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iTunes 8, Playlist Recommendations, Visualizations

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of course it would be a free upgrade- why would apple
Ale you pay to use a store they make money off of anyway.
 
ungraphic said:
Apple should just give us 'iTunes Light' for those of us who arent sheep with iphones or ipods.
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I see remarks like this all over the forums...you know you can go into iTunes preferences and disable any Library component you don't want to see, leaving only Music, turn off the Store, turn off Sharing, turn off syncing with iPods & iPhones, turn off looking for :apple:TVs...and guess what...

You're left with a pretty bare-bones music player ala Soundjam 1997.
 
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true- but I think they'd rather have us iPod carrying sheep spend our money on music so they can keep us trapped in iTunes forever...

Jk- with iTunes the music giant it is I think it'll stay free- hell it's a great conversion tool.
 
Please please please let me *rent* HD tv shows ($0.25 a show?) so I can finally tell Rogers to shove it. You can even include non-fast-forwardable commercials in the show if you want.
 
iCantwait said:
can i remind that i have been predicting Sept 9th since June 2008?? (check my posts)
yep thats right... suck on that Kevin Rose
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in reference to your signature, i've been waiting all summer to buy an ipod touch so i can get the second gen. an ipod touch with 3g would be the biggest dream because i'm buying the touch for the internet (since i can't afford the iphone). gps would be nice but 3g would seriously give me a heart attack. the anticipation would make me unable to function until mine arrived in the mail.
 
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ouch no commercials please. I think a subscription tv show service with HD for AppleTV would be awesome. It would be a TiVo killer for sure. 19.00 month all the HD programming you want. Based on h.264 of course. As far as the subscription service goes for music our buddy Steve has always said "people want to own their music" I don't think we'll ever see that in iTunes, but who knows.
 
Not very excited about the new iPods or iTunes. Of course it's interesting to see new iPods, but unless they release a new iPod Touch with large hard drive storage, I'm not going to buy anything. iTunes 8... it could be good, but I'm not that excited about the rumoured new features.
 
Kilamite said:
Yes. I don't scroll through albums using it, but it makes the whole interface a lot nicer, and I generally like to see the album art from the album I'm playing. Who knows, there might be a pub quiz question asking who's album art it is and you'd know because you got it!
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err yeah, just in case that comes up in a pub quiz... 🙁
 
RevK said:
iTunes 8.0 would mean EVERYTHING to me if it became a Cocoa application!😀
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That's irrelevant from a "normal end user" point of view though isn't it, to the point where I'd be shocked if it gets a mention even if it does happen. To paraphrase someone else: iTunes + Cocoa = iTunes.
 
Cubert said:
This genius playlist sounds a lot like a patent Apple applied for back in 2004 (I think) for a technology that can determine the genre of a song by its beats per minute.
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xJulianx said:
Same here, I have Artists, Albums and Track Names all tagged up perfectly along with artwork but everything else is a complete mess and would take a very long time to sort out with an 8,000~ song library.
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Kilamite said:
As for Playlist recommendations, I'm not really sure if I'd take advantage of that feature, unless it was pretty accurate. But then I'd have to go through and tag all of my music with genres, since most of it is still missing it.
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It would be really cool if this "genius" thing had some way of going through your music automatically, but is there (I think there is) a chance that this would only work for stuff purchased on itunes? That's how "just for you" works on the itms. It often recommends that I buy albums that I already have, even if gracenotes pulled up all of the album info perfectly already. That would be disappointing.
 
Genuis sounds more exciting than other kinds of music recommendation systems.

Some examples of other companies music reccomending systems:
Sony Ericcson has SensMe on their phones that detects tempo and "mood" of tracks buyt then plots in a confusing axial map view :hope Apple's is better implemented,works for all your songs whether purchased on iTS or not and smarter in recognizing genres.

Samsung's Windows-only Emodio music software has a neat music mood analyser which works pretty well, and assigns a color to a track to differentiate between different music styles-it's implemented nicely and is fast.

Pandora would of be use to the United States.

Grid view dosn't interest, but HD TV show downloadsdo.
 
Rest of the world?

iTunes 8 promises a lot of features, like HD TV shows. But I wonder if the promise made by Apple long long ago about making ANY video content available outside the US is going to be kept sometime...

I know it is not their fault, or at least I doubt they would give up the chance to earn more money willingly and deliberately, but it is becoming kind of annoying.

Countless forums in Europe explain how to get an iTunes US account and there is even a whole "industry" around gift cards from the US.
Why content providers deliberatly encourage piracy and tricks like these really escapes me 😕 .

I would PAY for the content, if I had the choice 😎 . But in order to PAY for said content it would have to be: HD, no ads and enjoyable on the many platforms I own.

Maybe I should give up hope that the old-minded people in charge of these strategic decisions will finally get it.
THEY are the ones currently encouraging piracy...

Sorry for the rant... But iTunes Store is so different "here" from "there where you are" that you cannot even imagine.

