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iTunes 10.3 Now Available for Download
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Really digging the music and app retrieval process ala the Cloud on both the iPad as well as on my Mac via iTunes 10.3. Managed to retrieve some music and apps I'd forgotten I had lost.
Nicely done,
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Nicely done,
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Oh I see what you're saying, I just thought you didn't know that it could be installed on Windows 64-bit right now.
Would love to see 64-bit programming start taking over 32-bit personally since 64-bit processors have been around what seems for ages yet very few companies seems to be developing for it.
Really digging the music and app retrieval process ala the Cloud on both the iPad as well as on my Mac via iTunes 10.3. Managed to retrieve some music and apps I'd forgotten I had lost.
Nicely done,
me too, definitely one of the best features to ever grace the iTunes program.
Agreed that Apple needs to create a book reader for macs, it's odd they didn't have one from day one.
I also think it's odd that they send out the 128/DRM versions. Sure they can if they want, but it sends a funny message that the guy who bought an iTunes version gets worse treatment than a guy who pirates his whole library and gets the better version for $25 per year. Not to mention that it's that much more work and storage space to maintain two versions - they really are keeping around files that they haven't sold in years? Just dump the low quality versions and be done with it.
Exactly, the MR article gets this wrong.
The 10.5 beta is 64 bit, so we should be seeing it pretty soon. And it's about time.
A bit better performance, just like every other 64 bit app. iTunes needs all the help it can get.
64 bit apps generally perform better even when they're not using that much ram, there's a good reason that most of the apps included with OSX are 64 bit (Safari, Mail, etc). It's not just buzzwords, it's actual measurable performance improvements.
Says BETA right on the page (and others), not sure why they don't have it on the download page as well.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
With the update, you can't delete media synced from your computer, but now you can delete media from the cloud. New feature, try it out.
I also think it's odd that they send out the 128/DRM versions. Sure they can if they want, but it sends a funny message that the guy who bought an iTunes version gets worse treatment than a guy who pirates his whole library and gets the better version for $25 per year. Not to mention that it's that much more work and storage space to maintain two versions - they really are keeping around files that they haven't sold in years? Just dump the low quality versions and be done with it.
Exactly, the MR article gets this wrong.
The 10.5 beta is 64 bit, so we should be seeing it pretty soon. And it's about time.
A bit better performance, just like every other 64 bit app. iTunes needs all the help it can get.
64 bit apps generally perform better even when they're not using that much ram, there's a good reason that most of the apps included with OSX are 64 bit (Safari, Mail, etc). It's not just buzzwords, it's actual measurable performance improvements.
Says BETA right on the page (and others), not sure why they don't have it on the download page as well.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/
With the update, you can't delete media synced from your computer, but now you can delete media from the cloud. New feature, try it out.
If Apple has any sense of justice they will offer to upgrade all those blasted 128k DRM-infested files when you subscribe to iTunes Match. It's enough is enough, everyone should be able to rid themselves of this crap by now.
On the same note, is iTunes Match available yet with 10.3? I thought I heard they said it would be, but I haven't heard anyone talk about it yet.
On the same note, is iTunes Match available yet with 10.3? I thought I heard they said it would be, but I haven't heard anyone talk about it yet.
And why exactly would Apple do that?
All this iCloud stuff and iTunes Match is not so that Apple can make money from the cloud (although they won't refuse if you give them your cash), but in order that people buy Macs, iPods, iPhones and iPads instead of products from their competitors.
If iTunes Match doesn't do it by itself, then you'll have to burn the music to CD, and reimport it. I never did that because the DRM didn't get in my way so far, but I would obviously do that to upgrade to better sound quality.
Not available until the fall. I suspect they will nix the idea of downloads and turn it into a streaming service.
You have 4000+ apps! That has to be a record. What do you use them all for. Even if you used 1 app a minute that would take 66 hours to run through them all.
agreed. I'm still mad at the fact they wanted to charge 30 cents per song to upgrade when they were still charging a flat rate of 99 cents for the song, essentially charging the veteran user $1.30 for the same song a newbie could pick up for $1.
I mean really where does that 30 cents go anyway?
