iTunes 8, Playlist Recommendations, Visualizations

[Roessnakhan]

Buying/licensing the Music Genome Project would be a "genius" move!

I would love that.

 

[mrgreen4242]

Predictions:

1. Minor touch upgrades. Hoping for a BT module, personally, but basically they'll add some subset of the iPhone 3G features to the touch (and, no, not th 3G part for all the silly people who keep saying they should/would/could do that)
2. New nano in the announced form factor. 3:2 screen (or actually 2:3) to start a move towards all iPods having the same screen ratio. Accellerometer to detect orientation, and to add some of the featrures from the iPhone/topuch lines. Maybe some of the software from the App store could be available on the nano...
3. AppleTV and iPod touch to mate and have crazy bastard love child. Think giant touch/mini tablet, 7" screen with Front Row and a docking station that lives under your TV. Works with Apple remote when in the dock. 40gb HDD, all the touch features.
4. iTunes 8 with crazy visualizers, new smart playlist, and all you can eat rental plans. Movie/TV rental plan, too, that competes with Netflix. Maybe new ad supported, free to download TV shows... think Hulu.com amount of ads, flagged as unskippable chapters.
5. Classic is dropped with the addition of 64gb nanos.
6. Apple FM tuner/remote dohicky FINALLY compatible with touch/iPhone.

 

[dicklacara]

New visualizers!!! I hope Apple can eke out a few more FPS out of the standard visualizer for us with older hardware.

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.

Mmmm.... I wonder how well it will handle music played in a style different from the norm, for example:

Happy Days Are Here Again-- Sreisand, Guy Lombardo

Handyman-- Jimmy Jones, James Taylor

[Oh] Didn't He Ramble-- Jelly Roll Morton, Peggy Lee

Mamie's Blues-- Art Hodes, Butch Thompson, Dave Van Ronk

Dawes Melody/All In The Game-- Ray Sherman, Tommy Edwards, David Cedeño, Tommy Edwards

Clementine-- Rider In The Sky, Bobby Darrin

Many Opera's (Carmen Jones) and classical compositions with

--Everything by Louie Prima

 

[maestrocasa]

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)

ooooo...

Hadn't thought of that. How long and how much would you subscribe for to get a free iPod Touch?

2 years at $20/month?... 4 years? by then the iPod is ancient
2 years at 30 or 40/month? that's just a couple cd's/month...

I'd be looking in the couch cushions for enough $$ to sign up if that happened!

 

[Carl Spackler]

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.

it was a joke, like, totally and who said it was a tech writer, even so, he may be a contributing columnist for the Ringo Starr Daily Telegraph and World Report.

 

[circusbass]

I sure wish that iTunes 8 would allow for the managing of multiple libraries. At this point there are many people with more than 1 iPod in their home and this would be an easy way for these libraries to sync for their respective iPods. This would allow for multiple iPods to sync instead of manually managing their music.

 

[donbadman]

ooooo...

Hadn't thought of that. How long and how much would you subscribe for to get a free iPod Touch?

2 years at $20/month?... 4 years? by then the iPod is ancient
2 years at 30 or 40/month? that's just a couple cd's/month...

I'd be looking in the couch cushions for enough $$ to sign up if that happened!

Not sure but
1-3 months - free shuffle
3-6 months - free nano
6-12 months - free touch

 

[zeppiecr]

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.

I wouldn't rule this out. I'm not trying to put fuel to the fire here but eventually aapl will have to announce some sort of plan.

 

[maestrocasa]

I sure wish that iTunes 8 would allow for the managing of multiple libraries. At this point there are many people with more than 1 iPod in their home and this would be an easy way for these libraries to sync for their respective iPods. This would allow for multiple iPods to sync instead of manually managing their music.

Multiple libraries, and easy support for externally stored libraries. My iTunes collection is a hog on my 160GB harddrive. It would be great to store those files on an external drive and iTunes auto-syncs it when in range (or when plugged in). Maybe my laptop could be more like an iPod: Manually updated and synced with an external media library.

that would be sweet!

 

[HeyUStFU]

Playlists Like this APP does

An iTunes update, that possibly does what this APP does for free- http://www.potionfactory.com/tangerine/ Tangerine charge 25 bucks for this.....

 

[Snowcat001]

I smell a "one-more thing"

Please let it be macbook pro's!!!

 

[Roessnakhan]

An iTunes update, that possibly does what this APP does for free- http://www.potionfactory.com/tangerine/ Tangerine charge 25 bucks for this.....

Tangerine is fancy, but its really inaccurate.

 

[whooleytoo]

What I'd love to see - DRM free music.

What I'm afraid it'll be - subscription based service. (unless it was along the lines of eMusic).