Maybe iTunes 8 will deliever... 🙂 Ah. Dreaming again 😱 . Ok, I'll stop here and wake up.
Pooof
🙁
 
iMat77 said:
iTunes 8 promises a lot of features, like HD TV shows. But I wonder if the promise made by Apple long long ago about making ANY video content available outside the US is going to be kept sometime...

I know it is not their fault, or at least I doubt they would give up the chance to earn more money willingly and deliberately, but it is becoming kind of annoying.

Countless forums in Europe explain how to get an iTunes US account and there is even a whole "industry" around gift cards from the US.
Why content providers deliberatly encourage piracy and tricks like these really escapes me 😕 .

I would PAY for the content, if I had the choice 😎 . But in order to PAY for said content it would have to be: HD, no ads and enjoyable on the many platforms I own.

Maybe I should give up hope that the old-minded people in charge of these strategic decisions will finally get it.
THEY are the ones currently encouraging piracy...

Sorry for the rant... But iTunes Store is so different "here" from "there where you are" that you cannot even imagine.

Maybe iTunes 8 will deliever... 🙂 Ah. Dreaming again 😱 . Ok, I'll stop here and wake up.
Pooof
🙁
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I approve of this post. Those of us outside the US often get the shaft on these fancy new things. It's either late, or crippled, or extra-expensive for us. Or more often than not, several of the above.
 
i couldn't bother to read all 10 pages of comments. but i am wondering,

how about iTunes Server?

i am not sure if i am alone here, but we have 2 macs + 2 laptops + appletv + 2 iphones in our house. i am thinking most people have more than one computer, and an ipod/iphone. having an iTunes that acts more like a server than just the sharing that is allowed by the current iTunes would help me a lot. i could go on any of my macs and update the iTunes library, RIP a cd or purchase songs, and instead of locking it to that iTunes, i can push to the server library.
the ability to sync my iphone/ipods from any mac and still access my server library would be great too.

just throwing this idea out there. to me, that would be 'big deal' enough for a giant iTunes event. visuals and smart playlists are not.
 
Peruchito said:
i couldn't bother to read all 10 pages of comments. but i am wondering,

how about iTunes Server?

i am not sure if i am alone here, but we have 2 macs + 2 laptops + appletv + 2 iphones in our house. i am thinking most people have more than one computer, and an ipod/iphone. having an iTunes that acts more like a server than just the sharing that is allowed by the current iTunes would help me a lot. i could go on any of my macs and update the iTunes library, RIP a cd or purchase songs, and instead of locking it to that iTunes, i can push to the server library.
the ability to sync my iphone/ipods from any mac and still access my server library would be great too.

just throwing this idea out there. to me, that would be 'big deal' enough for a giant iTunes event. visuals and smart playlists are not.
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You are not alone. I'd love that: put an old machine in a cupboard with disks attached to act as the server. All the other machines connect to it. I can sync my iPhone/iPod on any machine instead of one.

You know what I'd actually pay for that 😱
 
robbieduncan said:
You are not alone. I'd love that: put an old machine in a cupboard with disks attached to act as the server. All the other machines connect to it. I can sync my iPhone/iPod on any machine instead of one.

You know what I'd actually pay for that 😱
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you know.i think i would too. it would be a time saver and a BIG convenience.

PS i love betty, i'd buy her, but live in canada.
 
iTunes 8... Great.. HD TV Shows... Magnificent..

Over here in Europe we are still waiting for normal TV shows and movies (except UK). 🙁

It's about time we get to share the fun. I want an Apple TV..
 
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Originally Posted by Peruchito
i couldn't bother to read all 10 pages of comments. but i am wondering,

how about iTunes Server?

i am not sure if i am alone here, but we have 2 macs + 2 laptops + appletv + 2 iphones in our house. i am thinking most people have more than one computer, and an ipod/iphone. having an iTunes that acts more like a server than just the sharing that is allowed by the current iTunes would help me a lot. i could go on any of my macs and update the iTunes library, RIP a cd or purchase songs, and instead of locking it to that iTunes, i can push to the server library.
the ability to sync my iphone/ipods from any mac and still access my server library would be great too.

just throwing this idea out there. to me, that would be 'big deal' enough for a giant iTunes event. visuals and smart playlists are not.

You are not alone. I'd love that: put an old machine in a cupboard with disks attached to act as the server. All the other machines connect to it. I can sync my iPhone/iPod on any machine instead of one.

You know what I'd actually pay for that
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That would be freaking great. I would pay for that also.... I doubt we will see anything like this thou... I would love to be proved wrong of course.
 
bartzilla said:
That's irrelevant from a "normal end user" point of view though isn't it, to the point where I'd be shocked if it gets a mention even if it does happen. To paraphrase someone else: iTunes + Cocoa = iTunes.
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If iTunes got re-wrote in Cocoa, then it would be a big thing (not big as in a stand alone reason for iTunes 8, but big as in a good step forward to making iTunes more efficient and slimmed down) and it would definitely get a mention.
 
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