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iTunes 5? [Updated]

Thursday October 9, 2003 1:18 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
An unverified but unusually detailed submission claims that iTunes 5 will be introduced on October 16th, and will be both Mac and PC compatible. New features are said to include WMA support, music store "listener loans", new encoding options and an all new interface.



New iPod accessories are said to include a recording device, a new dock to transfer and view movies and photos on a television and a bluetooth dock/headphone pair.



Meanwhile, a second (somewhat more reliable) report claims that beyond the recording device, there will be an adapter to provide SD and CF card interface to transfer photos to the iPod... possibly validating some information in the above report.



Readers may recall that rumors of iPod peripherals were first noted in late August. At the time, it was reported that the new peripherals would require iPod software updates for their function.

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wuntrikpony
109 months ago
They better not change the interface too much, i LOOOOOOVE iTunes the way it is.
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nagromme
109 months ago
Hope those headphones work with PowerBooks!

IF any of those rumors are true, they'd make a nice event all together with the Windows iTMS next Thu.

WMA support? I hope Apple doesn't support MS in that way. And I hope the iTunes UI is refined at most, not scrapped altogether.

It always did seem likely to me that iTunes for Windows would be a NEW version, not the same old, and that therefore a new Mac one would come alongside it.
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timdorr
109 months ago
A bluetooth dock is out of the question. Bluetooth is too slow, they might as well add USB1.0, in that case :S

The movie transfer and playback capability seems fishy too. Someone would have already come across somethign like this, and the iPod just isn't powerful enough to decrypt a full MPEG stream.

The iTunes 5 stuff also sounds way too out there, and doesn't coincide with what people inside Apple are telling me. I say this one will be disproven a bit ;)
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nagromme
109 months ago
A BT "dock" could be JUST for the wireless headphones, and maybe other functions (synching iCal and ratings? updating a couple new songs slowly while you work, if you want that option)... it need not be the main music-transfer method.

The bandwidth of BT apparently exceeds that needed for digital audio listeneing.
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.a
109 months ago
...that would be awesome!

i am still one of those without an ipod. i'm in the market for one.
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SiliconAddict
109 months ago
I think I speak for most what I say SWEET [BEEEEP]
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arn
109 months ago
yep.... take it with a grain of salt.

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bitfactory
109 months ago
Windows Media? hahahaha - that blows the credibility of this report... i find it hard to believe they would do that - especially if the iPod doesn't support it (and hopefully never will). dream on.
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oliverlubin
109 months ago
um wow. if all of it were true ... wow. loaned downloads though, what's that, a limited lifetime download for cheaper or an alternative to the current "preview"?
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Stella
109 months ago
WMA support

Please, No.
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