Apple, speaking at their "Rock n' Roll" live event today, introduced iTunes 9 and with it, a plethora of new features.
The first addition is that of Genius mixes. Apple CEO Steve Jobs explains that the Genius library now has 27 million libraries built from 54 billion analyzed tracks, which will create Genius Mixes, personal radio stations similar to Pandora.
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I hate iTunes updates. Because every time i do like adware or a virus it automatically makes Quicktime my default video player and hijacks all my media. And then i have to work my ass off to get everything back to what i want. That pisses me off, if i wanted quicktime to be my default media player i will pick it, they don't have the right to hijack your machine like that. So no more updates for me.
The updates seem fine as far as they go, but what I really want is a no brainer/automatic creation/synching of my library of lossless music for serious listening at home and my aac library for my iPod classic. I have 600 gb of lossless and Mr Jobs it is a total pain converting and maintaining two libraries. Surely it cant be that difficult to have iTunes automatically update an aac library as tracks are added to my lossless one and a single click to swap between them for synching with the iPod? Native support for more lossless codecs would be nice too. I am pleased to see the return of the 160gb iPod though. I would be even more pleased to see a 1tb one! Then I could carry my whole music collection in CD quality wherever I go, and have only one library to maintain and have no converting chores to do.
