Slashdot Mirror
iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5
usr122122121 writes "iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5 were released today, available by Apple's Site and Software Update (respectively)."
← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)
← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)
Now people with AOL can just use their screen name to buy songs on iTMS, and it'll be billed to their AOL account.
...
Not that I would know personally now!! I read it on the website, I swear!
WARNING: If accidentally read, induce vomiting.
Quicktime info
iTunes info
WARNING: If accidentally read, induce vomiting.
Here are the "new" features.
For itunes, you can now use your aol login, and aol
wallet to pay for stuff.
Quicktime now supports the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards
These standards are usefull for Third generation cell phones. They allow transfer of scalled video, sound, text, and just about anything as the yare track based formats.
(anyone know if the itunes breaks the support for mytunes <www.cowpimp.com> the program that lets you download thru mytumes)**
come comment on the madness at http://slashdot.org/~phreak03/journal/
There's a good java clone of iTunes complete with Rendezvous support.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtunes4/
>A non-unix based software program
....
Ummm
Non-Unix Operating system?
-- Knowing too much can get you killed, but knowing who knows too much can make you rich.
In all seriousness, there seems to be some misconception that iTunes can't play ogg files. Well, I'm not sure about on the PC, but there is a plugin for the Mac that plays ogg files just fine.
forget about AOL support ... you can group tracks now! awesome
members are seeing something, your seeing an ad
Or make a 7-line AppleScript
on open fileName
tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
open fileName
present movie 1
end tell
end open
Drag a movie onto the script icon and it plays full screen.
Idiot.
Quicktime 6.5 does not fix the No One Lives Forever 2 problem with QT 6.4. I just tried it.
Back to rebooting in 10.2.8/QT 6.3 for Cate Archer action.
JP
> Which hack was that?
QTFairUse.
Otherwise, I'm going to install Jaguar to my iPod and boot off that when I want some "Cate Archer" sneaking action.
You might consider checking with Apple first to see if it will screw up your warranty.
iPodHacks warns that booting off your iPod might be considered "abuse" by Apple if you have problems later.
FIVApple's Read Me's are always notably lacking information on specific changes, possible because parts of the read me display in the software update and installers. Anyway, Apple often releases specific details as part of its knowledge base.
My quick review of changes in iTunes 4.2 on Mac OS X (sorry won't have access to a Win2k machine until next week), these are the immediate changes I notice:
Hot Tips
http://www.apple.com/itunes/hottips/
Apple introduced hot tips on creating Smart Playlist, keyboard shortcuts, copy song, artist, and album urls from the iTunes Music Store, etc.
Grouping
Under song details, there is now a new ID3 tag called grouping. I'm not certain if this will allow for subcategories, or can be used for things such as Celebrity Playlist so songs from multiple albums can be grouped. I'll have to play with it. Also added to Smart Playlist queries.
Artwork
Added scaler to artwork, so images can be scaled up or down to fit album space area.
Playlist from Selection
For those who complained about queue-ing songs, I imagine this feature will come in handy, as well as for other purposes as well. Allows you to Command-Select (Click) on random songs in your library then create a playlist from them, immediately.
Music Store in New Window
Double-clicking will launch the music store in a new window (yeah).
iTMS: Music Essentials
Like Celebrity playlist, but collections of "iTunes Essential" music in categories I wouldn't have imagined, including Disco Ball Essentials and Coctail Party Kitsch--yet more ways to spend even more money.
iTMS: AOL Sessions
Added more music "exclusives" basically various performances by artist for AOL can now be purchased.
iTMS: AOL Users
Tons of direct access stuff for AOL users. Which, if they can do this for AOL, maybe they could do it for other venues, like artist who do live concert releases.
iTMS: Artist Self-Released Albums (Return of the EP)
This was there before, but some artist like Pearl Jam who are self published are and can now release stuff directly to the iTMS. I also noticed John Mayer's "As Is" is not attributed to Sony or any music label (which may indicate that it was also self-published). Ben Folds have also been doing a number of quick EPs, but they are all still published attributed to EPIC. It will be interesting to see if more artist start releasing EPs with 4-5 songs exclusively for iTMS or other music stores, and then have regular albums published every 1-2yrs.
These were the things I noticed immediately. Now I need to go and play and see what else comes up.
Really - before you start ranting you should at least bother to learn something about the subject. You can write plugins for QT. There is technical documentation at Apple's Quicktime developer's site, and you can download both Windows & Mac SDKs. Also, check sourceforge for other QT Components.
Trust me. This is an inactive account. Regardless of what the
Try the following AppleScript: