the Microsoft search engine and apples social networking service. It is called Sing-Bing-Ping, great for your vocal stylings of the band Wings
Still no Beatles tho
I think you underestimate the amount of music I have purchased in my lifetime. My "entire library" won't fit on any portable device that Apple sells, and I frequently swap out the entire musical contents of my iPhone.
- M.
