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Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade
Hugh Pickens writes writes "The Washington Post reports that Apple has finally unveiled their new version of iTunes, overhauling its look and feel and integrating it more closely with the company's iCloud Internet- storage service with one of the biggest upgrades Apple has made to the program with 400 million potential users since its debut more than a decade ago. The new design of iTunes moves away from the spreadsheet format that Apple has featured since its debut and adds more art and information about musicians, movies and television shows. It also adds recommendation features so users can find new material. According to David Pogue of the NY Times Apple has fixed some of the dumber design elements that have always plagued iTunes. 'For years, the store was represented only as one item in the left-side list, lost among less important entries like Radio and Podcasts. Now a single button in the upper-right corner switches between iTunes's two personalities: Store (meaning Apple's stuff) and Library (meaning your stuff).' Unfortunately, Apple hasn't fixed the Search box. As before, you can't specify in advance what you're looking for: an app, a song, a TV show, a book. Whatever you type into the Search box finds everything that matches, and you can't filter it until after you search. It feels like a two-step process when one should do. 'Improvements in visual navigation and a more logical arrangement of tools are good, but for me the biggest positive within iTunes 11 remains its vastly improved performance on all three Macs I've tested it on, including a relatively ancient five-year-old MacBook,' writes Jonny Evans."
Still seems to play the wife's Manilow I'm afraid.
The interface spends too much time trying to sell me shit. I just want to play my music and podcasts.
The layout on the top bar helps to separate out: player from store from device management. I will admit I do like the sidebar with the old layout for familiarity.
Anyway I think the big difference is that more of the functionality is exposed on the interface, sort of like an office application. I think they are assuming that iTunes user base is sort of stable and they can make things less obvious. That's a typical Apple pattern:
lots of new users = aim for obviousness
lots of experienced users = decrease obviousness and increase features
I found the old spreadsheet format very intuitive. This sucks, it's all slick presentation rather than useful interface.
I was looking at an artists website, and clicked on the link to buy an album. It too me to the iTunes website. OK I thought, I'll try it. Except that I couldn't. To actually buy the album it said I had to do so through the iTunes software. Whoops. I guess I won't be buying anything from iTunes at all then.
You know, 'cause I run GNU/Linux.
It doesn't matter how fast the software is, if I am required to use it to buy shit, I ain't buying it. Websites work as store front ends for many other people, so why not Apple?
When I found out that Apple had come out with an updated version of iTunes, I threw all of my Windows desktops and laptops in the dumpster. In other words, I unplugged and tossed them 7 minutes ago.
It'll cost me a small fortune to replace them with Apple products, but it's worth it. This post was created with an iPad.
Apple 4ever, Micro$oft and Linux NEVER.
I have grown to hate iTunes lately. More bells, whistles, forced integration with iCloud, gratuitous multifunctionality...and it seems that v11 continues the trend. I'm starting to look for alternatives to iTunes, and I wonder what the /. community would recommend. And no, Windows or **nux aren't options for me. Tnx.
I'll have to take your word for it, I just never have used iTunes.
As a PC user, always found Apple's software beyond the OS baffling and counterintuitive, probably because they hide what they are doing. Something as simple as moving and saving songs to my phone seems like an excercise in frustration - syncing is not backing up for some reason and I always end up with duplicate songs or apps from other family members' devices. If they didn't have to hide the file system.
Amazing that a company that makes decent hardware and a decent OS and ok apps can't make decent software. Hope this update fixes some of the bullshit.
Too many of the same old flaws are still there. For example, it insists on sorting artist rather than composer in many views. If I have an album where two different pieces have different featured soloist artists, it insists in some views as treating it as two separate albums, while other views may not. For larger works, this can be a problem, like the complete symphonies of Haydn.
Groupings remain the red-headed stepchild, poorly used, despite being the only way to logically group together movements of a larger work within an album.
It introduced a few new flaws. In playlist view, it appears trivial to turn on shuffle and start playing a random piece. In library/songs view, that no longer appears possible. Multiple testing shows it always plays the first piece of the playlist, then shuffles.
