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]