Considering how craptastic the recent software updates have been for the iPhone, Leopard, Mobileme.....im not too keen on a major update to iTunes.
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iTunes 8, Playlist Recommendations, Visualizations
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This does not seem like much of a big deal to me.
What would spark my interest would be a "One more Thing..." introducing the iServe. The iServe being an upgraded Mac Mini that now acts as a whole house media server (with larger 1TB harddrive) with iTunes 8 integration so that music ripped/purchased through iTunes is stored centrally (irrespective of computer) so that you only need to store the files once, and in a high quality apple lossless format. The iServe could then stream music through iTunes 8 server to audio clients/aTV in a lossless format for at home. iTunes 8 on portables such as MB and MBP could sync to the iTunes8 server on iServe and keep a subset of music on the MB for mobile consumption/usage, or real-time compress to 196 (or whatever) AAC for storage space saving. iPhones and iPod Touch can also sync wirelessly needing no need to file up the computer. The iTunes 8 on iServe will also be smart enough to maintain only one central copy of your music (saving space) but maintain multiple libraries for different user accounts/needs.
Also if I am out on the road with my MB or in the office with the iMac I would want to know that all my ratings, playlist, music is all sync'd and available due to iTunes 8 on iServe keeping it all aligned.
Now that would spark my interest!
Also, can we rate tunes within the iTune mini view please?
What would spark my interest would be a "One more Thing..." introducing the iServe. The iServe being an upgraded Mac Mini that now acts as a whole house media server (with larger 1TB harddrive) with iTunes 8 integration so that music ripped/purchased through iTunes is stored centrally (irrespective of computer) so that you only need to store the files once, and in a high quality apple lossless format. The iServe could then stream music through iTunes 8 server to audio clients/aTV in a lossless format for at home. iTunes 8 on portables such as MB and MBP could sync to the iTunes8 server on iServe and keep a subset of music on the MB for mobile consumption/usage, or real-time compress to 196 (or whatever) AAC for storage space saving. iPhones and iPod Touch can also sync wirelessly needing no need to file up the computer. The iTunes 8 on iServe will also be smart enough to maintain only one central copy of your music (saving space) but maintain multiple libraries for different user accounts/needs.
Also if I am out on the road with my MB or in the office with the iMac I would want to know that all my ratings, playlist, music is all sync'd and available due to iTunes 8 on iServe keeping it all aligned.
Now that would spark my interest!
Also, can we rate tunes within the iTune mini view please?
How bout making it sync and backup at a resonable speed other than Sloth.
first before all the eyecandy.
first before all the eyecandy.
If *APPLE* is telling people it's a big deal, that's scary. (I mean in a good way of course!)
I just wish they'd do new Macbook Pros there that meet my needs, but I'm feeling like it's less and less possible. Well, a PDA-esque device from them would be awesome, preferably running OS X
Maybe a mini-tablet that could actually be used more or less like a PDA, and uses an Atom, and runs OS X so can run Office, etc.
(I mean in a good way of course!)I just wish they'd do new Macbook Pros there that meet my needs, but I'm feeling like it's less and less possible. Well, a PDA-esque device from them would be awesome, preferably running OS X
Maybe a mini-tablet that could actually be used more or less like a PDA, and uses an Atom, and runs OS X so can run Office, etc.
Definitely agree that everything should be 16:9 (it just looks so much better than the ugly-ass 4:3 ratio), there is no way that Apple or anyone else is going to waste the 448 kbps for the AC3 codec. And why would every single TV show, movie and track come with "bonus material?" Moreover, what is bonus material? Those interviews with the assistant key-grip they have on DVDs?
Trippy visualizations
The more I look around at the nostalgic cars (mustang, challenger, charger) that are out; and the fact I was in JCPenny and seen that clothes that appeared to be from the 1960's and 1970's on the racks (cordaroy pants, sweater vests, some of the styles). I think that we are heading back to the 1960's and 1970's - so pull out your beads, put on your flowers and tye-died shirts, and trip out.
Everything goes in cycles.
But seriously - I do not use visualizations when listening to my music. Now what would be cool would be a way to export those visualizations to a quicktime, WMV, AIV, or FLV file (let me pick the format). I could sure have fun with that when making music videos.....
The more I look around at the nostalgic cars (mustang, challenger, charger) that are out; and the fact I was in JCPenny and seen that clothes that appeared to be from the 1960's and 1970's on the racks (cordaroy pants, sweater vests, some of the styles). I think that we are heading back to the 1960's and 1970's - so pull out your beads, put on your flowers and tye-died shirts, and trip out.
Everything goes in cycles.
But seriously - I do not use visualizations when listening to my music. Now what would be cool would be a way to export those visualizations to a quicktime, WMV, AIV, or FLV file (let me pick the format). I could sure have fun with that when making music videos.....
I wasn't thinking it. That would be incredibly lame if that's all it was. I would never "buy" (ie rent) anything from their store if it has DRM on it, and even if it dosen't I'd rather just buy a higher quality (and pre-backed up) CD. (Particularly with The Beatles...which I've actually never bought on CD, since apparently they wouldn't get any money from it...I only bought those new releases a few years back.)
Hopefully it's at least a nifty redesign for the iPod touch that fixes it's issues (what to me are big issues at least)...
