The up-to-the-minute hearsay banging around the Mac Web is that Apple will be infix a Modern version of iTunes next calendar month . Given Apple ’s caterpillar track record with iTunes versions ( iTunes 5 was expel in September of 2005 , iTunes 7 in September 2006 , and iTunes 8 was released in September 2008 … iTunes 6 was the geek , released a month after iTunes 5 in October of 2005 ) it is secure to say that iTunes 9 will probably be running on your Mac , and mine , sometime next calendar month .
The timing of the iTunes 9 launching is n’t the interesting question , though — thereallyinteresting question is : what the heck will Apple lend to it ? hearsay paint a picture everything from Apple in the end add Blu - ray reenforcement to the inclusion of Twitter and Facebook features . Everyone lie with Twitter , so I suppose experience some sort of Twitter / iTunes integration is peachy ( though I predict the feature will be abused , annoying the heck out of me within 48 hours of iTunes 9 ’s freeing ) but I ca n’t help but consider there are a few other feature of speech I ’d like to see .
Keep in thinker I have no inside knowledge of next iTunes features , these are just a duet of thing I would wish to see added ( Apple , feel spare to take these musical theme and use them as you will , but an tocopherol - mail from Phil Schiller would be decent … I mean he seems to be spend all this time as of recent e - mailing bloggers , so why not me ? ):
observe folder : I do n’t get all my medium from the iTunes Store . Sometimes I grease one’s palms euphony from other sources , or create video of my very own . Whenever I want to sum these young items to iTunes I have to do it manually . This is dazed : iTunes should be capable to watch a particular folder on my Mac and , whenever I add a file that iTunes supports to that folder , automatically contribute it to my iTunes library ( with the selection to either copy the filing cabinet or move it to my iTunes library ) . This is the sort of menial task I utilize a computer to avoid .
Disable SD downloads : On those occasions when I download a idiot box show or movie from iTunes , I always get the HD interpretation . One of the clean things about the HD shows / movies on the iTunes Store is that you get two shows / motion-picture show for the price of one : the HD interpretation and the SD version . The estimate is you ’ll watch the HD variant on your big erstwhile television ( or proctor ) and the SD interpretation on your iPod / iPhone . I have watchedoneof these TV on an iPodonce(just to verify it operate ) . Now , I ’m not enjoin Apple should stop bundling the SD version with the HD version , rather there should be a orientation that lets me opt out of the download the SD file .
Libraries on the web : It is possible to store your iTunes library somewhere other than your Mac ’s difficult disk , but it is n’t leisurely . With the advent of cheap , immobile meshwork - attach storage , making this much comfortable seems like a no brainer to me .
Albums : One of my favorite features on the iPod hint / iPhone ’s iPod practical software is the direction it handles albums . If you ’re mind to a strain and you want to find out the repose of the songs on that record album you just tap a button and BOOM ! A list of the other track on that record album on your iPod skin senses / iPhone . Why is n’t it that easy with iTunes ?
