iTunes 9 Review
Store Redesign
Apple has wisely used this release to fix the navigation problems with the iTunes store. In the past it has been irritating to navigate between sections of the store. In iTunes 9 though it’s much easier to get where you want to go since navigation has been moved to the top.
You’ll notice the following in the navigation toolbar at the top of the iTunes store:
Home
Music
Movies
TV Shows
App Store
Podcasts
Audiobooks
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You can click each of these to hop to that section of the store or click and hold to get a choice of sub-sections within each section. It really makes navigating the iTunes store a much more pleasurable experience. I found myself hopping around a lot more and not having to navigate back to the home page of the store nearly as often.
Improved Syncing
The inability to easily arrange my iPhone apps has always irritated me beyond belief. Apple has finally fixed this by letting iPhone owners easily arrange their apps right from within iTunes. Thank you Apple! I have already gone through my apps and arranged them the way I’ve always wanted. It’s much faster and easier than trying to do it via multi-touch on the iPhone app menu screen itself.
Note that you can also now sync music by artist or genre and you can sync photos be Events or Faces. While I can appreciate these two features, both of them pale before the sheer awesomeness that is the ability to arrange apps from within iTunes. I would have upgraded to iTunes 9 for this feature alone, all other things aside.
You can easily and quickly arrange your iPhone apps in iTunes 9 by dragging and dropping them.
(4 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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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.
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