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iTunes 8: It's like having a Genius in your Mac
At Apple's "Let's Rock" event today, they unveiled the newest version of iTunes: version 8. The rumors were mostly right: iTunes 8 includes a new feature called "Genius" that allows you to "rediscover your iTunes music." Genius works by matching music with your listening tastes. The Genius interface looks similar to iPhoto and works similar to Pandora (or Last.fm). iTunes 8 will be a free update later today, and we'll have more about it then. Stay tuned to TUAW as we provide coverage of Apple's "Let's Rock" event.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Josh said 1:44PM on 9-09-2008
I cannot wait for this to go up for Download. It looks like an excellent upgrade.
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brian said 2:06PM on 9-09-2008
Weak. I was really hoping the announcement would be that they were buying Pandora. Their Music Genome Project is a million times better than "People who like Elvis also like Buddy Holly."
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Micah said 2:28PM on 9-09-2008
Is it wrong that I keep reloading http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ and loading Software Update?
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heckie said 2:36PM on 9-09-2008
The download is now itunes8.dmg. Still says 7.7 on the page.
Paul Dunlop said 2:32PM on 9-09-2008
I'm not the only one! Hurrah!
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Elliott said 2:33PM on 9-09-2008
Please keep your refreshing to a minimum. We all know Apple's servers tend to go down on days like this.
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Paul Dunlop said 2:36PM on 9-09-2008
iTunes 8 is available. Site hasn't been updated, but the download link downloads v8. Go get it!
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Eddie said 2:36PM on 9-09-2008
Its there ....Downloading now
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Dennis said 2:37PM on 9-09-2008
Itunes 8 is up!
Also, This is in the system requirements... I didn't think you'd need a faster processor just to run HD movies. Makes sense though, I guess.
Playing HD-quality videos purchased on the iTunes Store requires a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor
512MB of RAM; 1GB is required to play HD-quality videos
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J said 3:05PM on 9-09-2008
So currently shipping macbook air machines (1.6 Ghz, 1.8 Ghz) can't play HD content from the iTunes store. Seems unfortunate. In practice, I can usually squeek by with HD video on my 1.83 Ghz MacbookPro, but I haven't tried any of the new HD content from the iTunes store though.
Gregg W. Smith said 2:44PM on 9-09-2008
I am not sure how but my MacBook is downloading iTunes 8 right now. iTunes itself doesn't see a needed upgrade yet and my MacBook Air (on it now) only shows 7.7 as a available upgrade from the iTunes download site?! WTF? I simply opened the same page on my MacBook and it showed iTunes 8 available so I clicked on download. It looks to be a 55.9mb file.
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Steve-O said 3:14PM on 9-09-2008
I downloaded it from apple.com and it attempts to launch it but doesn't. I've got a MBP, is there a different way to get a successful launch/install?
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Darren said 4:00PM on 9-09-2008
Hmm, the burning settings are gone, my macbook pro can't seem to run the new visualizer that was added, import settings have moved and the stupid link to the itunes store on music on my computer can't seem to be turned off now.
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Marcel said 4:56PM on 9-09-2008
@Darren;
Disable iTunes store arrow links in iTunes 8
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080909130752871
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Brian said 5:26PM on 9-09-2008
I like the Genius play lists feature...seems to work fairly well of picking a decent list.
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