Apple Releases Major iTunes Update 910
shunnicutt writes "Apple has released iTunes 4.5 (and iPod software 2.2 and QuickTime 6.5.1) and relaxed some iTunes Music Store restrictions: now tracks you purchased can be authorized to play on up to five other computers, instead of three. However, they reduced the number of times you can burn a playlist to an audio CD from ten to seven. Another new feature is iMix, which allows you to publish playlists on iTMS, including comments on each track. The iTMS also offers a weekly free single for download."
crazney adds "This release also changes their network sharing protocol in a way that breaks the open source iTunes sharing applications that have been released (based on my work on iTunes 4.2's DRM)."
kefoo writes "Among the new features is Apple Lossless Encoding, which claims to compress losslessly to half the size of uncompressed CD quality audio." Hm, and I was about to re-rip all my CDs at 320 kbps MP3 ...
Update: 04/28 14:56 GMT by P : I just tested, and I can listen to previously de-DRM'd AAC files from playfair, but I cannot use either playfair or FairTunes any longer. The former "Couldn't get DRM key for user," and the latter produces a blank file.
Global Compression Format War (Score:4, Funny)
"The only winning move is not to play."
Can't way to see how Apple tried to lock people in to a lossless format... best of luck to you guys, and have fun pissing away your resources on this stupid game.
OK... (Score:5, Funny)
So let's bring out the ALE and get drunk celebrating.
Lossless (Score:2, Funny)
Mmmmm, lossless goodness, tastes great, less filling.
losslessly to half the size of uncompressed CD (Score:-1, Funny)
hmm, isn't that pretty bad actually? can't you get that kind of compression(get 40mb wav into 20mb file) with just zip&others on pretty easily anyways, fucking _ten_years_ago_.
Notice the little ad during the setup (Score:1, Funny)
Re:iTunes 4.5 is a screen hog (Score:4, Funny)
As with many things in life (bigger budgets/more expenses, bigger houses/more junk), the bigger your screen gets, the more apps you will run... thus nullifying the larger screen's real-estate.
-m
Re: losslessly to half the size of uncompressed CD (Score:5, Funny)
Absolutely, for WAV files which are half silence.
Re:Global Compression Format War (Score:2, Funny)
That doesn't look like a typo. That looks like using words you don't understand...
Wen try to het frist post somethines I just mash my palms into the kleyboard.
Re:Missing: Basic Features (Score:5, Funny)
Ummm...does it matter? What constitutes "real Queueing" for you? It fuckin queues a track. Sounds real enough to me.
Re:This whole limit of computers... (Score:5, Funny)
At least not to me, a mere mortal. Perhaps an audio god could detect a difference. But they wouldn't recompress anyway - they'd store them all as uncompressed raw audio after hand-ripping them from the original masters they borrowed from the publisher.
Re:iTunes 4.5 is a screen hog (Score:5, Funny)
May I humbly offer the suggestion that you acquire Self-Restraint 1.0?
It's free.
KFG
Re:Slight change in the rules... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:iTunes 4.5 is a screen hog (Score:5, Funny)
>It's free.
>KFG
Free as in beer? Or Free as in speech?
Sorry, I couldn't RESIST.
Re:Apple lossless (Score:4, Funny)
The extension for the lossless codec is .m4a (yes I checked), these are two short sample files (440 Hz, 1s).
They're right, it's lossless, I can't tell the difference between the two! :p
Re:iTunes 4.5 is a screen hog (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah but you have to grab the screen with your hand and concentrate.
Re:Or The Beatles... (Score:0, Funny)
Yep. It's a well-known fact that Lennon and McCartney could only write a quarter of a song each. (Things got even worse when Ringo or George wanted to pitch in. Lots of dealing with fractions...) At the end of their frustrated labors, only half a song sat on the table before them. That's when they broke out the LSD and called in the groupies! And now you know why it's called a "hummer."
Re:By the numbers (Score:2, Funny)
Yes, and they have been going belly up for 20 years too!
Re:iTunes 4.5 is a screen hog (Score:4, Funny)
I've seen a demo of that, but.. I was unimpressed. There's no documentation, either.
Re: losslessly to half the size of uncompressed CD (Score:2, Funny)
Hah. I will trade you a DBA for that Comm major.
I once had to explain the concept of adding a negative number to a positive number, and why 1 + (-1) = 0 instead of 2. I found it very scary when that DBA got the "glazed-eye syndrome".
Re:iTunes 4.5 is a screen hog (Score:4, Funny)
KFG