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Apple Releases iTunes 4.6
sinclair44 writes "Apple has released iTunes 4.6. The new version 'includes support for playing your music wirelessly using AirPort Express with AirTunes. It also includes a number of other minor enhancements.' The update is also available in Mac OS X's Software Update."
I'd place good money on there being changes that support the upcoming UK/European version of iTMS rumoured to be announced next week.
I'm not quite sure why Apple did this. The reason the new version of Hymn leaves all the tags in is to discourage piracy, but I imagine the next version will probably revert to stripping all tags out. It seems like Apple is not only going to be pissing off a lot of people by doing this, but they're also going to be making piracy easier in the long term.
I'm not quite sure why Apple did this.
My guess is that in order to keep the RIAA happy, Apple has to "fix" FairPlay anytime a drm-breaking scheme comes up. No matter that what you said makes perfect sense, you have to remember we are talking RIAA here, and making sense doesn't seem to be in their playbook.
I look forward to having an AirPort Express to try this with, not so much to play music directly as to have a chance to reverse engineer the broadcast protocol. Apple don't seem to have published much about the protocol to be used to send music from a Mac to the Express but I can imagine that lots of people are looking forward to buying a number of the AirPort Express hardware units for distributing audio and there is almost certainly another set of people who want to know how to use iTunes 4.6 to stream audio to other computers.
If intelligent life is too complex to evolve on its own, who designed God?
Yup, and I'm one of them ;).
However, the original poster wasn't asking Apple to write a Window Manager or anything -- they just want iTunes for Linux.
Why would Apple want to do this? Probably because the iPod and iTunes Music Store are two of their biggest money makers, and extending their reach would only serve to increase those profits.
Unfortunately, I can't see them actually doing this. But hey, as someone who has both Linux machines and a PowerBook G4, one can hope :).
Brad BARCLAY
In case you haven't noticed it, the new iTunes has support for trailers, an although this is just a small departure from their current feature set, I bet they are just fine tuning the backend technology to support a full video on-demand service. In a few months, you'll be using iTunes to buy a movie for $9.99 and stream it to your Airport Express II to watch it in your own home theatre. I can't wait.
Originally posted here.
Frankly, this was an *extremely* stupid move by Apple. What's the point?
Good relations with the RIAA. iTMS dies without the RIAA. Period, end of story. If Apple doesn't at least play by a basic set of rules, the RIAA will roll up and move to another service even more restrictive and iTMS dies.
So which would you rather? Having to remove a tag, or having no iTMS to begin with?
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
So which would you rather? Having to remove a tag, or having no iTMS to begin with?
Frankly, I don't give a shit whether the iTMS is there or not. If they don't want to sell music to me online, then I'll simply get it from P2P systems like I did before.
Here's the deal. The RIAA has no leverage power. Yes, they have the music, but I, the customer, have the cash. If they don't want to sell to me, fuck 'em. I'll obtain my music some other way. If they try to make a more restrictive service, fuck 'em, I'll either bypass their restrictions when they get in my way, or I'll go back to the P2P systems and they won't get a dime out of me.
You act as if they have the power in this situation. They don't. If the DRM gets too annoying, people will go back to not paying for music. It's real simple. If they want my money, they have to not piss me off too much for me to hand it over. Easy as that.
Lawsuits don't scare me. They've "sued" less than 2000 people. There's 50 million file sharers. Seems like good odds, in my book. They can't sue everybody.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
People would only be able to copy your songs on the local subnet though. I can see how this is some kind of problem in a dorm or something, but for most people it's not a huge issue.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
The easiest way to accomplish this is analog: just hook up a wireless speaker system to your computer, then put receivers in each room. Last time I checked 900MHz was a popular frequency, but there might be 2.4GHz models available by now. Google found this...