The column browser is gone, just gone inside a playlist. I have some very large playlists. I want to be able to use the column browser within that playlist. I now have to go outside the playlist to the library view and use that, hoping I remember correctly the criteria that form the smart playlists.
I never had much of a performance issue, so I can't speak to that, but the first thing I turned off was album art based views. If I wanted an album, I'd pick it from the column browser.
"I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend unto the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire
7 Features Apple Killed Off in iTunes 11. I was originally annoyed by removing the ability to edit the 'gapless' state of files (removing that one just seems stupid), but as no other player I use on any other platform supports the feature, I gave up caring.
"But remember, most lynch mobs aren't this nice." (H.Simpson)
-- Joe
First webstore without DRM ? What are you smoking ??
TPB is still better.
1. The submitter probably liked the icon, and didn't read it's name.
2. Because compared to today's Apple, Microsoft is actually warm, fuzzy, cute and cuddly.
3. There are other websites that offer the same thing Slashdot does. But perhaps what you'll miss the most is posting under AC? (I'm willing to bet you also have a named account, but didn't want the bad karma, sooo sad, sooo sad )
and no, I'm not dual stacking flac-alac just for them. stupid retards.
I made the mistake of purchasing an iBook without reading the various notices saying that iBooks are only readable on iPhone, iPad, etc. Why can't iTunes read the DRM-locked iBooks so I could... read what I purchased?
I ended up pirating the book I bought just so I had a DRM-free copy of it to read. Generally I don't mind the DRM associated with iTunes (save the 'can only play videos out of iTunes bit, but that's a minor gripe), but being unable to consume entertainment I purchased from them is a shining example of DRM done wrong.
For some reason, on some machines the ATH.exe (wifi sync) will take up 100% of one CPU. Happened on the old iTunes, happens on the new iTunes. https://discussions.apple.com/message/20463456?ac_cid=tw123456#20463456
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
Did they fix the bugs, the performance issues, the crashes, the thrashing of the library, the sync issues, the poor UI, the hiding of fields when they don't work properly making it near impossible to troubleshoot, the unresponsive UI, the resource hog? Not sure how a company that can build the crap that is iTunes can build something like iOS, although that's headed the same way: 1st party apps crashing, app store update not working, app icons never installing, sync issues. Go back to doing one thing and making it work Apple. Having most things mostly work is Microsoft's domain, and you're not there.
Once I figured out how to get it to sort my albums by title rather than artist again, I have to say I'm getting used to the minimalist interface. iTunes has always been minimal on features, so it never made sense that its UI was such a mess. Now it's more, uh, pushbutton-y? Feels like it was designed for touchscreens, oddly enough. I definitely like the new pop-out Visualizer, now I can properly have that running on my secondary display without jumping back and forth between the full interface. The only thing I'm not digging is how double-clicking an album immediately starts playing it instead of opening the song list. There's actually no way to get to that song list anymore, you have to start the album and then skip to the track you want, else you have to sort through the Songs view which includes your entire library. Oh well.
Once again, Apple tells me what I like and want with version 11. Once again, they are completely wrong. No surprise. I will keep using WinAMP.
why does an itunes story have a "drm" logo when itunes was the first webstore to sell drm free music?
Personally I dislike the AAC tracks which are incompatible with everything, which is the trouble with patent encumbered formats [No MP3 has nothing like the same problems]. I also find it kind of sad that those who bought those DRM (128-bit) laden tracks are not getting those tracks either upgraded to a higher quality version...or having the DRM removed. I think there are better stores today elsewhere, Amazon offers DRM free 256kb tracks. ...of course this does not say a lot about all the over content offered in iTunes which is still heavily DRM.
why does an itunes story have a "drm" logo when itunes was the first webstore to sell drm free music?
Amazon MP3 store, August 2007.
The movies still have DRM. I believe the books also use a proprietary extension to ePub, but I don't think it's currently used to implement DRM.
