MWSF Official Thread

[Giaguara]

itunes:
- 30 million songs purchased, 1/10 of the purchased songs in music industry
- actual rate now is 100,000,000 songs/year
- 70 % of legal downloads of music now
- someone has spent 29,500 $ in iTMS (hi score)
- 5,000 audio books (50,000 sold)
- AOL members can use their AOL account in iTMS, AOL account has buttons to get to iTMS
- iTunes essential (classics of every kind of music)
- new features:
. billboard charts. (hot 100 for each genre and year etc).
. 12,000 new classical tracks
. 500,000 songs available to download, makes iTMS the biggest online music store in the world.
. pepsi will give away 100,000,000 songs in feb. yellow caps contain a win code; 1 of 3 wins a 99 c song free. offer for 30 days (feb-mar)

 

[senne]

emotional steve...

iLife (no iTMS for Europe and other continents... )

Today: iLife '04

more in next post

 

[lnoelstorr]

Still no iTMS outside North America then it seems :-(

 

[ikoiko]

emotional steve...

iLife (no iTMS for Europe and other continents... )

Today: iLife '04

more in next post

...iLife: "for the rest of your life"

- I don't like the implication.

 

[senne]

ilife

- latest iTunes
- iPhoto --> 25000 but still blazing fast performance, time based organisation, rendez-vous photosharing
- more later

 

[mattlamb]

youd think with all the bandwidth on the planet they could find at least 3% for macworld....

 

[senne]

showing iPhoto with 25.000 photo's
- cepia
- time based organisation: albums (with photo thumbnail) by calender year
- last 12 months (smart playlist likely) --> change last 12 months to last 9, last 6, .. Last 2, 3 rolls, ... Some kind of smart playlist
- Smart Albums (showing a smart album..)
- Photo rating
- big request: menu in "slideshow" that lets you edit (rate, rotate, ..) a photo
- ohyes, faster iPhoto

 

[ikoiko]

ilife

- latest iTunes
- iPhoto --> 25000 but still blazing fast performance, time based organisation, rendez-vous photosharing
- more later

iPhoto is great!!!!!!!!

 

[lnoelstorr]

the new iPhoto stuff seems good. A lot of stuff I wanted!

 

[senne]

new transition effects
showing slideshow (Dire Straits- Walk of Life!! Jiha! )
- cube transition!
- showing another slideshow with music i don't know.. cube effect
- showing Rendez Vous with Peter

 

[lnoelstorr]

good integration between iPhoto and iTunes!

 

[senne]

come on.... iBox, i want to win that iBox !!

(no iBox yet)

 

[lnoelstorr]

prints in Japan and Europe soon!!! - YAY!!

 

[Giaguara]

iLife '04
- iPhoto
. supports up to 25,000 photos
. smart albums (e.g. all photos by a certain date)
. hand slide shows
. redezvous photo share
. scrolling 25,000 photos, resizing them etc is fast (steve demostrates)
. new effects and fster
. time based organization
. ratings
. backgr. music can choose a playlist

 

[senne]

in March to be precise

 

[senne]

iMovie 4

 

[lnoelstorr]

Europe in March. Wasn't Japan by the end of the month?

 

[senne]

new icon left to Quicktime in Dock --> it's a guitar... Garage Box?

 

[senne]

iMovie
- share movies in iMovie to iDisk (.Mac), really fast

 

[Giaguara]

imovie:
. trim clips directly in timeline
. other improvements
. share web shrinks to a small size (easier)
-steve has a guitar on his dock ..