If you go to Apple’s website at www.apple.com you will see it proclaim “Tomorrow is just another day. That you’ll never forget”, telling visitors to come back for an exciting announcement from iTunes. The front page lists the time in different locations as to when the announcement will be revealed: 7AM in California, 10AM in [...]
Archive for category iTunes
iTunes 9.2 is out
Jun 17
Hot on the heels of Mac OS X 10.6.4, Apple released an update to their multimedia management application. With this update, iTunes not only will manage your songs, movies, TV shows, audiobooks, and podcasts, it will now manage your PDFs. One of iTunes 9.2′s new feature is organizing and syncing PDF documents as books. PDFs [...]
iTunes 9.0.2 update out
Nov 1
iTunes 9.0.2 adds support for Apple TV software version 3.0, adds an option for a dark background for Grid View, and improves support for accessibility. The many new features and improvements include: An improved look and feel, including a new Column Browser for easily browsing your artists or albums, movies, TV shows, and more. iTunes [...]
iTunes and Logic updates out
Sep 23
Two weeks after the release of iTunes 9, Apple has released an update to their media player and manager that brings fixes to issues such as iTunes Store browsing and podcasts syncing. According to the support document, iTunes 9.0.1 provides a number of important bug fixes, including: Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store. Addresses a [...]
AppleInsider reported that a virus database update over the weekend has caused AVG, a Windows anti-virus program, to falsely detect the iTunes software as a Trojan. The faulty database update is said to detect iTunes DLL files as the “Small.BOG” Trojan virus. AVG immediately posted a fix but some users might still continue experiencing issues [...]
Update: iTunes 8.2.1
Jul 16
iTunes 8.2.1 has been released and though this minor update still has the same obfuscated “provides a number of important bug fixes…”, this time around one thing is clear: an additional “…and addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices” has cut short Palm’s effort to pull a fast one on Apple. According to AppleInsider, the [...]
Before the release of the Pre smartphone, Palm made it known beforehand that the Pre can sync with Apple’s iTunes. A famous hacker has revealed that Palm hack’s makes the Pre act like an iPod even reporting as the Palm device as being made by Apple. Apple hasn’t made any public comment about this hack. [...]
A MacRumors forum poster pointed out that in the iTunes 8.2 beta About iTunes window, a reference to Blu-ray can be found: … DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and music and video-related data from Gracenote, Inc., copyright © 2000… This has led to speculations that the next version of iTunes will be able to read or recognize Blu-ray [...]
From Apple’s support page: iTunes 8.1.1 adds support for renting HD movies and provides a number of bug fixes, including addressing issues with VoiceOver and syncing with iPhone or iPod touch. It’s a 66MB download for Mac users and a 70.9MB download for Windows users.
iLounge discusses the secrets and features in the recently updated iTunes. The articles covers topics such as the ‘new’ iTunes DJ feature, autofill, importing CDs in iTunes Plus quality, and a few more.
From ArsTechnica: Apple didn’t really mention the expansion of Autofill when it announced iTunes 8.1 and, unlike Genius, iTunes itself doesn’t exactly get in your face about using Autofill. In fact, you’ll have to visit a few different screens to use the feature, although enabling it isn’t difficult by any means. Basically, once your iPod [...]
Right on the heels of the new iPod shuffles, Apple released updates for both iTunes and Front Row. According to Apple’s download support page, iTunes 8.1 is “now faster and more responsive.” The support page also said, “You will enjoy noticeable improvements when working with large libraries, browsing the iTunes Store, preparing to sync with [...]
iTunes 8
Sep 14
At the Let’s Rock event held on September 9, 2008 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, Apple unveiled their latest iPod line up and iTunes version 8. This latest version of iTunes can be downloaded from Apple’s website or through the software update utility though Vista users have experienced issues after installing iTunes [...]
Mike Schramm of The Unofficial Apple Weblog has one advice when it comes to moving your iTunes library from one iTunes installation to another: it’s not as easy as you think. (Please check out the comments. The readers offer alternative solutions to what was linked to. Actually, the author of the blog Schramm links to [...]
