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iTunes 8?

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mvaj92

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Sep 10, 2007
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When do you think we will see this? What features will it have? Or, do you think they will update iTunes 7 again before we see 8?

I think we may see-

-Wireless Syncing? (only iPod touch and iPhone at the moment, or maybe an adapter for other iPods).
-Edit: Seems that Subscription Music wont happen.
-Perhaps a better integration with the Internet Radio? (Maybe combine it with the "just for you" service in the music store, and recommend songs based on what you listen to).

Other People's Thoughts/Wants:
-Better Interface
-Performance Upgrade
-Coverflow Improvements

Post your Thoughts, No flaming or spamming please.
 
mvaj92 said:
When do you think we will see this? What features will it have? Or, do you think they will update iTunes 7 again before we see 8?
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Not for a while. 7.6 just came out. =\

mvaj92 said:
Wireless Syncing? (only iPod touch and iPhone at the moment, or maybe an adapter for other iPods).
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That'd be sweet.

mvaj92 said:
-Subscription Music?.
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Never going to happen. When the iTunes Store was first launched, it was launched on the basis of anti-subscription.

mvaj92 said:
-Perhaps a better integration with the Internet Radio? (Maybe combine it with the "just for you" service in the music store, and recommend songs based on what you listen to).
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Not sure what they'd do there, but agreed the Internet Radio needs work in so many ways.
 
ChexBoss32890 said:
Never going to happen. When the iTunes Store was first launched, it was launched on the basis of anti-subscription.
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hmmm, i didnt know that. Any other opinions? Do you think that an update to itunes 7 will be in order, or will they go straight to 8?
 
I think that we will have iTunes 7.x for a bit longer. It will need to have some major change to go to iTunes 8 and I don't see anything major happening soon.
 
mrkramer said:
I think that we will have iTunes 7.x for a bit longer. It will need to have some major change to go to iTunes 8 and I don't see anything major happening soon.
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I believe that wireless synching with touch/iPhone and all future models might warrant this. (although it may never happen)
 
Huge Performance increases would be nice.

Also some dumb stuff they left out, like why does Cover Flow fullscreen on dual displays shows on the one display, and turns the other black.

Also, it'd be nice in Cover Flow if where like the version on the iPhone, when it was fullscreen, if you could just click the album cover and get a listing of the songs, instead of having to exit fullscreen, skip to the song, then re-enter full screen.

Or like in Windows, when you enable the iTunes taskbar thing (Little tiny set of controls instead of the iTunes thing on the bar), it positions it not at the end of the taskbar, but closer to the middle? o_O
 
just a thought... How about skins, or even different colors for itunes? Small-ish update, but would be nice nonetheless
 
ReanimationLP said:
Huge Performance increases would be nice.

Also some dumb stuff they left out, like why does Cover Flow fullscreen on dual displays shows on the one display, and turns the other black.

Also, it'd be nice in Cover Flow if where like the version on the iPhone, when it was fullscreen, if you could just click the album cover and get a listing of the songs, instead of having to exit fullscreen, skip to the song, then re-enter full screen.
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I hear you and raise you one: I want it to display Cover Flow on one monitor while I still use the desktop on the other. Add iPhone Cover Flow album listings and I will be a very happy camper.
 
Keep iTunes 7 around a little longer! iTunes 8 will probably spell the end of support for 10.3.9 and I can't handle that right now!

Panther is my favorite OS X, mostly because I've used it the most of all. Not being able to stream music to old and new units alike would ruin my flow of things with iBook G3s and TiBooks around.
 
A deeper sort function would be nice - like in Excel - so you can specify, say,

Sort 1: Genre
Sort 2: Artist
Sort 3: Rating

or

Sort 1: Artist
Sort 2: Album Year

...then again, if it automatically sorted albums by album year instead of alphabetically when you sort by artist, I wouldn't complain...
 
rasthedoctor said:
A deeper sort function would be nice - like in Excel - so you can specify, say,

Sort 1: Genre
Sort 2: Artist
Sort 3: Rating

or

Sort 1: Artist
Sort 2: Album Year

...then again, if it automatically sorted albums by album year instead of alphabetically when you sort by artist, I wouldn't complain...
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I believe you can already do this with smart play lists, correct me if I'm wrong.
 
mvaj92 said:
When do you think we will see this? What features will it have? Or, do you think they will update iTunes 7 again before we see 8?
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We'll see it with OS X 10.6, only because we will be out of single-digit .x extensions for 7.
 
netdog said:
We'll see it with OS X 10.6, only because we will be out of single-digit .x extensions for 7.
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That doesn't appear to be how apple is going, they already have OS X Panther at 10.4.11 or something like that. (it may be .10, I am not entirely sure)
 
mvaj92 said:
When do you think we will see this? What features will it have? Or, do you think they will update iTunes 7 again before we see 8?

I think we may see-

-Wireless Syncing? (only iPod touch and iPhone at the moment, or maybe an adapter for other iPods).
-Subscription Music?
-Perhaps a better integration with the Internet Radio? (Maybe combine it with the "just for you" service in the music store, and recommend songs based on what you listen to).

Post your Thoughts, No flaming or spamming please.
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Wireless syncing is a useless nonfeature if you think about it. The Zune has it, but you actually need to have it plugged in to something for it to work, and even then there are limitations (I think it doesn't sync movies or something). It takes up a lot of power and drains the battery quickly.

Subscription music might be kinda cool, but Jobs always says it goes against human nature, and that's pretty true. I know I would never pay for such a thing.

The radio would be great. I love internet radio, but it's really hard to find a station you like, and it's somewhat unreliable. Maybe they'll do something like Pandora or integrate with Pandora and the Just for You section. And then you can buy the songs with just a click if you want. That would be awesome.

I'd also really like a performance update, and for them to get rid of some of that carbon-like application behavior with all the application-modal loading boxes and stuff. Performance could also use a fix. Skins will never ever happen, so forget about it. Apple couldn't be more anti-skin than they are, and so we have ShapeShifter (which is pretty great you have to admit).
 
maxrobertson said:
Wireless syncing is a useless nonfeature if you think about it. The Zune has it, but you actually need to have it plugged in to something for it to work, and even then there are limitations (I think it doesn't sync movies or something). It takes up a lot of power and drains the battery quickly.

I'd also really like a performance update, and for them to get rid of some of that carbon-like application behavior with all the application-modal loading boxes and stuff. Performance could also use a fix. Skins will never ever happen, so forget about it. Apple couldn't be more anti-skin than they are, and so we have ShapeShifter (which is pretty great you have to admit).
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Wireless syncing wouldnt be useless... for instance, my ipod radio dock charges at a faster rate than when its connected to my computer. If wireless syncing was implemented, than i could just update my library from my computer, and go in my room and set my ipod to sync, without disrupting the ipod charging.

I've never heard of ShapeShifter... is it mac only? Edit: never mind, just read up on it.
 
I personally love the interface of iTunes 7. I'm hoping they keep the interface and just add features!
 
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