Hands on: iTunes 9 refinements cool, but hard to find - Ars Technica
Ok, so rabid Apple fan-man(a weak sauce way of weaseling out of being called a fanboy) I may be but usually I know longer put much weight on iTunes revisions. Half the time they are nothing more than instructions for working with the newest jeweled iPhone and the other half of the time I really just am not sure what they do. iTunes does not join in these lackluster additions to Apples management software. I highly recommend the Ars article but for those of you lazy (like myself) here is an oober recap of why you should love iTunes.
New Library Structure
Now things are finally in their proper place for a media library (no longer just music). Your iPhone apps will be in the right place, all the extras from your movies will be with their parent file (more on extras later) etc etc. Make sure you read the ars article as it tells you how to enable this on old library files (like what 99% of you already have from past versions of iTunes).
Theres a watch folder
That does the same thing as you going to File->import to library..... um, woot? (Just thought I'd include it as all the tech blogs are spastically happy over it, guess it would be good for shameless torrent pirates =P.
Home Sharing
I think this pic says it all, i have a imac and air, this rocks =). Just so you know this works with all mp3's and other none iTunes purchases you already have (don't know why not a single other article mentions that). Does this sync star ratings? I don't know and am too lazy at present to find out.
Extras
Finally we get all the deleted scenes I have given up for the instant gratification of movie time. Oh true, now there are LP albums too.... (woot woot, 1. record labels, do you honestly think we care about what a MUSIC artist, likely on drugs at the time, squiggles on there cover? 2. Do you honestly think this means iTunes will bend you over any less?). I don't know if this is news or not either but I noticed that now all movies, not just hd come with digital 5.1 which dvd has had for ever but... progress is progress and movie studios, take bending over lessons from the music folks now because this is right where iTunes was with them 4 years ago.
iPhone Syncing
Um, now you can organize your 150 apps over 9 screens on the comp instead of in the easy multitouch interface of the iphone itself.... at which point you will promptly forget just where you put your various and assundried fart and baby shaker apps. Just repeat to yourself you have OS 3.0 with finder and you really should relax...
So thats it, iTunes 9 pretty, mostly dead steve jobs hates me and won't give me an iPod with camera and sigh..... he still makes the best kit out there.... now to play some wii sports resort... (hey, its a white, pretty box too, i got confused)
Ok, so rabid Apple fan-man(a weak sauce way of weaseling out of being called a fanboy) I may be but usually I know longer put much weight on iTunes revisions. Half the time they are nothing more than instructions for working with the newest jeweled iPhone and the other half of the time I really just am not sure what they do. iTunes does not join in these lackluster additions to Apples management software. I highly recommend the Ars article but for those of you lazy (like myself) here is an oober recap of why you should love iTunes.
New Library Structure
Now things are finally in their proper place for a media library (no longer just music). Your iPhone apps will be in the right place, all the extras from your movies will be with their parent file (more on extras later) etc etc. Make sure you read the ars article as it tells you how to enable this on old library files (like what 99% of you already have from past versions of iTunes).
Theres a watch folder
That does the same thing as you going to File->import to library..... um, woot? (Just thought I'd include it as all the tech blogs are spastically happy over it, guess it would be good for shameless torrent pirates =P.
Home Sharing
I think this pic says it all, i have a imac and air, this rocks =). Just so you know this works with all mp3's and other none iTunes purchases you already have (don't know why not a single other article mentions that). Does this sync star ratings? I don't know and am too lazy at present to find out.
Extras
Finally we get all the deleted scenes I have given up for the instant gratification of movie time. Oh true, now there are LP albums too.... (woot woot, 1. record labels, do you honestly think we care about what a MUSIC artist, likely on drugs at the time, squiggles on there cover? 2. Do you honestly think this means iTunes will bend you over any less?). I don't know if this is news or not either but I noticed that now all movies, not just hd come with digital 5.1 which dvd has had for ever but... progress is progress and movie studios, take bending over lessons from the music folks now because this is right where iTunes was with them 4 years ago.
iPhone Syncing
Um, now you can organize your 150 apps over 9 screens on the comp instead of in the easy multitouch interface of the iphone itself.... at which point you will promptly forget just where you put your various and assundried fart and baby shaker apps. Just repeat to yourself you have OS 3.0 with finder and you really should relax...
So thats it, iTunes 9 pretty, mostly dead steve jobs hates me and won't give me an iPod with camera and sigh..... he still makes the best kit out there.... now to play some wii sports resort... (hey, its a white, pretty box too, i got confused)
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