Buy a Drobo. Very cool product. Doesn't stream to Apple devices, but it is looks awesome as far a hard drive media server goes (I think I am going to buy one soon).
http://www.drobo.com/Products/drobo.html
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iTunes 8, Playlist Recommendations, Visualizations
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Buy a Drobo. Very cool product. Doesn't stream to Apple devices, but it is looks awesome as far a hard drive media server goes (I think I am going to buy one soon).
http://www.drobo.com/Products/drobo.html
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....
That's why I haven't bought any of the Beatles' CDs. I would have liked to, but...I don't know, that how situation creeps me out.
I know that some people see the "small cosmetic changes" to the touch as nothing, but keep in mind that for those things people are wanting, they only need small changes.
Then again, the slight cosmetic change could just be a new plastic backing. Guess we'll find out in 6 days (longest 6 days of the year).
- Speaker - iPhone has them on the bottom and are barely visible, very small cosmetic change.
- GPS - All internal, no cosmetic change.
- Bluetooth - All internal, no cosmetic change.
- Camera - iPhone has a very small hole in the back, small cosmetic change.
- Microphone - seriously, where the hell is it on the iPhone?!?! Small cosmetic change.
Then again, the slight cosmetic change could just be a new plastic backing
. Guess we'll find out in 6 days (longest 6 days of the year).A. He owns Digg, one of the most influential news sites on the interwebs.
B. He has come out with leaked information in the past which has proven true.
C. He seems to have been spot on this time, so far at least, so why not shut up and take an interest in what this guy says?
So what?
"With Apple's announcement that the company will be holding a special media event on September 9th, we're reminded that Kevin Rose was the first source of the September 9th date."
Kevin Rose? couldn't give a dump. Seriously, even if Jobsy called Rose himself. I couldn't care any less.
"iTunes 8 would arrive as a "big update" with new features"
WOW. You sure this is from Kevin Rose and not Sherlock Holmes? jeez, thats pretty far out there! new features with a major update? just like every other major update, bringing new features to the board.
"Finally, Rose said yesterday that iTunes 8.0 have new "trippy" visualizations"
what one isn't trippy!!!! enough already. I'm off to kneel alter the alter of Kev.
The rumors and speculation i love but not geeks trying to project themselves in a different light buy recording their version of what WE on Macrumors do every day!
I know that some people see the "small cosmetic changes" to the touch as nothing, but keep in mind that for those things people are wanting, they only need small changes.
I'm not saying these will happen (in fact they most likely won't), but the truth is that the touch can have almost all of the features of the iPhone without much of a change.
- Speaker - iPhone has them on the bottom and are barely visible, very small cosmetic change.
- GPS - All internal, no cosmetic change.
- Bluetooth - All internal, no cosmetic change.
- Camera - iPhone has a very small hole in the back, small cosmetic change.
- Microphone - seriously, where the hell is it on the iPhone?!?! Small cosmetic change.
Then again, the slight cosmetic change could just be a new plastic backing
I'm thinking it's just going to be a redesign without any added (and much needed) features. That thing NEEDS some hardware buttons to at least control volume and play/pause. I'd absolutely love it if it got an internal speaker too, as I'd use that daily. But I'm not holding my breath
Right now out of their line up I'm not sure what I'd get. The Touch isn't really usable as a PDA replacement for me (at least certainly not yet), and I hate it's touch screen keyboard even if it had needed programs. And...it's not really usable as an iPod replacement for me either.
The CURRENT Nano is nifty, but 8GB isn't really enough for me. Which leaves the Classic, which is boring, and I really wanted to get away from having a hard drive, but it's hard to argue with 80GB on the "small" sized model. (I've got probably a GB of podcasts, 2+ GB of video, and then like having some of my favorite albums with me, even if I hardly ever listen to them).
I also hope it is Magnetosphere integration and improvement. I projected this on the ceiling during a disco and it was quite cool.
http://www.barbariangroup.com/software/magnetosphere
(you can't download it at the moment because... well who knows!)
