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iTunes 4.8!

it's faster too!

iTunes 4.8 feels a lot more responsive to me than iTunes 4.7 (on iBook G4). There is much less delay switching between playlists and scrolling. Great job Apple!
 
I dont get this... I love it but its weird.

So, you get full screen video no matter what? So whats the point of QuickTime!?

AND I wish Windows had H.264 and QuickTime 7, because full screen playback sucks on trailers...
 
Music vids for sale........ That's what it's all about.

Who wants to view thier movies in itunes or on an ipod, the fact that they play in the artwork window may mean ipod support is coming, but beyond that don't count on anything extra.

My guess is if you can add your own movies to itunes you will probably be able to figure something out to have them play on an ipod, but it won't be the way apple sells it.

Watching a music vid on an ipod/portable movie player would be desirable, movies probably will remain a gimmick for a long time to come.

Just think, at present if you d/l a music vid, (and virtually al,l if not all, at the moment you won't pay for) you can downsize and put on a portable video player. With portable players becoming cheaper (and still not much use for watching movies on) the market is wide open for some unscrupulous website to exploit the music vid situation and distribute them in a format which will allow thousands on a portable player.

I believe apple is intending selling music vids and thereby ensuring they have thier DRM built in, and unlike the music position where they had the effect of slowing a huge piracy market, they would be stopping the piracy in music vids before it starts.

The record labels will love it.

Just take a look at the apple QT web pages, they are gearing up for it.
 
Just to be Stupid

I didn't see where anyone mentioned this but sorry if its a repeat...

Just to be goofy, I tried burning a video. All you get is an AIFF of the soundtrack. I think this is "phase one." Music videos with the songs at first, followed by features later. Including, hopefully, burning movies to DVD.
 
Small New Feature

I hadn't seen this mentioned yet...

There is now an option with the album art viewer to show either "Selected Song" or "Now Playing." Personally, this is a small feature that I've been waiting for. :)
 

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iTunes 4.7 link?

After updating to 4.8 everytime a song gets finnished playing it stops, and says "searching for movie data in file "Orig_0026321d.IETemp"" and then the music won't play again until I click cancel...
I didn't put any movie files into iTunes after I "up"graded... I jsut started playing music and that is what happened...

Anyone know where to download iTunes 4.7 from again?
 
Rian said:
I hadn't seen this mentioned yet...

There is now an option with the album art viewer to show either "Selected Song" or "Now Playing." Personally, this is a small feature that I've been waiting for. :)
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Always been there, they've just added the play icon now to make it more obvious there's something you can click to alter it.
I hear you can see album art via shared songs though! Sweet!
 
Rian said:
I hadn't seen this mentioned yet...

There is now an option with the album art viewer to show either "Selected Song" or "Now Playing." Personally, this is a small feature that I've been waiting for. :)
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Sorry to disappoint you, but that feature has been there for many previous versions of iTunes. The only difference here is that Apple put a little arrow graphic on the bar. You click anywhere on the bar and the image toggles from the song playing to the selected song.

At least you get to benefit from it now!
 
Playing videos in itunes is a nice addition. I allready have converted all my videos to .mov files. Its cool now that I don't have to switch to different apps to watch those videos (whos audio version I don't have)
Dashboard widget for iTunes really comes in handy now when watching the videos in full screen (it allows me to go tto any point in the video, not allowed w/ current playback mode w/o escaping the full mode)
Persnaly, I really like that the video is played in place of art work window.

I can't find video playback function listed on the web site, guess this feature is still in the works and totally finalized as to its functions.
 
Stella said:
There is little reason for iTunes to be responsible for the iPod syncing*. iSync is for syncing devices, not iTunes! iTunes should be for media content only.
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I have to disagree - I want to sync my iPod in one step. I never really used the Contacts and Calendar features on it because I couldn't be bothered to remember to open iSync every time I plugged in the iPod, or every time I updated some data. It auto syncs in iTunes, which I always have open, so that sync should include all data that I want to keep up to date. Maybe I'll actually use those features now that the data won't be woefully out of date.

Agree on the general sentiment of iTunes getting bloated, though. Except for the iPod syncing, which is a convenience that makes sense to me, I wish Apple would just focus on what iTunes is supposed to do: playing, organizing, and buying music. There are enough bugs and deficiencies in this area (gaps in playback, anyone??) that they shouldn't be wasting resources on video and other frivolous features. For video playback, we already have QuickTime Player. For a future video library feature, let's make a separate companion app instead of having the kitchen sink in one. Just like iMovie and iDVD work better as separate apps, iTunes and a future video library manager would be better separated but with hooks into each other like the rest of iLife.
 
hidalgo said:
I just received an update to my "iTunes New Releases" RSS feed, I clicked on the new Morcheeba album and noticed there is now a video download available when purchasing the album:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/...m?playlistId=61265855&originStoreFront=143441

I guess this explains a little more about the new video features.

