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Tabbed iChat With iTunes?

gopher said:
iTunes integration with iChat? Right now you can't even turn on audio chat in iChat without iTunes music being muted. They don't want the other person to be listening to your music. Surely Apple can't have had a change of heart in the matter. They disabled iTunes 4.0 's internet sharing that worked with anyone who had a static IP and only let it work via intranets on the same subnet with later versions of iTunes. Is Apple going to now open iTunes to broadcasting again over the internet? I'll believe it when I see it.
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You can play iTunes while in iChat, doing it right now. The bit about the song being displayed is just your status message, I have 3 people in my buddies list who are currently using some other application to do this, personally I think it is neat.
 
supercres said:
-- PROFILES!
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Profiles are now included in Tiger. In fact, it's really easy to change your profile now. You just select it under Format (I think), and then a menu option (ie, Change My Profile). A window pops up, you enter the text, and close the window. That's it! I think it's almost too easy, because you don't get any comfirmation that you're changing anything important.
–Chase
 
Yeah I use Adium instead of iChat also. It would be interesting to see what other features iChat takes from Adium in the new release.
 
gopher said:
iTunes integration with iChat? Right now you can't even turn on audio chat in iChat without iTunes music being muted. They don't want the other person to be listening to your music. Surely Apple can't have had a change of heart in the matter. They disabled iTunes 4.0 's internet sharing that worked with anyone who had a static IP and only let it work via intranets on the same subnet with later versions of iTunes. Is Apple going to now open iTunes to broadcasting again over the internet? I'll believe it when I see it.
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It's musted as a feature...who wants to be talking while music is blaring? Once it mustes you can simply hit the play button and it will turn back on and the person you are talking to can hear the music.
 
It's nice to see Tiger advancing but it's another example of Apple simply copying something to put into the OS that is currently already offered by third party apps/plug-ins, just like Dashboard and some other things. Ok, so spotlight is big, but I'm currently not seeing my $129/£99 worth.
 
I already use the "Now playing in iChat"-script to display my current music track as my iChat status...

but iLike (mawharharhar...) how iChat matures... now give me ICQ support and it's perfect

vSpacken
 
I like iChat. These improvements sound great. I just wish I had more people that I could iChat with for my business. Most of my customers are still phone users.
 
Tabbed windows, nice. iChatStatus built in, okay. Where's the buddy groups (in the format all the other IM clients use) in the buddy list window?
 
If you look at the link to Appleinsider does that picture look like so-called "platinum"?? it doesn't look like anything normal.
 
FaasNat said:
Tabbed windows, nice. iChatStatus built in, okay. Where's the buddy groups (in the format all the other IM clients use) in the buddy list window?
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Go to View: Show Groups. Unless you already know about that and I'm missing your point.

BTW, does anyone know how to get rid of the groups pull-down menu in the main buddy list after showing groups?
–Chase
 
glad to see justin is doing some good things over there, i knew he would. hopefully the tabs will be on the side of the window, rather then the bottom like in adium.

long time proteus users will know what i mean
 
gopher said:
iTunes integration with iChat? Right now you can't even turn on audio chat in iChat without iTunes music being muted. They don't want the other person to be listening to your music. Surely Apple can't have had a change of heart in the matter. They disabled iTunes 4.0 's internet sharing that worked with anyone who had a static IP and only let it work via intranets on the same subnet with later versions of iTunes. Is Apple going to now open iTunes to broadcasting again over the internet? I'll believe it when I see it.
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You're taking this all wrong. Your audio won't be broadcasted to your buddies, they'll just be able to see what song you're playing... you know, written in text.
 
Stella said:
The tabbed chat functionality sounds good.. but really, iTunes integration to display what song you are playing? Is this really necessary, it sounds like extra bloat to me.

Do your ichat 'buddies' really care what music your listening to at the present time?

I'd rather see good ICQ support and other messaging protocols being implemented. Jabber is supposed to be rumoured to be supported 🙂
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ICQ is already supported. Simply add the ICQ # as an AIM Screen name.
 
I have not not gotten my hands through some method on my hands on a Tiger beta and I can report that Profiles are definately added. The tabbing sounds great, gimme. I really want that. That was on my want list for iChat. They also made it easier to manage groups. THe only thing left is making it easier to add buddies and to choose which snreen name you want to IM if someone has say 4 screen names and are signed on to 2 at once (yes this does happen to me semi-regularly).
 
macridah said:
Sounds like cool new features in iChat for Tiger. Can you group your buddy contacts in iChat?
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Yes. In the current version you can and the next one makes it a lot easier.
 
nice, but I'd like to see compatability with other services

I haven't looked at iChat for a long time, so maybe they've implemented this, but I'd like to see iChat support for Yahoo Messenger.

I like the idea of iChat, but some of my friends still use Yahoo messenger, so I'm still using Fire.

Is Adium that much better than Fire?
 
ZildjianKX said:
Now to just add animated icons and user profiles...
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I agree. That would make the app much more complete when compared with AIM. Lack of profiles is frustrating for switchers. And I'd like to see the integration of something like iChat Streaming Icon into iChat, since that would make the iSight useful even if the other person you're chatting with doesn't have one.
 
I am very excited about these features. I already use iChat Status to show what track I'm listening to. I'd like to see this as an official feature, because in my experience, Apple does things better.

Tabbed chat windows are very cool also, especially if you're using a 12" Powerbook like me, and desktop real estate is at a premium. Expose was brilliant for this reason, and made Panther well worth the $70 (student discount).

It would be nice to see Yahoo and maybe MSN support as well. I have to use Fire right now because while 80% of my buddies use AIM, there are still a few people using MSN, and a couple using Yahoo because their firewalls block AIM (the Army is weird like that). However I doubt that we'll see MSN support because, well, that would mean working a contract with M$.
 
zaphoyd said:
ICQ is already supported. Simply add the ICQ # as an AIM Screen name.
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The problem is however, if the other user you are talking with hasn't got a new ICQ all your messages will appear as HTML to them.

iChat needs *better* icq support.
 
Private Public said:
you've got one, the sidebar "tabs" certain folders you use.

also cammand-t is too add to the sidebar and also creates a new tab in safari... coincidence?
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As somebody else who wants a tabbed Finder, I can tell you that the sidebar can do some of the things a tabbed Finder would do, but not all of them. And while we're at it, I'd also like multiple sidebar sets for different purposes.
 
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