I dislike the AAC tracks which are incompatible with everything
Incompatible? Anything that plays AVC (aka H.264) encoded MP4 video also happens to play iTunes m4a files. AAC appears to be supported on more home and mobile entertainment devices than Vorbis.
I also find it kind of sad that those who bought those DRM (128-bit) laden tracks are not getting those tracks either upgraded to a higher quality version
Not sad as much as stupid because Apple offers a deep discount on DRM-free repurchases of tracks previously purchased with FairPlay DRM.
I stopped paying for music after cd's. Just rebuilt my mp3 collection in less than 2 months by borrowing/ripping library CDs. After having backed up over 9000 tracks to flashdrive, I'm done for awhile. :-)
1. If it's not a straitjacket, it's a gay jacket. Perhaps Apple users who accept the straitjacket aren't as gay as the stereotype predicts.
you should just have a user account for every user on your computer.
Including everybody who might visit and use the computer? A lot of people have only one guest account.
http://mobile.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/11/itunes_11_it_s_time_for_apple_s_horrible_bloated_program_to_die.html
that's a total lie. emusic.com was selling DRM free music long before that.
it's probably because you have an XY problem
Yet when I try to diagnose XY problems by asking "Why do you want to do Y?", I often get called a troll.
Is installing the Ogg plugin for QuickTime "dual stacking"? And if so, what's so wrong with dual stacking?
Killer hardware married to crap software... rendering it completely useless.
For one thing, I seem to remember finding a few pieces of music that are available on iTunes but unavailable or "album only" on Amazon MP3 and Google Play Store. For another, people occasionally buy entertainment works other than music. Which OS-agnostic store carries movies that can be bought, downloaded, and played offline?
I got my iPod nano 1G replaced with a 6G in the battery recall program, and it feels like a downgrade.
- The interface defaults to the useless album art screen, so that's one extra action every time you want to do anything.
- A touchscreen is way inferior to the clickwheel. It's now impossible to operate the iPod without looking at it, even for simple things like skipping a track. So I attached a remote controller which halves its battery life.
- the touchscreen also means that you have to press the button to wake up the screen before you can do anything. Two actions before you get to a useful screen.
- Some idiot has decided that when you're playing music from a playlist, you then can't easily navigate back to the playlist from the default (album art) screen. You have to go all the way back to Music->Playlist->select the list you're in->scroll down to wherever you are.
Everything is like that now. Best get used to it and learn to ignore it out of habit.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Have anyone tried it under Wine yet? (the previous one didn't work at all, and it may be useful to have the MP3 store)
It was pretty obvious to me yesterday that a new iTunes update was out. People kept contacting me asking how to "fix" iTunes so it went back to the way it used to be. It's a shame Apple can't make a decent music player, or at least make it easy to roll back to previous versions. They are doing a good job at ticking off their customers.
this is astounding that this post is as old as it is and no one hast yet mentioned SoundJam, a new record I thinks.
The Power search tool, in the uTunes store is gone. For those who use this to find versions of a song, or research other tunes by artists, this is a valuable tool
Republican leadership = Idiocracy
Not sad as much as stupid because Apple offers a deep discount on DRM-free repurchases of tracks previously purchased with FairPlay DRM.
Wow, a discount for redownloading an already purchased track? How magnanimous. /sarcasm
Given that the new copy is also encoded with a higher bitrate and presumably a new version of the encoder with a better tuned psychoacoustic model, I'd think it merits the 30 cent upgrade fee even apart from the lack of digital restrictions management.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or you're just uninformed.
Personally I dislike the AAC tracks which are incompatible with everything, which is the trouble with patent encumbered formats [No MP3 has nothing like the same problems].
I haven't had trouble playing Apple's AAC files in Windows media player or VLC, so I'm under the impression they're not too difficult to find a player for. And if anything MP3s have worse patent issues than AAC. MP3s require a licensing fee for selling encoders, decoders, and any files that are encoded with MP3. AAC, however, does not require that you may a license for encoded files.