I doubt they have two versions of each song I bet they have some sort of script that converts it when the file is requested from a person that got screwed with the DRM version.Milo said:
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Not sure if I'm reading this right, but burning 128Kbps files to CD and then importing them at a higher bit rate doesn't upgrade the sound quality. It's still 128kbps at best because burning it to CD doesn't create a source file that either matches what it would have been native on CD (had you purchased the music on CD) or if you were doing the same with a 256Kbps file. All the burn to CD and then re-import would do is get rid of the DRM in the imported version. You would gain nothing by importing it at anything more than 128Kbps if the original was the same.
Kinda sucks that you can't synch music outside of the USA.
You CAN sync your music outside of the USA - just do it the way you were doing it before, with the cable.
I really cant understand how people are thinking this iTunes in the cloud is soooo great. It's not.
Thanks for the info, thats a bit disappointing
I assumed with wifi syncing that it would be from one device to the other
not sure if i really want to download all my purchases multiple times
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I dunno, I'm personally pleased with the way it rolled out. All my hundreds and hundreds of apps are a tad embarrassing I guess, but I already used it to find some old software I had on previous phones and forgot about, and all the lame stuff is now spelled out in front of me so I don't waste my time re-downloading it. Since it's all in order by when I purchased it, it's easy to jump to where I need to be in the list.
As for people wanting to hide the purchases, how'd your wife not notice them on your credit card bill? If she didn't notice/care then, why would she now?
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Some poeple don't seem to use an iTunes account and their advices in the same way as we do, that's cool.
Looks like separate accounts will be the way to go to avoid scrolling through pages of apps I'm not interested in as well as the crap ones
But there are benefits to sharing accounts too, depends which is the most important I guess
I dunno, I'm personally pleased with the way it rolled out. All my hundreds and hundreds of apps are a tad embarrassing I guess, but I already used it to find some old software I had on previous phones and forgot about, and all the lame stuff is now spelled out in front of me so I don't waste my time re-downloading it. Since it's all in order by when I purchased it, it's easy to jump to where I need to be in the list.
As for people wanting to hide the purchases, how'd your wife not notice them on your credit card bill? If she didn't notice/care then, why would she now?
I doubt it, but that way would still be more work than just handing out the 256 versions. Why even bother to deal with 128 any more, makes zero sense.
I assume they meant burn to CD, rip, then subscribe to iTunes Match and get the 256 file. Which would work but would be a ridiculous pain.
I assume people who pay the $25 will just have the option to get the 256 versions. Or apple will come to their senses then and just make everything 256.
I really can't understand how people would think that being able to redownload songs and being able to pull down songs wirelessly on the go isn't better than not being able to do those things.
But only in the developer beta, not the public release.
I think he's referring to the concept of upgrading through iTunes Match. If iTunes Match is even a download service and if it doesn't upgrade 128 kbps DRM tracks, then the person can burn it to CD, rip it back to their library at 128 kbps, and then use iTunes Match to get the 256 kbps version. That is if iTunes Match ends up being a download service. I think they will nix the download idea and turn it into a streaming service by the time it launches in a few months.
Not while
a) coverage not being consistent with carriers
b) the outrageous prices for bandwidth..wireless carriers are literally stuck in 1995 where it was on a per hour basis charge only now its GB.
Streaming technologies aren't ready for the limelight in my opinion, this is probably why apple opt for downloading instead.
Besides streaming would completely kill the "PC Free" syncing with the iOS line.
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Not so fast
Sadly this costs 30 cents per song to upgrade and even more sadly is that it does not work very well. I have 87 songs in my library that were purchased from iTunes that are "Not Avialable" for the DRM free iTunes Plus upgrade. In a support email I received from Apple, I was told that only song titles that were approved by the record labels were available for upgrade. The funny part, all 87 songs have higher quility DRM free version on iTunes now, but because they are on different albums, etc. they still don't show up as iTunes Plus upgrtade avialable to my account.
Sadly this costs 30 cents per song to upgrade and even more sadly is that it does not work very well. I have 87 songs in my library that were purchased from iTunes that are "Not Avialable" for the DRM free iTunes Plus upgrade. In a support email I received from Apple, I was told that only song titles that were approved by the record labels were available for upgrade. The funny part, all 87 songs have higher quility DRM free version on iTunes now, but because they are on different albums, etc. they still don't show up as iTunes Plus upgrtade avialable to my account.
So beyond excited for the ability to re-download previously purchased stuff. I had an external hard drive eat itself a few summers ago and lost I don't even know how many episodes of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and The Office, not to mention random songs and videos and albums. I'd re-purchased a few things but not many, so I'm gonna jump all over this!