Apple Releases iTunes 4.6

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 9, 2004 @07:35AM from the what's-this-itunes-thing dept.

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."

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Disables Hymn-ed songs? by bubba451 · 2004-06-09 07:42 · Score: 5, Interesting

These iTunes versions lately seem to be sneaking in unadvertised anti-piracy "features."
One poster in the macrumors forums claims that songs de-DRMed through Hymn no longer play.
Can anyone verify?
1. Re:Disables Hymn-ed songs? by boysimple · 2004-06-09 08:08 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  My hymn-ed songs do not play. They say :
  
  This computer is not authorized to play "I Woke Up Screaming"
  This song was originally purchased using the account "myaccountname@mac.com"
  
  So they do seem to be checking something. And calling out those who share hymn-ed files. Not sure how the macrumors fellow is getting his to play....
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Re:Other minor enhancements? by iguanarama · 2004-06-09 07:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'd place good money on there being changes that support the upcoming UK/European version of iTMS rumoured to be announced next week.
Re:Another Change? by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · 2004-06-09 08:15 · Score: 5, Informative

The mark was under 50 GB; I'm not sure where it was, but it was related to the number of tracks, not the size of the library. When iTunes 4.5 came out, my library on my home machine was 42 GB and 11,000+ tracks. I had the problem.

And yeah, I can confirm that 4.6 has fixed it.

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Re:AirTunes by phatsharpie · 2004-06-09 09:32 · Score: 5, Informative

No, AirPort Express only allows you to broadcast on one set of speakers (one AirPort Express station). AirPort Express can broadcast any audio out from iTunes. It works by compressing whatever audio is coming from iTunes using the Apple Lossless Codec and sends it to the station where the "stream" is decompressed, thus no audio degradation is incurred.

Here are some explanation:

http://homepage.mac.com/craigamiller/iblog/C6726 60 861/E1786577583/

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Re:Good news by platypussrex · 2004-06-09 14:04 · Score: 5, Informative

Just read a post on the Apple Support forums from an Apple Employee who says that it will be possible to send different streams to different AE boxes under Panther by starting multiple instances of iTunes under fast user switching and letting each one stream to a seperate box (assuming your bandwidth can take it). Sounds pretty cool to me.
Re:AirTunes coming to your home theatre soon by Anonymous Coward · 2004-06-09 18:53 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.
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