I also find it kind of sad that those who bought those DRM (128-bit) laden tracks are not getting those tracks either upgraded to a higher quality version...or having the DRM removed.
Generally they have enabled users to upgrade. There are a few tracks were were sold as DRM-encumbered and then removed from the store, and some of those haven't been upgraded, but I know I can re-download my old purchases without DRM at 256kbps whenever I want.
Not sad as much as stupid because Apple offers a deep discount on DRM-free repurchases of tracks previously purchased with FairPlay DRM.
So it's "we fucked you raw in the ass, but hay look here's some cream to make the soreness go away, only $9.99/application". How generous.
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Except audible.com files don't work on the linux player I've tried.
having the same record in two different formats just for itunes is stupid and wastes hd space. fluke and that plugin are old, while a native flac implementation in itunes is free (as in speech) since flac has no royalties and no hassles.
but apple is stupid. I'd give an arm and a leg to have a windows or *nix pc with the audio capabilities of the mac.
I bought an album with this thing last night on my iMac, and went to bed. When I got up this morning, the album was nowhere to be found in iTunes. Looking on the hard drive, nothing. After much trashing around in the newly weird interface and trying to figure out how to re-download my purchase, I discovered the music had downloaded to my iPhone. What the ? The music finally appeared on the computer after I synched the phone.
Using the windows version, it's a mixed bag.
The album view is retarded, but switch to song view and you get the spreadsheet layout as per normal. It also puts the column browser at the top, which seems better so far - it should be able to live there full time instead of on-and-off state the side column browser had. The prefs make it easy to bring back the sidebar (with list of playlists), and turning off the store is as easy as ever.
The search seems funked up, though; it doesn't do the full-text filtering like before, it forces you to choose your results from a drop-down list. The old search method was one of the main reasons why I liked itunes.
Some brain-dead jackel has moved the menubar in-between the play/pause/status bar and the content section, instead of at the top where all sane programs since the beginning of time have put their menubars.
My old pet peeve on the windows version remains - the close window box in the top right is slightly down and to the left of the top right corner of the window, so you can't just jam your mouse up and to the right and left-click to close, you have to position it just over the X. Small, but annoying.
Also, after listening to a few tracks, a couple of them have become garbled partway through. I'm on a well-spec'd machine, so this should not happen. It's not my mp3s, either, I replayed one of the songs that garbled & it didn't garble the second time (nor had it done so previously. Worse than that, it was Aerodynamic by Daft Punk, and that is a song that you _do not_ mess with).
Apparently this apple fanboi never heard of allofmp3.com
Itunes 11 runs like shit on windows...
Perhaps its just Apple policy to make shitty slow software for windows, but Itunes 11 fucking blows performance wise. Feature wise its of course still the best. :(
new simplified interface means I cannot view the list of all songs so I can drag them to a playlist. kinda sucks to be me.
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
I really like the redesign visually and speed wise. It's impressive since I haven't used Itunes regularly in half a decade. My main program of choice has been Foobar2000. It's instantaneous in its library even with 100 thousand songs. When I heard the new itunes was much faster and saw the beautiful screenshots I had to check it out.
Itunes 10 opening speed with a large library was well over 15 seconds on an SSD. Itunes 11 is now around 2. Foobar2000 is about half a second, but still, very impressive.
The minimal features are nice and your average luddite will love it. I love the new album/artist view. At times it's too minimal, for instance the hidden menu bar, you have to click a tiny button in the top left and 'enable menu bar', I'm sure that will trip many people up. The old annoyances are still there. Folder Management is still essentially manual, either add folder (after enabling old menu bar) or drag to the "add to Itunes library". To me this just seems archaic, every other music player out there will watch a folder. You have to sign up with an Apple ID to automatically search for album art! Really? The only other option is to manually 'get info' and add the album in, Itunes won't read images in folders (folder.jpg for example). Apple then embeds and mangles the audio files. I much prefer foobar, I can not only efficiently add high quality album art with an external (album art downloader) program but can have booklet/back/cd images as well.
