Rumor: iTunes 8 to include Genius recommender, grid view, new visualizer

Kevin Rose is at it again, with a brand new round of rumors about iTunes 8, supposedly premiered next week at the big Apple iPod event. Did I miss the meeting where we all declared him king of iPod rumors? King or not, he's got what he claims is inside information, including a writeup about something called the "Genius" sidebar, which creates recommended playlists for you, a new grid view (like Delicious Library?), and a new music visualizer.

Additionally, Rose's tipster mentions HD TV shows in the iTMS, and reiterates the previous rumors of new IPod nanos and Touches. None of these things are a huge surprise -- while the Genuis system will certainly be interesting to see (and make fun of) if real, HDTV and the new iPods are old news in Rumorville by now.

Is it OK if we hope for some faster and easier iPhone syncing with a new version of iTunes as well? Whatever is coming next week, we'll find out all about it then.

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Source: http://kevinrose.com/blogg/2008/9/3/whats-new-in-itunes-8.ht…

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Dalekkiller

I just be happy if I ended up with a quick backup that wasn't corrupt and I could connect and update my iphone without it giving me several hours of headaches. Anything else on top of that would be a bonus!

September 06 2008 at 4:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tony d

Considering after February '09 all TV will be HD, the HD TV seems to a no brainer. But hoe Comcast plans to deal with this is another issue.

September 05 2008 at 2:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Mister Snitch

All TV will NOT "be HD" in 09. All TV will be DIGITAL (rather than analog, as it is now) There's a big difference.

September 06 2008 at 1:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

twoeightnine

Maybe it's something that I've missed being that I don't dig deep into iTunes or my iPod but I'd love to see queuing. There are many times when I'm driving and I want to listen to a couple of songs in a row but don't want to deal with making a playlist. I normally listen to shuffle but I'd like to be able to load a song or two into the shuffle.

September 05 2008 at 12:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Greg

Someone please tell me that the album art on coverflow will flip over for the tracklist like on the iPhone. It's the feature I need the most!!

September 05 2008 at 8:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iBearTouch

A Letter in Defense of Our Nation Part 2?

September 05 2008 at 7:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

J.Y.

If they don't implement the iPhone/touch feature where you can 'flip' an album over to see all its songs (within iTunes), I'm going to be really annoyed. iTunes should not lack features that the portable players have, it should be even more powerful...

September 05 2008 at 7:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeffbbs

What I want, and have been wanting for as long as I can remember is DUAL LIBRARIES! Not opening other ones (by holding down option, I know) but the ability to open more than one (unlimited would be great but two would at least be nice) at the same time! It can't be that hard to integrate can it? I have wanted it so long and its so obvious and good! please please please!

September 05 2008 at 3:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Allan White

Sorry for the double post! Hard to tell if it went through.

I just wrote a blog post, tying the threads together more carefully. Let the reader decide...

http://allanwhite.net/index.php/blog/comments/itunes_8_rumors/

September 04 2008 at 9:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Allan White

... sorry, the URL didn't go through:

http://allanwhite.net/index.php/blog/comments/magnetosphere/

September 04 2008 at 8:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Allan White

I have some good intel that points to the visualizer being none other than Magnetosphere, which the Barbarian Group sold earlier this year to an undisclosed party. I wrote about Magnetosphere earlier here.

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