Hey, it ain't 1968. That would NOT be a big deal. Apple would lose major cred if they told reporters THAT was a reason not to miss the event.
yawn... I've been buying a lot of music from Amazon and been pretty pleased. I don't really want iTunes reading my mind, either.
Need some new computer stuff. Poor orphan mini.
Need some new computer stuff. Poor orphan mini.
well, maybe...
could be because it WILL have important announcements.
or could be because attendance is lagging as journalists learn these special events sometimes only announce incremental product improvements. In that case apple pr would also be needing to hawk people into the circus tent.
QUOTE: "How about some Apple TV love....how about some ap's running on Apple TV...anything"
How about just an adequate library of movies for rent?
Visualizations? meh...
My bet's on the nano phone.
could be because it WILL have important announcements.
or could be because attendance is lagging as journalists learn these special events sometimes only announce incremental product improvements. In that case apple pr would also be needing to hawk people into the circus tent.
QUOTE: "How about some Apple TV love....how about some ap's running on Apple TV...anything"
How about just an adequate library of movies for rent?
Visualizations? meh...
My bet's on the nano phone.
Unless I mis-understood you - I think you meant a 1 terabyte drive. I have a small (30gb 5,000+) song library. I say small because I know people who have filled up an entire 500gb drive with just music. They hit all the peer-to-peers like limewire, bearshare, Kaazar (not sure those are around anymore) - plus the napster's, etc - not to mention making use of CD duplicators. Since my entire library of over 100 CD's bit the dust (scratches, cracks, music I do not listen to anymore, etc - I used to listen to them in my car a lot); my entire collection is on mp3 format now.
That could be, but surely Apple would know not to do that. If they do that once, it's only going to hurt their credibility and make fewer people show up even for real announcements.
I suppose this will be their rental serivce thingee, which is probably a big deal, along with some slightly redone produts, but I sure hope it's stuff *I* care about too.
Boy I bet that will make Michael Jackson a lot richer.
Doesn't he still own all the rights to the Beatles music. I mean what where they thinking when they sold the rights, and now Paul McCartney has to pay royalties to Michael Jackson when he plays a Beatle's song.Well, Michael needs the money to pay for the lawyers....
Has nobody mentioned the four words...
iTMS subscription based music service (okay four and an acronym!).
iTMS subscription based music service (okay four and an acronym!).
Pandora
I like the pandora idea, but I guess you would have to own a Jesus-load full of music that you purchased from the Apple store first, and it would need to be able to access new metadata with regards to genre specifics in order to function like pandora.
That aside, what I would like to see is better CD burning tools and a freakin' button, like in final cut, that goes through all of your media that has been
"unconnected" (meaning you moved your mp3s to another drive or something) and automatically search all drives and reconnect them.
Is this really that hard to program? I have been waiting for 5 years for this, ever since the first time I accidentally moved some mp3s to an external drive to save space. Something about going through 500 mp3s individually and reconnecting them manually seemed superfluous in the age of computers and internetwebcybernets.
I like the pandora idea, but I guess you would have to own a Jesus-load full of music that you purchased from the Apple store first, and it would need to be able to access new metadata with regards to genre specifics in order to function like pandora.
That aside, what I would like to see is better CD burning tools and a freakin' button, like in final cut, that goes through all of your media that has been
"unconnected" (meaning you moved your mp3s to another drive or something) and automatically search all drives and reconnect them.
Is this really that hard to program? I have been waiting for 5 years for this, ever since the first time I accidentally moved some mp3s to an external drive to save space. Something about going through 500 mp3s individually and reconnecting them manually seemed superfluous in the age of computers and internetwebcybernets.
Sorry, the sentence with Bonus Material was supposed to be separate. If the movie has bonus material, it should be included.
As far as widescreen goes, most new material on iTunes is widescreen, even TV Shows, but the TV shows do not use the Anamorphic Setting which is actually on par with DVD quality as opposed to the regular 640x480 widescreen iTunes setting.
AC3 is already included by Apple on the HD rentals, and Handbrake has proved it also works with SD movies. It doesn't add all that much space, and is well worth the addition.
Maybe the big deal is that they will finally be distributing a stable firmware version for the iPhone and that Mobile Me will finally be fixed and provide push services as described initially! Also, instead of adding visualizations to iTunes (which is also useless), they should fix it so that backups don't take 2 hours and so that it doesn't show up as a black screen at times on Windows systems - now those would be great improvements! That would be a big deal and great news. I could care less about a bigger iPod Nano - if they make it bigger, they should call it the iPod Mini again. At this time, Apple needs to focus on fixing major bugs before announcing useless features. I'm all for useful features, such as MMS, cut and paste, video recording, better camera app on the iPhone.
Speaking of itunes 8. You know how the remote app let's you stream music to the Apple TV?. Wouldn't it be cool to do that with video too ?
Just sayin.
Just sayin.
Correct. Typo fixed.
Actually if there was anything ever like an iServe then having the capability of add multiple hard drives to increase the storage pool as needed and provide redundancy would be better still. Perhaps the ZFS file system, along with RAID-Z or unRAID would work? I don't know much about this stuff so I may be talking garbage here.
Anyway I'm still waiting for someone to come up with the perfect home server...