The other aspect is all the extra crud Apple still adds when you install the program, several extra services and processes (itunes helper, apple updater), that just serve to annoy you. Even though I have 32GB of ram it's still fairly crazy Itunes uses 300mb of ram with just 10 albums added, foobar2000 was around 50mb.Still kudos to apple for taking on their most obviously lacking product and making even me think twice about my player choice, time will tell what the future is as spotify and other services seem to be what many are moving towards.
Hells bells, they removed the progress bar on mini player. I don't use my partner's iMac all that much, but I do use it to manage voice diction and to sync podcasts onto our iPod. Some of my dictation files are long. Without a progress bar, it's really difficult to note and return to critical thoughts. But I only used iTunes as a stopgap measure, so I can sit back and enjoy the suffering of others more deeply invested.
What a triumph of populist design over broad-minded utility. There's a fair amount of frustration, annoyance, and anger out there over Apple's random feature regression of the moment. I used to tell people to install Ubuntu because, you know, we had continuity all figured out. Since the Unity debacle, I keep my mouth shut.
Apple also removed the multiple window feature. So much for workflow equity. How do people live in a world with no feature continuity? I would have never guessed at the outset of PC era thirty years ago that things could go this direction, and people would stand for it. It's pretty much my personal definition of low self-esteem to see someone suffer a major setback in their workflow equity and go "oh, well". Maybe I should have completed Learned Helplessness 101 after all. I'm starting to think it really is a life skill _and_ you save a fortune in Tums.
The foolishness we all felt back in the day that upgrades were built on top of what you had already delivered. Turns out we could have just randomly discarded any feature that bored us or seemed inconvenient to maintain, and without any explanation to the customer, either. Shit, did we ever do things the hard way.
I'm still disappointed with the Search function. Being Apple, I would expect something a little more integrated -- in terms of being able to suss out misspellings, alternate spellings, formats, etc. Kindof like going to Beatport and trying to search for something like "Artist & Artist2 feat. Your Momma - Song Name" which it can't handle. Apple is pretty much the same - you have alter it to a couple of keywords and /usually/ you'll get a better result. But not always.
Similarly, if you copy-and-paste from a web page and happen to catch a non-standard character, the form won't even allow you to paste into it. Instead, you have to figure out what went wrong, reselect the text and paste again.
But, hopefully 11 is a "step" in the right direction - I wish they would pay more attention to the details, which they are infamous for... until Maps showed up ;-)
Quicktime is a core part of the OS.
No it's not. It does exactly what you would want a media-playing subsystem to do - just helps playing media.
There's no point in removing it, but you can easily bypass or expand on it - Perian is an example plugin that adds support for additional media formats.
And Quicktime has nothing to do with iTunes other than help it play media - but you could also use VLC.
The iTunes library is accessed by other software
Yes, but it's an open format that anyone can just read and convert to something else if they really wanted.
It is about as well integrated as IE was, in that you can remove it but doing so will break things.
What would it break? Nothing would break. That's an absurd statement. Nothing in the system would care if you removed iTunes or the library.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Did they fix the bugs, the performance issues, the crashes, the thrashing of the library, the sync issues, the poor UI, the hiding of fields when they don't work properly making it near impossible to troubleshoot, the unresponsive UI, the resource hog?
Most of that they do seem to have fixed or at least made better. The new one is much faster for me on a large library, and also I think the UI is much better and clearer once you get used to it.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'll stick with DSS DJ Pro, thankyaveemuch.
Operation Guillotine is in effect.
Everything but music is still wholly infested with DRM. They dont just sell music on iTunes.....
Good-bye
Collection I never ever used it again all that money down the tubes.
iTunes 11 is a much better media player, BUT it is a much worse media manager. For me, I just use iTunes as a media manager. The major loss is the artwork pane. That is really inexcusable. Yes, you can see the artwork IF you play the song, but like I said, I don't play songs in iTunes, I do that on IOS. I don't WANT to bother other people in the room playing songs in iTunes, I JUST want to see the artwork. This really basic functionality is just gone in iTunes 11. MAJOR FAIL. There are other inexcusable losses in iTunes 11, but that is the worst one.
