iTunes 8 and a new iPhone update
Today Apple released iTunes 8. Here are the new features:
- Genius: A sidebar that will suggest music from the iTunes store that is similar to what you are currently listening to and will also automagically create playlists for you.
- HD TV shows.
- A new way to view your music called grid view that displays the cover art of the albums. (I don’t know about this I have problems with cover art in my library since I don’t buy all my music from iTunes.
- A new visualizer.
I just hope they fixed all the bugs in iTunes 7. Probably 90% of the time I load up iTunes it loads up in all black and I have to minimize it then maximize it to correct the problem. NBC programs are also available again via iTunes store.
You can download iTunes 8 here
Apple also changed the iPod Nano’s design from the fat squat version back to the skinnier version (which I like better) and it now comes in 9 colors according to the graphic on Apple’s website.
There will also be a new iPhone update on Friday that will supposedly fix drop calls, improve battery life, and make it easier to backup your data to iTunes.
[photo via flickr]
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September 10th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Quick question Marcus, what do you think of it? Thanks
September 10th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
So far, I really like iTunes 8. The Genius feature is pretty awesome and it makes some very accurate playlists. My only complaint is that with the addition of Genius iTunes now makes this DJ record scratch sound whenever you switch from one album to the next in your iTunes library. I looked in preferences for a way to turn it off, but I haven’t found it yet. I would definitely upgrade to iTunes 8 if you haven’t already.
September 13th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Devteam released a jailbreak earlier today.
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/post/49988701/pwnagetool-and-quickpwn-for-2-1-firmware