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So, as I am reading all your comments on my Hot or Not post, I realized that there's something very familiar about the new iTunes 5 interface: it looks like the old SoundJam that you can see here. (Thanks to Scott for the link!)
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
mike said 6:43PM on 9-07-2005
it's about time that both time elapsed and time remaining can be seen at once. the real question is the support for gapless playback. and no, whatever itunes 4.x has is not gapless.
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Zach Forrester said 4:52PM on 9-07-2005
wow
creepy.
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Twist said 5:01PM on 9-07-2005
The iTunes 5 interface is much more refined. I also wouldn't say that this is a new similarity. iTunes has always had the brushed metal look and that SoundJam skin is just a rip-off of Quicktime 4+. They basically just changed the gradient and texture of the window a bit, made the display useful, and added a gradient to the display. Mainly the whole application looks classier but not enough to justify 5.0 IMHO. Of course I think that Apple has over done it a bit with their version numbering for everything except the OS.
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CyBeR said 5:06PM on 9-07-2005
Not only does it look like soundjam, it's actually based on it. Apple bought soundjam an age-and-a-half ago, and turned it into iTunes 1.0.
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Rob Weychert said 5:01PM on 9-07-2005
Crazy! They both use, like, colors and shapes and stuff.
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Tim Robertson said 5:03PM on 9-07-2005
Well, the people who actually created SoundJam MP are the same people who created iTunes. So not so creepy or suprising
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filthy said 5:05PM on 9-07-2005
eh, i guess. i think itunes 4.9 looks resembles it more.
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Michael May said 12:25PM on 9-08-2005
lol@No.3
i think it's just you, CK
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alex said 5:11PM on 9-07-2005
Open up iTunes with, say, Safari or a Finder window open behind it: iTunes looks less like brushed metal than those apps. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of brushed metal!
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Richard said 5:20PM on 9-07-2005
Umm... they don't look all that similar. At all, really. iTunes 4.9 looked more like SoundJam than 5 does, as others have already said.
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Wheels said 5:30PM on 9-07-2005
Umm, sorry, but SoundJam looks better than iTunes 5.
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Jay Contonio said 6:26PM on 9-07-2005
I like the new look, but the new mini player looks whack for some reason. And on the Windows version (without the dropshadow) there is an extra 1 pixel of black on the sides of the main itunes window...looks weird.
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Leo said 7:09PM on 9-07-2005
they aren't really that similar.
hardly news worthy.
+
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jh said 8:17PM on 9-07-2005
Anyone else notice that WMA is now what is chosen for you in itunes as your "import using"...
Perhaps as sign of things to come.
I might be wrong but i think WMA importing wasnt even an option in the other version(s).
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jh said 8:21PM on 9-07-2005
also now in the ipod spec page
"Upgradable firmware enables support for future audio formats"
Dont think that was there before either
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Wheels said 8:42PM on 9-07-2005
If Apple goes WMA, I'm going to shoot myself. I've come close to doing that today!
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Leo said 12:12AM on 9-08-2005
#13 - jh: I don't see that WMA option. Are you using MacOS or Windows? Could it have been from some previous plugin? I'm on a windows computer right now and don't see WMA :-/
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Brian said 10:47AM on 9-08-2005
Hm, I guess they look a bit alike but not really. But man did you take me on a trip down memory lane! SoundJam! It's like it's 2001 all over again and I'm using 10.0! Or 9....
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chris said 10:40AM on 9-08-2005
Seems like I downloaded a skin for Audion before iTunes existed that looked remarkably like this. Dare I say it looked better? Seems like there were option for choosing the color of the backlighting in the "display" area. It could be blue or green or clear.
Now that I think about it, I miss Audion's downloadable skins a lot. .
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Jacob Vance said 7:06PM on 9-08-2005
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So this is the kind of junk that earns $4 a post? Wow.
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