IANAn Apple user, but isn't there a way to remove drm's from Apple music, by burning the tracks to disc then copying them back from the disc?
I stopped paying for music after cd's. Just rebuilt my mp3 collection in less than 2 months by borrowing/ripping library CDs. After having backed up over 9000 tracks to flashdrive, I'm done for awhile. :-)
Yes, you can do that. You can also pay a small upgrade fee (about $0.20 per track in the US store I think?) to upgrade all of your prior DRM purchases to the new unencumbered versions.
why does an itunes story have a "drm" logo when itunes was the first webstore to sell drm free music?
Personally I dislike the AAC tracks which are incompatible with everything, which is the trouble with patent encumbered formats [No MP3 has nothing like the same problems]. I also find it kind of sad that those who bought those DRM (128-bit) laden tracks are not getting those tracks either upgraded to a higher quality version...or having the DRM removed. I think there are better stores today elsewhere, Amazon offers DRM free 256kb tracks. ...of course this does not say a lot about all the over content offered in iTunes which is still heavily DRM.
What are you smoking and where can I get it?
I use Apple's purchased-from-iTunes-AAC tracks in Ubuntu. Not sure how they're "incompatible with everything". Maybe I'm just imaging that they work with every (non-Apple) device I have used them on, including my cousin's Galaxy Ace (that's a mobile telephone running a popular OS based on Linux called Android).
Have you ever used a computer before today's slashdot post? Whose account did you buy given how low the UID is?
The bastard still requests to enter your password. You have to cancel twice every time you launch iTune.
ID: the nose did not occur naturally, how would we wear glasses otherwise? (apologies to Voltaire)
Need to use iTunes 11 behind a proxy. No worries. You can't, so just don't bother. https://discussions.apple.com/message/20455396?tstart=0#20455396?tstart=0
iTunes: Click here to upgrade to iTunes 11.
Me: No.
The change of font is horrible. On both my 11" MacBook air and my big 1920x1200 cinema display it looks blurry, hard to read, and is too large. I've read that it looks nice on a retina display, but for the rest of us it's illegible crap with no way to correct it except by manually editing the plist file and crossing your fingers you don't screw it up.
Michael J.
Root, God, what is difference?
Yeah you, Apple.
Hate to say it. Despite having an Ipad, Ipod and two Mac laptops the new version of Itunes still is one of the most hated pieces of software I have. Why can't the simply design a good piece of software?
It's impossible to get iTunes to stop downloading video that I've purchased through the account on my Apple TV. I have automatic downloads selected, but "TV/Movies" isn't an option block (I only have Music checked). Was hoping that would be fixed. It's not. Until that sucker is 100% downloaded, iTunes will merrily keep re-adding it to the queue if you remove it. Even if you select "Mark as Watched".
They should be able to effortlessly talk to each other with no outside influence at all. They are 100% technically capable of this behavior.
The whole world is happy with Dropbox style sharing, or other cloud based sharing. The fact that a device does not support your use case, which is less useful than simple dropbox-style sharing (because it only went on one other device you explicitly told it to) is not a failing of Apple or any other device maker, but of your own ability to adapt and find useful ways to work within systems that exist.
Basically you are like "direct transfer was good enough for my grandpappy, it should be good enough for anyone". Sorry buddy but the industry moves on from past ways.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Can you have multiple iTunes accounts on a single device though?
You can log out of one store account and into another. If they have iTunes match each login will get access to all of the music they own.
If not it is fairly useless in a family situation because everyone will want their own account, but at the same time want to share family purchased apps and media.
Apple's solution is that people have personal devices. In practice most games that save much state use gamecenter or other account mechanisms that you can switch out accounts if you want.
I personally think the Kindle Fire has a great family/multi-account solution.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The fact that a device does not support your use case, which is less useful than simple dropbox-style sharing (because it only went on one other device you explicitly told it to) is not a failing of Apple or any other device maker, but of your own ability to adapt and find useful ways to work within systems that exist.