 

[citi]

Multiple libraries, and easy support for externally stored libraries. My iTunes collection is a hog on my 160GB harddrive. It would be great to store those files on an external drive and iTunes auto-syncs it when in range (or when plugged in). Maybe my laptop could be more like an iPod: Manually updated and synced with an external media library.

that would be sweet!

You can already do this on the mac. I have a local itunes, and itunes stored on my NAS for the family and one on an external fw drive. Just hold the option button while you click itunes. Also if you just want files spread out across multiple drives, turn off auto import and it will remember where it was last played. From what I can see thought, it's only macs that are able to do mutliple libraries. It doesn't work for PC, at least I could never find the option when I used them.

 

[robbieduncan]

What I'd love to see - DRM free music.

The iTunes store already sells DRM free music. It's up to each label to say yes and so far only 1 major one has. This is nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with the record labels...

 

[bananas]

The big deal besides a new nano and a touch, is that iTunes 8's music will be DRM free! That's what Rocks

I wish you were right. That would ROCK

 

[maestrocasa]

You can already do this on the mac. I have a local itunes, and itunes stored on my NAS for the family and one on an external fw drive. Just hold the option button while you click itunes. Also if you just want files spread out across multiple drives, turn off auto import and it will remember where it was last played. From what I can see thought, it's only macs that are able to do mutliple libraries. It doesn't work for PC, at least I could never find the option when I used them.

cool I'll try it. Is there a support document somewhere on how best to go about this? Can I just drag-and-drop my iTunes library onto a hard drive, or is there more?

 

[WBrasington]

I wouldn't rule this out.

Ok, I'll do it for you.
I'm ruling this out.

 

[anti-microsoft]

Classic is dropped with the addition of 64gb nanos.
Apple FM tuner/remote dohicky FINALLY compatible with touch/iPhone.

1. I think that the Classic will only be available in 160GB and priced at $249
2. Although I agree with you that FM Tuner/Remote compatibility will be available for the iPhone/iPod touch, I think apple are leaving FM Radio behind and would like everyone to move onto Podcasts.
3. I also think apple should add a "Podcast update/download" feature to the Wi-Fi equipped models. It would be amazing! Whenever a new Podcast is available, "PING!" it would pop up in the iTunes Wi-Fi music store and you could download it, just like updates from the App Store!
4. iPod Hi-Fi II would be awesome!

 

[stompy]

and according to Cult of Mac, Apple has uncharacteristically told at least one journalist that the event is "a big deal and [he] should try to be there".

As opposed to telling him, "eh, you don't need to cover our event. No biggie."

As opposed to sending an invite and leaving it at that. Notice the word uncharacteristically?
Now, whether this event lives up to everyone's expectations is another question entirely.

 

[digitalbiker]

I wouldn't rule this out. I'm not trying to put fuel to the fire here but eventually aapl will have to announce some sort of plan.

But if this were true. I doubt that Apple would belittle the announcement by sending out invites entitled "Let's Rock" with a dancing itunes guy on the cover.

If Steve were to step down, most likely it would be announced through a Wall Street Journal interview or at an annual board meeting.

You need to consider the context of the meeting when considering what might happen on the 9th.

 

[twoodcc]

well all this seems nice. not huge, but still looking forward to them. can't wait til next tuesday

 

[IT-Pro]

Kevin Rose once again has come forward with some new information regarding iTunes 8.

He says following on his weblog:

A new source comes forward w/this info: (this is consistent w/everything I've heard)

iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together. Genius also includes Genius sidebar, which recommends music from the iTunes Store that you don't already have.

With iTunes 8, browse your artists and albums visually with the new Grid view; download your favorite TV shows in HD quality from the iTunes Store; sync your media with iPod nano (4th generation), iPod classic (2nd generation), and iPod touch (2nd generation); and enjoy a stunning new music visualizer.

It seems to me they've completely redesigned the interface of iTunes, because of that 'Genius sidebar', which would not fit into the current design in my opinion.

 

[zedsdead]

Kevin Rose once again has come forward with some new information regarding iTunes 8.

He says following on his weblog:



It seems to me they've completely redesigned the interface of iTunes, because of that 'Genius sidebar', which would not fit into the current design in my opinion.

TV Shows in HD. That would be awesome!

 

[zeppiecr]

But if this were true. I doubt that Apple would belittle the announcement by sending out invites entitled "Let's Rock" with a dancing itunes guy on the cover.

If Steve were to step down, most likely it would be announced through a Wall Street Journal interview or at an annual board meeting.

You need to consider the context of the meeting when considering what might happen on the 9th.

I view your comments as completely fair, thank you. I believe that you're right it wouldn't be announced at a "lets rock" event.