iTunes 9.1 to Bring eBook Support, Genius Mix Enhancements, Automatic Bitrate Conversion?

[ungraphic]

Great, more bloat.

Could apple release a simple MP3 only application? I dont see why it needs to suck up ram and CPU. VOX is great and id ditch itunes for good but it doesnt have a library.

 

[Yelmurc]

You can. They won't transfer to your iPad (yet) but you may certainly drop PDFs into iTunes and, if you have it configured accordingly, they will be copied into the iTunes library where you may then add relevant information like "Artist" (author?), etc.

I know you add them but it places them in the music section, I want a section that's just called documents or something and I can keep them organized by author subject etc....

 

[Teh Don Ditty]

Dear Apple,

Please let me, the user, decide how I want my audio files on my iPod.

Thanks,

TDD

 

[Eric2]

Love the bitrate conversion idea, hope that is true... and also controllable. on/off, set bitrate...asking too much?

+1

Most of my files are lossless AIFF but would love to be able to convert these to 256 rather than 128 files to my iPhone.

 

[Epicurus]

I just hope this means there will be folder/playlist organization for the eBooks. Looking at the iBooks app, there didn't seem to be anything other than the main bookcase view.

 

[Stratuscom]

iBooks for iPhone?

Does this mean iBooks for the iPhone?

 

[bdkennedy1]

FINALLY! I asked them for down-converting to 128kpbs 6 years ago.

My entire collection is in Lossless but I don't need lossless on my iPhone.

 

[ranReloaded]

Off topic, but hey guys 10.6.3 is out (I'm rebooting now. In case I don't make it... )

 

[pdjudd]

Does this mean iBooks for the iPhone?

No.

 

[Galley]

Wow, I never thought we would see the option of automatic transcoding for all devices. Now my 32GB iPhone will be able to hold more than a few dozen lossless albums. I only wish we could choose a higher bitrate, like 192Kbps.

 

[emulator]

Lossy conversion to lossy conversion..that sounds hideous.

Awesome, isn't it? Almost as neat as calling the boombox is a Hi-Fi equipment.

 

[str1f3]

Dear Apple,

Please let me, the user, decide how I want my audio files on my iPod.

Thanks,

TDD

Don't you dare ask for choice. You have no right asking for that!

 

[3NV7]

But will they fix the "determining gapless playback" bug?

 

[timsutcliffe]

AirTunes for Video

I would also like to see have the ability to play my movies and TV shows using the speakers I have connected to my Airport Express. I use it all the time for my music.

Anyone any ideas why this isn't possible at the moment? It seems like such a simple thing to add.

 

[ChromeAce]

I have been ripping all CD purchases in Apple Lossless since 2003 as well as my entire collection before that. I now have over 50,000 Apple Lossless tracks. But for the iPhone, iPods, and AppleTV, I need smaller versions, so I also create AAC 256k versions of every Apple Lossless song in my library, using Smart Playlists and notations in the Notes ID3 tag of each song to keep things in order. The downside is that my library is twice as large as it needs to be and every time I edit track tags I am doing double-entry.

My library is so large that Genius won't work... it stalls before all the info gets transferred back from Apple at initialization. Also, I get severe beachball delays during iTunes editing and navigation, since iTunes writes the ENTIRE database file to disk for every change.

I welcome switching to on-the-fly encoding while syncing, even if it slows down the syncs.

Now if iTunes could jump to 64-bit multiple-core processing, I'd be even happier.

 

[Scarpad]

Finally. I just got a new Mini, Lossless library here I come. Although we'll have to wait and see I just don't want it to convert to 128 I want to be able to choose the bitrate, so I might still be dissapointed.

 

[Scarpad]

How about extending the great Crossfade feature to more players than just the Nano.

 

[balamw]

Anyone any ideas why this isn't possible at the moment? It seems like such a simple thing to add.

You end up with the old Kung Fu movie thing. Video and audio out of sync by the delay of getting the data out to the remote speakers.

B

 

[dernhelm]

I wonder if this means that they will support the iBookstore on the iPod Touch and iPhones as well?

 

[BornAgainMac]

iTunes 10 will be a complete rewrite?

 

[Plasmastrike]

Automatic Bitrate Conversation? This is right up my alley and solves a situation I've been having.

**** yeah.

 

[Foxer]

I've been calling for bitrate conversion since it was intro'd with the Shuffle in 2005. I've got a 500GB lossless library that I want to be able to downshift to AAC for my iPod, and I don't want to screw around with multiple copies or dupe libraries. That day is (I hope) finally coming. If only I could choose what level of AAC...

 

[JAT]

Really? It was my understanding that any of the iPod or iPhone OS devices really weren't capable of decoding and outputting the audio to a high enough quality to warrant storing at high bit-rate/quality. Therefore, aren't you just wasting space on your device by insisting on using high quality on these devices?

It's pretty easy to tell the difference between some bitrates, even on a portable device. I wouldn't want to drop to 128 bit, I don't go below 256aac right now. We'll see what this really brings.

 

[sfwalter]

iTunes 10 will be a complete rewrite?

I sure hope so!

 

[LoganT]

For anyone who uses Apple Lossless and regular AAC on their iPod. Consider making a new library instead of a playlist. When you open iTunes hold the option key and click "Create New Library". You'll have to open and close iTunes and hold down option to switch back to your other library. But that might be easier than what people are doing now.