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Apple Teases 'Exciting' iTunes Announcement Tomorrow
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Nothing in the minor apple.country sites, such as Slovakia or Czech Republic- this means it has got something to do with iTunes store content which is not available outside of US, Germany, Uk and a few other "big name" countries.
Nothing: http://www.apple.com/cz/
Nothing: http://www.apple.com/cz/
Guys, it's pretty obvious that this ISN'T 90 second previews. I mean, Jesus Christ, it's already been stated that that is only happening in the US at least for now; this page shows up on as far as I know, every Apple website with an iTunes store.
Come on. Don't be stupid, it's not going to be 90 second previews. Yeesh.
Come on. Don't be stupid, it's not going to be 90 second previews. Yeesh.
It would be great to have itunes library to itunes library sync. I love using my netbook but keeping its iTunes library up-to-date with my iMac's is a huge pain in the butt. So I'm just left with using my iPod.
The reason it would be great for me, is because I use Traktor Pro (dj software) and I use my iTunes library for the music source. On my iMac it's no problem, but I want to use my Netbook to mix as well. I use specific tags for certain items and when I move music from my iMac to my Netbook, not all of those tags transfer, add on the fact I usually get around 15 new songs a day (average). I just won't have enough to time do both things.
One can dream can't he?
The reason it would be great for me, is because I use Traktor Pro (dj software) and I use my iTunes library for the music source. On my iMac it's no problem, but I want to use my Netbook to mix as well. I use specific tags for certain items and when I move music from my iMac to my Netbook, not all of those tags transfer, add on the fact I usually get around 15 new songs a day (average). I just won't have enough to time do both things.
One can dream can't he?
Grammar
The second sentence isn't actually a fragment...."That you'll never forget." can be re-written as "You will never forget that." and it changes the perceived meaning from "Tomorrow is just another day that you will never forget." to "You will never forget that tomorrow is just another day."
Don't know if this means anything...LOL...but maybe someone can make someting out of this.
The second sentence isn't actually a fragment...."That you'll never forget." can be re-written as "You will never forget that." and it changes the perceived meaning from "Tomorrow is just another day that you will never forget." to "You will never forget that tomorrow is just another day."
Don't know if this means anything...LOL...but maybe someone can make someting out of this.
So? How is it any different to now?
If you can't fit everything onto one device, you must have some way of managing your library at the moment. Something that you could access from anywhere rather than one fixed computer or hard disk is much better.
Imagine:
- Syncing your iPhone with your computer (as you do now), choosing the songs you want at that time.
- Deciding you want to listen to a specific Song/Artist/Album that you didn't sync when you are virtually anywhere in the world and being able to stream it.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)
I swear 'tomorrow is another day' is a line from a Beatles song. Might be wrong though.
I swear 'tomorrow is another day' is a line from a Beatles song. Might be wrong though.
Well, to me it ringed a bell. "...is just another day" is a piece of lyrics of a Paul McCartney song.
And if it has to do with iTunes, it's definitely something Apple considers unforgettable. Some new feature, function, who knows...
And with all the hype it's creating, it should better be really good!
And if it has to do with iTunes, it's definitely something Apple considers unforgettable. Some new feature, function, who knows...
And with all the hype it's creating, it should better be really good!
Oh come on. It's completely ridiculous that people think Apple, who NEVER does stuff like this would tease something huge and exciting for iTunes for NINETY SECOND PREVIEWS. I mean really? You'd have to be daft to think that. Beatport has been doing that for years!
And I also think the Beatles comments are too, ridiculous. It's sad but nobody cares anymore. Yes, the Beatles were huge but it's not like it's some revolution that you can buy OLD BEATLEZ SONGS on iTunes when if you want them that bad you can um..... download them off of a torrent site or something like Frostwire?
I don't know how much of Apple's money is tied up in the Pound.
The Beatles are the most popular band of all time. Literally all time. Anything they do would still garner significantly publicity, as does anything Apple does. Together, it will be reported anywhere and everywhere.
Saying that it is not big news because some people can download Beatles music off torrent sites is absurd as it comes.