PS Does anyone know a way of feeding audio from the internal microphone INTO itunes so that visualisers can be synced to audio from other sources? At a disco it isn't easy to run all the music from one machine. In fact if you want to cue up tracks etc you need to use a whole other Mac to project the visuals. I currently use G-Force Standalone but I'd like to use plug-ins like Magnetosphere as an alternative.
http://www.barbariangroup.com/software/magnetosphere
(you can't download it at the moment because... well who knows!)
PS Does anyone know a way of feeding audio from the internal microphone INTO itunes so that visualisers can be synced to audio from other sources? At a disco it isn't easy to run all the music from one machine. In fact if you want to cue up tracks etc you need to use a whole other Mac to project the visuals. I currently use G-Force Standalone but I'd like to use plug-ins like Magnetosphere as an alternative.
Whilst maybe not for music I would love this for contacts, calender syncing and such. Without the need for MobileMe or whatever it's called.
Man, I loved that documentary about Danny Dilger. What was it called? Oh, that's right - Boogie Nights.
Regarding an 8.0 revamp, it's funny how many, if not most of us, are not particularly excited. I used to rush home to install an announced bug-fix version, such as from iTunes 6.0001 to 6.0002. I couldn't get enough. Now, I almost couldn't care less. I really, really like iTunes, but just don't see what is left to do with it. I would love for Apple to shove that back in my face on Tuesday.
My predictions (although not necessary original):
1. The Beatles - It is a certainty. (1) It will be announced at an event, as opposed to simply being released like a John Denver back catalogue. Therefore, you have to ask yourself - which event? Well, this one is titled "Let's Rock" and is no doubt the last one until MacWorld. (2) The timing is there - I believe the solo catalogues of each Beatle have now been released, in ascending order of popularity. The Beatles catalogue is now the obvious shoe to drop.
And you heard it hear first - well, at least I haven't heard it anywhere else - McCartney and Ringo will play at the end. The "one more thing" will be the release of the Beatles cataloge and McCartney/Ringo will close the show.
2. iTunes 8.0 - (1) Pandora-like stuff. (2) More consistency iTunes between categories (Music, Movies, Music Videos, etc.) on your iPod main menu, your iPhone/Touch Remote, your Apple TV, etc. Right now, they line up a little, but not completely. (3) Everything goes DRM-free. (4) A way to stream your iTunes catalogue to your iPhone/Touch, like you can do now (albeit not the best) with the free Simplify Media app.
3. Something music distribution-in-your-house oriented. Not sure what it would be. Sure, the Apple TV and Airport Express do a lot as is, but they still seem to be used - in terms of filling your house with music - by people with above-average computer skills. I can't help but think Apple wants to come out with something, or improve on something like the Apple TV/Airport Express, such that they get an iron lock on the home AV market. Perhaps an actual Apple tuner/amp for your stereo. Hmmm.
4. New Nano, as predicted by Kevin Rose, I mean by Danny Dilger, I mean Dirk Diggler.
5. Steve Jobs will announce his retirement, take a bow, and turn over Apple, Inc. to Kavika411.
6. Wi-Fi wireless synching for iPhone and iPod Touch.
HobeSoundDarryl
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Michael doesn't own their recorded music, just song publishing rights. He is paid when he lets someone use their music, such as in a commercial or performance or new recordings (cover).
As to "what were they [beatles] thinking?" the story goes as I understand it that they formed a company "Northern Songs" that could go public. This allowed others to invest in the beatles music, which made them very rich (very much like forming a strong company and selling stock in that company). Obviously, if the Beatles retained the majority ownership of that company, the appeal that anyone could eventually own enough of Northern Songs to actually hold dominant rights to the songs would not maximize interest (investment) in the company, so they held less than 50%.
As the Beatles partnership was nearing its end, the rest of the investors (other than Beatles) were wanting to sell their shares. John & Paul and a few others were unified in trying to retain control, but then some stuff "got heavy" (as they might have said at the time) and John apparently said something like "f*ck the shareholders", which moved his allies (other than Paul) to join the other side. This led to a quick (majority) sale to a company wanting to buy majority ownership.
