iTunes 9 is here (almost) and she sure does look pretty. Now you can pick up LPs from the store that includes lyrics, notes, videos, photos, and more. Plus, the store has been cleaned up in a Snow Leopard fashion along with a bunch of other small features including sharing what albums you’re interested in on Facebook. (Kevin Rose got his wish)
Now you can peruse the store in a full screen mode and simply roll over a song to activate Quick View that lets you purchase without leaving the page. This works with songs, albums, music videos, movies, and TV episodes. Plus, iTunes Extras bring all the features you get on a DVD to the iTunes store; everyone loves director commentary. The new Home sharing tool allows users to easily share and copy their media over five select computers. So if you Pop is a deadhead, you can easily try out his Grateful Dead tracks and copy them over to your machine if you dig it.
But it’s the app management that we are so excited about. We’ll hold off to pass judgement until we try it out, but my goodness, it seems to be exactly what we have wanted: drag, drop and sync. Awesome.
So the rumors of Blu-ray playback were untrue? I figured as much… :-(
Why is is that “Blu-ray Disc” is included in the copyright/licensing information?
Is there also a rumor about an Project Natal OS ? ;-)
apple FAIL!
the onlt innovation is in the price tag!
iTunes 9.0 is good. The new features are wanted ones these days. But I doubt will this be greater than Spotify and other music store apps. Apple’s iTunes still have bugs in it. A lighter, clutter-free version may do the trick.
Why Buy anything from Apple until they support HD in some form???
Geeeeze what Gives Apple???
That’s it?? pfff I expected more. Alot more. Nanos w/ camcorders, lower prices, etc. I’ll keep what I’ve got for now.
iTunes extras is cool. iTunes LP is less than what I expected.
I bet the music is still lossy.
I tried to update my iPhone using itunes 8 and it bricked my iPhone. Apples servers are too overloaded to D/L iTunes9 and I’ve got to go to work soon.
Apple is failing left and right these days…
I wonder if they’ve added the ability to refresh the iTunes library yet.
iTunes 9 also brought some sweet love to Windows 7.
Details at: http://tech.gtaero.net/2009/09/overlooked-itunes9-windows-7-make-sweet-love.html
(sorry about the shameless self-promotion)
I wonder if they worked on the speed… iTunes is damn slow…
and the Palm pre syncing is gone again! :(
Looks pretty awesome! :)