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iTunes 8, Playlist Recommendations, Visualizations
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Thats easy, get a Mac
Seriously, in my expirience iTunes runs fine on Windows, as long as Windows isn't f***ed up. Reinstalling Windows helps.
Huge!
Wow, this is huge considering Apple prefers journalists out of their media events most of the time!
Wow, this is huge considering Apple prefers journalists out of their media events most of the time!
Hm. I wonder if one of the new features on the iPod Touch is zipping music to each other via wifi like the Zune. I can't say that I would really use it but I can't figure out what features the iPod Touch could add and still even be worth updating.
Phew, thank god that chap's in Time Out! Right...
I like the sound of the playlist recommendation feature, reminds me of an old OSX app I had that analysed music (took ages back on the PowerBook) and would get tempo data, and going off the songs "audioprint" could match similar songs going off a base song. I'm sure Roxio made it, but this was years back.
If Apple brings us something remotely as awesome as that I'll be happy. Especially since I've got 25gb of (compressed) music and only listen to a select few songs.
Visualisations? Am I the only person who doesn't ever use these?
I like the sound of the playlist recommendation feature, reminds me of an old OSX app I had that analysed music (took ages back on the PowerBook) and would get tempo data, and going off the songs "audioprint" could match similar songs going off a base song. I'm sure Roxio made it, but this was years back.
If Apple brings us something remotely as awesome as that I'll be happy. Especially since I've got 25gb of (compressed) music and only listen to a select few songs.
Visualisations? Am I the only person who doesn't ever use these?
You and me both.
Chances are, if I'm listening to iTunes on my computer, I'm actually working on something on my computer, not sitting and staring at trippy visualizations.
I guess if you had iTunes running a big plasma at a party it would be pretty cool. So...why doesn't
TV get this feature "Zipping?" You must mean squirting. No matter how you try to spin it, there will be no squirting on my iPod, ever.
Try holding the option key when you drag a movie into iTunes. The copy will stay put on whatever hard drive you want, but still appear in your iTunes Movie Library.
I've got 300 movies on an external "Movies" drive, and 800 episodes of TV shows + 400 home movies on an external "TV Shows" drive, with only my music being auto-organized in the "iTunes Music" folder. All iTunes does with Movies is throw them all in one big folder anyhow, and TV Shows in a folder called "TV Shows" subfoldered by the show name...I can manage that myself on the externals. Everything shows up seamlessly within the iTunes Library, which is where I select and watch anyhow, and syncs to
I've done something similar except my library is located on my file/media server. iTunes is on my iMac and all the files on the server. Works great.
I don't use visualizations either, and can't see what their purpose is unless you're throwing a party or something and put it on your big screen. I wish they would put effort into more meaningful things with the itunes update
"A. He owns Digg, one of the most influential news sites on the interwebs."
Digg is @#*^ing garbage. An unnecessary extra mouse click to get to where you wanted to go in the first place. Basically a virtual toll booth.
Digg is @#*^ing garbage. An unnecessary extra mouse click to get to where you wanted to go in the first place. Basically a virtual toll booth.
New iPhone
Although this will come as a surprise, the announcement next week will in fact be for a new iPhone.
I met up with a friend last week who had been working on a commercial for a new iPhone and although he couldn't tell me much (due to a confidentiality agreement he had signed) he did tell me that the product was not the latest 3G but another iPhone.
It may well be a pared down version or iPhone nano but he was adamant that it was a new phone made by Apple.
Although this will come as a surprise, the announcement next week will in fact be for a new iPhone.
I met up with a friend last week who had been working on a commercial for a new iPhone and although he couldn't tell me much (due to a confidentiality agreement he had signed) he did tell me that the product was not the latest 3G but another iPhone.
It may well be a pared down version or iPhone nano but he was adamant that it was a new phone made by Apple.
Who the f. is this guy Rose Arn? Is he the one who broadcasts from his grandmothers bedroom in front of a ladder? How come he's suddenly gained credibility when he's never gotten anything right before and doesn't seem to have any inside info from apple? What's his posision, is he employed? Are we supposed to get served whatever bozo spins in his sureal mind as a rumor?
Let's not forget Tech TV. He did a great show with Leo Laporte until the network screwed it up.
Rocks?
I have to agree, how does a revision to iPods and iTunes become a ""a big deal and [he] should try to be there" event?
Not every event needs something radically new, but ""a big deal and [he] should try to be there" events certainly do.
I think that there must be the launch of something that people are going to want to buy, even those who have just benefited from a free iPod Touch.
An iPod Touch Nano (Phone?) with GPS and accessory mount for a cork-screw. That might compensate for the newspaper and martini.
I have to agree, how does a revision to iPods and iTunes become a ""a big deal and [he] should try to be there" event?
Not every event needs something radically new, but ""a big deal and [he] should try to be there" events certainly do.
I think that there must be the launch of something that people are going to want to buy, even those who have just benefited from a free iPod Touch.
An iPod Touch Nano (Phone?) with GPS and accessory mount for a cork-screw. That might compensate for the newspaper and martini.
Great news about new psychedelic visualizers. I could use some new ones to trip with. Clearly, modern computers have enough graphical oomph to do something other than the standard visualizer from circa 2002.
I guess I'd also like to see a little more intelligence added to the shuffle function, such as better 'shuffle by genre' support. But AI playlist generation is just as good. And I also agree that a streaming XM radio plugin for iTunes would be a fantastic killer app (for those of us who like sat radio).
I guess I'd also like to see a little more intelligence added to the shuffle function, such as better 'shuffle by genre' support. But AI playlist generation is just as good. And I also agree that a streaming XM radio plugin for iTunes would be a fantastic killer app (for those of us who like sat radio).
The big deal besides a new nano and a touch, is that iTunes 8's music will be DRM free! That's what Rocks
If everything essentially became iTunes +, for the current price, it'd be a nice step forward and would indeed, rock. I'd adore Apple Lossless as an option, but I can't see that as a reality.
iTunes doesn't need more visualizations and playlist options so much as it needs the following:
(1) Much better Movie & TV Show management.
(2) All SD movies & Tv Shows encoded using the new anamorphic setting w/ 5.1 AC3 inclusion, subtitle tracks, and bonus material.
(3) HD rentals (and purchases if possible at this point) available through iTunes on the computer, not just the Apple TV.
(4) Music library available in Lossless which can be transcoded on the fly via a user customized setting (like 256 AAC) to the iPod/iPhone.
(5) Movie/TV Show rental subscription model.
(6) Video playlists that actually sync with the iPhone & Apple TV (pathetic that this is not included yet).
(1) Much better Movie & TV Show management.
(2) All SD movies & Tv Shows encoded using the new anamorphic setting w/ 5.1 AC3 inclusion, subtitle tracks, and bonus material.
(3) HD rentals (and purchases if possible at this point) available through iTunes on the computer, not just the Apple TV.
(4) Music library available in Lossless which can be transcoded on the fly via a user customized setting (like 256 AAC) to the iPod/iPhone.
(5) Movie/TV Show rental subscription model.
(6) Video playlists that actually sync with the iPhone & Apple TV (pathetic that this is not included yet).
They really call it squirting? Gross."Zipping?" You must mean squirting. No matter how you try to spin it, there will be no squirting on my iPod, ever.
I'm with you, I'm not squirting on my iPod, either.
You are correct and those guys know people at apple. Almost to the degree of being a mouthpeice for SJ.
iTunes 8.0 would mean EVERYTHING to me if it became a Cocoa application!
That's a big possibility.
Could also be apple is seeing a lowered interest in iPod announcements.