Say I want to send 2 GB of files from one machine on a LAN to another machine on the same LAN. Why should I have to burn through 4 GB of my cap to upload the file to a server on the other end of the Internet and then download it? If being efficient with scarce resources such as Internet bandwidth constitutes "failing of [one's] own ability to adapt", then I'm fundamentally confused about something.
fluke and that plugin are old
So is my NES. It still works. People even still make new games for it. Or by "old" do you specifically mean "so old that the API it uses has changed so much that it no longer works"?
In fact only the iPad 3 & 4 do, the iPad Mini and various iPhones are all sub-HD so there is little point syncing HD media to them.
Other than that you bought it in HD and don't want to re-buy it in SD. Or does iTunes transcode DRM'd HD video to SD?
If you're syncing one library to devices belonging to multiple people, you're probably committing copyright infringement.
Under which country's law? Because Slashdot is hosted in the United States, I'll assume you mean United States law. If you claim infringement merely by non-commercially reproducing works onto multiple devices within one household, how would you square that with the carve-out of 17 USC 1008?
Does the Windows version of iTunes still install about half a dozen auxiliary programs and background processes? The last time I tried it, things were so bad that I basically consider this program to be malware. No, I don't want Bonjour, QuickTime, Safari, or any of that crap... I just want to be able to put files on my iDevice, and unfortunately since it won't show up as an external HDD like just about everything else out there, iTunes is the only way. It's getting to the point where you pretty much need a quarantined PC just for iDevice "syncing" (a stupid term, I don't want to sync anything, I just want to move files manually).
You claim that I have replaced the proposition with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition. What do you see as the key difference between the original proposition and the proposition that I have refuted?
Apple is ahead on tablets (55% to Andorid's 44%).
Is that averaged over a whole product generation, or is that just counting the effect of the recent release of the iPad mini and fourth generation iPad? If you sample after an iPad release, iOS will look ahead. If you sample after a Kindle Fire or other major Android tablet release, Android will look ahead.
Apple is way ahead of Android on games.
Is this still true even when you count the Super NES or Genesis cartridges that an Android device can run using a Retrode adapter and an emulator?
iOS is actually the biggest games platform there is. Selling more games than any other platform.
Not all video game genres are suitable for an iOS device out of the box. How many people who play games on iOS devices own external gamepads such as iControlPad or iCade, for example?
There's an announcement of an Android console shipping next April.
Is there any way to play games on an Apple TV, other than buying an iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad, running a game on that, and using the Apple TV just to relay the video?
6) Tepples also wants a pony.
Nope, I'm not the MLP:FIM fan in the family.
But then you have to buy the same stuff four or five times so everyone in the family can have it.
You have to do that anyway with video games because very few PC games support same-screen multiplayer or even spawn installation.
With a simple program you can easily work around the proxy issue, as explained in the only response to the link you posted.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Apparently this apple fanboi never heard of allofmp3.com
That may be the case, but it was pushing into a legal gray zone in Russia and eventually, by pressure from the media companies, got shut down.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
I saw this on a newsgroup post earlier today:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: iTunes 11 now available
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 20:38:19 -0500
From: JF Mezei
Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system
References:
Found an interesting tidbit:
> http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/30/apple-rolls-out-a-cleaner-itunes/?src=recg
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You can now redeem iTunes gift cards without having to type in that
723-digit code number. Just hold the bar code up to your computerâ(TM)s
Webcam; iTunes does the rest.
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That is neat.
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It should also be noted that AAC is to MPEG4 video, what MP3 is to MPEG1 video.
One thing I always found odd were the personal media payers that could play MPEG4 video, but couldn't play back AAC based tracks.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Definitions are in 17 USC 1001: "digital musical recording" and "analog musical recording" refer to a phonorecord, or what is commonly called a "copy" (because it is analogous to a copy of any work other than a sound recording).
by "old" i mean buggy support for 10.8.
as a dude who earns a living with audio, flac is the best cross platform lossless format. a native implementation of flac into itunes would be quick and painless, but no. they want to enforce alac. i simply refuse to use alac and use clementine to read flac on the mac without problems. but it's a shitty move on apple part anyway, not like alac is going anywhere and not like serious people are using alac, they could easily throw the towel and admit alac is stupid and flac is better.
