iTunes Add-Ons

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Killer iTunes Add-OnsiPodlounge has a an article on "iTunes Extreme - Killer Add-ons". They cover lots of visualization stuff, which is great if you like that sort of thing, plus a good handful of other plug-ins for Windows and OS X. After reading this, I gave Octiv's VolumeLogic another try, and it does sound great, but it eats up a bit too much CPU performance for my taste... Oh well... They did miss a few of my OS X freeware favorites: SizzlingKeys - lets you pause and control next/prev/volume with hotkeys. Make Bookmarkable - A script to make your AAC encoded files bookmarkable -- in other words, they'll resume playing where you last stopped in iTunes or on an iPod. A good...


iTunes 4.9 with podcasts (sorta)Apple has released iTunes 4.9. Unless you've been in a hype-proof cave somewhere for the past two weeks, you probably won't be suprised to learn that it does indeed come with podcast support. Well, half-assed podcast support, anyway. Apple offers a list of 3000 or so "blessed" podcasts via the iTunes Music Store, or you can add a podcast manually, if you can figure out the interface. There is no support for doing some of the handy things a decent podcast client (like iPodderX) can do, like choose a playlist to automatically add a program to, convert it to AAC, or make it bookmarkable (the latter being exceedingly useful for spoken word podcasts.) Even the stuff that is supported appears...


First Impressions of iTunes 5Now that I finally got the silly thing installed, I've had a little time to play with it... Some first impressions -- Damn this thing is ugly. Burnt Aqua Unified? Were these corners done with pinking shears? It just all looks... Ummm... Out of place. Oh well. Looks ain't everything (if they were, I'd probably never have another date.) Did it actually get slower? I haven't tried to do any benchmarks yet, but just as a subjective impression, importing a few new tunes, listening and cleaning up ID3 tags, I saw more beachballs than in a trip to the sporting goods store; nothing else was running but a web browser and a mail client... Dear Apple -- if it's going...


iTunes EnhancementsiPodlounge has been working overtime at their whiteboards, and they've came up with a list of ten excellent suggestions for improvements in the next version of iTunes. But all is not perfect in the world of iTunes; while most users are delighted with iTunes’ feature set, some believe that iTunes is lacking certain newly essential functions. Steve Jobs has already demonstrated podcasting support, which will be included in the next version of iTunes, but what else does the program need? In cooperation with our readers, we’ve looked closely at what’s missing in iTunes 4, so here are ten ideas for new features in iTunes 5. A couple of these are "who-cares" items for me, but some of them (such as...


iTunes 4.8 ReleasedApple has released version 4.8 of iTunes for Mac and Windows. New features included are the ability to organize video clips within iTunes (but not send them to iPod Photos), settings for synchronizing your contacts and calendar with your iPod (requires OS X 10.4 (Tiger)) on Mac.) and presumably, support for some of the upcoming new international versions of iTunes Music Store. All in all, not much new, but then again there havn't been any new DRM-removal tools that they'll feel obligated to break in the last few weeks. (via iPodlounge)...