iTunes 8.1 DJ gives another excuse to party

If there doing this they should give out free iPod touch / iPhones.

Cool to control iTunes remotely.

Too bad my headphone jack has been hopelessly silent ever since I installed Windows Vista.

iTunes DJ is great!

I have a new concept called openDJ. I have hijacked the new iTunes DJ feature to use with the defacto standard DJ software, Serato ScratchLIVE. Basically punters can view my crates, make requests and vote on upcoming tracks over WiFi via an iPhone / iPod Touch.

more info head to: http://www.djbulge.com/opendj

They still didn't fix the inability to have visualizations on an external monitor. That is worth an update, because we can't have the visualization show full screen and continue to have a screen with the music from iTunes.

@yo

You sound really peeved. Apple should run all of their updates by you first.

Here's something I tried, which is really difficult and a royal PITA, but maybe it could work for you.

Set up DJ to show the next 100 songs. Then select each song you don't like and delete. You can select multiple items too by using the "command click" feature. I know it's much harder than individually unchecking each little box next to each little song, but the result is the same.

I'm excited to hear your thoughts on 8.2!

I'm puzzled by the "voting presumably moves items up the queue, but that's not confirmed" statement.

Yes, a cursory testing of the new feature demonstrates that a song voted once will move to the top of the queue, another song voted once will move to just below it, etc. A song voted twice will move above all the others, a song voted thrice will move above that one, ad infinitum ....

So I'm not sure if TUAW didn't confirm this, or Wired, but any consumer can test it for themselves (hint: right click on a song in the DJ list and select "Like It" to add votes).

Neat, but useless, and as William Morris once said, 'Nothing useless can be beautiful'.

Total waste of time.

You can no longer UNCHECK songs as they filter through iTunes DJ - This was the main way I listened to my music - in party shuffle and unchecked songs I didn't like.

What a great feature - they added some stupid voting thing that maybe 10 people will use and have taken away the simplest function!

True, how frequently do we have parties where people log into the WiFi with their iPhone to vote for the next song? Maybe never.

The coolest part about this is that it introduces the ability for a crowd to drive an entertainment experience. Wouldn't it be nice to have the ability for your friends to drive a single playlist off the music from their own libraries? The next steps to this are quite interesting.

In case you're having trouble using iTunes DJ -- I tried to put together a basic "how to" on setting up iTunes DJ on my website, http://www.seangw.com/wordpress/index.php/2009/03/how-to-throw-an-itunes-dj-party/

I will agree that the opportunities to use this feature are slim, but it is still an innovative and well implemented feature that is in the realm of social music sharing. To me this is just a small step into the arena of music sharing to your iPhone from your home computer and eventually video.