One thing I always found odd were the personal media payers that could play MPEG4 video, but couldn't play back AAC based tracks.
Such a thing is technically possible, since an MPEG4 container can hold a variety of codecs, and so not all MPEG4 files are the same.
But yes, there has been some misunderstanding. People seem to think that AAC is a proprietary Apple codec. In reality, the standard is made by MPEG, the same group that made the MP3 standard. It is at least as open, and at least as much of a standard. MP3 is not without patent issues.
You could just as well ask why Google Play is not available on iOS devices.
That's because of Apple's requirement to use its own in-app purchasing framework, which gives Apple a 30% cut. The record labels expect to take 70% of gross, which would leave Google with no way to cover its own costs. Google likewise takes a cut of payments through applications distributed through Google Play Store, but unlike on iOS, practically all Android devices allow loading applications through "Unknown sources".
In the meantime, Amazon offers music and video services with (re-)downloading and streaming, and clients available for both iOS and Android
I've been mostly happy with Amazon MP3 on my Android device. But I tried searching for "Anyone at All" by Carole King, and the song was only available as part of the $10 You've Got Mail bundle.
Or by "old" do you specifically mean "so old that the API it uses has changed so much that it no longer works"?
by "old" i mean buggy support for 10.8.
Thank you for clarifying.
as a dude who earns a living with audio, flac is the best cross platform lossless format. a native implementation of flac into itunes would be quick and painless, but no. they want to enforce alac.
I agree with you that I'd prefer that Apple support FLAC, but for the sake of completeness: In what noticeable way is FLAC better? Apple Lossless has been distributed as free software under the Apache license for the past year.
They have not changed the App/home screen management options for iphones & ipads. You still can't resize the viewable area so you can see ALL of your iphone screens. It uses something like 640x480 on my 1920x1200 monitor. There is still no logical link from managing your apps on your device to managing your local app library. I have some crappy old app, i see it in the iphone management screen. I think, i should delete that. The only way to do so is exit the screen to go manage my local library, and delete it there. I haven't tested this for sure, but I bet there is still no way to save a layout/set of apps and locations. More times than I'd like I've had to do a full reset, and then manually rearrange all my apps. Doing a restore from backup is not a solution; that restores whatever was borked, requiring a reset.
you can do this, but you lose a lot of quality. YOu are taking a lossy-compressed file, uncompressing it, and then lossy-compress it again. Without the original full version the lossy compression ends up worse.
I miss iTunes DJ, I guess I'll have to learn how to interact with Up Next instead.
With apple sometimes these transitions are easy and for the better (e.g. almost every radical change I remember in Safari), sometimes they are just annoying and remain so (e.g. removal of whatever the grid multi-desktop ui was called... screens or something)
Like anyone can even know that
Simply put, the interface is visually hideous. The indicator that tells you which part(s) of the screen you can drag to resize the window are missing, the look and fonts are different from every other part of the Mac interface and the precedent it set - and what people are used to.
The gradation looks like something done by a high school student in Photoshop.
It's just simply bad.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Then again, the Android console price is only projected - it might go up
How will the price go up for people who lock in a preorder today?
$99 vs $99. No difference.
Apple TV + iPod touch: $398. Apple TV + iPad mini: $428. To be fair, if you want to play touch games, you need a tablet too, but a Nexus 7 is a bit cheaper than an iPad mini.
And the Android console will only run the few specially made games
It won't launch with as many games as the iPod touch currently has, I'll grant you that. And to be fair, I just edited Wikipedia's article about Ouya to remove a spurious claim that it'd have access to Google Play Store. But I was under the impression that in addition to specially made games, it'd launch with a large selection of OnLive games, and porting any Android game that supports iControlPad or iCade would be an easy task.