Why not have the news submission tomorrow then?
The most interesting thing is that they only announced it a day in advance. It used to be weeks of speculation for each event.
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I still don't understand why the Beatles being on iTunes is such a big deal. Anybody that cares about the Beatles already has their music, and it's already synced to their iDevice. At this point, it's nothing more than a business deal between Apple and the Beatles music label. Why should anybody else care?
I was thinking that it will be a Beatles announcement too. It seems like nobody will care, but at this point it has been scrutinized by so many folks that it has become a bigger deal.
It's definitely a stretch, but did anyone else notice the similarities between the apple teaser page and the beatles help album cover?
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I think I might be the only person on HN who actually luv- luv- luvs iTunes, and I say this as someone who once wrote his own MP3 player interface out of extreme music-player-fussiness. The "kruft" ship sailed the minute I downloaded Firefox.
I like some things (Genius, the smart playlists, podcasts), am indifferent to a large swath of others (the store, video, radio, DJ, home sharing, library sharing, visualization) and am brought to a white-hot nun-punching rage by the (finite but unbounded) set of bugs, warts and misfeatures. Why can't I have my view settings sticky across all the various views? Why do you INSIST on showing me the utterly useless genre…
"Genres" is the second most important organizational tool in my library, after artist name and just before Genius.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like some things (Genius, the smart playlists, podcasts), am indifferent to a large swath of others (the store, video, radio, DJ, home sharing, library sharing, visualization) and am brought to a white-hot nun-punching rage by the (finite but unbounded) set of bugs, warts and misfeatures. Why can't I have my view settings sticky across all the various views? Why do you INSIST on showing me the utterly useless genre…
"Genres" is the second most important organizational tool in my library, after artist name and just before Genius.
See, I use "Genre" as a free-form tagging field, for metadata that has no other home. Therefore, they are unique per artist (for the most part) and serve no useful purpose in browsing. So I never want them in my browser; I can set this for the main library, but the values are not inherited. It's like the iTunes team looked at the Finder and said .... "hmmm".
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#95This must either be syncing devices over the air or a music subscription service. I think the "never forget" part is important. You will "never forget" to sync your device, ever again. Your computer will "never forget" your music, because it's stored in the cloud.
Maybe some chick will run in and throw a mallet at some Apple head regurgitating marketspeak. And then Richard Dreyfuss will tell us that 2010 won't be anything like the 2010 book. And then we can weep at the sorry state of technology and what passes as "unforgeable" nowadays.
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#96Perhaps they're moving away from "Tunes"? It was a music player. Now it's a music, video, book, and app store and media center, as well as a connection hub for all of your accessory devices. I have a feeling that whatever they announce tomorrow will only be a proliferation of this trend. "iTunes" has got a ton of brand awareness, but we've seen them appropriately drop "Computer" from their company name and "Phone" fr…
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#97"Tomorrow is just another day.
That you'll never forget."
Am I the only one that laughed out loud when the second line faded in? I have given Steve Jobs more money than I care to admit, but the hyperbole is bordering on self-parody.
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#98My guess:
Most US radio stations (or at least all CBS stations) now stream live through iTunes.
User generated playlist stations will be supported, Apple inserts the ads. Users earn a cut of revenue for promoting such stations and encouraging people to buy more music.
One click purchase of anything you're listening to live.
Apple solves the demand generation problem and saves the music industry.
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"Genres" is the second most important organizational tool in my library, after artist name and just before Genius.
See, I use "Genre" as a free-form tagging field, for metadata that has no other home. Therefore, they are unique per artist (for the most part) and serve no useful purpose in browsing. So I never want them in my browser; I can set this for the main library, but the values are not inherited. It's like the iTunes team looked at the Finder and said .... "hmmm".
That's what the Grouping field is for.
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Nope, not the only one. I don’t use an iPod, or an iPhone, or an TV, but I think iTunes is wonderful as a PC music player. It beats the pants off everything that came before (remember all those music player apps whose selling point was that they had pretty, customizable “skins”?), and hasn’t really been challenged by anything since. For all the talk of bloat, the changes and additions over the last few years to the…
> sorting by album by artist, adding a “sort by” metadata field, improving the organization of playlists, “smart” playlists, and playlist folders, views organized by album art rather than text, improvements to the column browser, &c I don't know enough about the history of music players to say whether iTunes created those innovations (though I'd be surprised, except for the album art one), I can say for sure most any…
To each his own. Foobar2000 looks pretty much like all the music players before iTunes: http://www.foobar2000.org/images/img/main.png
What I like about iTunes is that, in one window, it shows me all of my music in a way that is clean, consistent, and very easy to navigate. At least for my own usage patterns, the “one big window with an effective search box” display is just what I want. If it takes 10 seconds to start (as it does on my laptop), that’s frankly not a problem, as I just leave it open all the time; it doesn’t take any CPU to speak of when it’s not actively playing music.