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Simon Arch said 1:19PM on 9-09-2009
I think the biggest news though is how much easier it is to spend money in the store now. Thank GOD they made that easier. I was really losing sleep over that.
I just hope they didn't bother to improve its performance with large (~25k track and growing) libraries. I love lag.
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AA said 1:24PM on 9-09-2009
Lovely to see a way to organize your home screen in iTunes.
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Ed said 1:36PM on 9-09-2009
iTunes certainly needs a lot of work done to fix a wide range of minor annoyances. I mostly find it fine, but it can get really awkward to do simple things. For example, you can't sync individual audiobooks - you either have them all or none! I really hope this update at least fixes that - the other changes look really good.
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Toph said 2:40PM on 9-09-2009
Yes you can. Just choose "sync only checked items" and uncheck the ones you don't want. :)
kaslings said 4:04PM on 9-09-2009
syncing only checked items means it's REALLY annoying if you want to sync SOME audio books and a bunch of music, when you have a really big library. I don't want to sit there and tick boxes all day long.
the last thing iTunes needed was more feature creep, and that's what iTunes 9 is. very dissapointing.
Simon Arch said 11:20AM on 9-10-2009
With audio files you can select a large number of tracks and then right click (or option click) and select "Uncheck Selection" from the contextual menu. Sure beats clicking that damn checkbox over and over! :)
Buran said 1:45PM on 9-09-2009
The link goes to the wrong version and the update checker tells me 8.2.1 is the latest version. Story needs correcting - there IS no download link to a new version.
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Simon Arch said 1:47PM on 9-09-2009
It will go live shortly, after the presentation.
Joanna D said 1:51PM on 9-09-2009
Finally catching up with the Zune player then.
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pardthemonster said 2:22PM on 9-09-2009
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iTunes9/061-6350.20090909.tnzs2/iTunes9.dmg
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Simon Arch said 2:57PM on 9-09-2009
Wow. That link is going at 1.7MB/second. And it's done. The download I was running in Safari took over fifteen minutes. Just cancelled it with another ten minutes to go!
Mike said 2:24PM on 9-09-2009
Now live... downloading version 9 right now. Took a couple of refreshes on the linked page...
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Noah said 2:24PM on 9-09-2009
It's live to download: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
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bryan.esler said 2:45PM on 9-09-2009
Is it me or is the iTunes 9 interface overly glossy?
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Alfred said 3:06PM on 9-09-2009
Yes, it looks like plastic... :(
Simon Arch said 3:23PM on 9-09-2009
Yep, there's a subtle gloss. I like it. The whole thing feels lighter and fresher. I'm bracing myself for the onslaught of "It's hideous!" complaints from the folks who liked the old, darker UI.
bryan.esler said 4:24PM on 9-09-2009
It just doesn't fit with the SL interface...why go to a lighter grey?
Simon Arch said 9:05PM on 9-09-2009
The days of UI consistency are in the long-dead past, sadly. Makes me pine for the relatively consistent days of Platinum when the most annoying thing you had to cope with was Quicktime 3.0's ugly brushed metal UI.
BigB said 2:47PM on 9-09-2009
Any word on if itunes 9 is cocoa or 64bit yet?
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SpinThis! said 3:37PM on 9-09-2009
Still Carbon.