Politics. Music. Life. And the pursuit of fractal integrity in 108,050 Glorious Words.
Yes, I return with a tenured professor in my pants (damn the USA network).
Apple chief Steve Jobs returned to the mainstage yesterday and unveiled his plans to rule the digital world. He announced many new products and services:
- Apple will now sell digital movie downloads. $9.99 for back lot titles, $12.99 for preorders, and $14.99 for new titles.
- iPod games are available for $4.99 a pop.
- The Nano is now aluminum and sells in silver, pink, black, green, and blue (like it’s Mini predecessor). Three models include 2, 4, and 8 gigs.
- The iPod (now video standard) includes 30 and 80 gigs models.
- The iPod and the Nano include brightness control, search, and arrive with new and more comfortable and bass heavy earbuds.
- The Shuffle is now 2 in x 1 in making it the tiniest mp3 player in existence.
You can find many pictures here.
iTunes 7 includes the heaviest and prettiest updates:
It includes the standard list view.
(boring.)
Grouped by artwork.
And cover browser.
The devil’s in the details. So, here are some details:
You can now sort your view by Album, Album by Artist, and Album by Year by clicking the Album view tab.
iTunes now features gapless playback. After installation, iTunes scans your entire library and sets gapless playback. Basically, the final seconds of silence are skipped to allow a CD-style flow.
New tags include Album Artist for music and Video Type for videos and Skip when shuffling for both. iTunes now counts track skips and includes an updated system tray icon:
The iPod interface has had a facelift:
That’s all for now.
