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iTunes 7 Introduced

iTunes 7, announced at today's "It's Showtime" media event, is available for download (requires Quicktime 7.1.3, available here). The "iTunes Music Store" is now referred to as the "iTunes Store".

iTunes has interface changes, as well as new features:

Movies - 640 x 480 px movies you can purchase for download from the iTunes store. Currently, only Disney-affiliated movies (Disney, Pixar, Miramax, Touchstone) are offered, but Jobs promised more to come. More details are available via Apple's site.

Cover Flow - lets you navigate through album art to mimic flipping through a CD collection. details

Free Album Art - automatically fetching of album art for CDs you import (with iTunes account).

iPod Games - $4.99 in the iTunes store. details

iPod Summary - at-a-glance information, including storage allocation. details

TV Show Resolution - TV shows will now be sold at 640x480 px h264. While the updated 5G iPods announced today will be able to play the new format, there has not been any indication from Apple of yet that the new shows will be playable on older 5G iPods. Apple's official knowledge-base article still states that h264-encoded movies must be 320 x 240 at 30 fps.

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71 months ago
-Source list now includes library with sep libraries for all forms of media.
-Store now has own section, devices have their own sections, playlists too.
-iTunes will give you cover art for free if you are missing cover art (thanks Steve).
-3 different views of iTunes, list view, album view (with art and tracks), then "cover flow view" lets you rapidly find what you want by album cover.
-Pod updater appears to be now integrated into iTunes
-TV shows are now encoded at 640x480 (h264), up from 320x240
- You can now sync between multiple computers using an iPod, as long as both are authorized on the same account.
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71 months ago
How long does it usually take for new releases to be available? So it's been announced it will be available "today". So.... what's the average? Hours? Minutes?

Yes, I'm an impatient child. :D
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71 months ago
Well, that didn't take long. It's now up!! Woohoo!!
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71 months ago
new itunes icon. funky. didnt it used to be this color back at like version 1.0?
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71 months ago
Im waiting for it in software update.
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71 months ago
Installed :cool:

I kinda like the layout, and the fact that it shows when I am playing the clean or Explicit version of a song!!
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71 months ago
Love the new podcast download page :)
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71 months ago
Its going through and analyzing all my music for gapless playback information. iTMS is still down. I do like the new look on the left of the window, its a lot cleaner.
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71 months ago
The roll-out must be staggered because it's not showing up in Software Update for me.
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71 months ago
Ooooo!!

I love this!! Love the new layout. Nice and tidy! Breaking up the library is good too!

I love software updates! It's like a present from Apple. :D
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