iTunes 4!

**Stridder44** · November 14th, 2002, 12:01 AM

They're saying that iTunes 4 might come out around early next year and is supposed to include something with Rendezvou and, my personal favorite, new "smart" visualisations! (And we all know how trippy and sweet iTunes visuals are

) So is this true? Moreover, what is the Rendezvou thing about?

**macfreak88** · November 14th, 2002, 12:19 AM

For me that is old news, I think the said there would be an udate in the release of jaguar conference, And the rendevouz thing is that you can play your brothers songs over the network without copy his songs to your , so when connected in a LAN you get all the other playlists.

**MacLuv** · November 14th, 2002, 01:07 AM

**edX** · November 14th, 2002, 02:11 AM

Something I won't forget is some dude talking about what he missed most about vinyl wasn't the sound--he missed going to the record shop and flipping through all the record sleeves and reading the liner notes on the back. He really would look at the graphics and sometimes he would buy an album if the cover was cool enough.

have we met somewhere before and i just don't remember it? at my age(!) that would be easy to do.

but i admit it sometimes can be a toss up. CD booklets seem to offer an easier way to present more liner notes and more graphics and more 'stuff' when the label is willing to invest in it. but the size of the graphics just doesn't do the art justice - especially on some of those older albums whose covers were very much part of the marketing. all those old Yes albums are a great example.

oh well times change. but i like the idea of downloadable music with great downloadable art to go with it. BIG art! screensaver size at least.

**MacLuv** · November 14th, 2002, 03:36 AM

**Tigger** · November 14th, 2002, 04:50 AM

Originally posted by MacLuv
yawn... oh... oops...
Something I started doing with all my albums ripped into MP3 on OS9 was replacing the icon with the album cover. I'd find a picture already scanned at amazon or Tower or B&N and just copy and paste it into the finder. They all just seemed to fit into a 32x32 space as well. It would be nice if record companies started issuing the record album covers as downloads at the very least...

In Windows XP the media player downloads a picture of the album you are ripping when it gets the names of album and songs.

I don't know if the picture comes of a Microsoft specific server, but I think not. So it can't be that difficult to get that into iTunes as well.

**toast** · November 14th, 2002, 05:52 AM

Siberian Kathru is one of the best tracks I ever heard.

iTunes 4 ? Simple Rendez-Vous feature would push to 3.5 IMHO. I hope they'll be more to iTunes 4 than just RendezVous and visualizations... such as a GNUplugin

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**fryke** · November 14th, 2002, 06:59 AM

There won't be a 3.5 for sure. iTunes will go to version 4, and it will include the following things:

• Smart Visualisations
• Rendezvous Local Network Streaming
• AAC (MPEG-4) Support (along with iPod update)
• Improved Smart Playlists

Apple plans to have the update ready with the iPod announcement at MWSF. Also, it will be Mac OS X only, of course, as all OS 9 development has died about now.