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VIRTUALISATION Unsung features in iTunes 9
VIRTUALISATION Unsung features in iTunes 9 | Unsung features in iTunes 9 |
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| by Jake Widman | |
| Tuesday, 15 September 2009 | |
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The Store has a revamped, cleaned-up new interface and new buying options, most notably the iTunes LP format for some albums, which includes liner notes, video, and other inducements to buy a whole album rather than individual tracks. Jobs also mentioned a couple of new enhancements to iTunes' role as a media organizer and player. One, Home Sharing, enables the copying of song files -- not just streaming the music -- among authorized computers on a network. Another is Genius Mixes, an extension of the existing Genius Playlists (introduced in iTunes 8) that assemble 25- to 100-song playlists of songs that go together with a chosen "seed" song. Genius Mixes do a similar thing automatically, searching your library to create several much larger groupings of songs. For example, I ended up with 12 Mixes: four "Alternative," three "Rock," two "Country," one "Soul," one "Jazz," and one "Pop."  iTunes 9 creates Genius Mixes for you. (Click for larger image.) The Mixes screen shows a sample of the album covers that go into each mix, and a description at the bottom lists two or three of the acts that the mix is based on. But there's no way to see the complete list of songs in a mix or to choose a particular song to start with. Tour of new iTunes features continues on Page 2. |
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