I believe that once they (the beatles) saw they had lost ownership of their own songs, they threw they shares in with the others and a company called ATV gained ownership.
In the early 1980's Michael Jackson & Paul teamed up on some recordings and Paul encouraged Michael to do what he (Paul) was doing- buying music publishing rights as an asset (Paul owns the music publishing rights to the songs of artists like Buddy Holly and many others). About the same time the Beatles catalogue was put on the market for a lot less than it would cost now. Micahel told Paul he was going to buy it before he did. Paul could have bought it if he wanted it. But (apparently) he wanted Yoko to go in with him and while negotiating that, Michael ended up with the Beatles publishing rights.
Now Sony owns at least half of those rights.
But, long story short, owning publishing rights does not mean that Michael owns their recordings. I don't even think he gets paid if they sell a CD (though he might get a small percentage as publisher).
Some of the above might not be exactly right, but I think it is pretty close to the story relevant to these comments.
Back on topic: Beatles on itunes would be a pretty big deal- especially if it was an exclusive for a few months.
HobeSoundDarryl
macrumors G5
Not to freak everyone out, but what if the "must attend" news would be Steve's retirement or resignation for health reasons.
Hopefully not, but just putting it out there.
Hopefully not, but just putting it out there.
iTunes 8.0 would mean EVERYTHING to me if it became a Cocoa application!
Why? What would change. I'm a Cocoa programmer in my spare time, but I hate to tell you there is no reason to assume anything would become better just because it was Cocoa.
Any tech writer that pisses his pants at a Beatles on AAC isn't worthy of attending the event in the first place. If you like the Beatles they've been on CD for about 18 years now, and I do believe iTunes will convert them to AAC, MP3 and many other formats.
When will apple release a slimmed down version of iTunes, for, ya know.......TUNES? iTunes is bogged down with crap like support for iphones, ipods, itv, itms, etc. You may as well call it iMedia since iTunes alone is misleading. Not only that but it eats up ram at this point, and included all features i DONT need since i dont use or even want a crappy ipod.
With that said, does anyone know of any nice, light on system resources and simple mp3 player for OS X?
With that said, does anyone know of any nice, light on system resources and simple mp3 player for OS X?
I really hope iTunes 8 will look different. Im little bored of the User Interface. Where is the Leopard styled interface. I would love to see more of dragging, zooming, previewing, flow, animations. Its a music and video library after all.
http://www.barbariangroup.com/portfolio/magnetosphere
Magnetosphere matches the description & was taken down over a year ago. Many consider it the best third party visualizer. The small team who created it have mentioned that there is big news on the horizon for the iTunes visualizer. Hopefully this thing sees this light of day again via Apple!
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i doubt it...this is apple we are talking about, now if it was microsoft-then having you CEO retire just when the company is doing the best its ever done would make sense lol...
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i asked this b4, noone answered...how does it usually take b4 new items are available for purchase after they are annouced? ANYONE KNOW?
Pandora-like genius playlist would be awesome. But how will they do it? Pandora (music genome project) analyzed multiple variables of the songs to look for similarities. They have a fairly small set of music which has been analyzed.
iTunes would have to find a way to analyze a nearly infinite number of songs from everyone's libraries, and on the fly. Will it just be a BPM matchup, genre, or something else?
Anyone got any technical insight on how this might work?
iTunes would have to find a way to analyze a nearly infinite number of songs from everyone's libraries, and on the fly. Will it just be a BPM matchup, genre, or something else?
Anyone got any technical insight on how this might work?
haven't had a chance to read through all the comments so appols if this has already been theorised but if they do subscription itunes I reckon you'll get a free ipod depending how long you sign up for. (not much different to signing an iphone contract except apple keep all the cash)
Hear Hear I second this opinion, might just be my computer but my internet and multi tasking is mighty slow when itunes is open
I bet they already have much of this algorithm incorporated through the gapless check that is done when you add new files.