iTunes 4.8 in the wild

Fire up your Software Update, people! Everyone's favorite jukebox software, iTunes has just been updated. to iTunes 4.8 with very little detail coming from Apple. According to Macminute, 'Tunes 4.8 includes new Music Store features and support for transferring contacts and calendars from your computer to your iPod (requires Mac OS X version 10.4 on your computer).'

Nothing to get too excited about, however, this release does excite me because it gets us tantalizingly close to iTunes 5.0. What wonders await us in the brave new world of iTunes 5.0? I have no idea, but I know what I would like to see:

Support for Ogg files (just because it is geekily cool)
Support for having lyrics associated with tracks
Built in support for making iTunes related RSS feeds (you could roll your own 'Recent Purchases' feed and upload it to a server. Sweet.)

What would you like to see in iTunes 5.0?

Update: Well, it looks like there is something to get a little excited about. A few people in the comments pointed this out to me, but Brian did it first. He is what he said, 'Scott, you saw that you can also maintain and watch movie files in this new version of iTunes? And you can check in the System Preferences under Advanced to decide how you want them to be watched.'

Who is ready for the iTunes Video Store? Or would it be the iTunes Multimedia Store?

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Source: http://www.macminute.com/2005/05/09/itunes/

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Willful Expose'

I agree with Daniel. For now, I use "genre" as label.

May 10 2005 at 10:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

motor city rollie

Just read that the videos available on the new iTunes store are set at a pixel ratio of 480x272 pixels. This the same pixel ratio of the PSP. Any reports of someone porting a video over? .mCr.

May 10 2005 at 10:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bryan

Adam - Read my previous post no.18 :)

May 10 2005 at 1:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jared Hanson

I'm the developer of iFlicks, a Mac OS X application whose sole purpose is to organize and play back movies. As such, I find this development intriguing. I've set up a blog on which to discuss news and information that relates to iFlicks: http://www.helixent.com/iflicks/weblog/

May 10 2005 at 1:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

camron flanders

first off, travis you mentioned auto updating playlists...you know about smart playlists right? or maybe i don't understand what you mean, and the guy who mentioned the music video and trailers they have been there for the past several revisions of the iTMS. anyway, bring on the iTMS (iTunes Media Store)!

May 10 2005 at 12:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

herschel C

achk, a third. but i thought.. i'd love to see a way for me to download a song off the UK store. or IE, or Canada.. or something... why do you need to compartmentalize our nations? Some of the best music right now is coming out of the UK.

May 09 2005 at 11:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

herschel C

sorry to double post but... if you're still on 10.3, you can get 4.8 on your computer if you manually download it from the apple site. software update won't pick it up. but it's getting harder and harder to resist upgrading to tiger.

May 09 2005 at 11:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

herschel C

No one's going to read this, but I've wanted this feature for a while: Smart Shuffle. We have smart playlists, and shuffle modes, why not combine the two. You can set parameters, and let it do it's thing... I don't know. Just a thought.

May 09 2005 at 11:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adam

My software updater isn't seeing this update. Anybody got any suggestions?

May 09 2005 at 11:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kyle Brown

How about toning down the dang file sharing security so I can copy libraries between my two computers again? They can call it iTunes Retro. It will bring back all of the non-regulated stuff that I haven't been able to use for the last year lol

May 09 2005 at 10:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply