iTunes v.8.0

[TimJim]

so what does everyone think of the new iTunes version?

i dont care for it very much but it just finished about 10 minutes ago



discuss

[Meatplow]

itunes, no thanks, no thanks

[static]

it's okay


foxytunes doesn't work for it though, so idk

[mbs2]

this genius feature is super suspicious and 1984 esque. i keep trying to open the "what's new" page on the apple web site and it keeps crashing.

COINCIDENCE?

oooh, new visualizers.

[Dimmu Burger]

It has a new way of viewing your library which is neat, though I still prefer the cover flow view.

Genius is funny. It doesn't know jack about music. It's like "oh you like rock music, here's some more rock music you'll like!"

Oh and I'm freakin pumped that Battlestar Galactica and other NBC Universal stuff is back on iTunes. I'm buying season 3 of BsG as soon as I get some cash!

[mbs2]

haha i figured genius would be like that since that's what the itunes store recommends is like

[Iscariot]

i haven't installed it yet

i'll pop open itunes and do it now

[Eliminator]

lol itunes

[Dimmu Burger]

They really need to expand their genres. Everything is rock or alternative. Retards.

[Iscariot]

lol itunes

are you jealous because you don't have an iPod? :confused:

[Jawaharal]

dling 8.0 right now

[Dimmu Burger]

Eliminator is above iPods.

[Eliminator]

i wish i had an ipod so i could use a crappy media player damn bro

[iarescientists]

np winamp

[Meatplow]

i was a longtime winamp using then foobar converted me

[Eliminator]

ya smae here tbh

[Meatplow]

user* yeah

[mbs2]

i'm not really impressed with the genius sidebar. i thought it'd recommend albums/songs that are similar to the one selected but it's actually just songs that i don't have from the same artist.

[Dimmu Burger]

That and stuff that is vaguely similar. That's what it did for me.

[mbs2]

genius is turning out to be pretty okay. i've been making playlists all day and listening to them. here's one that it based off of grace by jeff buckley
http://i38.tinypic.com/110c0sl.jpg

[djtdub105]

genius seems alright, but i'd still probably just wind up changing the lists anyways

[keyboardxmosh]

i like how itunes looks and organizes my musics

but, as i understand, its not obscure enough for elim

****ing fatty

[Iscariot]

i was a longtime winamp using then foobar converted me

i was a longtime winamp user and then i got sick of it devouring the half of my resources that firefox doesn't swallow up

[jrowa001]

the new itunes is cool i guess. i havent bothered trying genius out

[Dimmu Burger]

genius is turning out to be pretty okay. i've been making playlists all day and listening to them. here's one that it based off of grace by jeff buckley
http://i38.tinypic.com/110c0sl.jpg

Dude most that stuff is nothing like Jeff Buckley.

[fingers mccoy]

um a lot of it is fairly similar actually

[Czech Yourself]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/Pantera76/INTEUAS.jpg

Do you have to have an iTunes store account to use it? I'm deff not putting in my credit card number.

[Skyler]

genius is alright, somewhat useless to me though. i really like the new cover art browser though. i think it's going to be my new default method of browsing music.

[Czech Yourself]

I've always been using the basic list view.

I use Pandora, or Last.fm or my friends to tell me what artists are similar.

I also have stolen most of my music as well so I don't want apple to be like omg l33t h4x

[pppoe]

iTunes more like iGay.

[Iscariot]

genius is alright, somewhat useless to me though. i really like the new cover art browser though. i think it's going to be my new default method of browsing music.

the cover art browser is a little :( for me because i download most of my music so i only have cover art for half my albums

iGay.

yes we know you are

[pppoe]

Iscariot more like Igayriot.

[Iscariot]

Igay

yeah we got it already

[Dimmu Burger]

Czech I don't think you need to put in your credit card number.

Though its not worth getting iTunes 8 just for Genius because, like the media, it is retarded when it comes to music.

[Iscariot]

yeah credit card is not required for an itunes store account

[Czech Yourself]

odd. It's making me.

[Skyler]

the cover art browser is a little :( for me because i download most of my music so i only have cover art for half my albums

Select album -> right click -> get album art

Or manually put it in yourself, like I do.

[kattunlover69]

wmv>>>>itunes

[Iscariot]

Select album -> right click -> get album art

Or manually put it in yourself, like I do.

brilliant!

[mbs2]

or even better

advanced > get album art

[Iscariot]

wmv>>>>itunes

*wmp and no it's crap

[808]

odd. It's making me.

Yer. I tried to download some podcast things a while back and it asked me to create an account, and you need to enter in a credit card number to do that.

[TimJim]

*wmp And No It's Crap
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[Eliminator]

i was a longtime winamp user and then i got sick of it devouring the half of my resources that firefox doesn't swallow up
ya so you switched to itunes makes sense

[Jawaharal]

itunes is good stfu

[Eliminator]

imAan Eelitist

[Czech Yourself]

lol

[Skyler]

ya so you switched to itunes makes sense

itunes is currently using less than 1% of my system's cpu, so yeah i'm not sure what you mean

[Eliminator]

ElTisits Dont NeeD noReeAsSons ApprEaciaTTte dA h8

[silicon71]

iTunes 8 is pro as hell and genius helped me find some sweet beats

[Luc214]

I rarely make playlists so **** genius

as for the aesthetics they're fine but not amazing or revolutionary.

