Apple unveils iTunes LP
Summary: Jeff Robbin, Apple's vice president of consumer applications, shows off iTunes 9's new LP feature. Purchased albums come with many extras, including album art, song lyrics, photos, and video.
Loading... Please wait.Kick off your day with ZDNet's daily email newsletter. It's the freshest tech news and opinion, served hot. Get it.
Talkback
iTunes Common Choppy Video Problem
RE: Apple unveils iTunes LP
I've got 2 issues with iTunes (apart from the video
playing problems it has in common with QuickTime)
1) The filesize: 99 Mb for iTunes download. What are
the Apple developers doing with this space? I remember
when iTunes was approx 30Mb download and I don't see a
massive increase in functionality between the versions
apart from including all that crap that most of us
turn off - ie Genius sidebar etc. Compare this to
Windows Media Player 11 - approx 25Mb - which can also
synch devices, play music, play video, build a library
of your media, search online for missing media info.
I'm not a Microsoft person or anti-Apple but I think
the iTunes developers need to re-think there
underlying design. iTunes uses 4 times the resources
of any other media player I know or use, it also takes
3 times longer to start than any other mediaplayer I
use. This is simply BAD and LAZY coding!
2) The ability to find missing media info - why must I
get an account (or whatever the things called) to get
basic info about my media. In fact why must I sign-up
with Apple to do the most basic of media manipulation
on MY OWN COMPUTER! Even the allegedly big, bad
Microsoft doesn't force me to do this kind of crap!