iTunes 8.1 now available

Feek

Feek

Feek

Commissario
Joined
16 Oct 2002
Posts
343,422
Location
In the radio shack
Noticed earlier today that iTunes 8.1 is available. Lots of little tweaks but it looks as though the most noticable one is speed, there are a lot of reports about saying it's very much faster than before.
 
Seems alrite so far, found one dumb change though.

3405235.png
 
Huh? What's dumb about that? It now defaults to a higher quality encoding rather than a lower one.
 
I'm not disagreeing with the change in the default bitrate setting, just calling it iTunes Plus seems a bit lame.
 
a lot better for browsing albums in tile view for me!

Whats this itunes dj too? could be interesting :)


EDIT, browsing in coverflow (which i use a lot) when i scroll using 2 fingers on my trackpad it seems to get stuck on some covers, its really annoying!
 
Last edited:
iTunes DJ is just a revamped party shuffle.

Now you can suggest or rate songs from your iPod Touch / iPhone and they will be added / removed from the playlist. E.g. You can set up a party and friends that have access to remote.app on their iPhones will be able to request a song gets bumped up the playlist if they don't like the current song.

I don't agree with them marketing the 256kbps VBR AAC encoding as a new feature. It's always been available; they just enabled it by default and called it iTunes plus.
 
I'm still getting used to it starting in less than a second vs the 5+ it used to take :)

The improvements to party shuffle, erm... DJ, are nice. Looking forward to putting it to the test at a real party.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom