iTunes 9 Review
I’ve always had a love/hate relationship going with iTunes. On one hand I’ve loved the sheer amount of content I could get from it. Movies, music, audiobooks, iPhone apps…there’s just a ton of stuff available in the iTunes store. But I’ve also been annoyed by its slowness, clunky interface and various other things.
So I was very happy today that Apple announced iTunes 9 at the “It’s Only Rock and Roll” special event. This is a very important upgrade to iTunes that fixes a number of past problems and also adds a lot of value for iTunes customers as you’ll see when you read this review.
The iTunes store gets a much needed face-lift in this release.
What’s New In This Release
Apple has added some major goodies in this release and here’s a quick breakdown of each of them:
iTunes LP
iTunes LP is Apple’s attempt to help save the music industry by bringing back the value that used to be provided by albums. Way back when people still bought physical records it used to be fun to look at liner notes, lyrics, etc. Well iTunes LP provides that and more including live performance videos, artwork, photos, album credits, interviews and more for select albums.
iTunes LP is a great way to encourage music buyers to buy an entire album instead of just a song or two. Some albums were really meant to be one entire experience and not to be carved into single songs. I can’t imagine, for example, what it would be like to simply listen to a song or two off of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti album without knowing about the rest of what was available on it.
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The Collective
“Certainly classics like Led Zeppelin 4 and other albums should get iTunes LP content ahead of some of the trashier music genres like rap or the obnoxious pop tarts like Britney Spears, etc.. ”
Nice article however, comments like this were totally unnecessary and could be deemed offensive to those of us that actually like rap.. not 50 Cent but more RUN DMC rap or pop-rap like a Kanye West for example.
Led Zeppelin outside of White America, in America of course, is most likely viewed as “trash”
One thing that you must agree with iTunes is that they tend to be demanding on processing power.
I think that i will give this one a go.
Or probably not.
There are too many ads on your blog,then tend t distract readers.Apart from that a very nice blog
The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming!
One thing you may have missed is that the new iTunes store has eliminated the iPod clickwheel games as a separate link. According to Apple, they are hidden amongst the apps in the Apps Store — but they aren’t coming up in any search I’ve tried for those I’ve bought already.
Tejaswy wrote:
I think it’s worth upgrading, I would not go back to the earlier version of iTunes.
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Idris Abdullahi wrote:
I totally do not see it as a racial issue. People of all races like different genres of music, you really can’t go by race as far as musical tastes. I dislike rap and pretty much always have (with a few exceptions) and I prefer that Apple add iTunes LP content to stuff like Zeppelin rather than wasting it on rap. They can always do the rap stuff later on. But that’s just my taste and my two cents, take it as you will.
What incredibility cluttered blog pages. Seven screens to publish an 800 word review. This must be a new record.