Widget Watch: Check new releases by artists in your iTunes library with newTunes

I think if Apple built this technology into iTunes customers would complain that Apple are abusing their position in the market and exploiting people's privacy. Unless of course they made it an option you can turn on - I would love the Just for You feature to be based on my rated music - not just the songs I buy online.

It almost works for me. I have about 400 artists in iTunes and it only imported about 3/4 of them (alphabetically, into the R's).

I also noticed that it tells me about albums that I already have. For instance I have the new Pearl Jam but it still lists it under the new albums. Maybe in a future update it could ignore the stuff that you already own.

I must say, whoever used that widget in the shot above has excellent music taste!

I don't think AppleScript can handle large amounts of data - I've tried to run a few Applescripts on my iTunes library of 15,000 or so songs before and they never get through it...

Check your running processes, "D to the P", and you'll see the import script for this plugin isn't running any longer.

Yea... mine has been "loading" for the past day or so... it's on the verge of a shortened life span, sadly.

Anyone else have trouble getting this to import your artists? I only have approx. 375 artists so I wouldn't expect it to be an issue, but this thing just said it was retreiving artist info from iTunes for hours. I finally uninstalled it.

That is one ooogly widget.

Great functionality, ugly widget.

It's not cool, it's super cool!

why apple's own itunes doesn't do this is just dumb. it's a no brainer that adds value to the user and increase sales at the ITMS.