[niobium]

winamp is so choice

[Pebster49]

It seems interesting, I never really browse music by album covers though

[Dimmu Burger]

Select album -> right click -> get album art

Or manually put it in yourself, like I do.

You need to put it in yourself because letting iTunes do it wont stick the art to the files.

[Luc214]

I have a process all my music goes through before an audio program even touches it including getting art so that's not a problem.

[niobium]

id on't get the purpse of looking at album art while im listening to songs its not like i hole up album art from a cd jewel case in front of my face when i put music on

[Dimmu Burger]

id on't get the purpse of looking at album art while im listening to songs its not like i hole up album art from a cd jewel case in front of my face when i put music on

True, but I like having it there to glance at once in awhile, its just neat for me.

I have a process all my music goes through before an audio program even touches it including getting art so that's not a problem.

Yeah I always fix the tags before I listen or put it on my iPod. Mainly I have to get album art and fix the genre.

[TimJim]

You need to put it in yourself because letting iTunes do it wont stick the art to the files.except that tends to make the music file huge

[Iscariot]

iTunes worked great for slapping artwork on most of my albums and it carried over to my iPod just fine but there are about a dozen albums i need to manually add the cover art for

i don't understand how iTunes couldn't acquire album art for my tool albums

[niobium]

except that tends to make the music file hugeonly like 30kb larger depending on the image, obv don't go sticking in a 1mb bmp, but that wouldn't work anyway

[Dimmu Burger]

except that tends to make the music file huge

Its ok, I have a 160 gig iPod, so I have space.

Problem now is a lot of the artwork isn't showing up anymore. I'm debating restoring it and putting everything back on it, but I worry about doing that cause if my hard drive fails then I lose everything. I might just take it back to best buy and have them replace it, lol.

[EaterOfUterus]

I like it especially the new feature of the music library

[Dimmu Burger]

The new view is neat, but I listen to my stuff with my iPod plugged into the computer so I can't use the new view. I can't fit all of my music on my computer, I have to use the external hard drive, which I don't have plugged into my laptop. Gay!

[TimJim]

how much do you have?

[Jacaranda]

how the **** do i remove those ugly arrows that send me to the itunes music store when i push them?

i don't like this as much as last one. with artwork showing the lines separating albums need to be thicker.

[jrowa001]

ive been wondering the same thing because i remember in the older version of itunes there was an option to not have the arrows.

it feels like itunes8.0 takes a little bit longer to start up

[mbs2]

ive been wondering the same thing because i remember in the older version of itunes there was an option to not have the arrows.

it feels like itunes8.0 takes a little bit longer to start up

i can't figure out how to do it. it used to be in preferences but now it's not. lame

[Jacaranda]

i cannot handle the ****ing arrows.

[PshSam]

i like the visualizers. alot.

however...there arn't nearly as many...i think i've already seen the same ones over and over, but they're still good.

[guitrguy]

anyone else having itunes split up albums for no reason? I can't get them back together, even though I have the artist and album info tagged properly.

[TimJim]

i have that happened

make sure that all the caps are the same and everything

[Skyler]

anyone else having itunes split up albums for no reason? I can't get them back together, even though I have the artist and album info tagged properly.

select the album -> right click -> get info

add a space to the end of the album name, click done

repeat and remove the space

[Dimmu Burger]

how much do you have?

120 gigs.


Skyler: Good advice, thanks dude!

[jrowa001]

yeah thats what i have to do in order to fix the albums that are split up. its dumb that you have to do that.

im guessing they took away the option to remove the arrows so that possibly more people would go to the intunes store. which annoys me since i never use their store unless i have some free songs

[TimJim]

120 gigs.


Skyler: Good advice, thanks dude!oh wow

im srsly considering breaking my 80gig so that i can get the new 120gig

[static]

shitty bump

[TimJim]

tbh it wasnt a bump, ive just been gone for the last four days and need to catch up

[static]

bump

[Luc214]

yeah I need the 120 gig, I have like 100mb of space left on my 80 gig.

[GreyHam]

im not adverse to the genius function, its made me some nice playlists so far

cant say its innovation of the year mind, but it works better than the auto playlist function

[TimJim]

im not adverse to the genius function, its made me some nice playlists so far

cant say its innovation of the year mind, but it works better than the auto playlist functioni turned it on then turned it off after i realized that it could recognize pirated music

[Dimmu Burger]

How can it do that?

[P13]

iTunes music store= run by retards
http://i321.photobucket.com/albums/nn393/GoranVir/Picture3.png

can you tell what is wrong here? I didn't buy the album for like 2 months because I thought it wasn't them.

[masada]

you're definitely not

[TimJim]

How can it do that?by the comments i would guess


that and how else could your library gain 1Gb/week of music?

[Dimmu Burger]

Well I don't think that it can do that really. I'm gonna need further proof.

[TimJim]

well i dont have any

but i get paranoid so hey

[Dimmu Burger]

If they haven't arrested me and taken all of my property to pay fines then they aren't going to.