If there is a hint about the Beatles in the teaser, I think it's probably a red herring. I think it could be even bigger than iTunes streaming, it's a lot different than their usual teasing. For one, it's 24 hours before and it came out of nowhere. I also have a feeling that possibly the Beatles will never be on iTunes.
So what would be the point? Cloud content that was cached locally so you never needed to get it from the cloud.... ??? If it's on your device, cached, why do you need the cloud thing?
I think we're saying the same thing, using different words, in terms of the effective value of any unlimited cloud-based solution.
Due to bandwidth limitations enforced by some carriers, I don't see the ability to truly "access (your collection) from anywhere" coming into play; for any cloud-based approach, either the actual content will be re-encoded to use a more efficient codec (potentially reducing the audio quality), or access will be limited to only those items purchased from the iTunes Store, or both.
Call me pessimistic, but given those probable limitations, I prefer to manually manage my content and still have access to all of it, in the same quality I chose for my original encode.
- M.
You're wrong.
I thought all the people getting geeked over the possibility that this is about 90 sec previews were joking, but clearly they aren't. That would be the lamest "never forget" moment ever. Seriously. We're talking about 90 sec previews? Previews? That's something I ecpect to be implemented in the middle of the night and someone notices a day later. Previews?!?
I'm as big a Beatles fan as there is, but I hope that isn't the announcement. Seriuosly, there is nothing that Apple could bring to the table. I already bought the USB remaster last year, so I've got them in better than CD quality. And everyone under 35 couldn't care less.
That leaves us with the Cloud, which was the first thing I thought of. It could be cool if they do it right. I've got loads of lossless tracks that exceed my iPod Classic by four-fold. Are they going to store my lossless tracks on the cloud? I doubt it. And I don't want to have "unlocked" lossy tracks. But its a better announcement than 90 second previews.
The thing that I keep coming back to, though, is that we just got iTunes 10.1 last week. How big could it be if it doesn't require an update? And if it does, why did they push out 10.1 last week?
Again, You're talking about previews?!?
Obviously it wouldn't be the only part of the announcement.
Or maybe it would. It would explain why it's an announcement, and not an event.
Apple Will Buy Disney
Apple will buy Disney tomorrow. There is a Disney song called: Tomorrow is Another Day from the move the Rescuers.
Steve already owns a lot of Disney, and this will make him super uber rich.
http://www.lyricsbox.com/disney-lyrics-tomorrow-is-another-day-8cgdq54.html
Apple will buy Disney tomorrow. There is a Disney song called: Tomorrow is Another Day from the move the Rescuers.
Steve already owns a lot of Disney, and this will make him super uber rich.
http://www.lyricsbox.com/disney-lyrics-tomorrow-is-another-day-8cgdq54.html
Ubiquitous access.
At the moment, you buy a song through iTunes on your computer and it downloads to that one computer.
Apple doesn't allow you to download that song again. If you want to put it on another computer, you have to copy the file to that computer.
Trying to keep a library in sync across multiple computers is a nightmare.
Wouldn't it be easier if you bought a song and it downloaded to any computer you had iTunes authorized on?
Wouldn't it also be great if you could access all of the songs you've purchased on a friend's computer?
What if you can't fit all of your songs on an iPhone? Being able to stream the odd song that you wanted to listen to would be very helpful.
Perhaps the reason I'm not so pessimistic is that I'm using Spotify and it lets me do pretty much everything I've been talking about (although I don't own the music).
Maybe they *had* to release it then because they thought they'd release iOS 4.2 as well, then they pulled the latter at the last minute - too late to pull iTunes as well.
Still, doesn't make too much sense since if they knew a week later there'd be another update they would have waited.
But server side... what can they implement? FaceBook integration?
Because it's not on your device, specifically your iphone/touch (probably can be extended to laptops with small drives like the Air). When you sync at home it loads up what your playlists tell it to, then when you're out and you want to hear a song that's not stored, you can still listen to it via streaming over the airwaves.
You still want to have some things on the device for when service isn't available but capacity is much less of an issue since you can stream content as well.