But since I'm in Australia... :rolleyes:
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Wow, that is really nice, thanks for the link. Now those new features make a lot more sence. hehhehh you no longer need MTV to watch music videos :D
 
hidalgo said:
I just received an update to my "iTunes New Releases" RSS feed, I clicked on the new Morcheeba album and noticed there is now a video download available when purchasing the album:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/...m?playlistId=61265855&originStoreFront=143441

I guess this explains a little more about the new video features.

But since I'm in Australia... :rolleyes:
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Cool, that was just how I was expecting the new video feature to work! Hopefully they go nuts with the music video thing and include them with every single. Although they'll start to get spacey...
 
Rian said:
There is now an option with the album art viewer to show either "Selected Song" or "Now Playing." Personally, this is a small feature that I've been waiting for. :)
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Others already pointed out that it's been there for awhile. I want to know if Apple has fixed it yet. Neither option is optimal, but there is a third, "smart" option that would be perfect 99% of the time. If no song is playing, I want it to show whatever is selected (equivalent to "Selected Song"). And if a song is playing, I want it to show what's playing ("Now Playing"). Makes sense, right? It's incredibly annoying to have to click the bar and switch back and forth all the time. This "smart" setting would cover the majority of people most of the time. I've sent Apple feedback on this, but somehow I doubt they listened... :confused:
 
bobx2001 said:
i am not impressed with this in the slightest. it does not have a separate video and music library, and it tired to copy my movies into my itunes music folder (because i tell itunes to keep my music organized). i am yet to see a way to allow itunes to organize your music in the itunes music folder, but leave your movies alone.
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Make a smart playlist with the size of the file set to something like 50mb. Call it movies. I agree with you, but this helped me.

BR
 
brogers said:
Make a smart playlist with the size of the file set to something like 50mb. Call it movies. I agree with you, but this helped me.

BR
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What I did is , i created a smart playlist with Kind: is: QuickTime Movie , works great for different file sizes. like the ones saved from web that are around 10-12MB
 
AHDuke99 said:
did anybody find a way to download videos off the iTMS again? after itunes 4.7 it was broken, but now that itunes plays videos it'd be nice tyo have again.
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Yeah, it seems now that it's most useful it doesn't work anymore :(. Hopefully that means Apple has something else cooked up, ala the Morcheeba video attached to the album.
 
I hope they offer them seperately also... there is NO WAY I'm buying an album just for a video.
 
Rian said:
I hadn't seen this mentioned yet...

There is now an option with the album art viewer to show either "Selected Song" or "Now Playing." Personally, this is a small feature that I've been waiting for. :)
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That's been in there for ages.
 
Version 4.8 huh. I wonder how much change there is going to be in version 5. Version 4 has gone through so many changes - not all of them being bug fixes and patches.
 
Something really strange happened to my iTunes today. I opened it and it was as if it was reset to the factory settings. It was completely blank, all the headers (name, artist, time, album, genre, etc.) were back, and all my playlists were gone.

This is before I installed iTunes 4.8. I should mention that my iTunes Library is located on an external firewire drive and this happened while the drive was disconnected.

However, I've had the drive disconnected many, many times before and this never happened to iTunes when plugging it back in. Never. So basically, I had to re-import all my songs back into iTunes. My playlists are still gone and I don't know how to retrieve them.

Anyone have any info on this situation?
 
Japan is the MOST glaring omission from the iTMS list.

Australia not having an iTMS to me is not as major as Japan not having an iTMS. Australia only has 16.67% the population of Japan! And from what I've heard Apple has a 10% market share on the computer side of things alone. Unofficially, on trains I see lots of iPods and no other HD-based MP3 players (except for me and my Zen Micro). We had over 1,000 people lined up in front of the flagship Apple Store in Tokyo waiting for Tiger. Japanese are constantly listening to music in public. I guess the notoriously difficult to deal with j-pop music companies are still not willing to cooperate with Apple.
 
MarksEvilTwin said:
Well, it seems that we'll get the new stores tomorrow (minus AU, sorry my Kiwi friends).
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New Zealanders are kiwis. Australians are ozzies or skippies. :)

I agree with you about the way movie files are organized. It's kind of odd to have them stored in the Music folder. The way it is at the moment makes sense in the case of music videos but in the case of stuff I've made it doesn't.
 
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